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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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ISSN 2624-9634Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 53 / 295 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 58 / 248 | 76th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 156 / 345 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 53 of 295), Q1 in Public Administration (rank 58 of 248) and Q2 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 156 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.731, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,418 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.
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2624-9634.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 3.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities published 202 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 204. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (11.3%), South Africa (8.9%) and China (7.8%).
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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