Popularity scores

January 2026
Journal popularity score 874
Discipline popularity scores (quartiles)
Development Research 38(Q1)
Geography and planning 108(Q1)
International relations 68(Q1)

Journal info (provided by editor)

Manuscripts received last year
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Articles published last year
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% accepted last year
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Immediately rejected last year
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Open access status
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Two-year impact factor
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Aims and scope

The editor has not yet provided this information.

Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
3.3 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
17.9 months
Decision time immediate rejection
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Overall rating manuscript handling
0.0 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

Average number of review rounds
3.0 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
5.0 / 5.0 (very difficult)
Average number of review reports
3.0 reports
Quality of review reports
2.0 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 14.3 weeks. Overall rating: 0 (very bad). Outcome: Rejected.

Motivation:
I had to wait more than one year for a decision after the first review round. All the comments by the reviewers were addressed in the second round but the editors decided to send to the reviewers again. One of the reviewers rejected the paper using completely new arguments that had never been raised before referring to points that were in the original paper.