Abstracting and Indexing

The Pakistan Development Review is indexed and abstracted in Scopus, EconLit, RePEc, CAB Abstracts, the ABDC Journal Quality List, Index Islamicus, and is available at JSTOR.

Journal metrics

CiteScore 2025:  0.7  (CiteScore Tracker 2026: 0.7)

SJR 2025:  0.154 — Q4

SNIP 2025:  0.193

h-index:  38

ABDC Rating:  C (Economics)

HEC Recognition Category: Y

CitEc (RePEc):  5-year H-index 30; Impact Factor (IF) 0.05; 5-year IF 0.1 (RePEc citation data, updated 20 November 2025)

CiteScore 2025 — rank by subject category

• Social Sciences — Development: 268/314 (14th percentile, Q4)
• Social Sciences — Geography, Planning & Development: 722/876 (17th percentile, Q4)

Scopus subject areas:  Social Sciences — Development; Geography, Planning & Development