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Journal of Place Management and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 1753-8335Verify ISSN ↗1753-8343Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 48 / 295 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 185 / 876 | 78th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 169 / 456 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 200 / 506 | 60th | Q2 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 66 / 156 | 58th | Q2 |
| Marketing | 100 / 221 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
Journal of Place Management and Development is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 48 of 295), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 185 of 876) and Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 169 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Place Management and 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.582, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 46.
Journal of Place Management and Development is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1753-8335 and its online ISSN is 1753-8343.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Regional Studies, Planning and Environment field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Place Management and Development has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 2.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Journal of Place Management and Development published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 44. 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 United Kingdom (20.4%), Italy (8.2%) and Spain (7%).
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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