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Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 1864-4031Verify ISSN ↗1864-404XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demography | 36 / 140 | 74th | Q2 |
| Urban Studies | 81 / 295 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 294 / 876 | 66th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 290 / 755 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences is Q2 in Demography (rank 36 of 140), Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 81 of 295) and Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 294 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.404, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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.
Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 1864-4031 and its online ISSN is 1864-404X.
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.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Regional Studies, Planning and Environment field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 2.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 137 Scopus journals in Demography.
Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 46. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (15.7%), Japan (8.1%) and China (6.3%).
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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