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City and Environment Interactions is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2590-2520Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 34 / 295 | 88th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 133 / 876 | 84th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 78 / 307 | 74th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 112 / 432 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
City and Environment Interactions is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 34 of 295), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 133 of 876) and Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 78 of 307), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
City and Environment Interactions 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.177, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
City and Environment Interactions is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2590-2520.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
City and Environment Interactions has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 3.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
City and Environment Interactions published 103 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (14.3%), Iran (9.2%) and United Arab Emirates (4.7%).
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.
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