The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is recognized as a preeminent source of contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Published annually, it focuses on presenting carefully selected and edited representative articles featuring ongoing analytic research as well as clinical and theoretical contributions for use in the treatment of adults and children.
Initiated in 1945, under the early leadership of Anna Freud, Kurt and Ruth Eissler, Marianne and Ernst Kris, this series of volumes soon established itself as a leading reference source of study. To look at its contributors is to be confronted with the names of a stellar list of creative, scholarly pioneers who willed a rich heritage of information about the development and disorders of children and their influence on the treatment of adults as well as children. An innovative section, The Child Analyst at Work, periodically provides a forum for dialogue and discussion of clinical process from multiple viewpoints.
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Journal metrics
Usage
36K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.4 (2023) Impact Factor
0.4 (2023) 5 year IF
0.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
1.122 (2023) SNIP
0.483 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
64 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
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and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
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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.
ANNA FREUD, LL.D., D.SC. HEINZ HARTMANN, M.D. ERNST KRIS, Ph.D.
Co-Editors-in-Chief
DENIA BARRETT, M.S.W. - Illinois, USA JILL M. MILLER, Ph.D. - Washington, DC, USA
Senior Editors
RONA KNIGHT, Ph.D. - Massachusetts, USA WENDY OLESKER, Ph.D. - New York, USA
Editorial Review Board
STEVEN LURIA ABLON, M.D. - Massachusetts, USA ANTHONY D. BRAM, Ph.D., ABAP - Massachusetts, USA PAUL M. BRINICH, Ph.D - California, USA KAREN GILMORE, M.D. - New York, USA SIBEL HALFON, Ph.D. - Istanbul, Turkey PAUL C. HOLINGER, M.D. - Illinois, USA ROBERT A. KING, M.D. - Connecticut, USA NORKA MALBERG, PsyD. - Barcelona, Spain STEVEN MARANS, Ph.D. - Connecticut, USA LINDA C. MAYES, M.D. - Connecticut, USA MONISHA NAYAR-AKHTAR, Ph.D. - Pennsylvania, USA ELLEN SHUSTOROVICH, Ph.D. - New York, USA BEVERLY STOUTE, M.D. - Georgia, USA KIRKLAND VAUGHANS, Ph.D. - New York, USA FRED R. VOLKMAR, M.D. - Connecticut, USA HANNAH WALLERSTEIN, Ph.D. - Michigan, USA CECIL R. WEBSTER, JR., M.D. - Massachusetts, USA LISSA WEINSTEIN, Ph.D. - New York, USA LAURA WHITMAN, M.D. - New York, USA JUDITH A. YANOF, M.D. - Massachusetts, USA
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