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Development Southern Africa is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), ABDC C, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0376-835XVerify ISSN ↗1470-3637Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 234 / 876 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Development | 86 / 314 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Development Southern Africa is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 234 of 876) and Q2 in Development (rank 86 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Development Southern Africa 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.518, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 59.
Development Southern Africa is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0376-835X and its online ISSN is 1470-3637.
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 C 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 Southern Africa has an h-index of 77 and a 2-year mean of 2.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #177 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Development Southern Africa published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 85. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (70.7%), United States (4.2%) and Namibia (4%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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