Child Development
Child Development invites manuscripts for a Special Section on Children’s Developmental Trajectories in the Long Shadow of COVID-19. The Special Section Co-Editors are Anna D. Johnson, Gabriela Livas-Stein, and Seth Pollak.
We seek papers that rely on longitudinal, repeated measures data to describe children’s development over time, from pre-pandemic to the extended period long after acute lockdowns and school closures ended. We also welcome submissions that document predictors of children’s developmental trajectories across this extended period, and that identify risk and protective factors as well as critical mechanisms that might shape those pathways. We encourage studies that draw on data on a broad range of developmental, well-being, and health outcomes and that bring important attention to populations typically understudied in the developmental science literature. Thus, we are especially interested in data that are limited to or include sizable samples of diverse children and youth (e.g., children from underrepresented groups; children from global communities; children from economically disadvantaged communities) and that use strengths-based and/or adaptive approaches. Papers must be empirical (i.e., quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods) literature reviews or concept papers will not be considered. However, we welcome brief reports as well as multi-data papers and typical-length research articles.
Authors who plan to submit a manuscript must submit a letter of intent (LOI) through the SRCD Special Section Application Site by Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Please review the full call to ensure your LOI is complete.