The Journal of Development Studies

Our screening does not flag The Journal of Development Studies. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Per our venue index, The Journal of Development Studies appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

Papers in The Journal of Development Studies are cited about 1.6 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 169. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

We hold no reliable open-access classification for The Journal of Development Studies. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.