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Development Studies Journal Ranking Table17 June 2010Richard HeeksLeave a commentGo to comments

The following represents a first attempt at a league table fordevelopment studies journals.

Rank

Journal CitationScore

1 World Development 6.04

2 Journal of Development Studies 4.90

3 Oxford Development Studies 4.06

4 Development Policy Review 3.20

5 Studies in Comparative International Development 2.40

6 Sustainable Development 2.39

7 European Journal of Development Research 1.90

8 Development and Change 1.89

9 Information Technology for Development 1.58

10 Information Technologies and International Development 1.55

11 Journal of International Development 1.46

12 Development 1.33

13 Third World Quarterly 1.30

14 Public Administration and Development 1.2115 Development in Practice 1.03

16 Progress in Development Studies 0.88

17 Electronic Journal of Information Systems in DevelopingCountries

0.81

18 African Development Review 0.79

19 Gender and Development 0.58

20 Enterprise Development and Microfinance 0.45

21 Canadian Journal of Development Studies 0.45

22 IDS Bulletin 0.40

23 Information Development 0.3724 Forum for Development Studies 0.17
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2/5

25 Journal of Third World Studies 0.11

Comparator Journals

Journal of Development Economics 10.90

Human-Computer Interaction 4.06Environment and Planning D 3.42

Information Systems Journal 2.89

The Information Society 1.64

Mountain Research and Development 0.91

Basis

- Selection was on the basis of development studies journals thatappear in various other tables or lists. However, developmenteconomics journals (inc. Economic Development and CulturalChange, Journal of Development Economics, Review ofDevelopment Economics, and The Developing Economies) were notincluded. If you have suggestions for additions (or deletions), thenlet me know.

- Citation score is calculated by taking papers published in eachjournal in 2008 and identifying how many times each paper is citedin Google Scholar. The average number of cites per paper was thendivided by the average number of years since publication. Veryroughly, then, the score equates to average number of GS citationsper paper per year.

- All papers published in 2008 were used if less than 20 werepublished; a sample of at least 20 building outwards from the mid-year issues was used if more than 20 were published.

- One anomalous paper, with over 10 times the citations of anyother (a pattern not seen in any other journal), was omitted fromAfrican Development Review. Had this been included, ADR wouldplace seventh.

- This exercise will be repeated and expanded in future years. What

is presented here should only be seen as a first, fairly rough-and-ready set of figures. The original data used for the calculationscanbe found here.

Notes

- The raw figures shown here should not be compared with theimpact factor scores under Planning and Development provided inISIs Journal Citation Reports. The rankings can be compared.

- Different disciplines have different citation habits and

norms. Specifically, if economists cite more highly, then thosedevelopment studies journals that include a greater proportion of
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3/5

development economics papers may gain a greater overall citationscore.

- Conversely and requiring further investigation in compiling thefigures, I got some sense that papers in special issues tend to

receive fewer citations. Journals that have a lot of special issuesmay receive a lower overall citation score.

Reflections

- These average figures provide no guidance on whether yourindividual paper would be cited more highly if published in onejournal or another. However, the rankings could be used to provideguidance or evidence on the general impact of a selected

journal. (Of course recognising that overall impact is about morethan just citations.)

- The figures suggest that, beyond the obvious top two of JDS andWorld Development, there may be some mismatch betweenprevious subjective ratings and actual impact. For example, OxfordDevelopment Studies and Development Policy Review rank 3rd and4th here, yet are unrated by most other journal rating schemes.

- There is a moderate mismatch with the ISI JCR 2008 impact factorranking. Most notably, four of the top ten journals here do notappear at all in the ISI list including the two top-cited ICT-for-development journals.

Other Data

- The table below gives details of other ranking and rating data ondevelopment studies and some development economics journals.

High->Low Asto

n

200

8

(4-

>0)

CNR

S

200

8

(1*-

>4)

Idea

s

2010

(/73

1)

SJR

2010

(/11

8)

Wo

K

201

0

(/4

3)

ABD

C

201

0

(A*-

>C)

AB

S

201

0

(4-

>1)

So

M

201

0

(4-

>1)

Hee

ks

201

0

(/25

)

AfricanDevelopmentReview

65 43 2 18

Canadian

Journal ofDevelopmentStudies

78 42 21

Development 666 28 12

Developmentand Change

2 2 15 19 B 2 8

Development

in Practice

32 15

Development

Policy

270 10 8 4


4/5

Review

EconomicDevelopmentand Cultural

Change

117 24 A 3 4

Electronic

Journal ofInformationSystems inDevelopingCountries

17

Enterprise

DevelopmentandMicrofinance

20

EuropeanJournal ofDevelopment

Research

438 48 7

Forum for

DevelopmentStudies

24

Gender and

Development

73 19

IDS Bulletin 70 37 22

InformationDevelopment

23

InformationTechnologies

andInternationalDevelopment

10

InformationTechnologyforDevelopment

9

Journal ofDevelopment

Economics

43 36 A* 3 4

Journal ofDevelopment

Studies

2 2 152 2 26 A 3 4 2

Journal of

InternationalDevelopment

1 3 292 22 B 1 1 11

Journal ofThird WorldStudies

86 25

OxfordDevelopmentStudies

192 58 1 3

Progress inDevelopment

Studies

30 16

Public 62 39 A 2 2 14


5/5

Administratio

n andDevelopment

Review of

DevelopmentEconomics

129 26 32 1

Studies inComparativeInternationalDevelopment

23 31 A 5

SustainableDevelopment

9 11 6

TheDeveloping

Economies

474 35 B

Third WorldQuarterly

2 29 30 A 2 13

WorldDevelopment 3 1 134 9 A 3 3 1

High->Low Aston

200

8

(4-

>0)

CNR

S

200

8

(1*-

>4)

Idea

s

2010

(/73

1)

SJR

2010

(/11

8)

Wo

K

201

0

(/4

3)

ABD

C

201

0

(A*-

>C)

AB

S

201

0

(4-

>1)

So

M

201

0

(4-

>1)

Hee

ks

201

0

(/25

) Key - ABS UK Association of Business Schools:http://www.the-abs.org.uk/?id=257

- Ideas citation data from RePEc project of paper downloads:

http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.journals.simple.html(economics andfinance research)

- SJR Scopus-based citation ranking:http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=3303&area=0&year=2008&country=&order=sjr&min=0&min_type=cd(development journals)

- SoM Cranfield School of Management:https://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/dinamic-content/media/SOM%20Journal%20Rankings%202010%20-

%20alphabetical.pdf

- WoK 2008 impact factor in ISI Journal Citation Reports underPlanning and Development

- All other data from Harzings Journal Quality List:http://www.harzing.com/jql.htm
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