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Cities is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.5), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0264-2751Verify ISSN ↗1873-6084Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 24 / 1530 | 98th | Q1 |
| Urban Studies | 8 / 295 | 97th | Q1 |
| Development | 10 / 314 | 96th | Q1 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 22 / 156 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.5.
Cities is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 24 of 1530), Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 8 of 295) and Q1 in Development (rank 10 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cities is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 11.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.772, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 162.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Cities is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0264-2751 and its online ISSN is 1873-6084.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Regional Studies, Planning and Environment field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cities has an h-index of 186 and a 2-year mean of 7.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Cities published 981 papers in 2025. 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 74 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (19.8%), United States (10.4%) and Brazil (6.8%).
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 1 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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