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Journal of Rural Development is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by National Institute of Rural Development.
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ISSN 0970-3357Verify ISSN ↗2582-4295Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Institute of Rural Development
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 294 / 314 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–2025 (also 1982–1994), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Journal of Rural Development is Q4 in Development (rank 294 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Rural 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 6th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.161, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
Journal of Rural Development is published by National Institute of Rural Development. Its print ISSN is 0970-3357 and its online ISSN is 2582-4295.
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 Rural Development has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 1.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #149 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Journal of Rural Development published 63 papers in 2025. 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 30 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from India (86.7%), Kazakhstan (3.3%) and Iran (3.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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