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Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of Zaragoza.
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ISSN 2254-2035Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Zaragoza
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 272 / 1936 | 85th | Q1 |
| Law | 579 / 1162 | 50th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 871 / 1530 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 599 / 876 | 31st | Q3 |
| Development | 234 / 314 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies is Q1 in History (rank 272 of 1936), Q2 in Law (rank 579 of 1162) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 871 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Iberoamerican Journal of 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.162, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies is published by University of Zaragoza. Its ISSN is 2254-2035.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #190 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 25. 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 90 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Spain (59.3%), Ecuador (7.6%) and Colombia (6.9%). 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. 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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