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Social Development Issues

Social Development Issues is not currently indexed in Scopus. Published by Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

ISSN 0147-1473Verify ISSN ↗

Publisher: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

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0
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major indexes

Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher

Web of ScienceClarivate (SCIE/SSCI/AHCI/ESCI)
Not listed in Web of Science.
ABDCAustralian Business Deans Council 2025
Not listed in ABDC.
DOAJDirectory of Open Access Journals (live)
Not in DOAJ
Open accessNot registered as fully open access
FT50Financial Times research list
Not listed in FT50.
UT DallasUTD top-100 business research
Not listed in UT Dallas.
ONOS · APC coveredOne Nation One Subscription (Govt of India)
Not in the ONOS APC-supported list.
Publishing in this journal is not centrally APC-funded under One Nation One Subscription.

Is Social Development Issues indexed in Scopus? No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (1996 (also 1990–1994, 1979)).

What is the impact factor of Social Development Issues? Social Development Issues has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for Web of Science SCIE and SSCI titles — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.

Is Social Development Issues in Web of Science? No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).

Is Social Development Issues open access? No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.

Impact & reach — open metrics via OpenAlex

9
h-index
1.73
2-yr mean citations
7
i10-index
180
works indexed
433
total citations
Papers published per year
025502015: 9 papers920152016: 6 papers620162017: 2 papers220172018: 4 papers420182019: 5 papers520192020: 11 papers1120202021: 7 papers720212022: 39 papers3920222023: 41 papers4120232024: 30 papers302024

Social Development Issues published 30 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 41. 2026* is the year so far.

Main topics
Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareSocial Work Education and PracticeHuman Rights and DevelopmentSocial Policy and Reform Studies

h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. Updated 2026-09-24.

Integrity signals — indicators, not proof of misconduct

  • Scopus statusInactive — coverage ended 1996
  • Retracted papers None recorded

Retractions and authorship from OpenAlex; Scopus status from the Scopus source list. A signal marks something to look at more closely; it is not a finding against the journal.

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