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International Development Planning Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. Published by Liverpool University Press.
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ISSN 1474-6743Verify ISSN ↗1478-3401Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 366 / 876 | 58th | Q2 |
| Development | 134 / 314 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
International Development Planning Review is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 366 of 876) and Q2 in Development (rank 134 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
International Development Planning Review 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.617, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 45.
International Development Planning Review is published by Liverpool University Press. Its print ISSN is 1474-6743 and its online ISSN is 1478-3401.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Development Planning Review has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 1.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #390 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
International Development Planning Review published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 38. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (19.6%), Netherlands (8.2%) and Sweden (6.8%).
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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