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Area Based Development Research Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Thailand Science Research and Innovation.
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ISSN 2985-1807Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Thailand Science Research and Innovation
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 827 / 876 | 5th | Q4 |
| Development | 301 / 314 | 4th | Q4 |
| Health (social science) | 372 / 387 | 4th | Q4 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 301 / 307 | 2nd | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Area Based Development Research Journal is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 827 of 876), Q4 in Development (rank 301 of 314) and Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 372 of 387), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Area Based Development Research Journal is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4, 5th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Area Based Development Research Journal is published by Thailand Science Research and Innovation. Its ISSN is 2985-1807.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Area Based Development Research Journal has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #695 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Area Based Development Research Journal published 20 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 45 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Thailand (100%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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