Journal of Development Economics
The Journal of Development Economics ( JDE ) is a scientific journal that is published by the publisher Elsevier and is in the field of development economics as a leader.
Content
The Journal of Development Economics publishes articles with regard to all aspects of economic development. The emphasis is on quantitative or analytical work that is relevant and intellectually stimulating. Although the Journal of Development Economics publishes articles and reviews of original research, but no book reviews. The Journal of Development Economics publishes further usually no in-depth studies on a specific country, region, case or event.
Publication process
Published in the Journal of Development Economics articles are subjected to a cross appraisals to ensure the scientific quality of published articles. For this purpose, the articles submitted are first subjected to a pre-selection, some items will be immediately rejected. This includes items that are not considered thematically or methodologically as to the subject area of the journal appropriately. However, this also includes products which do not meet the standards of the journal in terms of the scientific value of the contribution to the research literature, or scientific value. Finally, a lack of methodological rigor and consequence a further reason for refusal is what plays an important role, particularly in empirical articles.
History
The Journal of Development Economics was first published in 1974 and since then appears every two months. The current editor of the Journal of Development Economics is Maitreesh Ghatak. He is assisted by eight editors and 53 associate editor.
Reception
In a by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2003) study on the quality economics publications reached the Journal of Development Economics Rank 40 of 159 evaluated publications, but improved in a later study of Kalaitzidakis et al. (2011) ranked 23 out of 209 publications in economics publication ranking of the Tinbergen Institute ( " good scientific journals for all research fields of the Tinbergen Institute " ) is performed, the Journal of Development Economics in category B.
The Impact Factor of the Journal of Development Economics was in 2012 at 2,353. In the statistics of the Social Sciences Citation Index, the journal impact factor with this was performed on 27 out of 333 journals in the category Economics. Thus, in terms of citation impact in the Zop the Journal heard 25% of the economic journals.