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IDS Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), formerly ABDC B, WoS SSCI. Published by Institute of Development Studies.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0265-5012Verify ISSN ↗1759-5436Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Development Studies
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 576 / 876 | 34th | Q3 |
| Development | 220 / 314 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
IDS Bulletin is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 576 of 876) and Q3 in Development (rank 220 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
IDS Bulletin 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.261, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 62.
IDS Bulletin is published by Institute of Development Studies. Its print ISSN is 0265-5012 and its online ISSN is 1759-5436.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated B 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.
IDS Bulletin has an h-index of 92 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #367 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
IDS Bulletin published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 67. 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 86 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (43.7%), India (22.3%) and United States (10.8%).
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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