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International Development Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1663-9383Verify ISSN ↗1663-9391Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 680 / 1162 | 41st | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 982 / 1530 | 35th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 497 / 745 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Development | 251 / 314 | 20th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024 (also 2022, 2014–2020), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
International Development Policy is Q3 in Law (rank 680 of 1162), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 982 of 1530) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 497 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Development Policy 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 0.9, quartile Q3, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.116, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
International Development Policy is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1663-9383 and its online ISSN is 1663-9391.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Development Policy has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 2.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #113 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Development Policy published 11 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 84. 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 78 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from Switzerland (20.9%), United Kingdom (10.6%) and United States (9.2%).
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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