Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Urban Studies journal rankings 2012
36 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Urban Studies has 36 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.24 on 2011 to 2.04, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.52. The top three are Planning Theory, Urban Studies, and Environment and Urbanization.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
36 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Planning TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.59Q1 | 2.11 1.94 down from 2011 | 75 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
2Urban StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.71Q1 | 2.21 0.09 down from 2011 | 542 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
3Environment and UrbanizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.67Q1 | 2.38 0.52 down from 2011 | 115 | 37% | $3,650 | ||
4International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 5.49Q1 | 1.79 0.66 down from 2011 | 334 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
5CityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.02Q1 | 0.97 0.29 down from 2011 | 194 | 9% | — | ||
6Journal of Urban AffairsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.71Q1 | 1.44 0.37 up from 2011 | 138 | 3% | — | ||
7International Planning StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 0.93 0.38 down from 2011 | 68 | 9% | — | ||
8Planning Theory & PracticeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 1.59 0.11 up from 2011 | 80 | 14% | — | ||
9European Planning StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 1.71 0.04 up from 2011 | 301 | 17% | — | ||
10City Culture and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.42Q2 | 1.36 0.83 up from 2011 | 58 | 7% | $3,470 | ||
11Planning Practice and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.88Q2 | 1.71 0.71 up from 2011 | 100 | 11% | — | ||
12Urban Research & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.66Q2 | 1.38 0.38 up from 2011 | 64 | 2% | — | ||
13Urban GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.61Q2 | 1.48 0.18 up from 2011 | 213 | 3% | — | ||
14Urban Policy and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.36Q2 | 1.35 0.19 up from 2011 | 79 | 5% | — | ||
15International Journal of Cultural PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.35Q2 | 0.62 0.51 down from 2011 | 177 | 15% | — | ||
16Cultural TrendsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.21Q2 | 0.65 0.13 down from 2011 | 69 | 2% | — | ||
17Town Planning ReviewLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 2.21Q2 | 0.98 0.35 up from 2011 | 135 | 9% | — | ||
18Built EnvironmentAlexandrine Press · United Kingdom | 2.13Q2 | 1.08 0.05 down from 2011 | 118 | 23% | — | ||
19Journal of Urban DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.96Q3 | 1.02 0.55 up from 2011 | 82 | 14% | — | ||
20Creative Industries JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.73Q3 | 0.48 0.19 down from 2011 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
21Home CulturesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q3 | 0.50 0.15 up from 2011 | 56 | 11% | — | ||
22The Journal of Arts Management Law and SocietyRoutledge · United States | 1.40Q3 | 0.68 0.17 up from 2011 | 72 | 7% | — | ||
23Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban SustainabilityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.37Q3 | 0.66 0.18 up from 2011 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
24Planning PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.93Q3 | 0.40 0.16 up from 2011 | 104 | 6% | — | ||
25International Journal of Urban Sustainable DevelopmentOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.80Q3 | 0.39no change | 37 | 82% | $1,270 | ||
26Interventions économiquesOAAssociation d'Economie Politique · Canada | 0.78Q3 | 0.37 0.28 up from 2011 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
27Revue de la régulationOAUMR ESPACE et UMR LISST · France | 0.75Q3 | 0.35 0.02 up from 2011 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
28The Open Urban Studies JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.65Q4 | 0.18 0.05 down from 2011 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
29disP - The Planning ReviewTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.57Q4 | 0.28 0.11 down from 2011 | 120 | 9% | — | ||
30ACE Arquitectura Ciudad y EntornoOAUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Spain | 0.40Q4 | 0.20 0.09 down from 2011 | 81 | 100% | $215 | ||
31METU Journal of the Faculty of ArchitectureOAMiddle East Technical University · Türkiye | 0.27Q4 | 0.19 0.05 up from 2011 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
32Finance & Bien CommunSwitzerland | 0.24Q4 | 0.13 0.08 down from 2011 | 66 | — | — | ||
33The International Journal of the Constructed EnvironmentPublisher not listed | 0.20Q4 | 0.06no 2011 value | 47 | 5% | — | — | |
34Espaço AbertoOAFederal University of Rio de Janeiro · Brazil | 0.13Q4 | 0.03no 2011 value | 31 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.08Q4 | 0.04 0.02 down from 2011 | 70 | 0% | — | |||
36CiudadesOAUniversity of Valladolid · Spain | 0.06Q4 | 0.01no change | 103 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Urban Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,049
- Education564
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Gender Studies57
- Communication54
- Safety Research49
- Public Administration48
- Health43
- Transportation40
- Library and Information Sciences39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Law37
- Anthropology36
- Urban Studies36
- Demography33
- Geography, Planning and Development24
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
12 additional Urban Studies journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 36
- Window papers (baseline)
- 34,195 +32.9% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 2.04 -1.3% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 17 | 17 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 32 | 33 | 36 | 39 | 38 | 40 | 42 | 45 | 49 | 48 | 52 | 51 | 50 | 52 | 54 | 54 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 9,544 | 10,546 | 11,877 | 13,661 | 14,897 | 16,530 | 18,459 | 20,675 | 23,074 | 25,732 | 29,123 | 31,719 | 34,195 | 36,417 | 38,956 | 41,579 | 43,576 | 45,247 | 45,810 | 46,256 | 46,762 | 48,167 | 49,005 | 47,868 | 45,852 | 46,221 | |
| Median OJR | 1.322 | 1.24 | 1.41 | 1.320 | 1.497 | 1.83 | 1.95 | 1.74 | 1.77 | 2.07 | 2.14 | 2.29 | 2.04 | 1.505 | 1.80 | 1.88 | 1.63 | 1.55 | 1.42 | 1.29 | 1.35 | 1.08 | 1.17 | 0.88 | 0.84 | 0.98 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.