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Finance and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), formerly ABDC C. Published by International Monetary Fund.
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ISSN 0145-1707Verify ISSN ↗1564-5142Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 717 / 876 | 18th | Q4 |
| Development | 266 / 314 | 15th | Q4 |
| Finance | 305 / 342 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present (also 1975–1976, 1973), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Finance and Development is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 717 of 876), Q4 in Development (rank 266 of 314) and Q4 in Finance (rank 305 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Finance and 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 0.7, quartile Q4, 18th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.118, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 41.
Finance and Development is published by International Monetary Fund. Its print ISSN is 0145-1707 and its online ISSN is 1564-5142.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2010 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Finance and Development has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #479 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Finance and Development published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 35. 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.
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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