Journal of Development Economics

The Journal of Development Economics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 1974 and is considered the top field journal in development economics.^[1][2][3]

Journal of Development Economics

Discipline	Development economics
Language	English
Publication details
History	1974-present
Publisher	Elsevier (Netherlands)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	3.875 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Dev. Econ.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	JDECDF
ISSN	0304-3878
LCCN	76647333
OCLC no.	1292659
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Its editor-in-chief from 1985 to 2003 was Pranab Bardhan, who has been the longest-serving JDE editor to date. He followed T.N. Srinivasan, and Lance Taylor as Editors since the journal was established in 1974. He was succeeded by Mark Rosenzweig (2003-2009) and Maitreesh Ghatak (2009-2015). The current editor-in-chief is Andrew Foster, who started in 2016.^[4]

See also

• The Developing Economies
• The World Economy