Journal of Applied Research on Children

Journal of Applied Research on Children is published by Texas Medical Center Library. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Child and Adolescent Health, together about 24.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Launched in the fall of 2010, the Journal of Applied Research on Children (JARC) is an open-access and double-blind peer-reviewed online journal published in the fall and spring. JARC serves to inform policy affecting children by providing applicable research to the public, child advocates, and policy-makers on timely children’s issues. This journal seeks to encourage academics to focus on the needs of children and make practical children-focused research available and accessible to the public for use and dissemination.The Journal of Applied Research on Children is a publication of the CHILDREN AT RISK Institute—an academically oriented policy and research collaborative focused on facilitating research and scholarship to promote new and innovative public policy solutions to the challenges faced by children. It is published through the The Texas Medical Center Library. in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital.The CHILDREN AT RISK Institute is a part of a non-partisan research and advocacy organization called CHILDREN AT RISK. Dedicated to addressing the root causes of poor public policies affecting children, the mission of CHILDREN AT RISK is to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration and advocacy. Learn more about CHILDREN AT RISK.The Journal of Applied Research on Children is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and indexed in Scopus. It is co-published by The Texas Medical Center Library.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

Editor-in-chief Christopher S. GreeleyPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.3LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.23LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.27LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

27OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

69OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.74OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 16 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

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.

No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Texas Medical Center Library

Country or region

United States

Language

English

ISSN

2155-5834

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website