The Pakistan Development Review
ISSN 0030-9729 · Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) · Pakistan · active 1961–2026
Metrics
“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.
Indexing & access
Access status: gold. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.
Scope
Frequently asked
Is The Pakistan Development Review a predatory journal?
Our screening does not flag The Pakistan Development Review. 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, PubMed, which is a positive signal.
Is The Pakistan Development Review indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, The Pakistan Development Review appears in: Scopus, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.
What is The Pakistan Development Review's impact?
Papers in The Pakistan Development Review are cited about 2.2 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q4, with an h-index of 62. 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.
Is The Pakistan Development Review open access?
Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.