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Landscape and Urban Planning is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 19.6), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0169-2046Verify ISSN ↗1872-6062Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,120 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 2 / 295 | 99th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 6 / 491 | 98th | Q1 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 4 / 231 | 98th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 9 / 432 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 19.6.
Landscape and Urban Planning is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 2 of 295), Q1 in Ecology (rank 6 of 491) and Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 4 of 231), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Landscape and Urban Planning is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 19.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.952, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 243.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,120 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.
Landscape and Urban Planning is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0169-2046 and its online ISSN is 1872-6062.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Landscape and Urban Planning has an h-index of 282 and a 2-year mean of 10.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 19.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Landscape and Urban Planning published 198 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 239. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (29.6%), United States (16.5%) and United Kingdom (8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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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