The International Journal of Developmental Biology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering research in developmental biology.

The current editor-in-chief is Juan Arechaga (University of the Basque Country).

[1] It was established in 1953 as Anales del desarrollo and obtained its current name in 1989.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 1.903, ranking it 35th out of 41 journals in the category "Developmental Biology".