Social Development (journal)

Social Development is a quarterly peer-reviewed online-only scientific journal covering developmental psychology, with a specific focus on children's behavioral development. It was established in 1992 by Rudolf Schaffer and is published by John Wiley & Sons.

Social Development

Discipline	Developmental psychology
Language	English
Edited by	Elizabeth A. Lemerise Amy Halberstadt Luna Centifanti
Publication details
History	1992–present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	2.042
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Soc. Dev.
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ISSN	0961-205X (print) 1467-9507 (web)
LCCN	2003252099
OCLC no.	1043658015
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The current editors-in-chief are Elizabeth A. Lemerise (Western Kentucky University), Amy Halberstadt (North Carolina State University), and Luna Centifanti (University of Liverpool). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.042, ranking it 31st out of 73 journals in the category "Psychology, Developmental".^[1]