The Journal of Development Studies
Last updated ISSN 0022-0388
The Journal of Development Studies is published by Taylor & Francis in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Journal of Development Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- International Development and Aid
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Global trade and economics
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Economic Theory and Policy
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0022-0388, 1743-9140 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,602 |
| Publishing since | 1964 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjds20/current |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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