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World Development Sustainability
Submission → publication 52 weeks
APC $1,830
DOAJ ✓
Earliest year 2022
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Publisher Elsevier BV
Country/Region United Kingdom
Subject Social Sciences
Open access ✓ (gold)
DOAJ ✓
License CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND
Earliest year 2022
DOAJ article records 275
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Cost: $1,830;waiver policy available
Difficulty: average 52 weeks from submission to publication;376 articles per year
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Open access: ✓ · CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND
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Articles/yr 376
h-index 36
2-yr mean citedness 8.20
Last publication year 2026
DOAJ article records 275
Open access ✓
“2-yr mean citedness” is the OpenAlex field summary_stats.2yr_mean_citedness (CC0): mean citations per paper over a two-year window. It is a raw bibliometric field, not a journal rating, and is not used for default ranking.
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences49
Economics, Econometrics and Finance45
Environmental Science23
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences1
Social Sciences: Industries. Land use. Labor: Economic growth, development, planning1
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