Attachment and Human Development

Attachment & Human Development is the leading forum for the presentation of empirical research, reviews and clinical case studies that reflect contemporary advances in attachment theory and research. AHD is the official journal of the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies (SEAS) and the official journal of the International Attachment Network (IAN). AHD publishes original research, meta-analytic reviews (and occasionally) narrative reviews based on attachment theory. Submissions that include multi-method approaches (including interviews or observations), and a longitudinal design, are especially welcome. While reliance on widely used and previously validated methods is the norm, AHD also publishes papers that introduce new attachment methods. Intergenerational patterns of attachment, emotion-regulation, children’s social and emotional development, the effects of loss and trauma, are common topics addressed by the journal. Submissions that include physiological or genetic data, together with attachment variables, addressing core questions in developmental science are welcome. Submissions typically include attachment as a predictor or an outcome, or attachment as a moderator or mediator of developmental outcomes. AHD aims to be the source for reliable and valid research, and reviews, based on the theories advanced by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. The journal is of interest to developmental, social and clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals including social workers, couple and family therapists.

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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	2000	Q3
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2001	Q3
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2002	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2003	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2004	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2005	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2006	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2007	Q2
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2008	Q1
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	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2017	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2018	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2019	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2020	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2021	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2022	Q1
Developmental and Educational Psychology	2023	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2000	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2001	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2002	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2003	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2004	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2005	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2006	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2007	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2008	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2009	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2010	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2011	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2012	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2013	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2014	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2015	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2016	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2017	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2018	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2019	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2020	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2021	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2022	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2023	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2000	Q2
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2001	Q2
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2002	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2003	Q2
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2004	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2005	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2006	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2007	Q2
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2008	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2009	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2010	Q2
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2011	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2012	Q2
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2013	Q2
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2014	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2015	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2016	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2017	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2018	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2019	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2020	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2021	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	2022	Q1
Psychiatry and Mental Health	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
2000	0.367
2001	0.418
2002	0.812
2003	0.677
2004	1.658
2005	1.124
2006	1.035
2007	0.874
2008	1.266
2009	1.168
2010	0.881
2011	1.027
2012	0.918
2013	0.903
2014	1.127
2015	1.815
2016	1.376
2017	1.383
2018	1.226
2019	1.208
2020	1.139
2021	1.011
2022	1.260
2023	1.172

Total Documents

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

Year	Documents
1999	17
2000	21
2001	17
2002	29
2003	36
2004	33
2005	29
2006	25
2007	28
2008	28
2009	32
2010	27
2011	36
2012	37
2013	36
2014	36
2015	34
2016	36
2017	30
2018	44
2019	40
2020	51
2021	57
2022	40
2023	36

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	0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2000	1.118
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2001	1.184
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2002	1.618
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2003	1.667
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	1.689
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	1.583
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	2.197
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	1.797
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	2.548
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	2.909
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	2.354
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	2.235
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	2.390
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	2.667
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	2.610
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	3.214
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	3.469
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	3.268
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	3.213
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	2.826
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	2.820
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	3.424
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	3.917
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	3.463
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	1999	0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2000	1.118
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2001	1.184
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2002	1.618
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2003	1.493
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	1.524
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	1.520
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	1.888
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	1.770
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	2.683
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	2.346
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	2.045
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	2.287
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	2.389
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	2.350
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	2.440
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	3.404
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	2.774
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	2.991
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	2.650
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	2.573
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	2.877
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	3.274
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	3.777
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	3.446
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	1999	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2000	1.118
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2001	1.184
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2002	1.579
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2003	1.391
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	1.185
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	1.058
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	1.855
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	1.704
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	1.755
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	1.696
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	1.933
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	2.305
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	1.857
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	1.658
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	2.479
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	2.736
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	2.300
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	2.143
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	2.288
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	2.284
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	2.714
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	2.945
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	3.500
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	3.165

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	0
Self Cites	2000	1
Self Cites	2001	7
Self Cites	2002	13
Self Cites	2003	15
Self Cites	2004	22
Self Cites	2005	17
Self Cites	2006	22
Self Cites	2007	19
Self Cites	2008	33
Self Cites	2009	33
Self Cites	2010	26
Self Cites	2011	33
Self Cites	2012	35
Self Cites	2013	34
Self Cites	2014	23
Self Cites	2015	49
Self Cites	2016	39
Self Cites	2017	24
Self Cites	2018	21
Self Cites	2019	21
Self Cites	2020	34
Self Cites	2021	32
Self Cites	2022	55
Self Cites	2023	33
Total Cites	1999	0
Total Cites	2000	19
Total Cites	2001	45
Total Cites	2002	89
Total Cites	2003	100
Total Cites	2004	125
Total Cites	2005	149
Total Cites	2006	185
Total Cites	2007	154
Total Cites	2008	220
Total Cites	2009	190
Total Cites	2010	180
Total Cites	2011	199
Total Cites	2012	227
Total Cites	2013	235
Total Cites	2014	266
Total Cites	2015	371
Total Cites	2016	294
Total Cites	2017	317
Total Cites	2018	265
Total Cites	2019	283
Total Cites	2020	328
Total Cites	2021	442
Total Cites	2022	559
Total Cites	2023	510

