International Development Planning Review is a peer-reviewed journal which provides an interdisciplinary platform for the critical study of development related practices, planning and policy in the global South. The journal publishes theoretically informed and empirically grounded papers, critical reviews, and viewpoints.

Update on submission site hijacking: we recently experienced a site hijacking in which a fraudulent website claimed to be the submission site for IDPR and accepted submissions from prospective authors. More information on the fraudulent site, and measures we have taken since it was discovered, may be found in our blog posts - part I and part II.
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Code of Conduct
LUP is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards. We therefore ask that all contributors and reviewers adhere to the COPE Core Practices, including COPE's Position Statement on Authorship and AI Tools. More info can be found on the COPE website.

Abstracting and Indexing
IDPR is abstracted or indexed in:

• Cabell's Whitelist
• Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences (USA)
• Development and Welfare (India)
• Geo Abstracts (UK)
• GEOBASE
• International Bibliography of Book Reviews (Germany)
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (Germany)
• International Development Abstracts (UK)
• International Regional Science Review (USA)
• Sage's Public Administration Abstracts and Urban Studies Abstracts (USA)
• Scopus
• Sociological Abstracts (USA)
• Sustainability and Natural Resource Management database (USA)
• Web of Science's Social Sciences Citation Index (USA)

IDPR's impact factor was 1.5 in 2023. View the JCR>

2.8

2023CiteScore

 

61st percentile

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Editors:
Daniel Hammett, University of Sheffield, UK/University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Glyn Williams, Lund University, Sweden/University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Viewpoint Editor:
Dr Aysegul Can, Institute for Regional Studies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

New Voices and Debates Editor:
Dr Lakshmi Priya Raejndran, University College London

Editorial Assistant:
Bertie Dockerill, University of Manchester

Editorial Board:
Martin Arias-Loyola, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
Vanesa Castan Broto, University of Sheffield
Sarah Charlton, University of Witwatersand, South Africa
Amrita Daniere, University of Toronto/University of Toronto Mississauga
Katherine V Gough, University of Loughborough
Jaime Hernandez Garcia, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
Taibat Lawanson University of Lagos, Nigeria
Ilda Lindell, Stockholm University
Darshini Mahadevia, Ahmedabad University
George Owusu, University of Ghana
Sarah Rogers, University of Melbourne, Australia
Tara Saharan, Rabdoud University, The Netherlands
David Simon, Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL)/Mistra Urban Futures
John Sturzaker, University of Hertfordshire
Yaffa Truelove, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Catalina Turcu, University College London, UK
Lorraine van Blerk, University of Dundee
Mark Wang, University of Melbourne
Katie Willis, Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL)
Jung Won Son, University College London
Peng Jun Zhao, Peking University

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Submission to the journal is via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
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Language Editing Services
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Publication Fees
There is no charge to authors wishing to publish in the journal. This journal is part of a transformative agreement called the LUP Open Planning initiative, whereby if the subscription threshold for the year is reached then that year's journal content will also flip to Open Access - there is no publishing charge to authors if this happens.

Peer Review Policy
All articles published in the journal (including in any special issues) are subject to peer-review by objective experts in the field, prior to the acceptance by the journal editor(s). The journal employs a double-anonymous review (anonymity strictly observed between author and reviewer).

For further information on the ethics we ask our journal editors, authors, and reviewers to adhere to, please visit LUP’s Code of Conduct.

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Subscription Rates
4 issues per year.
Now part of LUP Open Planning initiative. Subscribers get access dating back to 1979. If subscription threshold is reached then that year's journal content will flip to Open Access.

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• Individual (online only): £172 / US$296
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Editorial Queries
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