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About the Journal

"Community Development Journal is the outstanding international journal of its kind. It provides an excellent vehicle for scholars, educators, community development professionals, and grassroots workers to develop knowledge and exchange ideas about theory and practice worldwide."

Professor Barry Checkoway
Director
Center for Community Service and Learning
University of Michigan, USA

"The Community Development Journal is the foremost journal in the field. There is simply no other quality forum for the international exchange of information, theory, strategies and views between practitioners, activists,teachers and researchers vitally concerned with community development."

Professor Martin Mowbray
Dean, Faculty of the Constructed Environment
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia


"CDJ is an excellent teaching and research source for my graduate students and our Masters degree program faculty, I commend your level of scholarship."

Akel Ismail Kahera,
Professor of Architecture and Community Development,
Prairie View A&M University,
Prairie View, Texas, USA

Published four times a year and circulated in over 80 countries, the Community Development Journal provides an international forum for political, economic and social programmes, which link the activities of people with institutions and government. Dealing with the theory and practice of the policies, programmes and methods employed, the Community Development Journal covers a wide range of topics including community action, village, town, and regional planning, community studies and rural development.


Abstracting and Indexing Services

Community Development Journal is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services:

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
CAB Abstracts
CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Education Research Abstracts
Forest Products Abstracts
Forestry Abstracts
Geographical Abstracts
Global Health
IBSS
IBZ Internationale Bibliographie der Geisted and Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliterature
MLA International Bibliography
International Development Abstracts
Peace Research Abstracts
Peace Research Abstracts
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
PROQUEST DATABASE : ERIC PlusText
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest 5000
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest 5000 International
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest Central
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest Health Management
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest International Academic Research Library
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest Pharma Collection
PROQUEST DATABASE : ProQuest Research Library
Public Affairs Information Services (PAIS)
Rural Development Abstracts
Sage Family Studies Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts
Social Work Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (SWA)
Tropical Diseases Bulletin
Urban Studies Abstracts
World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts