Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Urban Studies journal rankings 2013
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Urban Studies has 39 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR fell 0.54 on 2012 to 1.50, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.04. The top three are Urban Studies, Planning Theory, and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
39 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Urban StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.80Q1 | 2.56 0.34 up from 2012 | 552 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
2Planning TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.30Q1 | 2.91 0.81 up from 2012 | 82 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
3International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 1.76 0.03 down from 2012 | 369 | 20% | $4,150 | ||
4Planning Theory & PracticeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 2.22 0.63 up from 2012 | 90 | 18% | — | ||
5Cultural TrendsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 1.47 0.82 up from 2012 | 64 | 6% | — | ||
6Environment and UrbanizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 2.26 0.12 down from 2012 | 124 | 43% | $3,650 | ||
7Journal of Urban AffairsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.52Q1 | 1.25 0.19 down from 2012 | 154 | 6% | — | ||
8Urban Research & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 1.96 0.58 up from 2012 | 70 | 18% | — | ||
9European Planning StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 1.48 0.23 down from 2012 | 424 | 21% | — | ||
10International Planning StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 1.61 0.67 up from 2012 | 73 | 16% | — | ||
11Urban GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.98Q2 | 2.35 0.87 up from 2012 | 214 | 12% | — | ||
12Planning Practice and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.98Q2 | 1.45 0.26 down from 2012 | 123 | 9% | — | ||
13Built EnvironmentAlexandrine Press · United Kingdom | 2.98Q2 | 0.84 0.24 down from 2012 | 114 | 15% | — | ||
14CityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.91Q2 | 1.66 0.69 up from 2012 | 219 | 15% | — | ||
15City Culture and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.85Q2 | 0.99 0.38 down from 2012 | 97 | 3% | $3,470 | ||
16Journal of Urban DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.33Q2 | 0.74 0.28 down from 2012 | 96 | 13% | — | ||
17International Journal of Cultural PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.12Q2 | 0.93 0.32 up from 2012 | 185 | 5% | — | ||
18Urban Policy and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.11Q2 | 1.11 0.23 down from 2012 | 91 | 21% | — | ||
19Town Planning ReviewLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 0.78 0.20 down from 2012 | 139 | 6% | — | ||
20Creative Industries JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 0.16 0.32 down from 2012 | 43 | 13% | — | ||
21Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban SustainabilityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.32Q3 | 0.58 0.08 down from 2012 | 47 | 5% | — | ||
22The Journal of Arts Management Law and SocietyRoutledge · United States | 1.30Q3 | 0.29 0.39 down from 2012 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
23Home CulturesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.24Q3 | 0.47 0.03 down from 2012 | 55 | 11% | — | ||
24Planning PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.19Q3 | 0.45 0.05 up from 2012 | 169 | 10% | — | ||
25International Journal of Urban Sustainable DevelopmentOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.06Q3 | 0.63 0.24 up from 2012 | 44 | 80% | $1,270 | ||
26Revue de la régulationOAUMR ESPACE et UMR LISST · France | 1.05Q3 | 0.51 0.17 up from 2012 | 106 | 100% | — | ||
27Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy researchOACanadian Institute for Studies in Publishing · Canada | 0.92Q3 | 0.37 0.11 down from 2012 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
28METU Journal of the Faculty of ArchitectureOAMiddle East Technical University · Türkiye | 0.58Q3 | 0.23 0.04 up from 2012 | 95 | 95% | — | ||
| 0.57Q3 | 0.28no 2012 value | 32 | 100% | — | — | ||
30ACE Arquitectura Ciudad y EntornoOAUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Spain | 0.36Q3 | 0.15 0.05 down from 2012 | 102 | 100% | $215 | ||
31disP - The Planning ReviewTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.34Q4 | 0.20 0.08 down from 2012 | 146 | 5% | — | ||
32Interventions économiquesOAAssociation d'Economie Politique · Canada | 0.25Q4 | 0.13 0.25 down from 2012 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
33CiudadesOAUniversity of Valladolid · Spain | 0.19Q4 | 0.09 0.07 up from 2012 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
34The International Journal of the Constructed EnvironmentPublisher not listed | 0.18Q4 | 0.08 0.02 up from 2012 | 99 | 2% | — | ||
35Finance & Bien CommunSwitzerland | 0.15Q4 | 0.05 0.08 down from 2012 | 55 | — | — | ||
| 0.10Q4 | 0.05 0.01 up from 2012 | 80 | 0% | — | |||
37Creative Industries FacultyPublisher not listed | 0.00Q4 | 0.00 0.07 down from 2012 | 34 | 7% | — | ||
37Espaço AbertoOAFederal University of Rio de Janeiro · Brazil | 0.00Q4 | 0.00 0.03 down from 2012 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
37urbe Revista Brasileira de Gestão UrbanaOAEditora Universitária Champagnat · Brazil | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 34 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Urban Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,090
- Education598
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Communication57
- Gender Studies55
- Safety Research51
- Public Administration49
- Health47
- Transportation42
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Law40
- Linguistics and Language40
- Urban Studies39
- Anthropology37
- Demography34
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 36,417 +25.0% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.505 -29.7% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.