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Journal of Regional and City Planning is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. Published by ITB Journal Publisher.
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ISSN 2502-6429Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ITB Journal Publisher
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 119 / 295 | 59th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 445 / 876 | 49th | Q3 |
| Development | 181 / 314 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.9.
Journal of Regional and City Planning is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 119 of 295), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 445 of 876) and Q3 in Development (rank 181 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Regional and City Planning 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.261, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Journal of Regional and City Planning is published by ITB Journal Publisher. Its ISSN is 2502-6429.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Regional and City Planning has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #148 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Journal of Regional and City Planning published 32 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (45.1%), Iran (26.4%) and Malaysia (4.8%).
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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