Early Human Development
Last updated ISSN 0378-3782
Early Human Development is published by Elsevier BV in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,840.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Early Human Development concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Infant Nutrition and Health
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Infant Health and Development
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0378-3782, 1872-6232 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,840 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 8,646 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/early-human-development |
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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