About this journal
Aims and scope
Adoption Quarterly is an unparalleled forum for examining the issues related to adoption as viewed from a lifespan perspective, and of the psychological and social meanings of the word "family." This international, multidisciplinary journal features conceptual and empirical work, as well as book reviews from the fields of the social sciences, humanities, biological sciences, law, and social policy.
In addition to examining ethical, biological, financial, social and psychological adoption issues, Adoption Quarterly addresses continuity in adoption issues that are important to both practitioners and researchers, such as: negotiation of birth and adoptive family contact; identity formation in the context of adoption; adoption as a premier paradigm for studying the interactions of nature, nurture, and the lifelong development of the adoptee; adoptee adjustment (now viewed in a life-span perspective); adjustment issues for birth and adoptive parents.
Despite the importance of adoption in family formation and its considerable value as a paradigm for scientific study, there is no other scholarly journal specializing in this field. By maintaining a consistently high standard of scholarship, Adoption Quarterly helps stimulate relevant research and develop more practice-based and empirically sound principles.
Peer Review Policy: All articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double anonymized review by three anonymous referees, at least one of whom is a member of the Editorial Board.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 40K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.9 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.994 (2023) SNIP
- 0.322 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 58 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 59 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 68% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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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
Editor-in-Chief
Scott D. Ryan, MSW, MBA, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Social Work
The University of Texas at Arlington
[email protected]
Associate Editor
Nancy Rolock, Ph.D. - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Assistant Editor
Catherine LaBrenz, Ph.D. - The University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Editorial Board
Irene Salvo Agoglia, Ph.D. - Autonomous University of Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - UAB), Spain
Amanda Baden, Ph.D. - Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA
Rick Barth, Ph.D. - University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Joan M. Blakey, Ph.D., MSW - University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
David Brodzinsky, Ph.D. - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Emeritus), New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Krystal K. Cashen, Ph.D. - Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, USA
Rachel Farr, Ph.D. - University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Laura Ferrari, Ph.D. - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy
Trudy Festinger, Ph.D. - New York University, New York, NY, USA
Erin Findley, Ph.D. - The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Karen Foli, Ph.D. - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abbie Goldberg, Ph.D. - Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA
Hal Grotevant, Ph.D. - University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Michelle Hannah, Ph.D. - University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Emily Helder, Ph.D., LP - Hope College, Holland, MI, USA
Susan Henney, Ph.D. - University of Houston Downtown, Houston, TX, USA
Hui Huang, Ph.D., MSW - The University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA
Heather Jacobson, Ph.D. - University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Adam Y. Kim, Ph.D. - Elon University, Elon, NC, USA
JaeRan Kim, Ph.D., MSW - University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, USA
Bibiana D. Koh, Ph.D. - Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD, USA
Bethany R. Lee, Ph.D. - The University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jaegoo Lee, Ph.D. - Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Richard M. Lee, Ph.D. - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Patrick Leung, Ph.D. - University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Betty Luu, Ph.D. - The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Linda-Jeanne M. Mack, MSW, LICSW - The University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Hollee A. McGinnis, Ph.D. - Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Beth Neil, Ph.D. - University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
Kerrie Ocasio, Ph.D. - West Chester University, West Chester, PA, USA
Alfred G. Pérez, Ph.D. - Education, Training and Research, Seattle, WA, USA
Ellen Pinderhughes, Ph.D. - Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
Elizabeth Raleigh, Ph.D. - Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA
Rosa Rosnati, Ph.D. - Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Kristina Scharp, Ph.D. - University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Rhoda Sherman, Ph.D. - Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Deborah Siegel, Ph.D. - Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA
Elizabeth A. Suter, Ph.D. - University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Tony Xing Tan, Ed.D. - University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Anneke J.G. Vinke, Ph.D. - Leiden University, Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
Kyle Weir, Ph.D. - California State University, Fresno, CA, USA
Kevin R. White, Ph.D. - East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Amy L. Whitesel, Ph.D. - The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA
Samantha Wilson, Ph.D. - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwukee, WI , USA
Gretchen Wrobel, Ph.D. - Bethel University, St. Paul, MN, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted and/or indexed in: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Elsevier Scopus; and Thomson Reuters (Emerging Sources Citation Index).
Open access
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