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Ciudades is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid.
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ISSN 1133-6579Verify ISSN ↗2445-3943Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservation | 30 / 108 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Urban Studies | 168 / 295 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 600 / 876 | 31st | 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 1.1.
Ciudades is Q2 in Conservation (rank 30 of 108), Q3 in Urban Studies (rank 168 of 295) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 600 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Ciudades 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.232, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
Ciudades is published by Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid. Its print ISSN is 1133-6579 and its online ISSN is 2445-3943.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Ciudades has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 96 Scopus journals in Conservation.
Ciudades published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 152. 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 81 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Spain (65.2%), Brazil (7.4%) and Italy (5.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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