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Buildings and Cities is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Ubiquity Press.
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Publisher: Ubiquity Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 25 / 210 | 88th | Q1 |
| Urban Studies | 49 / 295 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 187 / 876 | 78th | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 72 / 258 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 101 / 307 | 67th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 147 / 432 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
Buildings and Cities is Q1 in Architecture (rank 25 of 210), Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 49 of 295) and Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 187 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Buildings and Cities 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.829, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,165 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.
Buildings and Cities is published by Ubiquity Press. Its ISSN is 2632-6655.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Buildings and Cities has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 3.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 185 Scopus journals in Architecture.
Buildings and Cities published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 63. 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 65 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (29.2%), Finland (15.4%) and Canada (7.7%).
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.
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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