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Journal of Youth and Adolescence

A Multidisciplinary Research Publication

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Overview

Journal of Youth and Adolescence offers a high-level medium for interdisciplinary communication on youth and adolescent research.

  • Offers a fast turnaround time to first decision of typically only a few days.
  • Publishes papers based on quantitative analyses, theoretical papers, and comprehensive review articles.
  • Prioritizes empirically rigorous papers that consider policy implications.
  • Encourages manuscripts that address societal responses to the period of youth and adolescence, formally (e.g., through laws, policies or regulations) or informally (e.g., through parents, peers, and social institutions).
  • Boasts a high satisfaction rate among published authors.

Editor-in-Chief
  • Roger J. R. Levesque
Impact factor
4.9 (2022)
5 year impact factor
5.7 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
2 days
Downloads
1,632,339 (2023)

Latest articles

Journal updates

  • 2023 Emerging Scholar Best Article Award

    The editors of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence have named Xiangyu Tao as the 2023 recipient of its Emerging Scholar Best Article Award for her article entitled “Exposure to Social Media Racial Discrimination and Mental Health among Adolescents of Color”.

  • 2022 Emerging Scholar Best Article Award

    The editors of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence have named Natasha R. Magson as the 2022 recipient of its Emerging Scholar Best Article Award for her article entitled ““Risk and Protective Factors for Prospective Changes in Adolescent Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

  • Call for Papers: Reducing Poverty and Its Consequences

    Submission Deadline: Jul. 1, 2023

    As one of the most enduring and complex social problems in the world, poverty, and its eradication, must be addressed through a variety of research and practice domains including social, behavioral, and public health perspectives. Our journal is calling for submissions to a multi-journal collection exploring this significant global issue.

  • 2021 Emerging Scholar Best Article Award

    The editors of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence have named Josefina Bañales as the 2021 recipient of its Emerging Scholar Best Article Award for her article entitled “The Development of Ethnic-Racial Identity Process and Its Relation to Civic Beliefs among Latinx and Black American Adolescents”.

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1573-6601
Print ISSN
0047-2891
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