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Review of Development Finance is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. Published by AfricaGrowth Institute.
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ISSN 1879-9337Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AfricaGrowth Institute
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 301 / 342 | 12th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 666 / 755 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Review of Development Finance is Q4 in Finance (rank 301 of 342) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 666 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Review of Development Finance 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 12th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.211, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 37.
Review of Development Finance is published by AfricaGrowth Institute. Its ISSN is 1879-9337.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Finance field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Review of Development Finance has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #320 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
Review of Development Finance published 3 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 17. 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (18 per 1,000 papers). 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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