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Middle East Development Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 1793-8120Verify ISSN ↗1793-8171Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 666 / 1530 | 56th | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 133 / 289 | 54th | Q2 |
| Development | 189 / 314 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Middle East Development Journal is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 666 of 1530), Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 133 of 289) and Q3 in Development (rank 189 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Middle East Development Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.328, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
Middle East Development Journal is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1793-8120 and its online ISSN is 1793-8171.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Middle East Development Journal has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #597 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Middle East Development Journal published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 18. 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 75 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (22.8%), Egypt (11.7%) and Türkiye (6.7%).
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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