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Desarrollo y Sociedad is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), DOAJ. Published by Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
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ISSN 0120-3584Verify ISSN ↗1900-7760Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 996 / 1530 | 34th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 504 / 745 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Development | 256 / 314 | 18th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 639 / 755 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present (also 1994, 1979–1985), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Desarrollo y Sociedad is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 996 of 1530), Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 504 of 745) and Q4 in Development (rank 256 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Desarrollo y Sociedad 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 0.8, quartile Q3, 34th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.176, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
Desarrollo y Sociedad is published by Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Its print ISSN is 0120-3584 and its online ISSN is 1900-7760.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Desarrollo y Sociedad has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,008 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Desarrollo y Sociedad published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 24. 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 78 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Colombia (22.6%), Argentina (12.8%) and Bolivia (10.3%).
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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