Early Child Development and Care
Last updated ISSN 0300-4430
Early Child Development and Care is published by Taylor & Francis in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Early Child Development and Care concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Child and Animal Learning Development
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0300-4430, 1476-8275 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,323 |
| Publishing since | 1971 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/gecd20/current |
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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