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Forum for Development Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0803-9410Verify ISSN ↗1891-1765Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 400 / 876 | 54th | Q2 |
| Development | 149 / 314 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Forum for Development Studies is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 400 of 876) and Q2 in Development (rank 149 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Forum for Development Studies 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.335, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 33.
Forum for Development Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0803-9410 and its online ISSN is 1891-1765.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Forum for Development Studies has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 2.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #186 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Forum for Development Studies published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 36. 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 93 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Norway (16.5%), India (9.5%) and United Kingdom (8.2%).
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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