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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1946-3138Verify ISSN ↗1946-3146Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 46 / 295 | 84th | Q1 |
| Development | 62 / 314 | 80th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 182 / 876 | 79th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 144 / 432 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 46 of 295), Q1 in Development (rank 62 of 314) and Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 182 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.768, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,270 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.
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1946-3138 and its online ISSN is 1946-3146.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 3.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 35. 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (8.2%), United Kingdom (7.9%) and Ghana (7.2%).
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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