| Social Development | |
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| Former Names: | --> |
| Abbreviation: | Soc. Dev. |
| Discipline: | Developmental psychology |
| Language: | English |
| Editors: | Elizabeth A. Lemerise Amy Halberstadt Luna Centifanti |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| History: | 1992–present |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| Impact: | 2.042 |
| Impact-Year It Is: | 2017 |
| Issn: | 0961-205X |
| Eissn: | 1467-9507 |
| Lccn: | 2003252099 |
| Oclc: | 1043658015 |
| Website: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679507 |
| Link1: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679507/current |
| Link1-Name: | Online access |
| Link2: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/14679507 |
| Link2-Name: | Online archive |
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.
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]