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Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5). Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1574-0080Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 104 / 295 | 64th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 390 / 876 | 55th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 395 / 755 | 47th | 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 2025 (also 2015, 2004, 1999, 1987), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 104 of 295), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 390 of 876) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 395 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics 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 2.5, quartile Q2, 64th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 1574-0080.
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.
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 1.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #112 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 1987 with 42. 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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