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World Development

ISSN 0305-750X

• Q1Quartile
• 2.00SJR
• 249h-index
• 6papers summarised

About this journal

World Development is a Q1 journal by SCImago Journal Rank (2025 data), with an SJR of 2.00 and an h-index of 249. Most of its papers in the Pofolia pool fall under Development. Pofolia holds AI summaries of 6 paper(s) from this journal; the most cited is “Social Accountability: What Does the Evidence Really Say?” (789 citations).

The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's percentile position within its subject area by SCImago Journal Rank; Q1 is the top 25%. What is a Q1 journal? · What is the h-index?

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Papers we summarise from this journal

• Social Accountability: What Does the Evidence Really Say?2015 · 789 citations
• Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature2021 · 541 citations
• The State of Family Farms in the World2015 · 540 citations
• Assessing Foreign Aid’s Long-Run Contribution to Growth and Development2014 · 317 citations
• Foreign aid and power play: Political cycles in world bank’s procurement allocation2026 · 0 citations
• Can strong donor governance rescue projects in weak-governance recipient countries? Evidence from the World Bank2026 · 0 citations

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