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International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI. Published by SPSD Press.
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ISSN 2187-3666Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SPSD Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 90 / 295 | 69th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 309 / 876 | 64th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 212 / 432 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 90 of 295), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 309 of 876) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 212 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
International Review for Spatial Planning and 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.442, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development is published by SPSD Press. Its ISSN is 2187-3666.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #87 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development published 62 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (29.1%), China (15.3%) and India (14%).
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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