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Published 4 times a year and circulated in more than 80 countries, the leading international journal in its field, covering a wide range of topics, reviewing significant developments and providing a forum for cutting-edge debates about theory and practice. It adopts a broad definition of community development to include policy, planning and action as they impact on the life of communities. It seeks to publish critically focused articles which challenge received wisdom, report and discuss innovative practices, and relate issues of community development to questions of social justice, diversity and environmental sustainability.

Click here to read the special issue: Learning from Latin America - Organizing for Social Transformation (Vol. 45, Issue 3) in Spanish

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SSCI Acceptance

We are delighted to announce that Community Development Journal has been accepted by Thomson Reuters for inclusion in the Social Science Citation Index and will receive its first impact factor in 2012.

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