Journal profile · Psychology-Psychology (miscellaneous)
JCPP Advances
ISSN 2692-9384 · Wiley · United Kingdom
JCPP Advances: CAS Zone 2 · Psychology (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 4.1 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,980; median 172 days to acceptance (91 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 65% (journal website); 96 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
JCPP Advances is published by Wiley and is classed under Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, together about 39% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
JCPP Advances is a new, high quality, high impact open access journal in the field of child psychology and psychiatry and related disciplines. It builds on the values and prestige of its sister publication, the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, to advance the field by opening new opportunities for diverse researchers and for the dissemination of innovative science. It has a commitment to open science, rapid publication and creating a high-quality publishing experience for authors. It aims to promote ground-breaking research, new theoretical perspectives and methodological innovation. JCPP Advances has a broad remit covering all areas of infant, child and adolescent and early adult development as these relate to mental health and disorder and developmental psychopathology, broadly defined. It publishes empirical studies and reviews encompassing wide-ranging methodological traditions, including, but not limited to, epidemiology and longitudinal cohorts, experimental psychology, neuroscience, genetics and intervention trials. Unique features of the journal Being an open science journal, we aim to proactively experiment with and explore new approaches to publication and research such as CRediT, mandating ORCiD, requiring data availability statements, offering open science badges and other initiatives. In time, we will be delighted to consider Registered Reports. JCPP Advances operates a fast manuscript transfer system from its sister publication. We make it easier for authors to submit their work through format free submission. For many we provide easy access to institutional open access funds. We are charting our growth and progress by quality indicators of citation, Impact Factor and indexing on citation databases. JCPP Advances is indexed in DOAJ. JCPP Advances publishes four issues per annual volume. Team of Editors Our team of editors are well accomplished researchers and academics and bring in expertise from various areas of child and adolescent mental health. They are themselves prolific authors and reviewers and have contributed to various international journals. They are all committed to the cause of JCPP Advances and are very keen to help authors publish high quality papers. Indexing Information Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) OneFile: Health and Medicine (GALE Cengage) OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health (GALE Cengage) PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA) PubMed (NLM) SCOPUS (
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Psychology-Psychology (miscellaneous)
Editor-in-chief Henrik LarssonPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 15, United States 7, Netherlands 4, Sweden 3, Norway 3 (37 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology18.4%
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderMedicine11.6%
- Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchNeuroscience9%
- Mental Health Research TopicsPsychology5.1%
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumMedicine4.2%
- Family and Disability Support ResearchPsychology4.1%
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology3.5%
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesPsychology3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePMCPsycINFOPublisher website
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 (publisher)
- 4.1Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 6.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 6.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.66LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.5LetPub ·
- h-index
- 31OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 136OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.19OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.57%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 83LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 87Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 367,144Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 489 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 90 | 90 | 48 |
| 2025 | 96 | 96 | 160 |
| 2024 | 86 | 86 | 659 |
| 2023 | 85 | 85 | 1,299 |
| 2022 | 72 | 72 | 985 |
| 2021 | 60 | 60 | 1,360 |
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
172 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 126 days – 251 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 46 days (91 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 235 days
- Sample
- 91 articles with submission and acceptance dates (219 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)
- about 13 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 65%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 65%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 55 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 55 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 172 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 63 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 13 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,980 / GBP 2,260 / EUR 2,530 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,705 / EUR 2,300 / GBP 2,050 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,705 / GBP 2,050 / EUR 2,300 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
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 prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- APA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted9
- editorialArticle Type Description Word Limit Abstract / Structure Other Requirements or notes Original article Report of new research findings or conceptual analyses tha…Length not stated
- editorial perspectiveBrief, accessible pieces covering timely topics of relevance. They typically reflect an author's viewpoint on a particular development in the field and how this…Length not stated
- meta-analysisArticle Type Description Word Limit Abstract / Structure Other Requirements or notes Original article Report of new research findings or conceptual analyses tha…Length not stated
- original articleArticle Type Description Word Limit Abstract / Structure Other Requirements or notes Original article Report of new research findings or conceptual analyses tha…Length not stated
- perspectiveArticle Type Description Word Limit Abstract / Structure Other Requirements or notes Original article Report of new research findings or conceptual analyses tha…Length not stated
- reviewArticle Type Description Word Limit Abstract / Structure Other Requirements or notes Original article Report of new research findings or conceptual analyses tha…Length not stated
- review articleArticle Type Description Word Limit Abstract / Structure Other Requirements or notes Original article Report of new research findings or conceptual analyses tha…Length not stated
- systematic reviewArticle Type Description Word Limit Abstract / Structure Other Requirements or notes Original article Report of new research findings or conceptual analyses tha…Length not stated
- viewpointArticle Type Description Word Limit Abstract / Structure Other Requirements or notes Original article Report of new research findings or conceptual analyses tha…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, License & copyright, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use How to optimize the systematic review process using AI tools
Nicholas Fabiano, Arnav Gupta, Nishaant Bhambra, Brandon Luu, Stanley Wong, Muhammad Maaz, Jess G. Fiedorowicz, Andrew L. Smith, Marco Solmi,
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potent…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Availability
This journal expects data sharing. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Reproduction of Copyright Material
If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 1. Submission and Peer Review Process
Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at https://authors.wiley.com/journal/JCV2. Please be advised that if your paper is submitted via the ReX portal and unsubmitted for corrections to be made, or you otherwise wish to manage your paper, you may do so through the same link. If your paper was submitted using…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Accepts Registered Reports submissions Model summary
This journal accepts submissions of Registered Reports.
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
- Wiley
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2692-9384
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 6, Issue 3 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about JCPP Advances
What CAS zone is JCPP Advances in?
In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of JCPP Advances?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 4.1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 6.3, h-index 31.
How long does peer review take at JCPP Advances?
Based on the dates recorded on 91 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 172 days (interquartile range 126–251 days); authors report an average review time of about 13 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 65% (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.
What are the manuscript requirements of JCPP Advances?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: APA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not 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.
Where are the editorial board members of JCPP Advances based?
Of the 37 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (15), United States (7) and Netherlands (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index JCPP Advances?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, JCPP Advances is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PMC and PsycINFO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is JCPP Advances open access, and what is the APC?
JCPP Advances is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,980.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .