World Bank Research Observer

Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
ISSN: 02573032, 15646971
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
8.7
SJR
2.363
CiteScore
12.6
Categories
Development
Economics and Econometrics
Areas
Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1986-2024
Publications
481
Citations
28 193
h-index
85
Publications
68
Citations
10 997
Top-3 citing journals
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (2205 citations)
World Development
World Development (879 citations)
Sustainability
Sustainability (270 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Harvard University
Harvard University (3 publications)
University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh (2 publications)
University of Exeter
University of Exeter (2 publications)
Top-3 countries
United Kingdom (66 publications)
USA (43 publications)
Italy (13 publications)
USA (18 publications)
United Kingdom (14 publications)
Germany (4 publications)

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SSRN Electronic Journal
2205 citations, 7.82%
World Development
879 citations, 3.12%
Sustainability
270 citations, 0.96%
Journal of Development Studies
258 citations, 0.92%
Journal of Development Economics
236 citations, 0.84%
Land Use Policy
171 citations, 0.61%
Journal of International Development
152 citations, 0.54%
IMF Working Paper
135 citations, 0.48%
Economic Development and Cultural Change
130 citations, 0.46%
Ecological Economics
106 citations, 0.38%
World Bank Research Observer
101 citations, 0.36%
World Economy
96 citations, 0.34%
International Journal of Social Economics
95 citations, 0.34%
World Bank Economic Review
95 citations, 0.34%
Food Policy
91 citations, 0.32%
Applied Economics
90 citations, 0.32%
PLoS ONE
90 citations, 0.32%
Social Indicators Research
88 citations, 0.31%
Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)
88 citations, 0.31%
European Journal of Development Research
84 citations, 0.3%
Economic Modelling
81 citations, 0.29%
Development Policy Review
80 citations, 0.28%
Review of Development Economics
73 citations, 0.26%
Journal of Rural Studies
68 citations, 0.24%
International Journal of Educational Development
64 citations, 0.23%
Social Science and Medicine
64 citations, 0.23%
African Development Review
61 citations, 0.22%
Economics of Education Review
59 citations, 0.21%
Journal of Banking and Finance
53 citations, 0.19%
Small Business Economics
53 citations, 0.19%
Review of Income and Wealth
52 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
51 citations, 0.18%
Land
50 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Development Effectiveness
50 citations, 0.18%
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
50 citations, 0.18%
Energy Policy
46 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Public Economics
46 citations, 0.16%
Oxford Development Studies
45 citations, 0.16%
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development
44 citations, 0.16%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
44 citations, 0.16%
International Journal of Public Administration
42 citations, 0.15%
Forest Policy and Economics
41 citations, 0.15%
Regional Studies
41 citations, 0.15%
Public Administration and Development
40 citations, 0.14%
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
39 citations, 0.14%
Review of World Economics
38 citations, 0.13%
Food Security
38 citations, 0.13%
Energy Economics
37 citations, 0.13%
BMC Public Health
37 citations, 0.13%
Journal of African Economies
37 citations, 0.13%
Water (Switzerland)
37 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
36 citations, 0.13%
Global Environmental Change
36 citations, 0.13%
Urban Studies
36 citations, 0.13%
Health Policy and Planning
35 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Asian Economics
35 citations, 0.12%
Handbook of Development Economics
35 citations, 0.12%
Health Economics (United Kingdom)
34 citations, 0.12%
International Business Review
34 citations, 0.12%
European Journal of Political Economy
34 citations, 0.12%
Environment, Development and Sustainability
34 citations, 0.12%
American Economic Review
34 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Policy Modeling
33 citations, 0.12%
International Journal of Finance and Economics
33 citations, 0.12%
Journal of the Knowledge Economy
33 citations, 0.12%
Habitat International
33 citations, 0.12%
Review of Economics and Statistics
