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International Journal of Development Issues is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 2. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 1446-8956Verify ISSN ↗1758-8553Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 103 / 745 | 86th | Q1 |
| Development | 73 / 314 | 76th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 214 / 755 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
International Journal of Development Issues is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 103 of 745), Q1 in Development (rank 73 of 314) and Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 214 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Development Issues 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 4.7, quartile Q1, 86th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.488, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
International Journal of Development Issues is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1446-8956 and its online ISSN is 1758-8553.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Development Issues has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 3.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
International Journal of Development Issues published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 31. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from India (8.3%), Indonesia (6.3%) and United States (5.9%).
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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