Journal profile · PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
ISSN 1534-8687 · Wiley-Blackwell
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development: CAS Zone 3 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.77; subscription journal; APC about USD 1,560; median 236 days to acceptance (48 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 18% (journal website); 19 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 3 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Early Childhood Education and Development, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development and Parental Involvement in Education, together about 38.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The mission of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in the field of child and adolescent development. Topics include social, cognitive, educational, emotional, biological, health, demographic, economical, and socio-cultural issues that bear on children and youth, as well as issues in research methodology and other domains. Topics that bridge across areas are encouraged, as well as those that are international in focus or deal with under-represented groups. The audience for the journal is primarily students, researchers, scholars, and social servants from fields such as psychology, sociology, education, social work, anthropology, and health. We welcome scholars with diverse methodological and epistemological orientations.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 25%); most named Mainland China 2, Italy 2, United Kingdom 1, India 1, Spain 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Early Childhood Education and DevelopmentSocial Sciences17.1%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology14.5%
- Parental Involvement in EducationSocial Sciences6.7%
- Attachment and Relationship DynamicsPsychology5.3%
- Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentPsychology4.9%
- Youth Development and Social SupportSocial Sciences3.9%
- Child Development and Digital TechnologySocial Sciences3.7%
- Family Dynamics and RelationshipsSocial Sciences3.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Sociology | Zone 3 |
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 4 |
| Minor | Sociology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Psychology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Sociology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePsycINFOCASERICPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
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
- 2.77LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.93LetPub ·
- h-index
- 115OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 929OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.05OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 18LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 18Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 131,517Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,742 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 30 | 11 |
| 2025 | 19 | 18 | 67 |
| 2024 | 7 | 6 | 39 |
| 2023 | 7 | 7 | 63 |
| 2022 | 33 | 18 | 432 |
| 2021 | 73 | 51 | 1,399 |
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
236 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 153 days – 347 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 31 days (48 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 278 days
- Sample
- 48 articles with submission and acceptance dates (48 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 18%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 18%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 44 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 44 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 176 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 29 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single 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 1,560 / EUR 1,350 / GBP 1,150 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 300 words
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Optional
Article types accepted2
- research articleNew Directions for Child and Adolescent Development publishes the following types of submissions: Research Article Review ArticleLength not stated
- review articleNew Directions for Child and Adolescent Development publishes the following types of submissions: Research Article Review ArticleLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints, Self-archiving, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- AI use Disclosing the use of artificial intelligence (AI)
If you or your co-authors have used Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs) to develop any portion of a manuscript, their use must be described transparently and in detail in the Methods section. Find more details on Wiley’s AI guidelines for researchers and Wiley’s AI policy in full in the Best Practices Guidelines on…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. You can review the Authorship section of Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics for Wiley’s definition of authorship.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest (COIs)
A common reason for third-party complaints of published articles is an allegation that author(s) have not fully disclosed perceived conflicts of interest (COIs). Such complaints may lead to ethics investigations by the journal and publisher. Therefore, when submitting your manuscript, you should disclose any potential conflicts of interests (also referred to as “competing interests”) that might ap…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing
Data availability statement required Model summary
This journal encourages data sharing. You can learn more about data sharing in Wiley’s Data Sharing Policies resource.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics COPE
This journal adheres to the ethical standards set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to uphold integrity in scholarly research and publishing. While COPE previously organized its guidance around "core practices," these have since been replaced with a topic-based structure to better reflect the evolving needs of the research community. You can learn more about this transition and explore…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and licensing
Open access with CC license Model summary
This is an open access journal. Authors of accepted papers pay an Article Publication Charge (APC) and their papers are published under a Creative Commons (CC) license. For more information on this journal’s APCs and licensing policy, please visit this journal’s Open Access page. Note: Some funders require authors to use a particular type of CC license. Please check directly with your funder to de…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
This is an open access journal. Submissions will be subject to an Article Publication Charge (APC) if accepted and published in the journal. Please read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for waivers or discounts through your institution, your funder, or a country waiver at Wiley Author Services.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Model
Single-anonymized peer review model Model summary
We follow a single-anonymized peer review model, for applicable article types. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least one anonymous reviewer and an Associate or Assistant Editor. Papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the journal will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint Policy
Preprint policy Model summary
The journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers and does not consider this to compromise the novelty of the results. Articles based on content previously made public only on a preprint server, institutional repository, or in a thesis will be considered. The preprint should be cited. You will be asked to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published ar…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Self-Archiving definitions and policies
This journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions. You can learn more by reading Wiley’s self-archiving policy.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Reporting guidelines
Authors are strongly encouraged to use appropriate reporting guidelines when preparing and submitting manuscripts, to maximize transparency and reproducibility. Our editors and reviewers are also encouraged to use them in the review process. Completed checklists should be provided in the supplementary files on submission. We particularly encourage the use of: CONSORT for randomized controlled tria…
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-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 1534-8687
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
What CAS zone is New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is in Zone 3 of Psychology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Psychology, Developmental / Sociology. 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 New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.77; CiteScore 5.1, h-index 115.
How long does peer review take at New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development?
Based on the dates recorded on 48 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 236 days (interquartile range 153–347 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 18% (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 New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Optional. 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 New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development based?
Of the 8 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 25%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (2), Italy (2) and United Kingdom (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PsycINFO, CAS and ERIC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development open access, and what is the APC?
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is a subscription journal. APC about USD 1,560.
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: .