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Economic History of Developing Regions is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 2078-0389Verify ISSN ↗2078-0397Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 121 / 1936 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Development | 184 / 314 | 41st | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 468 / 755 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
Economic History of Developing Regions is Q1 in History (rank 121 of 1936), Q3 in Development (rank 184 of 314) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 468 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Economic History of Developing Regions is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.281, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
Economic History of Developing Regions is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 2078-0389 and its online ISSN is 2078-0397.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Business History and Economic History field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Economic History of Developing Regions has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #358 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Economic History of Developing Regions published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 29. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (15.8%), United Kingdom (8.4%) and United States (8.4%).
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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