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Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 2345-7481Verify ISSN ↗2345-752XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 103 / 295 | 65th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 385 / 876 | 56th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 387 / 755 | 48th | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 249 / 432 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 91 / 134 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 103 of 295), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 385 of 876) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 387 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.319, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 2345-7481 and its online ISSN is 2345-752X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 1.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #96 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 38. 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 93 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (43.9%), Iran (8.4%) and Nigeria (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.
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