32 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Cleaner Production
31 citations, 0.11%
Development in Practice
31 citations, 0.11%
China Economic Review
31 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Comparative Economics
31 citations, 0.11%
International Review of Economics and Finance
30 citations, 0.11%
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade
30 citations, 0.11%
Singapore Economic Review
30 citations, 0.11%
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
30 citations, 0.11%
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
30 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Economic Studies
29 citations, 0.1%
Journal of International Business Studies
29 citations, 0.1%
Education Economics
29 citations, 0.1%
Resources Policy
29 citations, 0.1%
Development and Change
28 citations, 0.1%
Frontiers in Psychology
28 citations, 0.1%
Cogent Economics and Finance
28 citations, 0.1%
Review of Economics of the Household
28 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Economic Perspectives
28 citations, 0.1%
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
28 citations, 0.1%
Environment and Planning A
27 citations, 0.1%
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
26 citations, 0.09%
Agrekon
26 citations, 0.09%
Development Southern Africa
26 citations, 0.09%
The Lancet
26 citations, 0.09%
Environmental and Resource Economics
26 citations, 0.09%
Economic Analysis and Policy
25 citations, 0.09%
Economic Systems
25 citations, 0.09%
Economies
25 citations, 0.09%
Journal of International Money and Finance
25 citations, 0.09%
Research in International Business and Finance
25 citations, 0.09%
Environment and Planning C Government and Policy
25 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Economic Inequality
24 citations, 0.09%
International Journal of Emerging Markets
24 citations, 0.09%
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Elsevier
5564 citations, 19.74%
Taylor & Francis
3310 citations, 11.74%
Springer Nature
3053 citations, 10.83%
Wiley
2890 citations, 10.25%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
2140 citations, 7.59%
SAGE
1144 citations, 4.06%
Emerald
1069 citations, 3.79%
Cambridge University Press
939 citations, 3.33%
Oxford University Press
894 citations, 3.17%
MDPI
702 citations, 2.49%
IGI Global
247 citations, 0.88%
University of Chicago Press
224 citations, 0.79%
American Economic Association
171 citations, 0.61%
International Monetary Fund
164 citations, 0.58%
Frontiers Media S.A.
141 citations, 0.5%
World Scientific
134 citations, 0.48%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
132 citations, 0.47%
Walter de Gruyter
120 citations, 0.43%
Annual Reviews
104 citations, 0.37%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
93 citations, 0.33%
CAIRN
83 citations, 0.29%
MIT Press
64 citations, 0.23%
SciELO
62 citations, 0.22%
IOP Publishing
59 citations, 0.21%
OpenEdition
52 citations, 0.18%
BMJ
47 citations, 0.17%
Virtus Interpress
45 citations, 0.16%
Scientific Research Publishing
45 citations, 0.16%
IWA Publishing
36 citations, 0.13%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
35 citations, 0.12%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
33 citations, 0.12%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
33 citations, 0.12%
Hindawi Limited
32 citations, 0.11%
EDP Sciences
28 citations, 0.1%
LLC CPC Business Perspectives
25 citations, 0.09%
NP Voprosy Ekonomiki
25 citations, 0.09%
Academic Journals
23 citations, 0.08%
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, University of Sussex
22 citations, 0.08%
IntechOpen
21 citations, 0.07%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
18 citations, 0.06%
Brill
18 citations, 0.06%
AOSIS
16 citations, 0.06%
American Society for Nutrition
15 citations, 0.05%
Research Square Platform LLC
15 citations, 0.05%
Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural
14 citations, 0.05%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
14 citations, 0.05%
University of California Press
13 citations, 0.05%
The Royal Society
13 citations, 0.05%
13 citations, 0.05%
Institut de Sciences Mathematiques et Economiques Appliquees
13 citations, 0.05%
PERSEE Program
13 citations, 0.05%
Berkeley Electronic Press
12 citations, 0.04%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
12 citations, 0.04%
Academy of Management
12 citations, 0.04%
Vysoka Skola Ekonomicka
11 citations, 0.04%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
10 citations, 0.04%
Liverpool University Press
10 citations, 0.04%
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
10 citations, 0.04%
Borsa Istanbul Anonim Sirketi
10 citations, 0.04%
Akademiai Kiado
10 citations, 0.04%
Consortium Erudit
10 citations, 0.04%
Trans Tech Publications
9 citations, 0.03%
American Public Health Association
9 citations, 0.03%
JMIR Publications
9 citations, 0.03%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
8 citations, 0.03%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
8 citations, 0.03%
Escola Brasileira de Administracao Publica da Fundacao Getulio Vargas
8 citations, 0.03%
Copernicus
8 citations, 0.03%
Sirey
8 citations, 0.03%
F1000 Research
8 citations, 0.03%
AIP Publishing
7 citations, 0.02%
Indiana University Press
7 citations, 0.02%
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
7 citations, 0.02%
Bureau for Economic Research
7 citations, 0.02%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
7 citations, 0.02%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
7 citations, 0.02%
Duncker & Humblot GmbH
7 citations, 0.02%
Mary Ann Liebert
6 citations, 0.02%
Springer Publishing Company
6 citations, 0.02%
Cornell University Press
6 citations, 0.02%
Kerman University of Medical Sciences
6 citations, 0.02%
Africagrowth Institute
6 citations, 0.02%
CSIRO Publishing
6 citations, 0.02%
Intellect
6 citations, 0.02%
Center for Strategic Studies in Business and Finance SSBFNET
6 citations, 0.02%
AMO Publisher
6 citations, 0.02%
American Marketing Association
5 citations, 0.02%
American Meteorological Society
5 citations, 0.02%
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
5 citations, 0.02%
Health Affairs (Project Hope)
5 citations, 0.02%
School of Economics and Business in Sarajevo
5 citations, 0.02%
Now Publishers
5 citations, 0.02%
South Florida Publishing LLC
5 citations, 0.02%
The Econometric Society
5 citations, 0.02%
Hans Publishers
5 citations, 0.02%
Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences
4 citations, 0.01%
Instituto de Pesquisas Economicas
4 citations, 0.01%
National Tax Association
4 citations, 0.01%
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
4 citations, 0.01%
American Academy of Pediatrics
4 citations, 0.01%
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University of Oxford
44 publications, 9.15%
London School of Economics and Political Science
6 publications, 1.25%
Harvard University
4 publications, 0.83%
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
3 publications, 0.62%
Cornell University
3 publications, 0.62%
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
3 publications, 0.62%
Ege University
2 publications, 0.42%
University of Edinburgh
2 publications, 0.42%
University of Manchester
2 publications, 0.42%
Johns Hopkins University
2 publications, 0.42%
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2 publications, 0.42%
Stanford University
2 publications, 0.42%
University of California, Berkeley
2 publications, 0.42%
University of Maryland, College Park
2 publications, 0.42%
University of Pennsylvania
2 publications, 0.42%
University of East Anglia
2 publications, 0.42%
University of Exeter
2 publications, 0.42%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
1 publication, 0.21%
Uppsala University
1 publication, 0.21%
Humboldt University of Berlin
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Lausanne
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Geneva
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Milano-Bicocca
1 publication, 0.21%
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
1 publication, 0.21%
Imperial College London
1 publication, 0.21%
University College London
1 publication, 0.21%
Brunel University London
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Warwick
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.21%
Maastricht University
1 publication, 0.21%
Yale University
1 publication, 0.21%
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
1 publication, 0.21%
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Waikato
1 publication, 0.21%
University of South Australia
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Cape Town
1 publication, 0.21%
University of the Witwatersrand
1 publication, 0.21%
Princeton University
1 publication, 0.21%
Northwestern University
1 publication, 0.21%
Duke University
1 publication, 0.21%
University of California, Los Angeles
1 publication, 0.21%
International Rice Research Institute
1 publication, 0.21%
Trinity College Dublin
1 publication, 0.21%
RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
1 publication, 0.21%
National University of La Plata
1 publication, 0.21%
Tulane University
1 publication, 0.21%
Dartmouth College
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Göttingen
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Passau
1 publication, 0.21%
German Institute for Economic Research
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Amsterdam
1 publication, 0.21%
Paris School of Economics
1 publication, 0.21%
Technical University of Ostrava
1 publication, 0.21%
Pompeu Fabra University
1 publication, 0.21%
United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
1 publication, 0.21%
Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Navarra
1 publication, 0.21%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1 publication, 0.21%
University of Colorado Boulder
1 publication, 0.21%
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Harvard University
3 publications, 4.41%
University of Edinburgh
2 publications, 2.94%
University of Exeter
2 publications, 2.94%
Uppsala University
1 publication, 1.47%
Humboldt University of Berlin
1 publication, 1.47%
University of Milano-Bicocca
1 publication, 1.47%
Imperial College London
1 publication, 1.47%
University College London
1 publication, 1.47%
Brunel University London
1 publication, 1.47%
University of Warwick
1 publication, 1.47%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 1.47%
Maastricht University
1 publication, 1.47%
University of Manchester
1 publication, 1.47%
London School of Economics and Political Science
1 publication, 1.47%
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
1 publication, 1.47%
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
1 publication, 1.47%
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
1 publication, 1.47%
University of South Australia
1 publication, 1.47%
Stanford University
1 publication, 1.47%
Northwestern University
1 publication, 1.47%
University of California, Berkeley
1 publication, 1.47%
University of California, Los Angeles
1 publication, 1.47%
Tulane University
1 publication, 1.47%
Dartmouth College
1 publication, 1.47%
German Institute for Economic Research
1 publication, 1.47%
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
1 publication, 1.47%
Technical University of Ostrava
1 publication, 1.47%
University of East Anglia
1 publication, 1.47%
United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
1 publication, 1.47%
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United Kingdom, 66, 13.72%
United Kingdom
66 publications, 13.72%
USA, 43, 8.94%
USA
43 publications, 8.94%
Italy, 13, 2.7%
Italy
13 publications, 2.7%
Germany, 8, 1.66%
Germany
8 publications, 1.66%
France, 4, 0.83%
France
4 publications, 0.83%
Belgium, 2, 0.42%
Belgium
2 publications, 0.42%
Netherlands, 2, 0.42%
Netherlands
2 publications, 0.42%
Turkey, 2, 0.42%
Turkey
2 publications, 0.42%
Sweden, 2, 0.42%
Sweden
2 publications, 0.42%
South Africa, 2, 0.42%
South Africa
2 publications, 0.42%
Australia, 1, 0.21%
Australia
1 publication, 0.21%
Argentina, 1, 0.21%
Argentina
1 publication, 0.21%
Ireland, 1, 0.21%
Ireland
1 publication, 0.21%
Spain, 1, 0.21%
Spain
1 publication, 0.21%
Canada, 1, 0.21%
Canada
1 publication, 0.21%
New Zealand, 1, 0.21%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.21%
Panama, 1, 0.21%
Panama
1 publication, 0.21%
Senegal, 1, 0.21%
Senegal
1 publication, 0.21%
Philippines, 1, 0.21%
Philippines
1 publication, 0.21%
Finland, 1, 0.21%
Finland
1 publication, 0.21%
Czech Republic, 1, 0.21%
Czech Republic
1 publication, 0.21%
Switzerland, 1, 0.21%
Switzerland
1 publication, 0.21%
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USA, 18, 26.47%
USA
18 publications, 26.47%
United Kingdom, 14, 20.59%
United Kingdom
14 publications, 20.59%
Germany, 4, 5.88%
Germany
4 publications, 5.88%
Italy, 4, 5.88%
Italy
4 publications, 5.88%
France, 2, 2.94%
France
2 publications, 2.94%
Australia, 1, 1.47%
Australia
1 publication, 1.47%
Belgium, 1, 1.47%
Belgium
1 publication, 1.47%
Netherlands, 1, 1.47%
Netherlands
1 publication, 1.47%
Czech Republic, 1, 1.47%
Czech Republic
1 publication, 1.47%
Sweden, 1, 1.47%
Sweden
1 publication, 1.47%
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