International Journal of Behavioral Development

The International Journal of Behavioral Development is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, which exists to promote the discovery, dissemination and application of knowledge about developmental processes at all stages of the life span - infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. The Journal is already the leading international outlet devoted to reporting interdisciplinary research on behavioural development, and has now, in response to the rapidly developing fields of behavioural genetics, neuroscience and developmental psychopathology, expanded its scope to these and other related new domains of scholarship. In this way, it provides a truly world-wide platform for researchers which can facilitate a greater integrated lifespan perspective. In addition to original empirical research, the Journal also publishes theoretical and review papers, methodological papers, and other work of scientific interest that represents a significant advance in the understanding of any aspect of behavioural development. The Journal also publishes papers on behaviour development research within or across particular geographical regions. Papers are therefore considered from a wide range of disciplines, covering all aspects of the lifespan. Articles on topics of eminent current interest, such as research on the later life phases, biological processes in behaviour development, cross-national, and cross-cultural issues, and interdisciplinary research in general, are particularly welcome.

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Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

Category	Year	Quartile
Developmental and Educational Psychology	1999	Q3
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2000	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2001	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2002	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2003	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2004	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2005	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2006	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2007	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2008	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2009	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2010	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2011	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2012	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2013	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2014	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2015	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2016	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2017	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2018	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2019	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2020	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2021	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2022	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2023	Q1
Developmental Neuroscience	2018	Q2
Developmental Neuroscience	2019	Q2
Developmental Neuroscience	2020	Q2
Developmental Neuroscience	2021	Q2
Developmental Neuroscience	2022	Q1
Developmental Neuroscience	2023	Q1
Education	2018	Q1
Education	2019	Q1
Education	2020	Q1
Education	2021	Q1
Education	2022	Q1
Education	2023	Q1
Life-span and Life-course Studies	2018	Q1
Life-span and Life-course Studies	2019	Q1
Life-span and Life-course Studies	2020	Q1
Life-span and Life-course Studies	2021	Q1
Life-span and Life-course Studies	2022	Q1
Life-span and Life-course Studies	2023	Q1
Social Psychology	2018	Q1
Social Psychology	2019	Q1
Social Psychology	2020	Q1
Social Psychology	2021	Q1
Social Psychology	2022	Q1
Social Psychology	2023	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2018	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2019	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2020	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2021	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2022	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	2023	Q1

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
1999	0.477
2000	0.607
2001	0.592
2002	0.670
2003	0.934
2004	0.894
2005	0.662
2006	0.811
2007	1.051
2008	1.098
2009	1.063
2010	1.118
2011	1.064
2012	1.087
2013	1.039
2014	1.059
2015	1.281
2016	0.856
2017	1.188
2018	1.255
2019	1.159
2020	0.990
2021	1.002
2022	1.268
2023	1.558

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
1999	50
2000	58
2001	61
2002	57
2003	54
2004	53
2005	56
2006	58
2007	61
2008	57
2009	58
2010	58
2011	61
2012	55
2013	65
2014	60
2015	62
2016	62
2017	76
2018	64
2019	66
2020	57
2021	60
2022	58
2023	53

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	1999	0.710
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2000	0.948
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2001	1.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2002	1.085
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2003	1.376
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	1.426
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	1.307
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	1.600
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	1.633
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	1.864
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	2.216
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	2.312
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	2.731
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	2.671
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	2.487
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	2.477
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	2.680
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	2.149
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	2.189
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	2.673
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	2.572
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	2.489
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	2.935
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	3.348
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	4.328
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	1999	0.710
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2000	0.934
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2001	0.887
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2002	0.982
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2003	1.403
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	1.209
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	1.152
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	1.540
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	1.623
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	1.697
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	1.915
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	2.074
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	2.301
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	2.520
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	2.293
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	2.238
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	2.094
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	1.979
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	2.299
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	2.345
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	2.480
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	2.223
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	2.743
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	3.497
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	4.526
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	1999	0.576
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2000	0.785
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2001	0.565
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2002	1.084
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2003	0.966
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	0.991
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	1.084
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	1.312
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	1.298
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	1.269
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	1.627
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	1.652
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	1.957
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	2.303
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	2.121
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	1.667
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	1.848
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	1.984
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	1.879
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	2.087
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	2.064
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	1.823
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	2.610
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	3.453
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	3.322

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	1999	9
Self Cites	2000	9
Self Cites	2001	9
Self Cites	2002	20
Self Cites	2003	23
Self Cites	2004	13
Self Cites	2005	26
Self Cites	2006	23
Self Cites	2007	22
Self Cites	2008	10
Self Cites	2009	6
Self Cites	2010	8
Self Cites	2011	11
Self Cites	2012	5
Self Cites	2013	12
Self Cites	2014	7
Self Cites	2015	17
Self Cites	2016	6
Self Cites	2017	3
Self Cites	2018	10
Self Cites	2019	6
Self Cites	2020	13
Self Cites	2021	8
Self Cites	2022	10
Self Cites	2023	7
Total Cites	1999	130
Total Cites	2000	170
Total Cites	2001	134
Total Cites	2002	166
Total Cites	2003	247
Total Cites	2004	208
Total Cites	2005	189
Total Cites	2006	251
Total Cites	2007	271
Total Cites	2008	297
Total Cites	2009	337
Total Cites	2010	365
Total Cites	2011	398
Total Cites	2012	446
Total Cites	2013	399
Total Cites	2014	405
Total Cites	2015	377
Total Cites	2016	370
Total Cites	2017	423
Total Cites	2018	469
Total Cites	2019	501
Total Cites	2020	458
Total Cites	2021	513
Total Cites	2022	640
Total Cites	2023	792

