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Gifted Child Quarterly
ISSN 0016-9862 · eISSN 1934-9041 · SAGE
Gifted Child Quarterly: CAS Zone 3 · Education (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.71; hybrid open access; APC about USD 1,400; 45 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Gifted Child Quarterly is published by SAGE and is in Zone 3 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Education, Achievement, and Giftedness, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience and Cognitive Abilities and Testing, together about 42.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ) is the premier scholarly journal of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). Since 1957, GCQ has published...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Education, Achievement, and GiftednessPsychology25.5%
- Creativity in Education and NeurosciencePsychology12.7%
- Cognitive Abilities and TestingPsychology4.3%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.1%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering3.9%
- Motivation and Self-Concept in SportsPsychology3.8%
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive FunctionNeuroscience3.7%
- Youth Development and Social SupportSocial Sciences3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Education, Special | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Educational | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Education Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Education, Special | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Psychology, Educational | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Education Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Education, Special | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Educational | Zone 4 |
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
- 3.71LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.05LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.84LetPub ·
- h-index
- 107OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,060OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.24OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 24.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 22.08%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 43LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,293 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29 | 8 | 4 |
| 2025 | 45 | 22 | 106 |
| 2024 | 20 | 11 | 195 |
| 2023 | 16 | 7 | 171 |
| 2022 | 42 | 6 | 493 |
| 2021 | 25 | 6 | 573 |
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 PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 2 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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".
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 1,400 / GBP 1,026 | — | — |
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 0016-9862
- Electronic ISSN
- 1934-9041
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Gifted Child Quarterly
What CAS zone is Gifted Child Quarterly in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Gifted Child Quarterly is in Zone 3 of Education, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Education, Special / Psychology, Educational. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Gifted Child Quarterly?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.71; CiteScore 5.9, h-index 107.
Which databases index Gifted Child Quarterly?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Gifted Child Quarterly is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Gifted Child Quarterly open access, and what is the APC?
Gifted Child Quarterly is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 1,400.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .