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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2509-7946Verify ISSN ↗2509-7954Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 52 / 283 | 81st | Q1 |
| Urban Studies | 59 / 295 | 80th | Q1 |
| Development | 68 / 314 | 78th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 166 / 345 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 52 of 283), Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 59 of 295) and Q1 in Development (rank 68 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.481, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,490 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.
Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2509-7946 and its online ISSN is 2509-7954.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 2.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 69. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (19.4%), China (13.7%) and Japan (11.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (2.2 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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