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IET Smart Cities

IET Smart Cities is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.

Checked against the index lists dated 4 October 2026.

ISSN 2631-7680Verify ISSN ↗

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc

Scopus · Q1WoS · ESCIOpen Access

7.3

CiteScore 2025

Scopus

Best quartile

rank 25 of 295 · 91st pctile

Indexed in

major indexes

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ScopusElsevier Scopus

Status

Active

Coverage

2019–present

Source type

Journal

Open access

Yes

CiteScore

7.3

SJR · SCImago

0.586

Q1 SJR quartile

H-index

Best quartile

Q1 · 91st pctile

Subject area	Rank	Pctile	Q
Urban Studies	25 / 295	91st	Q1
Electrical and Electronic Engineering	195 / 1030	81st	Q1
Control and Systems Engineering	81 / 390	79th	Q1
Computer Networks and Communications	121 / 568	78th	Q1
Computer Science Applications	235 / 1022	77th	Q1
Software	126 / 503	75th	Q1
Artificial Intelligence	148 / 570	74th	Q2

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Web of ScienceClarivate (SCIE/SSCI/AHCI/ESCI)

Collections

ESCI

Quick answers

Is IET Smart Cities indexed in Scopus?

Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.

What quartile is IET Smart Cities in Scopus?

IET Smart Cities is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 25 of 295), Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 195 of 1030) and Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 81 of 390), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.

What is the impact factor of IET Smart Cities?

IET Smart 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.586, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.

How much does it cost to publish in IET Smart Cities?

The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,340 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.

Who publishes IET Smart Cities and what is its ISSN?

IET Smart Cities is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2631-7680.

Is IET Smart Cities in Web of Science?

Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.

Is IET Smart Cities open access?

Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.

How well cited is IET Smart Cities? — open metrics via OpenAlex

IET Smart Cities has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 4.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.

h-index

4.21

2-yr mean citations

i10-index

200

works indexed

2,518

total citations

Publication fee · open access list price, US$

US$2,340

2-yr mean citations, among Scopus journals in the same subject

#18 of 280 Top 7% Urban Studies

#150 of 744 Top 21% Electrical and Electronic Engineering

#63 of 306 Top 21% Control and Systems Engineering

Papers published per year

IET Smart Cities published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 33. 2026* is the year so far.

Main topics

Smart Cities and TechnologiesHuman Mobility and Location-Based AnalysisIoT and Edge/Fog ComputingSmart Grid Energy Management

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.

Who publishes in IET Smart Cities? — latest 99 articles, 2022–2026

In its latest 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (14.3%), China (10.9%) and Japan (6.1%).

Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.

Are there integrity warnings for IET Smart Cities? — indicators, not proof of misconduct

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.

Scopus statusActive
Retracted papers None recorded
Problematic Paper Screener flags None flagged

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.

Official sources & links

Journal website ↗ Scopus source ↗ Web of Science ↗ DOAJ ↗ ISSN Portal · 2631-7680 ↗

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