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Overview

Studies in Comparative International Development is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on political, social, economic, and environmental change in various contexts.

Addresses changes at local, national, and international levels.
Challenges prevailing orthodoxies, presenting innovative and critical perspectives.
Publishes original research articles from all regions of the world.
Welcomes all theoretical and methodological approaches.

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Tamara Kay PhD
Susan Ostermann PhD, JD

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Journal Impact Factor: 1.9 (2025)

5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.8 (2025)

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Economic, Social and Political Development in Developing Countries

A selection of Springer journals within the business, economics, and social science disciplines are inviting submissions for a new collection on...

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Latest issue

June 2026 Volume 61, Issue 2

Special Issue on Political Development in the Americas: A Hemispheric Approach

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Latest articles

Party Organization, Accountability, and Democratic Resilience in Northeast Asia. Evidence from Mongolia, South Korea, and Taiwan
Aurel Croissant
Nam Kyu Kim
Jinhyeok Jang
OriginalPaper Open access 03 November 2026
From Youth Bulge to Sustainable Development: How Infrastructure readiness Shapes the Spatial Pathways of the Demographic Dividend in Africa
Germain Stephane Ketchoua
Isaac Ketu
Jules Mba
OriginalPaper 17 October 2026
How Does Enforcement Shape Mobilization? Legal Exceptions, Property and Housing Laws, and Urban Movements in Istanbul and Buenos Aires
Mert Arslanalp
OriginalPaper 10 September 2026
Correlates of Subnational Polyarchy: Evidence from Contemporary Brazil
Javier Pérez Sandoval
Timothy J. Power
Virginia Rocha
OriginalPaper Open access 29 August 2026
The Impact of Political Business Cycles on the Environment
Franziska Quoss
Quynh Nguyen
OriginalPaper Open access 28 August 2026

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This journal has 115 open access articles

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Impact Factor 2024

Studies in Comparative International Development has a 2024 Impact Factor of 1.2.
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Journal information

Electronic ISSN: 1936-6167
Print ISSN: 0039-3606
Abstracted and indexed in: ANVUR

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