Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Urban Studies journal rankings 2014
38 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Urban Studies has 38 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR rose 0.30 on 2013 to 1.80, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.23. The top three are International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, and Planning Theory.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
38 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 2.34 0.58 up from 2013 | 393 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
2Urban StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.04Q1 | 2.46 0.10 down from 2013 | 623 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
3Planning TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.20Q1 | 1.93 0.98 down from 2013 | 92 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
4Urban GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.63Q1 | 1.92 0.43 down from 2013 | 228 | 8% | — | ||
5Planning Theory & PracticeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.60Q1 | 3.07 0.85 up from 2013 | 91 | 16% | — | ||
6International Journal of Cultural PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 1.03 0.09 up from 2013 | 138 | 24% | — | ||
7CityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 1.62 0.05 down from 2013 | 228 | 10% | — | ||
8Cultural TrendsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 0.88 0.58 down from 2013 | 76 | 14% | — | ||
9Environment and UrbanizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 2.21 0.05 down from 2013 | 126 | 40% | $3,650 | ||
10European Planning StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 1.61 0.13 up from 2013 | 451 | 26% | — | ||
11Urban Research & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.11Q2 | 0.79 1.17 down from 2013 | 77 | 14% | — | ||
12Planning Practice and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.06Q2 | 2.14 0.69 up from 2013 | 109 | 41% | — | ||
13International Planning StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.99Q2 | 1.35 0.26 down from 2013 | 76 | 13% | — | ||
14City Culture and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.85Q2 | 0.97 0.02 down from 2013 | 91 | 21% | $3,470 | ||
15Journal of Urban AffairsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.84Q2 | 1.15 0.10 down from 2013 | 179 | 4% | — | ||
16Built EnvironmentAlexandrine Press · United Kingdom | 2.62Q2 | 0.99 0.15 up from 2013 | 108 | 8% | — | ||
17Urban Policy and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.21Q2 | 1.30 0.19 up from 2013 | 100 | 13% | — | ||
18Planning PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.96Q2 | 0.71 0.26 up from 2013 | 199 | 7% | — | ||
19Journal of Urban DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.83Q2 | 1.13 0.39 up from 2013 | 88 | 23% | — | ||
20Town Planning ReviewLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 1.78Q3 | 0.56 0.21 down from 2013 | 136 | 14% | — | ||
21Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban SustainabilityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.36Q3 | 0.76 0.18 up from 2013 | 49 | 16% | — | ||
22Home CulturesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.28Q3 | 0.47no change | 55 | 11% | — | ||
23METU Journal of the Faculty of ArchitectureOAMiddle East Technical University · Türkiye | 0.99Q3 | 0.31 0.08 up from 2013 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
24Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy researchOACanadian Institute for Studies in Publishing · Canada | 0.86Q3 | 0.48 0.12 up from 2013 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
25Revue de la régulationOAUMR ESPACE et UMR LISST · France | 0.85Q3 | 0.36 0.15 down from 2013 | 122 | 100% | — | ||
26International Journal of Urban Sustainable DevelopmentOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.82Q3 | 0.87 0.24 up from 2013 | 50 | 86% | $1,270 | ||
27The Journal of Arts Management Law and SocietyRoutledge · United States | 0.77Q3 | 0.32 0.03 up from 2013 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
28urbe Revista Brasileira de Gestão UrbanaOAEditora Universitária Champagnat · Brazil | 0.60Q3 | 0.28 0.28 up from 2013 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
29Creative Industries JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.27 0.11 up from 2013 | 43 | 5% | — | ||
30Interventions économiquesOAAssociation d'Economie Politique · Canada | 0.47Q4 | 0.15 0.03 up from 2013 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.45Q4 | 0.28no change | 75 | 96% | — | |||
32disP - The Planning ReviewTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.37Q4 | 0.35 0.14 up from 2013 | 154 | 11% | — | ||
33ACE Arquitectura Ciudad y EntornoOAUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Spain | 0.22Q4 | 0.20 0.05 up from 2013 | 91 | 100% | $215 | ||
34The International Journal of the Constructed EnvironmentPublisher not listed | 0.17Q4 | 0.13 0.05 up from 2013 | 147 | 14% | — | ||
| 0.13Q4 | 0.09 0.04 up from 2013 | 61 | 0% | — | |||
36CiudadesOAUniversity of Valladolid · Spain | 0.11Q4 | 0.04 0.04 down from 2013 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
37Espaço AbertoOAFederal University of Rio de Janeiro · Brazil | 0.03Q4 | 0.02 0.02 up from 2013 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
38Creative Industries FacultyPublisher not listed | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 40 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Urban Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,140
- Education637
- Political Science and International Relations294
- Communication66
- Gender Studies59
- Public Administration50
- Safety Research50
- Health45
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences43
- Linguistics and Language41
- Transportation40
- Urban Studies38
- Anthropology36
- Demography36
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
17 additional Urban Studies journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 38
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,956 +22.8% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 1.80 -21.1% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.