About this journal
Aims and scope
This well-established journal publishes empirically-based articles addressing theoretical, clinical, programmatic, training, and professional practice issues relevant to the family-centered, developmental, and psychosocial aspects of children’ health care. It also contains substantive and methodological reviews pertaining to these areas. As such, it welcomes articles involving parent-professional collaboration and multidisciplinary efforts including nursing, child life, psychology, social work, and related disciplines. The journal’s goal is to establish a strong justification for psychosocial care of children and provide an empirical base for professional applications with children and families interacting with health care settings and personnel.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two anonymous referees.
Readership:
Researchers and practitioners interested in promoting health care policies, programs, and practices responsive to the psychosocial needs of children and their families.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 34K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.8 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.345 (2023) SNIP
- 0.337 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 10 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 100 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 14 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 18% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Eric Storch, Ph.D. - Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Associate Editors
Christopher Flessner, Ph.D - Kent State University, USA
Carolyn E. Ievers-Landis, Ph.D - University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, USA
Amy Sato, Ph.D. - Kent State University, USA
Editorial Board
Chelsea M. Ale, Ph.D - Mayo Clinic, USA
Keith Allen, Ph.D. - University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Jason Allen, Ph.D - Texas Tech University, USA
Frank Andrasik, Ph.D. - University of Memphis, USA
Bridget Armstrong, Ph.D - University of South Carolina, USA
F. Daniel Armstrong, Ph.D., ABPP - University of Miami School of Medicine, USA
Brandon Aylward, Ph.D - Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Daniel M. Bagner, Ph.D, ABPP - Florida International University, USA
Kristen Grabill Beniot, Ph.D - Brown University Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital, USA
William Black, Ph.D - University of Kansas Medical Center, USA
Ronald L. Blount, Ph.D - University of Georgia, USA
Richard E. Boles, Ph.D - University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
Ronald T. Brown, Ph.D - University of Las Vegas, USA
Natasha Burke, Ph.D - Fordham University, USA
Kimberly Canter, Ph.D - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware, USA
July Carmody, Ph.D - Children's Hospital of Boston, USA
John M. Chaney, PhD - Oklahoma State University, USA
Ashley Clawson, Ph.D - Oklahoma State University, USA
Erica Coats, Ph.D - Georgetown University, USA
Shayna Coburn Ph.D - Children's National Hospital, USA
Lindsey Cohen, Ph.D. - Georgia State University, USA
Marc Collin. M.D. - Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, USA
Katrina Cordts, Ph.D - University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Lynnda Dahlquist, Ph.D. - University of Maryland-Baltimore County, USA
Molly Davis, Ph.D - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Katie Devine, Ph.D - Cancer Institute of New Jersey, USA
Cody Dodd, Ph.D - University of Texas Medical Branch oat Galveston, USA
Cyd Eaton - Ph.D - Johns Hopkins University, USA
Sarah Elkins, Ph.D - University of Houston - Clear Lake, USA
Paul Enlow, Ph.D - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware , USA
Leslie Frankel, Ph.D - University of Houston, USA
Amy Goetz, Ph.D - Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Michelle Goldwin, Ph.D - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Marisa Gowey, Ph.D - University of Alabama - Birmingham, USA
Leilani Greening, Ph.D - University of Mississippi Medical Center, USA
Silvia Youssef Hanna, Ph.D - College of Charleston, USA
Chantelle Hart, Ph.D - Temple University, USA
David Hecklet, Ph.D - Dell Children's Medical Center, USA
John Herrington, Ph.D - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Aimee Hildenbrand, Ph.D - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware , USA
Chad Jensen, Ph.D - Brigham Young University, USA
Sara Sytsma Jordan, Ph.D - University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Elizabeth Keys, Ph.D - Dalhousie University, Canada
Michael J. Larson, Ph.D - Brigham Young University, USA
Kathleen Lemanek, PhD - Nationwide Children's Hospital
Adam Lewin, Ph.D, ABPP - University of South Florida College of Medicine, USA
Brenna Maddox, Ph.D - University of North Carolina, USA
Stephanie Marcy, Ph.D - Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, USA
Jennifer Mautone, Ph.D - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Sarah Mire, Ph.D - University of Houston, USA
Melisa Moore, Ph.D - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Julia Parrish-Morris Ph.D - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Larry L. Mullins, Ph.D. - Oklahoma State University, USA
Andrea Farkas Patenaude, Ph.D. - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Sean Phipps, Ph.D. - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
Sharon G. Portwood, J.D., Ph.D. - University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
Scott W. Powers. Ph.D., ABPP - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA
Bonney Reed, Ph.D - Emory University, USA
Cara B. Reeves, Ph.D - Greenville Health System Children's Hospital, USA
Michael C. Roberts, Ph.D, ABPP - University of Kansas, USA
Candido Jose Ingles Saura, Ph.D. - Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain
Kirti Saxena, MD - Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Nicole Schneider, PsyD, ABPP - Texas Children's Hospital, USA
Katianne Sharp, Ph.D - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
Alan H. Silverman, Ph.D - Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Susan J. Simonian, Ph.D., ABPP - College of Charleston, USA
Ric G. Steele, Ph.D., ABPP - University of Kansas, USA
Dara Steinberg, Ph.D - Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Sunita Stewart, Ph.D. - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Cathy Stough, Ph.D - University of Cincinnati, USA , USA
Laura Stoppelbein, Ph.D - University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA
Lloyd C. Taylor, Ph.D - The Citadel, USA
Kenneth P. Tercyak, PhD - Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
Laura A. Thompson, Ph.D - Fielding Graduate University, USA
Rachel Tillery, Ph.D - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
Angela Trujillo, Ph.D. - Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia
Carrie Tully, Ph.D - Children's National Hospital, USA
Wendy L. Ward, Ph.D - University of Arkansas Medical Sciences College of Medicine, USA
Rebecca Wells, Ph.D - University of Georgia, USA
Tammy Wilgenbusch, Ph.D - University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, USA
Cortney Taylor Zimmerman, Ph.D - Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Children’s Health Care is abstracted/indexed in: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts; Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Psychology; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: Health and Safety Science Abstracts, Risk Abstracts; Child Welfare Information Gateway; Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; Exceptional Child Education Resources; Family Index Database; IFI/Plenum: Mental Health Abstracts Database; ISI: Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social SciSearch, Journal Citation Reports Social Science; PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts; Scopus; and Sociological Abstracts.
Open access
Children's Health Care is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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Currently known as:
- Children's Health Care (1981 - current)
Formerly known as
- Journal of the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals (1973 - 1981)
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