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Pakistan Development Review is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), ABDC C. Published by Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
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ISSN 0030-9729Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 722 / 876 | 17th | Q4 |
| Development | 268 / 314 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 1973–2012, 1969, 1966, 1964), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Pakistan Development Review is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 722 of 876) and Q4 in Development (rank 268 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Pakistan Development Review 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 0.7, quartile Q4, 17th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.154, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 38.
Pakistan Development Review is published by Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. Its ISSN is 0030-9729.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pakistan Development Review has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 2.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #219 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Pakistan Development Review published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 159. 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 51 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Pakistan (72.5%), United States (4.9%) and Morocco (3.9%). 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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