Child Protection and Practice
Last updated ISSN 2950-1938
Child Protection and Practice is published by Elsevier BV in psychology. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,200.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Child Protection and Practice concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Sex work and related issues
- Social Work Education and Practice
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2950-1938 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,200 |
| Indexed in | DOAJ |
| Articles published | 344 |
| Publishing since | 2024 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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