Child Maltreatment

Language	English
Edited by	Daniel J. Whitaker, Ph.D.
Publication details
History	1996–present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	2.984 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Child Maltreatment
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1077-5595
LCCN	96640810
OCLC no.	41181179
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Child Maltreatment is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of psychology, family studies and social work. It has been in publication since 1996 and is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. Vincent J. Palusci, MD, MS (New York University Grossman School of Medicine) became editor in chief in 2021.

Scope

Child Maltreatment aims to report current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from fields such as mental health, child protection, medicine and law. The multidisciplinary journal provides a forum for the discussion on dissemination of research and findings.

Abstracting and indexing

Child Maltreatment is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 4.047, ranking it 2 out of 42 journals in the category "Social Work",^[1] and 3 out of 48 journals in the category "Family Studies."^[1]