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Journals for “Community Development and Social Impact”
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Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Under each journal, "Publishes on" shows which of the matched topics it publishes and what share of its recent papers they make up. Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them; "Not recorded" does not mean the journal is free.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voluntary Sector Review United Kingdom Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (20%) | 100% | 52.3 | #17,894 | 177 | 42% | Not recorded | |
| 2 | Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy research Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing · Canada · DOAJ Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (19%) | 95% | 50.7 | #19,009 | 136 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 3 | Social enterprise journal Emerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (16%) | 84% | 68.4 | #7,771 | 219 | 31% | Not recorded | |
| 4 | Successful Fundraising Wiley · United States Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (19%) | 95% | 19.6 | #53,062 | 883 | 19% | Not recorded | |
| 5 | The Foundation Review Grand Valley State University Libraries - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS · United States Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (15%) | 79% | 47.7 | #21,312 | 216 | 98% | Not recorded | |
| 6 | Journal of Social Entrepreneurship Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (12%) | 62% | 69.0 | #7,363 | 208 | 31% | Not recorded | |
| 7 | Community Development Routledge · United Kingdom Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (10%) | 51% | 64.7 | #9,982 | 337 | 16% | Not recorded | |
| 8 | Nonprofit Business Advisor Wiley · United States Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (12%) | 63% | 35.3 | #33,684 | 1,234 | 24% | Not recorded | |
| 9 | VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (8%) | 41% | 74.5 | #4,374 | 486 | 49% | Not recorded | |
| 10 | Nonprofit Policy Forum De Gruyter · United States · DOAJ Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (9%) | 48% | 55.2 | #15,991 | 192 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 11 | Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance UTS ePRESS · Australia · DOAJ Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (10%) | 53% | 45.2 | #23,313 | 70 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 12 | Policy Quarterly Institute for Governance and Policy Studies · New Zealand Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (8%) | 40% | 53.0 | #17,430 | 210 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 13 | African Evaluation Journal AOSIS · South Africa · DOAJ Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (8%) | 39% | 54.7 | #16,329 | 78 | 100% | 20,240 ZAR | |
| 14 | The Journal of Impact and ESG Investing United States Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (8%) | 41% | 45.0 | #23,470 | 162 | 9% | Not recorded | |
| 15 | Local Development & Society Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (7%) | 37% | 52.2 | #17,963 | 156 | 24% | Not recorded | |
| 16 | Human Services Organizations Management Leadership & Governance Taylor & Francis · United States Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (7%) | 33% | 57.6 | #14,392 | 188 | 27% | Not recorded | |
| 17 | Nonprofit Management and Leadership Wiley · United States Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (6%) | 29% | 65.8 | #9,322 | 287 | 49% | Not recorded | |
| 18 | Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility BIBLIO-GLOBUS Publishing House · Russia Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (8%) | 42% | 36.9 | #31,738 | 86 | 8% | Not recorded | |
| 19 | OECD local economic and employment development (LEED) working papers Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (7%) | 36% | 44.4 | #24,021 | 74 | 54% | Not recorded | |
| 20 | Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (3%) | 17% | 65.6 | #9,448 | 257 | 60% | Not recorded | |
| 21 | Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Solidaria e Innovación Socioecológica University of Huelva · Spain · DOAJ Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (6%) | 33% | 31.9 | #37,896 | 63 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 22 | International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Northumbria University Library · United Kingdom · DOAJ Publishes on: Community Development and Social Impact (5%) | 26% | 38.1 | #30,463 | 84 | 100% | Not recorded |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
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