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Economic Development and Cultural Change is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. Published by The University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0013-0079Verify ISSN ↗1539-2988Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 115 / 314 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 315 / 755 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present (also 1978–1979), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Economic Development and Cultural Change is Q2 in Development (rank 115 of 314) and Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 315 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Economic Development and Cultural Change 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.288, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 92.
Economic Development and Cultural Change is published by The University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0013-0079 and its online ISSN is 1539-2988.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Economic Development and Cultural Change has an h-index of 164 and a 2-year mean of 1.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #147 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Economic Development and Cultural Change published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 72. 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 64 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.2%), China (15.4%) and United Kingdom (7%).
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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