World Development Sustainability
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Open Access
Journal
Country
Netherlands
Western Europe
Subject Area and Category
Social Sciences
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Geography, Planning and Development
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Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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Publisher
Citation Score 2025
0.934
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Citation Score
H-Index
20
Citations / Doc (2yr)
5.99
Total Docs. (latest)
64
Total Citations (3yr)
1,133
Publication type
Journals
ISSN
2772655X
Coverage
2022-2026
Journal Rank
#5,478
Subject Categories
Geography, Planning and Development
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Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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Subject Areas
Aims & Scope
World Development Sustainability is a multi-disciplinary, gold open access social sciences journal focusing on sustainable development.
It is a companion title to the prestigious World Development, its distinct focus is on publishing novel and cutting-edge research on sustainability, especially economic development, social development, natural resources, and the environment.
It covers the theory, practice, policy solutions and the latest research trends on sustainable development.
World Development Sustainability encompasses a comprehensive range of research fields and disciplinary perspectives focusing on social sciences and environmental science.
World Development Sustainability aims to publish articles that will deepen understanding of mechanisms for ensuring the sustainability of human beings; track and/or measure progress on the achievement of global objectives such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); explore sustainable ways of improving the standards of common living and the welfare effect of common goods; encourage theoretical and empirical research on social and environmental sciences focusing on sustainability; promote scientific governance and impact assessments of global sustainable development by examining problems such as: poverty, failure of environmental public goods, hunger, disease, lack of shelter, environmental degradation, tragedy of the commons, sustainable resources, mediocre scientific and technological resources, gender and ethnic discrimination, and lack of popular participation in economic and green life.
Abstracting & Indexing
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Detailed Metrics
| Total Docs. (latest) | 64 |
| Total Docs. (3 years) | 181 |
| Total Refs. | 4,896 |
| Total Citations (3 years) | 1,133 |
| Citable Docs. (3 years) | 177 |
| Citations / Doc. (2 years) | 5.99 |
| Ref. / Doc. | 76.50 |
| % Female | 30.5% |
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