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	1999	0.661
External Cites per document	2000	0.885
External Cites per document	2001	0.828
External Cites per document	2002	0.864
External Cites per document	2003	1.273
External Cites per document	2004	1.134
External Cites per document	2005	0.994
External Cites per document	2006	1.399
External Cites per document	2007	1.491
External Cites per document	2008	1.640
External Cites per document	2009	1.881
External Cites per document	2010	2.028
External Cites per document	2011	2.237
External Cites per document	2012	2.492
External Cites per document	2013	2.224
External Cites per document	2014	2.199
External Cites per document	2015	2.000
External Cites per document	2016	1.947
External Cites per document	2017	2.283
External Cites per document	2018	2.295
External Cites per document	2019	2.450
External Cites per document	2020	2.160
External Cites per document	2021	2.701
External Cites per document	2022	3.443
External Cites per document	2023	4.486
Cites per document	1999	0.710
Cites per document	2000	0.934
Cites per document	2001	0.887
Cites per document	2002	0.982
Cites per document	2003	1.403
Cites per document	2004	1.209
Cites per document	2005	1.152
Cites per document	2006	1.540
Cites per document	2007	1.623
Cites per document	2008	1.697
Cites per document	2009	1.915
Cites per document	2010	2.074
Cites per document	2011	2.301
Cites per document	2012	2.520
Cites per document	2013	2.293
Cites per document	2014	2.238
Cites per document	2015	2.094
Cites per document	2016	1.979
Cites per document	2017	2.299
Cites per document	2018	2.345
Cites per document	2019	2.480
Cites per document	2020	2.223
Cites per document	2021	2.743
Cites per document	2022	3.497
Cites per document	2023	4.526

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
1999	40.00
2000	25.86
2001	19.67
2002	21.05
2003	33.33
2004	26.42
2005	33.93
2006	25.86
2007	26.23
2008	26.32
2009	20.69
2010	43.10
2011	24.59
2012	27.27
2013	44.62
2014	21.67
2015	38.71
2016	40.32
2017	27.63
2018	37.50
2019	51.52
2020	24.56
2021	38.33
2022	44.83
2023	45.28

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	1999	4
Non-citable documents	2000	6
Non-citable documents	2001	6
Non-citable documents	2002	6
Non-citable documents	2003	4
Non-citable documents	2004	3
Non-citable documents	2005	1
Non-citable documents	2006	1
Non-citable documents	2007	2
Non-citable documents	2008	5
Non-citable documents	2009	5
Non-citable documents	2010	5
Non-citable documents	2011	2
Non-citable documents	2012	1
Non-citable documents	2013	1
Non-citable documents	2014	2
Non-citable documents	2015	4
Non-citable documents	2016	6
Non-citable documents	2017	5
Non-citable documents	2018	3
Non-citable documents	2019	0
Non-citable documents	2020	2
Non-citable documents	2021	2
Non-citable documents	2022	2
Non-citable documents	2023	1
Citable documents	1999	179
Citable documents	2000	176
Citable documents	2001	145
Citable documents	2002	163
Citable documents	2003	172
Citable documents	2004	169
Citable documents	2005	163
Citable documents	2006	162
Citable documents	2007	165
Citable documents	2008	170
Citable documents	2009	171
Citable documents	2010	171
Citable documents	2011	171
Citable documents	2012	176
Citable documents	2013	173
Citable documents	2014	179
Citable documents	2015	176
Citable documents	2016	181
Citable documents	2017	179
Citable documents	2018	197
Citable documents	2019	202
Citable documents	2020	204
Citable documents	2021	185
Citable documents	2022	181
Citable documents	2023	174

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	1999	117
Uncited documents	2000	90
Uncited documents	2001	83
Uncited documents	2002	84
Uncited documents	2003	72
Uncited documents	2004	68
Uncited documents	2005	76
Uncited documents	2006	61
Uncited documents	2007	66
Uncited documents	2008	66
Uncited documents	2009	64
Uncited documents	2010	54
Uncited documents	2011	43
Uncited documents	2012	47
Uncited documents	2013	44
Uncited documents	2014	54
Uncited documents	2015	42
Uncited documents	2016	56
Uncited documents	2017	50
Uncited documents	2018	57
Uncited documents	2019	51
Uncited documents	2020	57
Uncited documents	2021	36
Uncited documents	2022	41
Uncited documents	2023	34
Cited documents	1999	66
Cited documents	2000	92
Cited documents	2001	68
Cited documents	2002	85
Cited documents	2003	104
Cited documents	2004	104
Cited documents	2005	88
Cited documents	2006	102
Cited documents	2007	101
Cited documents	2008	109
Cited documents	2009	112
Cited documents	2010	122
Cited documents	2011	130
Cited documents	2012	130
Cited documents	2013	130
Cited documents	2014	127
Cited documents	2015	138
Cited documents	2016	131
Cited documents	2017	134
Cited documents	2018	143
Cited documents	2019	151
Cited documents	2020	149
Cited documents	2021	151
Cited documents	2022	142
Cited documents	2023	141