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Developing Economies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0012-1533Verify ISSN ↗1746-1049Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$2,760 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 169 / 314 | 46th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 446 / 755 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1962–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Developing Economies is Q3 in Development (rank 169 of 314) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 446 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Developing Economies is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.255, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,760 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Developing Economies is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0012-1533 and its online ISSN is 1746-1049.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Developing Economies has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 0.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #228 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Developing Economies published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 48. 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 69 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Japan (40.5%), China (9.9%) and Vietnam (6.2%).
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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