About this journal
Aims and scope
Economic History of Developing Regions promotes the study of economic change in the Global South. It provides an innovative research forum that explores the influence of historical events on economic development beyond the industrialized core.
It seeks submissions with an economic history focus from disciplines such as general history, development economics, cliometrics, business history, labour history, financial history and others.
All submitted papers undergo rigorous double-anonymized peer review via ScholarONE Manuscripts.
The journal is the official publication of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa and is co-published with UNISA Press. It is fully accredited by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training, and Scopus.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 54K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.9 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 1.4 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.994 (2023) SNIP
- 0.323 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 24 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 18% acceptance rate
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editors:
Alfonso Herranz-Loncan, University of Barcelona, Spain
Michiel De Haas, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands
Vellore Arthi, University of California-Irvine, USA
Editorial Board:
Latika Chaudhary, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, US
James Fenske, University of Warwick, UK
Johan Fourie, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics, UK
Jun Kajima, Keio University, Japan
Alex Klein, University of Kent, UK
Manuel Llorca-Jaña, University Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
Mikolaj Malinowski, Lund University, Sweden
Mohamed Saleh, London School of Economics, UK
Coskun Tuncer, University College, London, UK
Felipe Valencia-Caicedo, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jessica Vechbanyongratana, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisory panel:
Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University, US
Lee J. Alston, Indiana University Bloomington, US
Gareth Austin, University of Cambridge, UK
Jean-Paul Azam, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Robert H. Bates, Harvard Political Science, US
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Northumbria University, UK
Luiz Bertola, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Stephanie Decker, University of Bristol, UK
Bishnupriya Gupta, Warwick University, UK
Richard N. Langlois, University of Conneticut, US
Paul E. Lovejoy, York University, UK
Debin Ma, London School of Economics, UK
Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University, US
John Nye, George Mason University, US
Sevket Pamuk, Bogaziçi (Bosphorus) University, Istanbul, Turkey
James Robinson, University of Chicago
Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics, US
John Singleton, University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand
William Summerhill, UCLA, US
Anand Swamy, Williams College, US
Warren Whatley, University of Michigan, US
Jan Luiten van Zanden, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Abstracting and indexing
Economic History of Developing Regions is indexed/accredited by the following services:
- Scopus
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (CSA)
- EBSCOhost
- Historical Abstracts
- Index to South African Periodicals
- International Index to Black Periodicals
- South African Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)
- EconLit - American Economic Association
Open access
Economic History of Developing Regions is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
3 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Economic History of Developing Regions (2010 - current)
Formerly known as
- South African Journal of Economic History (1982 - 2009)
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