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Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.9). Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2520-1239Verify ISSN ↗2520-1247Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 305 / 745 | 59th | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 143 / 283 | 49th | Q3 |
| Development | 185 / 314 | 41st | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.9.
Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 305 of 745), Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 143 of 283) and Q3 in Development (rank 185 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region 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 1.9, quartile Q2, 59th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 2520-1239 and its online ISSN is 2520-1247.
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.
Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 1.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #229 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 60. 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.
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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