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Contemporary City is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2634-5463Verify ISSN ↗2634-5471Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 735 / 744 | 0th | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 870 / 876 | 0th | Q4 |
| Urban Studies | 294 / 295 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2023–2024, 2021, 2017–2019), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Contemporary City is Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 735 of 744), Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 870 of 876) and Q4 in Urban Studies (rank 294 of 295), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary City 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, quartile Q4, 0th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Contemporary City is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2634-5463 and its online ISSN is 2634-5471.
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.
Contemporary City has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #605 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Contemporary City published 12 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 38. 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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