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Contemporary Urban Design Thinking is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2522-8404Verify ISSN ↗2522-8412Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 140 / 295 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Building and Construction | 168 / 258 | 34th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 211 / 307 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2024, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Contemporary Urban Design Thinking is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 140 of 295), Q3 in Building and Construction (rank 168 of 258) and Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 211 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary Urban Design Thinking 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 1.5, quartile Q2, 52nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Contemporary Urban Design Thinking is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2522-8404 and its online ISSN is 2522-8412.
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 Urban Design Thinking has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #210 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Contemporary Urban Design Thinking published 14 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 43. 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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