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World Development

World Development is a journal indexed in SJR in Development and Geography, Planning and Development with an H index of 233. It has a COP Index of 6,0 (best band D1). It is published in English. It has a COP Index of 6,0.

World Development focuses its scope in these topics and keywords: food, evidence, sustainable, poverty, effects, security, rights, health, households, gender, ...

ISSN: 0305-750X

Publisher: Elsevier B.V.

Category: Development

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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6,0 D1 Top 10%

14 of 243 journals in Development

H-index · SJR 233 · 2,161

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20% Selective

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COP Index

6,0

D1 Top 10%

SJR Impact

2,161

H-index

233

Docs (year)

292

Docs 3y

940

Total refs

23080

Cites 3y

6952

Citable 3y

920

Cites/Doc 2y

5.72

Ref/Doc

79.04

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0 €

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Coping with Change: A Study of Local Irrigation Institutions in Taiwan

Women's autonomy and its impact on fertility

Editorial: Reforming the welfare state in postsocialist societies

Editorial: Development, knowledge and the Baconian age

Editor's Introduction

Economic restructuring and gender in Canada: Feminist policy initiatives

Does leadership matter in the economic reform process? Liberalization and governance in Sri Lanka, 1989-1993

Distortions in world food markets in the wake of GATT: Evidence and policy implications

Developing a quantitative framework for sustainable resource-use planning in the Brazilian Amazon

Demystifying Nonparticipation in Microcredit: A Population-Based Analysis

Demographic change in the former Soviet Union during the transition period

Demand, Market Structure and the Formalizing of Ministry of Health Fees: A Nicaraguan Case Study

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Assessing adjustment in Africa

An introduction to a primer for reform-minded Presidents or Prime Ministers

Alternative definitions of female headship in the Dominican Republic

Agricultural research policy issues in Latin America: An Overview

Additionality or diversion? food aid to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics and the implications for developing countries

Adaptive entrepreneurship and the economic development of Hong Kong

A reply to Bennell

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World Development has a COP Index of 6,0 (D1), ranked 14 of 243 in Development. SJR: 2,161.

Immediate OA APC is not available (NPD). Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for World Development is 20%.

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