Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Urban Studies journal rankings 2019
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Urban Studies has 48 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.13 on 2018 to 1.29, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.05. The top three are Urban Geography, Cultural Trends, and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
48 ranked journals
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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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Urban GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.18Q1 | 3.25 0.34 up from 2018 | 287 | 32% | — | ||
2Cultural TrendsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.87Q1 | 2.02 0.20 down from 2018 | 88 | 38% | — | ||
3International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 4.60Q1 | 3.03 1.06 up from 2018 | 357 | 31% | $4,150 | ||
4City Culture and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.56Q1 | 4.41 2.12 up from 2018 | 90 | 27% | $3,470 | ||
5Urban StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 3.55 0.60 up from 2018 | 530 | 35% | $3,900 | ||
6European Planning StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 3.69 0.25 up from 2018 | 341 | 48% | — | ||
7Environment and UrbanizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 3.56 1.13 down from 2018 | 122 | 81% | $3,650 | ||
8Planning TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 2.09 0.70 down from 2018 | 75 | 38% | $3,650 | ||
9CityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 2.01 0.02 up from 2018 | 170 | 27% | — | ||
10Planning Theory & PracticeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 2.16 0.08 up from 2018 | 123 | 51% | — | ||
11UrbanisationSAGE Publishing · India | 3.11Q1 | 1.86 0.98 up from 2018 | 41 | 17% | $3,400 | ||
12International Journal of Cultural PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.05Q1 | 1.42 0.50 down from 2018 | 145 | 19% | — | ||
13Creative Industries JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.74Q2 | 1.94 0.44 up from 2018 | 51 | 32% | — | ||
14Urban Research & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.64Q2 | 2.39 0.52 down from 2018 | 97 | 33% | — | ||
15Urban Policy and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.42Q2 | 2.54 0.73 up from 2018 | 118 | 17% | — | ||
16Urban PlanningOACogitatio · Portugal | 2.39Q2 | 2.84 0.02 up from 2018 | 108 | 100% | $1,132 | ||
17Journal of Urban AffairsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.08Q2 | 1.50 0.53 up from 2018 | 285 | 12% | — | ||
18International Planning StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.87Q2 | 1.32 0.28 up from 2018 | 82 | 45% | — | ||
19Town Planning ReviewLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 1.13 0.11 down from 2018 | 131 | 32% | — | ||
20Built EnvironmentAlexandrine Press · United Kingdom | 1.58Q2 | 0.80 1.66 down from 2018 | 117 | 29% | — | ||
21The Journal of Arts Management Law and SocietyRoutledge · United States | 1.56Q2 | 0.86 0.40 up from 2018 | 90 | 35% | — | ||
22Journal of Urban DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.41Q2 | 1.77 0.37 up from 2018 | 173 | 28% | — | ||
23Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban SustainabilityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 1.54 0.23 up from 2018 | 63 | 15% | — | ||
24Planning Practice and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 1.00 0.06 up from 2018 | 104 | 41% | — | ||
25Arts and the MarketEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.24Q3 | 0.96 0.20 up from 2018 | 39 | 41% | — | ||
26Canadian Journal of Urban ResearchOAUniversity of Winnipeg · Canada | 1.20Q3 | 1.24 0.94 up from 2018 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
27Planning PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.07Q3 | 0.61 0.10 down from 2018 | 248 | 22% | — | ||
28City Territory and ArchitectureOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.91Q3 | 1.24 0.03 up from 2018 | 66 | 100% | $1,140 | ||
29disP - The Planning ReviewTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.76Q3 | 0.63 0.18 up from 2018 | 224 | 22% | — | ||
30International Journal of Urban Sustainable DevelopmentOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q3 | 1.09 0.01 up from 2018 | 44 | 91% | $1,270 | ||
| 0.72Q3 | 0.45 0.03 down from 2018 | 97 | 97% | — | |||
32Home CulturesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 0.59 0.31 up from 2018 | 45 | 45% | — | ||
33Revue de la régulationOAUMR ESPACE et UMR LISST · France | 0.58Q3 | 0.54 0.01 down from 2018 | 128 | 100% | — | ||
34METU Journal of the Faculty of ArchitectureOAMiddle East Technical University · Türkiye | 0.58Q3 | 0.32 0.02 down from 2018 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
35ACE Arquitectura Ciudad y EntornoOAUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Spain | 0.57Q3 | 0.60 0.21 up from 2018 | 109 | 100% | $215 | ||
36urbe Revista Brasileira de Gestão UrbanaOAEditora Universitária Champagnat · Brazil | 0.56Q3 | 0.68 0.41 up from 2018 | 139 | 100% | — | ||
37Journal of Settlements and Spatial PlanningOABabeș-Bolyai University · Romania | 0.44Q4 | 0.84 0.09 down from 2018 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
38Interventions économiquesOAAssociation d'Economie Politique · Canada | 0.40Q4 | 0.24 0.08 down from 2018 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of Urban Cultural StudiesIntellect · United Kingdom | 0.38Q4 | 0.18 0.02 up from 2018 | 74 | 14% | — | ||
40CiudadesOAUniversity of Valladolid · Spain | 0.32Q4 | 0.16 0.02 down from 2018 | 298 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.29Q4 | 0.33 0.05 up from 2018 | 76 | 100% | — | |||
42The Journal of Public SpaceOAItaly | 0.23Q4 | 0.37 0.09 up from 2018 | 119 | 100% | — | ||
43Journal of Contemporary Urban AffairsOATürkiye | 0.14Q4 | 0.18 0.08 down from 2018 | 115 | 100% | — | ||
44Urban and Regional PlanningOAScience Publishing Group · United States | 0.14Q4 | 0.10 0.06 down from 2018 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
45The International Journal of the Constructed EnvironmentPublisher not listed | 0.14Q4 | 0.00 0.41 down from 2018 | 45 | 27% | — | ||
46Espaço AbertoOAFederal University of Rio de Janeiro · Brazil | 0.12Q4 | 0.09 0.03 down from 2018 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
47PIXO - Revista de Arquitetura Cidade e ContemporaneidadeOAFederal University of Pelotas · Brazil | 0.03Q4 | 0.01 0.01 down from 2018 | 75 | — | — | ||
48Revista CartográficaOAPan American Institute of Geography and History | 0.00Q4 | 0.03 0.03 up from 2018 | 39 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Urban Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,325
- Education724
- Political Science and International Relations326
- Communication74
- Gender Studies64
- Safety Research56
- Health53
- Public Administration51
- Law48
- Linguistics and Language48
- Urban Studies48
- Transportation46
- Library and Information Sciences44
- Demography38
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development31
- Cultural Studies8
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 46,256 +6.2% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.29 -20.8% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.