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World Development Perspectives is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2452-2929Verify ISSN ↗2468-0532Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,128 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 270 / 1530 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 237 / 876 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Development | 87 / 314 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 242 / 755 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
World Development Perspectives is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 270 of 1530), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 237 of 876) and Q2 in Development (rank 87 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
World Development Perspectives 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.790, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,128 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
World Development Perspectives is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2452-2929 and its online ISSN is 2468-0532.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Development Perspectives has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 3.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #112 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
World Development Perspectives published 100 papers in 2025. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (13.4%), Ghana (6.5%) and India (5.1%).
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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