Human Development is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of human development, particularly developmental psychology. Its scope includes disparate disciplines such as anthropology, biology, education, psychology, and sociology, among others.^[1] The journal is published by Karger Publishers (Basel). The journal is the official journal of the Jean Piaget Society. The current editor is Susan Rivera (University of California, Davis). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 1.893.^[2]

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Human Development

Discipline	Developmental psychology
Language	English, French, German
Edited by	Larry Nucci
Publication details
Former name(s)	Vita Humana
History	1958–present
Publisher	Karger Publishers
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	1.667 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Hum. Dev.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	HUDEA8
ISSN	0018-716X (print) 1423-0054 (web)
LCCN	60045764
OCLC no.	637575117
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Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes theoretical contributions and integrative reviews of lines of research in psychological development within conceptual, historical, and methodological frameworks. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, flesh out interesting and potentially powerful ideas, and differentiate key constructs. Contributions come primarily from developmental psychology but are welcome from other relevant disciplines.

The journal was founded in 1958 as Vita Humana by Hans Thomae (1958–1981) and continued in 1965 as Human Development. Former editors include: Bernice L. Neugarten (1963–1969), M.L. Langeveld (1963–1974), Klaus F. Riegel (1970–1977), John A. Meacham (1977–1987), Wolfgang Edelstein (1982–1987), Hermine Sinclair (1982–1987), Deanna Kuhn (1988–1996), Barbara Rogoff (1997–2002), Geoffrey B. Saxe (2003–2006), Larry Nucci (2007–2019), and Susan Rivera (2020–).