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Child Language Teaching & Therapy
ISSN 0265-6590 · eISSN 1477-0865 · SAGE
Child Language Teaching & Therapy: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.68; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,650; review about 312 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 21.1% (journal website); 19 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI, AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Child Language Teaching & Therapy is published by SAGE and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Language Development and Disorders, Reading and Literacy Development and Family and Disability Support Research, together about 43.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Developmental and Educational Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Child Language Teaching and Therapy is an international peer reviewed journal which aims to be the leading inter-disciplinary journal in the field of intervention for and management of children’s speech, language and communication needs. The journal publishes original … | 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
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 11, United States 4, South Africa 4, Australia 2, Netherlands 2 (29 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Language Development and DisordersPsychology22%
- Reading and Literacy DevelopmentPsychology12.8%
- Family and Disability Support ResearchPsychology8.3%
- Educational and Psychological AssessmentsPsychology6.4%
- EFL/ESL Teaching and LearningArts and Humanities6%
- Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchNeuroscience3.7%
- Education Systems and PolicySocial Sciences3.6%
- Hearing Impairment and CommunicationPsychology3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Education, Special | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Language & Linguistics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Education, Special | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Language & Linguistics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Education, Special | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Language & Linguistics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIAHCIScopusLetPub
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
- 1.68LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.43LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.88LetPub ·
- h-index
- 60OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 427OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.18OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 58.7%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 15LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,833 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34 | 25 | 3 |
| 2025 | 19 | 11 | 24 |
| 2024 | 20 | 10 | 59 |
| 2023 | 25 | 10 | 94 |
| 2022 | 24 | 9 | 77 |
| 2021 | 28 | 9 | 135 |
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
312 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)
- 21.1%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 12 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 312 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 28 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,650 / GBP 2,676 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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 prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Harvard
Article types accepted9, with length limits
- book reviewChild Language Teaching and Therapy is an international peer reviewed journal which aims to be the leading inter-disciplinary journal in the field of interventi…Length not stated
- book reviews3. Book Reviews. A list of up-to-date books for review is available from the Journal's Book Review Editor: clttbookreviews@gmail.comLength not stated
- full paperChild Language Teaching and Therapy is an international peer reviewed journal which aims to be the leading inter-disciplinary journal in the field of interventi…main text ≤ 8,000 words
- original researchChild Language Teaching and Therapy is an international peer reviewed journal which aims to be the leading inter-disciplinary journal in the field of interventi…Length not stated
- research reportChild Language Teaching and Therapy is an international peer reviewed journal which aims to be the leading inter-disciplinary journal in the field of interventi…Length not stated
- research reports1. Research Reports, describing new experimental findings; (a) Full papers, (b) Short reports requiring rapid dissemination.Length not stated
- reviewChild Language Teaching and Therapy is an international peer reviewed journal which aims to be the leading inter-disciplinary journal in the field of interventi…Length not stated
- review articleChild Language Teaching and Therapy is an international peer reviewed journal which aims to be the leading inter-disciplinary journal in the field of interventi…Length not stated
- review articles2. Review Articles. The Editors wish to encourage submission of review papers that address appropriate issues within the field.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
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
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
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, fees will be determined and applied at production stage. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor 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. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
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
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 endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be …
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
- 0265-6590
- Electronic ISSN
- 1477-0865
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Child Language Teaching & Therapy
What CAS zone is Child Language Teaching & Therapy in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Child Language Teaching & Therapy is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Education, Special / Language & Linguistics / Linguistics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Child Language Teaching & Therapy?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.68; CiteScore 2.6, h-index 60.
How long does peer review take at Child Language Teaching & Therapy?
The publisher reports about 312 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 21.1%. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Child Language Teaching & Therapy based?
Of the 29 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (11), United States (4) and South Africa (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Child Language Teaching & Therapy?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Child Language Teaching & Therapy is indexed in SSCI, AHCI and Scopus.
Is Child Language Teaching & Therapy open access, and what is the APC?
Child Language Teaching & Therapy is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .