About this journal
Aims and scope
Child & Youth Services is an international academic journal devoted to advancing knowledge and thinking about relational engagement with children, youth, their families, and communities. Recognizing that children and youth, no matter what challenges they may face, are citizens of the world, the journal is a forum for dialogue among the international community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the lives of young people.
Through peer-reviewed articles, columns, book reviews, and op-ed pieces, Child & Youth Services addresses topics of concern to children and youth in the multiple arenas of their lives, including but not limited to residential care, street and homeless youth work practice, juvenile corrections, relational practice, program development and implementation, and youth policy. The journal highlights the intersections of research and practice, inviting articles that speak to scholarly as well as practice audiences.
Child & Youth Services brings together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including child and youth care, social work, education, social policy, and family studies.
Peer Review:
All articles in this journal have undergone editorial screening and full peer review.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 72K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.1 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.586 (2023) SNIP
- 0.346 (2023) SJR
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
Editors
Patti Ranahan, PhD
Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Editors Emeritus
Jerome Beker, Youth Studies Program, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA
Kiaras Gharabaghi, School of Child and Youth Care, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Doug Magnuson, School of Child & Youth Care, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Grant Charles, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Associate Managing Editor
Ben Anderson-Nathe, Portland State University
Editorial Assistant
Cassidy Kennedy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa
EDITORIAL BOARD
Merle Allsopp, National Association of Child Care Workers, Glosderry, South Africa
James P. Anglin, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Mordecai Arieli, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Michael Baizerman, Youth Studies Program, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA
Cheryl Baldwin, University of Illinois Extension, Rockford, USA
F. Herbert Barnes, Youthorizons, Portland, ME, USA
Mary Burnison, St. Paul, MN, USA
Sherwood B. Chorost, Westfield, NJ, USA
Rivka Eisikovitz, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Jerry Fest, The InterNetwork for Youth, Portland, OR, USA
Leon Fulcher, Foster Care Associates, Dunfernlime, Scotland
Ken Harland, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, Ireland
Lisa Kimball, Center for Ministry of Teaching Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA, USA
Erik Knorth, Department of Special Education and Child Care, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Anthony N. Maluccio, School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
CJ Pascoe, Department of Sociology, Colorado College. Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Hans Skott-Myhre, Brock University, Ontario, Canada
Christoph Steinebach, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland
Marney Thomas, YouthLink, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Karen Vanderven, Department of Child Development and Child Care, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
James K. Whittaker, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Johanna Wyn, Youth Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted and/or indexed in: CSA Sociological Abstracts; Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Elsevier Scopus; ERIC; PsycINFO; PSYCLINE; ProQuest CSA; and SocINDEX.
Open access
Child & Youth Services 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.
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- 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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