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Developmental Neuropsychology
ISSN 8756-5641 · eISSN 1532-6942 · Psychology Press Ltd · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 1985
Developmental Neuropsychology: CAS Zone 4 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.54; hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 205 days to acceptance (28 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 14 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Developmental Neuropsychology is published by Psychology Press Ltd and is in Zone 4 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Reading and Literacy Development, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, together about 25.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Devoted to exploring relationships between brain and behavior across the life span, Developmental Neuropsychology publishes scholarly papers on the appearance and development of behavioral functions, such as language, perception, and social, motivational and cognitive processes as they relate to brain functions and structures. Appropriate subjects include studies of changes in cognitive function—brain structure relationships across a time period, early cognitive behaviors in normal and brain-damaged children, plasticity and recovery of function after early brain damage, the development of complex cognitive and motor skills, and specific and nonspecific disturbances, such as learning disabilities, mental retardation, schizophrenia, stuttering, and developmental aphasia. In the gerontologic areas, relevant subjects include neuropsychological analyses of normal age-related changes in brain and behavioral functions, such as sensory, motor, cognitive, and adaptive abilities; studies of age-related diseases of the nervous system; and recovery of function in later life. Empirical studies, research reviews, case reports, critical commentaries, and book reviews are featured in each issue. By publishing both basic and clinical studies of the developing and aging brain, the journal encourages additional scholarly work that advances understanding of the field of lifespan developmental neuropsychology. Readership: Behavioral and developmental psychologists, neuropsychologists, and neuroscientists. Special Issues: Special issues organized around a central theme are published from time to time in this journal. Previous special issues have included such topics as Exceptional Children, Executive Functions, Motor Development, Williams Syndrome, Neuroassessment, Learning Disabilities, and Infant Neurocognitive Development. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and a double-anonymized peer review policy.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Psychology
Editor-in-chief Robert J. McCaffreyPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 5, Hong Kong, China 1 (6 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Reading and Literacy DevelopmentPsychology9.9%
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeuroscience7.9%
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderMedicine7.4%
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skillsMathematics6.3%
- Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentPsychology5.5%
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in NeuroscienceNeuroscience5.2%
- Infant Development and Preterm CareMedicine5%
- Traumatic Brain Injury ResearchMedicine4.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPubMedEmbasePsycINFOCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, OCLC, CSA - Biological Sciences, CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, CSA Neurosciences Abstracts (Online), EBSCOhost - Academic Search Alumni Edition, OCLC - ArticleFirst, Thomson Reuters - Biological Abstracts (Online)
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 1.54LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.49LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.49Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.82LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.82Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 87LetPub ·
- h-index
- 140OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,091OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.26OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 14.55%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 16LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 95,000Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 95,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,668 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 14 | 5 | 14 |
| 2024 | 19 | 6 | 53 |
| 2023 | 23 | 12 | 137 |
| 2022 | 23 | 10 | 271 |
| 2021 | 41 | 16 | 441 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
205 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 151 days – 265 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 9 days (28 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 217 days
- Sample
- 28 articles with submission and acceptance dates (40 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 20%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 20%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 104 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review 2025
- 104 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 11 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
Article types accepted5
- book reviewsEmpirical studies, research reviews, case reports, critical commentaries, and book reviews are featured in each issue.Length not stated
- case reportsEmpirical studies, research reviews, case reports, critical commentaries, and book reviews are featured in each issue.Length not stated
- critical commentariesEmpirical studies, research reviews, case reports, critical commentaries, and book reviews are featured in each issue.Length not stated
- empirical studiesEmpirical studies, research reviews, case reports, critical commentaries, and book reviews are featured in each issue.Length not stated
- research reviewsEmpirical studies, research reviews, case reports, critical commentaries, and book reviews are featured in each issue.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Developmental Neuropsychology is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverabili…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review policy: All research articles have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and a double-anonymized peer review policy. Model summary
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and a double-anonymized peer review policy.
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
- Psychology Press Ltd
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1985
- ISSN
- 8756-5641
- Electronic ISSN
- 1532-6942
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 51, Issue 5-6 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Developmental Neuropsychology
What CAS zone is Developmental Neuropsychology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Developmental Neuropsychology is in Zone 4 of Psychology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychology / Psychology, Developmental / Psychology, Experimental. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Developmental Neuropsychology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.54; CiteScore 3.6, h-index 140.
How long does peer review take at Developmental Neuropsychology?
Based on the dates recorded on 28 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 205 days (interquartile range 151–265 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 20% (2025). 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 Developmental Neuropsychology based?
Of the 6 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (5) and Hong Kong, China (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Developmental Neuropsychology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Developmental Neuropsychology is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Developmental Neuropsychology open access, and what is the APC?
Developmental Neuropsychology is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
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: .