Name: List of Top Journals of Child psychology sorted by citations
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Published: 2026-09-12T08:21:09Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

74.5K(top 10%)

PR articles

2.7M(top 5%)

PR citations

449(top 5%)

PR h-index

508(top 5%)

h-index

83.0K

documents

3.4M

doc citations

Top Journals (by peer-reviewed citations)

#	Journal	Citations
1	Child Development	91.9K
2	Developmental Psychology	55.9K
3	Frontiers in Psychology	52.8K
4	Behavioral and Brain Sciences	51.1K
5	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology	47.1K
6	Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines	34.1K
7	Development and Psychopathology	32.2K
8	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders	25.8K
9	PLoS ONE	24.3K
10	Journal of Youth and Adolescence	23.6K
11	Journal of Child and Family Studies	23.4K
12	Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology	22.6K
13	Early Childhood Research Quarterly	21.9K
14	Social Development	21.0K
15	Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology	20.4K
16	Developmental Science	19.8K
17	International Journal of Behavioral Development	19.6K
18	Children and Youth Services Review	18.1K
19	Early Education and Development	17.6K
20	Cognitive Development	17.4K

What are top citing journals?

These journals contain the most peer-reviewed articles that cite Child psychology's peer-reviewed articles. Only peer-reviewed-to-peer-reviewed citations are counted.

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Top Journals (by peer-reviewed citations)