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Cities and Nature is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Springer Nature.
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Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 205 / 295 | 30th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 723 / 876 | 17th | Q4 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 296 / 345 | 14th | Q4 |
| Food Science | 378 / 420 | 10th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present (also 2013), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
Cities and Nature is Q3 in Urban Studies (rank 205 of 295), Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 723 of 876) and Q4 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 296 of 345), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cities and Nature is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3, 30th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.106, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Cities and Nature is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2520-8306 and its online ISSN is 2520-8314.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cities and Nature has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #179 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Cities and Nature published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 67. 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.
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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