Child Development Perspectives is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Its editor-in-chief is Rob Kail.

The journal aims to publish short articles on emerging subjects of inquiry in developmental science.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 3.911, ranking it 8th out of 70 journals in the category "Psychology, Developmental".

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