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Journal of Land Use Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1747-423XVerify ISSN ↗1747-4248Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 15 / 184 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 99 / 876 | 88th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 91 / 432 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
Journal of Land Use Science is Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 15 of 184), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 99 of 876) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 91 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Land Use Science is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.931, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 50.
Journal of Land Use Science is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1747-423X and its online ISSN is 1747-4248.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Land Use Science has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 3.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Journal of Land Use Science published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 38. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.8%), Germany (13.7%) and China (9.3%).
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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