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
External Cites per document	2000	1.059
External Cites per document	2001	1.000
External Cites per document	2002	1.382
External Cites per document	2003	1.269
External Cites per document	2004	1.256
External Cites per document	2005	1.347
External Cites per document	2006	1.663
External Cites per document	2007	1.552
External Cites per document	2008	2.280
External Cites per document	2009	1.938
External Cites per document	2010	1.750
External Cites per document	2011	1.908
External Cites per document	2012	2.021
External Cites per document	2013	2.010
External Cites per document	2014	2.229
External Cites per document	2015	2.954
External Cites per document	2016	2.406
External Cites per document	2017	2.764
External Cites per document	2018	2.440
External Cites per document	2019	2.382
External Cites per document	2020	2.579
External Cites per document	2021	3.037
External Cites per document	2022	3.405
External Cites per document	2023	3.223
Cites per document	1999	0.000
Cites per document	2000	1.118
Cites per document	2001	1.184
Cites per document	2002	1.618
Cites per document	2003	1.493
Cites per document	2004	1.524
Cites per document	2005	1.520
Cites per document	2006	1.888
Cites per document	2007	1.770
Cites per document	2008	2.683
Cites per document	2009	2.346
Cites per document	2010	2.045
Cites per document	2011	2.287
Cites per document	2012	2.389
Cites per document	2013	2.350
Cites per document	2014	2.440
Cites per document	2015	3.404
Cites per document	2016	2.774
Cites per document	2017	2.991
Cites per document	2018	2.650
Cites per document	2019	2.573
Cites per document	2020	2.877
Cites per document	2021	3.274
Cites per document	2022	3.777
Cites per document	2023	3.446

% 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	5.88
2000	0.00
2001	0.00
2002	6.90
2003	2.78
2004	3.03
2005	6.90
2006	32.00
2007	17.86
2008	10.71
2009	12.50
2010	7.41
2011	25.00
2012	18.92
2013	25.00
2014	27.78
2015	32.35
2016	47.22
2017	36.67
2018	45.45
2019	40.00
2020	39.22
2021	42.11
2022	30.00
2023	38.89

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	0
Non-citable documents	2000	0
Non-citable documents	2001	1
Non-citable documents	2002	1
Non-citable documents	2003	4
Non-citable documents	2004	18
Non-citable documents	2005	24
Non-citable documents	2006	27
Non-citable documents	2007	13
Non-citable documents	2008	9
Non-citable documents	2009	5
Non-citable documents	2010	9
Non-citable documents	2011	8
Non-citable documents	2012	7
Non-citable documents	2013	2
Non-citable documents	2014	2
Non-citable documents	2015	1
Non-citable documents	2016	1
Non-citable documents	2017	3
Non-citable documents	2018	4
Non-citable documents	2019	16
Non-citable documents	2020	15
Non-citable documents	2021	15
Non-citable documents	2022	7
Non-citable documents	2023	9
Citable documents	1999	0
Citable documents	2000	17
Citable documents	2001	37
Citable documents	2002	54
Citable documents	2003	63
Citable documents	2004	64
Citable documents	2005	74
Citable documents	2006	71
Citable documents	2007	74
Citable documents	2008	73
Citable documents	2009	76
Citable documents	2010	79
Citable documents	2011	79
Citable documents	2012	88
Citable documents	2013	98
Citable documents	2014	107
Citable documents	2015	108
Citable documents	2016	105
Citable documents	2017	103
Citable documents	2018	96
Citable documents	2019	94
Citable documents	2020	99
Citable documents	2021	120
Citable documents	2022	141
Citable documents	2023	139

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	0
Uncited documents	2000	6
Uncited documents	2001	16
Uncited documents	2002	18
Uncited documents	2003	27
Uncited documents	2004	39
Uncited documents	2005	42
Uncited documents	2006	36
Uncited documents	2007	34
Uncited documents	2008	25
Uncited documents	2009	22
Uncited documents	2010	35
Uncited documents	2011	17
Uncited documents	2012	27
Uncited documents	2013	25
Uncited documents	2014	22
Uncited documents	2015	11
Uncited documents	2016	15
Uncited documents	2017	22
Uncited documents	2018	19
Uncited documents	2019	30
Uncited documents	2020	20
Uncited documents	2021	17
Uncited documents	2022	21
Uncited documents	2023	25
Cited documents	1999	0
Cited documents	2000	11
Cited documents	2001	22
Cited documents	2002	37
Cited documents	2003	40
Cited documents	2004	43
Cited documents	2005	56
Cited documents	2006	62
Cited documents	2007	53
Cited documents	2008	57
Cited documents	2009	59
Cited documents	2010	53
Cited documents	2011	70
Cited documents	2012	68
Cited documents	2013	75
Cited documents	2014	87
Cited documents	2015	98
Cited documents	2016	91
Cited documents	2017	84
Cited documents	2018	81
Cited documents	2019	80
Cited documents	2020	94
Cited documents	2021	118
Cited documents	2022	127
Cited documents	2023	123