Parenting

Aims & Scope

Parenting: Science and Practice strives to promote the exchange of empirical findings, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches from all disciplines that help to define and advance theory, research, and practice in parenting, caregiving, and childrearing broadly construed. "Parenting" is interpreted to include biological parents and grandparents, adoptive parents, nonparental caregivers, and others, including infrahuman parents.

Articles on parenting itself, antecedents of parenting, parenting effects on parents and on children, the multiple contexts of parenting, and parenting interventions and education are all welcome.

The journal brings parenting to science and science to parenting.

Parenting: Science and Practice is a quarterly international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that seeks to publish rigorous empirical, methodological, applied, review, theoretical, perspective, and policy pieces relevant to parenting; contributions from the humanities and biological sciences as well as the social sciences are invited.

The journal also publishes notices of books and other publications or media representations relevant to a scientific approach to parenting.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.2
2024	2.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.853

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	60

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6184

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	101

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Psychology and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The Internal Structure and Ecological Context of Coparenting: A Framework for Research and Intervention

  Citation: 825

  Authors: Mark E.

• The Association Between Coparenting and Child Adjustment: A Meta-Analysis

  Citation: 465

  Authors: Daniela, Martin

• Cultural Approaches to Parenting

  Citation: 445

  Authors: Marc H.

• Six Dimensions of Parenting: A Motivational Model

  Citation: 417

  Authors: Ellen, Sandy, Tatiana

• A Multi-Domain Self-Report Measure of Coparenting

  Citation: 386

  Authors: Mark E., Louis D., Marni L.

• Effects of Preschool Parents' Power Assertive Patterns and Practices on Adolescent Development

  Citation: 258

  Authors: Diana, Robert E., Elizabeth B.

• Bio-behavioral Synchrony: A Model for Integrating Biological and Microsocial Behavioral Processes in the Study of Parenting

  Citation: 250

  Authors: Ruth

• Parental Efficacy: Predictor of Parenting Behavior and Adolescent Outcomes

  Citation: 223

  Authors: Lee, Richard

• Maternal Depression and Parenting: Implications for Children's Emergent Emotion Regulation and Behavioral Functioning

  Citation: 221

  Authors: Casey, Keith A., Jason K.

• Parents' Educational Involvement: A Developmental Ecology Perspective

  Citation: 193

  Authors: Rachel

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