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Computers, Environment and Urban Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.3), 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 0198-9715Verify ISSN ↗1873-7587Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,740 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 3 / 295 | 99th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 11 / 876 | 98th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 7 / 249 | 97th | Q1 |
| Ecological Modeling | 2 / 51 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1980–1986), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.3.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 3 of 295), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 11 of 876) and Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 7 of 249), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 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 17.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.174, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 128.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,740 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.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0198-9715 and its online ISSN is 1873-7587.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems has an h-index of 151 and a 2-year mean of 9.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems published 99 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 122. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (22.5%), United States (22.3%) and United Kingdom (12.1%).
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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