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Journal of Comparative Asian Development is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by IGI Global Publishing.
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ISSN 1533-9114Verify ISSN ↗2150-5403Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IGI Global Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1210 / 1530 | 20th | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 600 / 745 | 19th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 700 / 755 | 7th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–2025 (also 2021, 2010–2019), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Comparative Asian Development is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1210 of 1530), Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 600 of 745) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 700 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Comparative Asian Development 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 20th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.149, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
Journal of Comparative Asian Development is published by IGI Global Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1533-9114 and its online ISSN is 2150-5403.
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.
Journal of Comparative Asian Development has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #658 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Comparative Asian Development published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 19. 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 20 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (26.7%), Türkiye (20%) and Malaysia (16.3%).
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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