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Development is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 1011-6370Verify ISSN ↗1461-7072Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 533 / 876 | 39th | Q3 |
| Development | 207 / 314 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1984–1985), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Development is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 533 of 876) and Q3 in Development (rank 207 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Development 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 1.5, quartile Q3, 39th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.233, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 50.
Development is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1011-6370 and its online ISSN is 1461-7072.
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.
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.
Development has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #576 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Development published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 47. 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 81 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Italy (11.5%), United States (11.3%) and United Kingdom (10.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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