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Development Policy Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), 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 0950-6764Verify ISSN ↗1467-7679Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,470 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 79 / 314 | 75th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 222 / 876 | 74th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 163 / 432 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present (also 1968–1970, 1966), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Development Policy Review is Q1 in Development (rank 79 of 314), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 222 of 876) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 163 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Development Policy Review 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.651, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 80.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,470 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.
Development Policy Review is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0950-6764 and its online ISSN is 1467-7679.
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.
Development Policy Review has an h-index of 96 and a 2-year mean of 1.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #115 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Development Policy Review published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 165. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (11.1%), United Kingdom (8.2%) and India (7.5%).
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 2 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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