Developmental Psychology
Last updated ISSN 0012-1649
Developmental Psychology is published by American Psychological Association in psychology. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Developmental Psychology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Language Development and Disorders
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
Key facts
| Publisher | American Psychological Association |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0012-1649, 1939-0599 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 12,372 |
| Publishing since | 1880 |
| Journal website | www.apa.org/journals/dev/ |
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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