Journal profile · Social Sciences-Life-span and Life-course Studies
International Journal of Developmental Sciences
ISSN 2192-001X · eISSN 2191-7485 · SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
International Journal of Developmental Sciences: subscription journal; APC about USD 4,150; 18 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Developmental Sciences is published by SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression and Child and Animal Learning Development, together about 38.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Individual human development is influenced by a multitude of systems, ranging from cultural processes, genetic and physiological incidents up to social interactions. How do these systems cooperate and interact during the course of human development? One of the main goals of Developmental Science is finding an answer to this question. Since it exceeds the means of researchers from individual scientific disciplines to investigate the simultaneous biopsychosocial changes of systems and how they jointly contribute to the social and adaptive functions of human individuals, a new scientific approach is necessary that links the various traditional scientific disciplines under a biopsychosocial approach to describe individual human development: Developmental Science. View full journal description
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Life-span and Life-course Studies
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology16.6%
- Bullying, Victimization, and AggressionPsychology13.4%
- Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentPsychology8.9%
- Crime Patterns and InterventionsSocial Sciences5.1%
- Psychology of Development and EducationPsychology4.6%
- Early Childhood Education and DevelopmentSocial Sciences4.5%
- Philosophy and History of ScienceArts and Humanities4.5%
- Attachment and Relationship DynamicsPsychology3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
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CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
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CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | Q3 | 215/380 | 43rd |
| Social Psychology | Q3 | 187/315 | 40th |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | Q3 | 37/61 | 40th |
| Developmental Neuroscience | Q4 | 32/38 | 17th |
| Aging | Q4 | 37/42 | 13th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.34LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.63LetPub ·
- h-index
- 32OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 121OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.92OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 364 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 | 5 | 262 |
| 2025 | 18 | 7 | 355 |
| 2024 | 16 | 11 | 308 |
| 2023 | 12 | 12 | 360 |
| 2022 | 15 | 8 | 350 |
| 2021 | 8 | 5 | 400 |
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
- 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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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 prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 10,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted13, with length limits
- commentaryOriginal Research articles Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- editorialOriginal Research articles Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- meta-analysisOriginal Research articles Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- opinionOriginal Research articles Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- original research articleOriginal Research articles Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- original research articlesResearch Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understanding.Length not stated
- research articleOriginal Research articles Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- research reportOriginal Research articles Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- reviewOriginal Research articles Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…main text ≤ 10,000 words
- review articleOriginal Research articles Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- reviewsReviews (narrative) should be authoritative and topical and provide comprehensive and balanced coverage of a timely and/or controversial issue.Length not stated
- systematic reviewOriginal Research articles Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- systematic reviewsSystematic reviews consist of systematic quantitative and/or qualitative syntheses of research.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 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 ·- 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
No submission or publication fees Model summary
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. Open Access agreement …
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 Publications (formerly IOS Press)
- ISSN
- 2192-001X
- Electronic ISSN
- 2191-7485
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Developmental Sciences
What are the manuscript requirements of International Journal of Developmental Sciences?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 10,000 words; Reference style: APA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; 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.
Which databases index International Journal of Developmental Sciences?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Developmental Sciences is indexed in Scopus.
Is International Journal of Developmental Sciences open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Developmental Sciences is a subscription journal. APC about USD 4,150.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .