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Child Maltreatment
ISSN 1077-5595 · eISSN 1552-6119 · SAGE
Child Maltreatment: CAS Zone 2 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.33; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,900; review about 6 days (submission to first decision, publisher); acceptance rate 18.8% (journal website); 73 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Child Maltreatment is published by SAGE and is in Zone 2 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Child Abuse and Trauma, Child Welfare and Adoption and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, together about 52.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Published quarterly, Child Maltreatment (CM) is the official journal of APSAC, the nation's largest interdisciplinary child maltreatment professional organization. The objective of CM is to foster professional excellence in the field of child abuse and neglect by reporting current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a … | 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 States 62, Australia 2, Canada 1, Netherlands 1 (66 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Child Abuse and TraumaPsychology34%
- Child Welfare and AdoptionSocial Sciences10.5%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology8.4%
- Intimate Partner and Family ViolenceSocial Sciences7.5%
- Homelessness and Social IssuesHealth Professions6.4%
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child AbuseSocial Sciences5.8%
- Migration, Health and TraumaPsychology5%
- Sexual Assault and Victimization StudiesSocial Sciences2.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Social Work | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Family Studies | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Family Studies | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Social Work | Zone 1 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Social Work | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Family Studies | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
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
- 2.33LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 4.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.95LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.42LetPub ·
- h-index
- 129OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 867OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.76OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 12.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 25.15%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 66LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,458 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 76 | 35 | 6 |
| 2025 | 73 | 36 | 107 |
| 2024 | 61 | 34 | 257 |
| 2023 | 54 | 40 | 364 |
| 2022 | 74 | 35 | 900 |
| 2021 | 72 | 36 | 1,410 |
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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 18.8%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 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 3,900 / GBP 2,859 | — | — | |
| 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.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- 800
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)
Article types accepted9
- brief reportCM welcomes manuscripts addressing timely and important topics in practice, policy, and theory, including empirical research articles, systematic review article…Length not stated
- brief reportsBrief reports also will be accepted, limited to no more than 15 double-spaceLength not stated
- empirical research articlesCM welcomes manuscripts addressing timely and important topics in practice, policy, and theory, including empirical research articles, systematic review article…Length not stated
- program evaluationsCM welcomes manuscripts addressing timely and important topics in practice, policy, and theory, including empirical research articles, systematic review article…Length not stated
- regular articleCM welcomes manuscripts addressing timely and important topics in practice, policy, and theory, including empirical research articles, systematic review article…Length not stated
- regular articlesRegular articles should be no more than 35 double-spaced pages, inclusive of title page (auto-generated by the system), abstract, tables, figures, and reference…Length not stated
- research articleCM welcomes manuscripts addressing timely and important topics in practice, policy, and theory, including empirical research articles, systematic review article…Length not stated
- systematic reviewCM welcomes manuscripts addressing timely and important topics in practice, policy, and theory, including empirical research articles, systematic review article…Length not stated
- systematic review articlesCM welcomes manuscripts addressing timely and important topics in practice, policy, and theory, including empirical research articles, systematic review article…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- AI use AI Use and Disclosure
Please note that authors should fully read and comply with Sage’s artificial intelligence policy which provides information on disclosure and prohibited uses. Information includes distinctions between assistive, generative, and prohibitive artificial intelligence.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest AI Use and Disclosure
Please note that authors should fully read and comply with Sage’s artificial intelligence policy which provides information on disclosure and prohibited uses. Information includes distinctions between assistive, generative, and prohibitive artificial intelligence.
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, the following fees apply: $800 for the first color image, $200 for any additional color images. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice prog…
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 ·
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
- 1077-5595
- Electronic ISSN
- 1552-6119
- Society / sponsor
- APSAC
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Child Maltreatment
What CAS zone is Child Maltreatment in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Child Maltreatment is in Zone 2 of Sociology, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Social Work / Family Studies. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Child Maltreatment?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.33; CiteScore 6.4, h-index 129.
How long does peer review take at Child Maltreatment?
The publisher reports about 6 days (submission to first decision); first decisions include desk rejections; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 18.8%. 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 Maltreatment based?
Of the 66 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (62), Australia (2) and Canada (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Child Maltreatment?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Child Maltreatment is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Child Maltreatment open access, and what is the APC?
Child Maltreatment is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,900.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .