World Development
| World Development
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| description | Scientific journal |
| Area of Expertise | Development economics |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Elsevier ( Netherlands ) |
| First edition | 1973 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Editor-in-chief | Arun Agrawal |
| Web link | journals.elsevier.com |
| Article archive | sciencedirect.com |
| ISSN |
0305-750X |
World Development is a multidisciplinary scientific journal on economic topics published by the Dutch publisher Elsevier . The specialty is development economics , especially topics such as poverty reduction , malnutrition , national debt and conflict research . It was founded in 1973 by Paul Streeten .
Editor-in-chief is Arun Agrawal (2015). He is assisted by four Associate Editors: Francisco Alpizar , Anthony Bebbington , Beatriz Magaloni and Jean-Philippe Platteau . There are also a number of advisory editors.
The impact factor in 2016 was 2.848, the five-year impact factor was 3.354. With this, the journal was ranked 48th out of a total of 347 scientific journals listed in the economics category for the Impact Factor and 5th out of 55 journals in the planning and development category .
A study by the French economists Pierre-Phillippe Combes and Laurent Linnemer ranks the journal in the third-best category A, ranking 34th out of 600 economic journals.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Editorial Board. journals.elsevier.com, accessed October 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Journal Citation Reports 2016. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
- ↑ Combes, Pierre-Philippe and Laurent Linnemer, Inferring Missing Citations: A Quantitative Multi-Criteria Ranking of all Journals in Economics . In: GREQAM Document de Travail . No. 2010-28 , 2010, pp. 26–30 (English, halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF]).