World Development Perspectives
Published by Elsevier
ISSN : 2468-0532 eISSN : 2452-2929
Abbreviation : World Dev. Perspect.
Aims & Scope
World Development Perspectives is a multi-disciplinary journal of international development.
It seeks to explore ways of improving human well-being by examining the performance and impact of interventions designed to address issues related to: poverty alleviation, public health and malnutrition, agricultural production, natural resource governance, globalization and transnational processes, technological progress, gender and social discrimination, and participation in economic and political life.
Above all, we are particularly interested in the role of historical, legal, social, economic, political, biophysical, and/or ecological contexts in shaping development processes and outcomes.
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Impact Factor
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.3 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.665 |
Quartile
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Q1 |
h-index
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 27 |
Journal Rank
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 8609 |
Journal Citation Indicator
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 510 |
Impact Factor Trend
Abstracting & Indexing
Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.
Subjects & Keywords
Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.