Developmental Child Welfare
Last updated ISSN 2516-1032
Developmental Child Welfare is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,400.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Developmental Child Welfare concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Family Support in Illness
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Early Childhood Education and Development
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2516-1032, 2516-1040 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,400 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 127 |
| Publishing since | 2019 |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/developmental-child-welfare |
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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