Development (Cambridge)

Aims & Scope

Development’s scope covers all aspects of plant and animal development, including stem cell biology and regeneration.

The single most important criterion for acceptance in Development is scientific excellence.

Research papers (articles and reports) should therefore pose and test a significant hypothesis or address a significant question, and should provide novel perspectives that advance our understanding of development.

We also encourage submission of papers that use computational methods or mathematical models to obtain significant new insights into developmental biology topics.

Manuscripts that are descriptive in nature will be considered only when they lay important groundwork for a field and/or provide novel resources for understanding developmental processes of broad interest to the community.

Development includes a Techniques and Resources section for the publication of new methods, datasets, and other types of resources.

Papers describing new techniques should include a proof-of-principle demonstration that the technique is valuable to the developmental biology community; they need not include in-depth follow-up analysis.

The technique must be described in sufficient detail to be easily replicated by other investigators.

Development will also consider protocol-type papers of exceptional interest to the community.

We welcome submission of Resource papers, for example those reporting new databases, systems-level datasets, or genetic resources of major value to the developmental biology community.

For all papers, the data or resource described must be made available to the community with minimal restrictions upon publication.

To aid navigability, Development has dedicated sections of the journal to stem cells & regeneration and to human development.

The criteria for acceptance into these sections is identical to those outlined above.

Authors and editors are encouraged to nominate appropriate manuscripts for inclusion in one of these sections.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.6
2024	3.70

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	1875

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	4194

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.715

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	369

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline
• Embase

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Targeted gene expression as a means of altering cell fates and generating dominant phenotypes

  Citation: 8149

  Authors: Andrea H., Norbert

• NeuN, a neuronal specific nuclear protein in vertebratesxs

  Citation: 2013

  Authors: Richard J., Charles R., Alan M.

• Analysis of genetic mosaics in developing and adult <i>Drosophila</i> tissues

  Citation: 1776

  Authors: Tian, Gerald M.

• Role of PDGF-B and PDGFR-β in recruitment of vascular smooth muscle cells and pericytes during embryonic blood vessel formation in the mouse

  Citation: 1356

  Authors: Mats, Mattias, Per, Alexandra, Christer

• The identification of genes with unique and essential functions in the development of the zebrafish, <i>Danio rerio</i>

  Citation: 1336

  Authors: Pascal, Michael, Michael, Mary C., Matthias, Donald A., Jörg, Fredericus, Yun-Jin, Carl-Philipp, Robert N., Makoto, Elisabeth, Dirk, Ursula, Cosima, Christiane

• Stem cells: attributes, cycles, spirals, pitfalls and uncertainties. Lessons for and from the crypt

  Citation: 1303

  Authors: C.S., M.

• Third-generation <i>in situ</i> hybridization chain reaction: multiplexed, quantitative, sensitive, versatile, robust

  Citation: 1290

  Authors: Harry M. T., Maayan, Mark E., Aneesh, Georgios, Johannes, Alexandre, Niles A.

• Direct evidence for the pancreatic lineage: NGN3+ cells are islet progenitors and are distinct from duct progenitors

  Citation: 1272

  Authors: Guoqiang, Jolanta, Douglas A.

• PDX-1 is required for pancreatic outgrowth and differentiation of the rostral duodenum

  Citation: 1247

  Authors: Martin F., Tom L., Patricia A., Michael, Roland W., Mark A., Brigid L. M., Christopher V. E.

• Cdks, cyclins and CKIs: roles beyond cell cycle regulation

  Citation: 1229

  Authors: Shuhui, Philipp

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