About the Journal
Established in 1974, the Ethiopian Journal of Development Research (EJDR) is a bi-annual journal dedicated to serve as an avenue for sharing useful findings in the multi-disciplinary areas of development, focusing on Ethiopia in particular and the developing countries in general.
EJDR publishes original peer-reviewed articles that navigate through wide areas and themes of development and which pass rigorous double-blind peer-reviews. It also publishes short communiqués, synopses of major researches, dissertation abstracts, book reviews, and evidence-based commentaries, which may have both theoretical and empirical contents drawn using scientific methodological approaches. As such, it is an avenue for scholars, scientists and researchers in development who aspire to share and promote knowledge and reflect on research results that contribute to scholarly debate on the economic, social, political, and related issues of development in Ethiopia, and elsewhere; articles that inform, and at best influence, development policy, decision, and practice, focussing on challenges and opportunities of development in Ethiopia.
EJDR has Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Committee members containing senior academics and researchers drawn from a range of disciplines.
Scope
EJDR covers diverse and multi-disciplinary fields of development, articles emanating from researches that used rigorous methods and materials, articles focusing on Ethiopia, the rest of the developing world, and the developed world in that order of priority; and articles navigating through a range of themes and sectors: social, economic, political, environmental; sectoral, national, global, sub-regional, regional, global, etc.
Audience is mainly academia, researchers, policy and decision-makers, and development practitioners. It is also accessible by graduate and post-graduate students.
Publisher
College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, P.O.Box 1176
Sources of Support
Source of support for publishing articles in EJDR is institutional funds; the processing and publication costs are covered by Addis Ababa University.
Open Access Policy
The Ethiopian Journal of Development Research (EJDR) is a diamond open-access journal providing immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All its content is available free of charge. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of articles, and establish HTML links to them, without having to seek the author's or publisher's consent.
The journal does not charge any fees at the submission, reviewing, and production stages.
Journal Identifiers
ISSN Online 3080-3578
ISSN Print 0378-0813
Logo of the Journal: It uses the AAU Logo, and considers the entire Front page of the Journal as its identifier
