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Journal of Urban Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1099-3460Verify ISSN ↗1468-2869Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 35 / 387 | 91st | Q1 |
| Urban Studies | 30 / 295 | 90th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 85 / 725 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present (also 1988), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Journal of Urban Health is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 35 of 387), Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 30 of 295) and Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 85 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Urban Health 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.448, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 120.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,790 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Urban Health is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1099-3460 and its online ISSN is 1468-2869.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Urban Health has an h-index of 132 and a 2-year mean of 2.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Journal of Urban Health published 93 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 134. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (59%), United Kingdom (5.4%) and Canada (4.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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