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The Development Southern Africa editorial team are pleased to announce that the journal has been accepted into the Thomson Reuters [...]

The Development Southern Africa editorial team are pleased to announce that the journal has been accepted into the Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Social Science Citation Index.
The journal will receive its first Impact Factor in 2010.

Development Southern Africa offers a platform for expressing views and encouraging debate among development specialists, policy decision makers, scholars and students in the wider professional fraternity and especially in southern Africa. The journal publishes articles that reflect innovative thinking on key development challenges and policy issues facing South Africa and other countries in the southern African region. (source)

SJR indicator vs. Cites per Doc (2y)

The SJR indicator measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is. Cites per Doc. (2y) measures the scientific impact of an average article published in the journal, it is computed using the same formula that journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters).

Citation vs. Self-Citation

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.

Cites per Document vs. External Cites per Document

Evolution of the number of total cites per document and external cites per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.

Cites per Document in 2, 3 and 4 years windows

Evolution of Citations per Document to a journal's published documents during the two, three and four previous years. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country.

Journal's Citable vs. Non Citable Documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows.

Journal's Cited vs. Uncited Documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Indicators	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
SJR	0,159	0,235	0,482	0,311	0,236	0,160	0,228	0,248	0,371	0,287	0,217	0,196	0,296
Total Documents	44	42	39	37	41	45	36	43	51	43	52	52	39
Total Docs. (3years)	125	115	132	125	118	117	123	122	124	130	137	146	147
Total References	716	1.072	1.054	1.140	1.116	1.221	1.216	1.307	1.721	1.268	1.781	1.885	1.424
Total Cites (3years)	22	27	91	51	34	47	37	44	63	40	51	47	73
Self Cites (3years)	0	10	15	7	4	2	12	6	16	12	4	7	4
Citable Docs. (3years)	125	115	132	125	118	117	122	121	120	125	126	134	133
Cites / Doc. (4years)	0,18	0,24	0,64	0,40	0,30	0,38	0,37	0,40	0,48	0,37	0,46	0,40	0,64
Cites / Doc. (3years)	0,18	0,23	0,69	0,41	0,29	0,40	0,30	0,36	0,53	0,32	0,40	0,35	0,55
Cites / Doc. (2years)	0,15	0,23	0,38	0,44	0,24	0,36	0,19	0,40	0,47	0,28	0,31	0,31	0,50
References / Doc.	16,27	25,52	27,03	30,81	27,22	27,13	33,78	30,40	33,75	29,49	34,25	36,25	36,51
Cited Docs.	21	20	43	35	26	30	27	30	40	33	34	34	47
Uncited Docs.	104	95	89	90	92	87	96	92	84	97	103	112	100
% International Collaboration	0,00	0,00	0,00	2,70	7,32	15,56	13,89	13,95	3,92	11,63	17,31	23,08	12,82