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Computational Urban Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2730-6852Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 28 / 295 | 90th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 61 / 307 | 80th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 237 / 1022 | 76th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 150 / 570 | 73rd | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.2.
Computational Urban Science is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 28 of 295), Q1 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 61 of 307) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 237 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Computational Urban Science 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 7.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.815, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
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Computational Urban Science is published by Springer. Its ISSN is 2730-6852.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Computational Urban Science has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 5.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Computational Urban Science published 72 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (23.1%), United States (19.2%) and Hong Kong SAR China (6.3%).
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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