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Journal of Urban Design is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1357-4809Verify ISSN ↗1469-9664Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 66 / 692 | 90th | Q1 |
| Urban Studies | 57 / 295 | 80th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 202 / 876 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Journal of Urban Design is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 66 of 692), Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 57 of 295) and Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 202 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Urban Design 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.739, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 68.
Journal of Urban Design is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1357-4809 and its online ISSN is 1469-9664.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Urban Design has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 2.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #63 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Journal of Urban Design published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 74. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (21.8%), United States (18.2%) and Australia (12.5%).
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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