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Autism & Developmental Language Impairments
ISSN 2396-9415 · SAGE
Autism & Developmental Language Impairments: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.8 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 1,000; review about 176 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 28.2% (journal website); 26 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Autism & Developmental Language Impairments is published by SAGE and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Language Development and Disorders and Family and Disability Support Research, together about 60.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Developmental and Educational Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Autism & Developmental Language Impairments (ADLI) is peer-reviewed, open access journal, which focusses on helping shape research in the growing field of developmental communication disorders. View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Mikhail KissinePublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 14, United States 13, Australia 2, Canada 1, Sweden 1 (33 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchNeuroscience28.3%
- Language Development and DisordersPsychology17.9%
- Family and Disability Support ResearchPsychology14%
- Behavioral and Psychological StudiesPsychology7.1%
- Reading and Literacy DevelopmentPsychology5.6%
- Assistive Technology in Communication and MobilityHealth Professions4.4%
- Child Nutrition and Feeding IssuesMedicine2.7%
- Child Development and Digital TechnologySocial Sciences2.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Education, Special | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Education, Special | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 1 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.93LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.4LetPub ·
- h-index
- 34OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 116OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.11OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 26LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 235 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 25 | 25 | 6 |
| 2025 | 26 | 26 | 69 |
| 2024 | 25 | 25 | 161 |
| 2023 | 17 | 17 | 186 |
| 2022 | 35 | 35 | 651 |
| 2021 | 22 | 22 | 587 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
176 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 28.2%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 1 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 176 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 25 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 1,000 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,000 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,000 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare9 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 500 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Required
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted11
- discussionsDiscussions: a relatively short discussion of theoretically or clinically relevant topics or issues. Commissioned by the editor(s) only. Maximum 4000 words.Length not stated
- protocolView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Research Reports: a full report of a research study using appropriate quantitative or qualitative …Length not stated
- registered reportView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Research Reports: a full report of a research study using appropriate quantitative or qualitative …Length not stated
- registered reports – post-dataRegistered Reports – Post-Data, i.e., before already existing data have been examined and analysed.Length not stated
- registered reports – pre-dataRegistered Reports – Pre-Data, i.e., before any data have been gatheredLength not stated
- research reportView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Research Reports: a full report of a research study using appropriate quantitative or qualitative …Length not stated
- research reportsResearch Reports: a full report of a research study using appropriate quantitative or qualitative methods. Maximum length 8000 words.Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Research Reports: a full report of a research study using appropriate quantitative or qualitative …Length not stated
- reviewsReviews: a systematic or systematically-conducted review of theoretical or clinical topics or issues that entails a critique of current research or addresses si…Length not stated
- short reportsShort Reports: a short paper reporting some preliminary or interesting results from a well-conducted study or a small scale study that is useful but not conclus…Length not stated
- theoretical reportsTheoretical Reports: an exposition or critique of particular theory or theories relevant to autism and/or developmental language impairments, with new and origi…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
Authors encouraged to share research data in a public repository, include a data availability statement, and cite the data. Model summary
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Journal is a member of COPE; authors encouraged to follow Sage's Publication Ethics Policies and ICMJE Recommendations. Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Autism & Developmental Language Impairments is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor and Associate Editors Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscr…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprint servers submissions considered; preprint DOI required at submission; do not post updated versions during peer review. Model summary
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 2396-9415
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Autism & Developmental Language Impairments
What CAS zone is Autism & Developmental Language Impairments in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Autism & Developmental Language Impairments is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Education, Special / Linguistics / Psychology, Developmental. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Autism & Developmental Language Impairments?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.8; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 5.1, h-index 34.
How long does peer review take at Autism & Developmental Language Impairments?
The publisher reports about 176 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 28.2%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Autism & Developmental Language Impairments?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 500 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: APA; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Required; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Autism & Developmental Language Impairments based?
Of the 33 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (14), United States (13) and Australia (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Autism & Developmental Language Impairments?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Autism & Developmental Language Impairments is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Autism & Developmental Language Impairments open access, and what is the APC?
Autism & Developmental Language Impairments is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,000.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-24). Last updated: .