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Architecture, City and Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.
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Publisher: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 67 / 210 | 68th | Q2 |
| Urban Studies | 129 / 295 | 56th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 473 / 876 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Architecture, City and Environment is Q2 in Architecture (rank 67 of 210), Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 129 of 295) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 473 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Architecture, City and Environment is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.404, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 13.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$215 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Architecture, City and Environment is published by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Its print ISSN is 1886-4805 and its online ISSN is 1887-7052.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Architecture, City and Environment has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #67 of 185 Scopus journals in Architecture.
Architecture, City and Environment published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 70. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 73 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Spain (55%), Chile (8.2%) and Ecuador (5.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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