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International Journal of Tourism Cities is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), ABDC B, WoS ESCI. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 2056-5607Verify ISSN ↗2056-5615Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 72 / 876 | 91st | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 67 / 432 | 84th | Q1 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 35 / 156 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
International Journal of Tourism Cities is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 72 of 876), Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 67 of 432) and Q1 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (rank 35 of 156), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Tourism 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.591, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
International Journal of Tourism Cities is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2056-5607 and its online ISSN is 2056-5615.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Tourism.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Tourism Cities has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 4.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
International Journal of Tourism Cities published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 73. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (10.9%), Spain (8.3%) and Vietnam (8.2%).
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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