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Future Cities and Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1). Published by Cerebration Science Publishing.
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ISSN 2363-9075Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cerebration Science Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$613 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 59 / 210 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 445 / 740 | 39th | Q3 |
| Environmental Engineering | 149 / 241 | 38th | Q3 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 275 / 434 | 36th | 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–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Future Cities and Environment is Q2 in Architecture (rank 59 of 210), Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 445 of 740) and Q3 in Environmental Engineering (rank 149 of 241), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Future Cities and Environment 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 2.1, quartile Q2, 72nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.342, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$613 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.
Future Cities and Environment is published by Cerebration Science Publishing. Its ISSN is 2363-9075.
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.
Future Cities and Environment has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 1.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 185 Scopus journals in Architecture.
Future Cities and Environment published 41 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (15.2%), United Arab Emirates (10.1%) and Saudi Arabia (9.1%).
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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