Locally-focused issues continue to emerge rapidly with key interest by the public, nonprofit and even private sectors as well as by citizen groups seeking to encourage more healthy and sustainable sources of livelihoods, culture, and foods in their communities and regions. At the same time, local systems connote changes in social and economic systems (participation, empowerment, health impacts, livelihoods and other economic impacts), and vice versa. Simply put, localization is the process of adapting or adopting changes in a product, content, process, or policy for a specific area or locale.
Local Development and Society brings together these domains across social and economic systems. Interest in localism is on the rise around the world, and we seek to create a repository of cross-disciplinary academic research in local contexts that will be integrated with national, provincial, state, and community practices.
The journal will explore potentials and limitations of local growth and test evidence from academic research and practice against relevance in local societies. The journal supports theoretical and empirical research in a diversity of local contexts, with the aim of strengthening universities and organizations that produce research about communities’ development and society. Areas of interest include but are not limited to planning, geography, economics, sociology and other disciplines.
The scope is global and of interest to diverse social scientists, planners, researchers, policy makers, students, and practitioners. While this journal builds on Community Development, the journal of the Community Development Society, it is very interdisciplinary in scope and seeks to encourage scholarship on the broad expanse of local development and society.
Journal metrics
Usage
20K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.516 (2023) SNIP
0.000 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
52 days avg. from submission to first
decision
89 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
12 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
38% acceptance rate
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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.
Co-Editors-in-Chief Rhonda Phillips,Chatham University, USA Norman Walzer,Northern Illinois University, USA
Managing Editor Sofia Kotsiri,Santa Clara University, USA
Special Issues Editor Patsy Kraeger,California State University Bakersfield, USA
Editorial Board
Maria Bampasidou,Louisiana State University, USA Candice Bodkin,Georgia Southern University, USA Uchendu Chigbu,Namibia University of Science & Technology, Africa Lucy O' Diekmann,University of California Cooperative Extension, USA Laura Harjo,University of Oklahoma, USA Ron Hustedde,University of Kentucky, USA Gene Theodori,Sam Houston State University, USA Belgin Ucar Kocaoglu,Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey Paul Lachapelle,Montana State University, USA Matthew M. Mars,The University of Arizona, USA Antonio Raciti,University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Santi Sanglestawai,Kasetsart University, Thailand Michael Vassalos,Clemson University, USA Mark Brennan,Pennsylvania State University, USA Bo Beaulieu,Purdue Center for Regional Development, USA Newton Joshua,UC San Diego, USA Dilip Patil,University of Mumbai, India Tatchalerm Sudhipongpracha,Thammasat University, Thailand
Abstracting and indexing
Local Development & Society is abstracted/indexed:
Scopus
Open access
Local Development & Society 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.
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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)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
The Community Development Society furthers community work through teaching, practice, and research. CDS provides those who do community work with best practices, networking opportunities, tools, and other resources.
Local Development & Society, the companion journal to Community Development, will offer a unique outlet for the study of localism, which is a rapidly expanding field of study among academics, practitioners and policy-makers. The study of localism is an area of keen interest of the society and its members.
Individual members of the CDS enjoy a free personal subscription to the Community Development pack, which includes both Community Development and Local Development & Society, and you can join as well by visiting: https://www.comm-dev.org/membership
Print ISSN:
2688-3597
Online ISSN:
2688-3600
3 issues per year
If you would like to propose a special issue of Local Development & Society, please complete this form and return it to the Special Issues Editor, Patsy Kraeger.
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