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Journal of Urban Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0735-2166Verify ISSN ↗1467-9906Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 171 / 1530 | 88th | Q1 |
| Urban Studies | 39 / 295 | 86th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 160 / 876 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Journal of Urban Affairs is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 171 of 1530), Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 39 of 295) and Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 160 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Urban Affairs is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.826, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 78.
Journal of Urban Affairs is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0735-2166 and its online ISSN is 1467-9906.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Urban Affairs has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 1.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #452 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Urban Affairs published 165 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 278. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (43.3%), United Kingdom (10.2%) and Hong Kong SAR China (5.7%).
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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