Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Urban Studies journal rankings 2022
50 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Urban Studies has 50 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2021 to 1.17, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.91. The top three are Cultural Trends, Environment and Urbanization, and Urban Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
50 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Cultural TrendsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.25Q1 | 4.35 1.07 up from 2021 | 108 | 38% | — | ||
2Environment and UrbanizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 5.72 0.42 up from 2021 | 97 | 35% | $3,650 | ||
3Urban StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.95Q1 | 5.18 0.31 down from 2021 | 553 | 55% | $3,900 | ||
4International Journal of Cultural PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 2.91 0.83 up from 2021 | 157 | 41% | — | ||
5Urban GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.44Q1 | 4.14 0.73 up from 2021 | 338 | 50% | — | ||
6Planning TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 3.57 0.66 up from 2021 | 63 | 50% | $3,650 | ||
7International Planning StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 3.25 0.57 up from 2021 | 73 | 27% | — | ||
8European Planning StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 3.28 1.33 down from 2021 | 482 | 56% | — | ||
9City Culture and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 3.02 0.07 down from 2021 | 69 | 41% | $3,470 | ||
10Planning Theory & PracticeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 3.73 0.48 up from 2021 | 138 | 74% | — | ||
11International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 2.14 0.28 down from 2021 | 338 | 39% | $4,150 | ||
12CityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 1.93 0.15 down from 2021 | 154 | 47% | — | ||
13City Territory and ArchitectureOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.91Q1 | 2.92 0.35 up from 2021 | 45 | 100% | $1,140 | ||
14Creative Industries JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.81Q2 | 1.63 0.36 up from 2021 | 80 | 39% | — | ||
15CiudadesOAUniversity of Valladolid · Spain | 1.81Q2 | 0.72 0.19 up from 2021 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
16Urban Research & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.77Q2 | 2.02 0.80 down from 2021 | 91 | 27% | — | ||
17Journal of Urban DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 3.86 1.32 up from 2021 | 122 | 27% | — | ||
18International Journal of Urban Sustainable DevelopmentOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.64Q2 | 2.23 1.84 down from 2021 | 93 | 100% | $1,270 | ||
19Urban PlanningOACogitatio · Portugal | 1.59Q2 | 2.53 0.43 up from 2021 | 303 | 100% | $1,132 | ||
20Journal of Urban AffairsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.29Q2 | 1.50 0.25 down from 2021 | 372 | 18% | — | ||
21Planning Practice and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 2.24 0.67 up from 2021 | 122 | 42% | — | ||
22The Journal of Arts Management Law and SocietyRoutledge · United States | 1.28Q2 | 1.12 0.15 down from 2021 | 72 | 24% | — | ||
23Town Planning ReviewLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 2.24 0.69 up from 2021 | 165 | 73% | — | ||
24Artivate A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the ArtsOAUniversity of Arkansas Press · United States | 1.19Q2 | 0.17 0.65 down from 2021 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
25Urban Policy and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 1.88 0.10 down from 2021 | 82 | 26% | — | ||
26Planning PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.15Q3 | 1.26 0.15 up from 2021 | 232 | 39% | — | ||
27UrbanisationSAGE Publishing · India | 1.10Q3 | 1.11 0.36 up from 2021 | 44 | 33% | $3,400 | ||
28Built EnvironmentAlexandrine Press · United Kingdom | 0.99Q3 | 1.28 0.03 up from 2021 | 132 | 24% | — | ||
29Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban SustainabilityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.89Q3 | 1.74 0.10 down from 2021 | 110 | 33% | — | ||
30Journal of Contemporary Urban AffairsOATürkiye | 0.86Q3 | 1.68 0.93 up from 2021 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
31disP - The Planning ReviewTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.85Q3 | 1.17 0.27 down from 2021 | 141 | 21% | — | ||
32Arts and the MarketEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.81Q3 | 1.03no change | 50 | 21% | — | ||
33GeoScapeOADe Gruyter Open · Czechia | 0.72Q3 | 1.89 0.43 up from 2021 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
34Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy researchOACanadian Institute for Studies in Publishing · Canada | 0.56Q3 | 0.84 0.23 up from 2021 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
35urbe Revista Brasileira de Gestão UrbanaOAEditora Universitária Champagnat · Brazil | 0.55Q3 | 0.86 0.15 down from 2021 | 244 | 100% | — | ||
36Home CulturesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 0.48 0.07 down from 2021 | 33 | 25% | — | ||
37Journal of Urban Cultural StudiesIntellect · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.35 0.13 down from 2021 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
38Journal of Settlements and Spatial PlanningOABabeș-Bolyai University · Romania | 0.43Q3 | 0.89 0.25 up from 2021 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.36Q4 | 0.33 1.02 down from 2021 | 130 | 0% | — | |||
| 0.33Q4 | 0.48no change | 89 | 91% | — | |||
41ACE Arquitectura Ciudad y EntornoOAUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Spain | 0.32Q4 | 0.69 0.20 down from 2021 | 157 | 100% | $215 | ||
42Interventions économiquesOAAssociation d'Economie Politique · Canada | 0.31Q4 | 0.30 0.01 down from 2021 | 97 | 100% | — | ||
43METU Journal of the Faculty of ArchitectureOAMiddle East Technical University · Türkiye | 0.31Q4 | 0.19 0.08 down from 2021 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
44Revue de la régulationOAUMR ESPACE et UMR LISST · France | 0.30Q4 | 0.36no change | 128 | 100% | — | ||
45The Journal of Public SpaceOAItaly | 0.25Q4 | 0.43 0.08 down from 2021 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
46Canadian Journal of Urban ResearchOAUniversity of Winnipeg · Canada | 0.24Q4 | 0.25 0.55 down from 2021 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
47Urban and Regional PlanningOAScience Publishing Group · United States | 0.15Q4 | 0.38 0.07 down from 2021 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
48Revista CartográficaOAPan American Institute of Geography and History | 0.09Q4 | 0.38 0.28 up from 2021 | 206 | 100% | — | ||
49Espaço AbertoOAFederal University of Rio de Janeiro · Brazil | 0.09Q4 | 0.19 0.09 up from 2021 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
50PIXO - Revista de Arquitetura Cidade e ContemporaneidadeOAFederal University of Pelotas · Brazil | 0.06Q4 | 0.06 0.02 up from 2021 | 158 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Urban Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,389
- Education752
- Political Science and International Relations339
- Communication77
- Gender Studies63
- Safety Research58
- Health54
- Public Administration52
- Linguistics and Language51
- Transportation51
- Urban Studies50
- Law47
- Library and Information Sciences42
- Demography39
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development34
- Cultural Studies6
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
11 additional Urban Studies journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 50
- Window papers (baseline)
- 49,005 +5.9% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 1.17 -9.7% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.