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Local and Urban Governance is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2524-5449Verify ISSN ↗2524-5457Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1087 / 1530 | 28th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 550 / 745 | 26th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 197 / 248 | 20th | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 716 / 876 | 18th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2020–2022), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
Local and Urban Governance is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1087 of 1530), Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 550 of 745) and Q4 in Public Administration (rank 197 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Local and Urban Governance is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3, 28th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Local and Urban Governance is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2524-5449 and its online ISSN is 2524-5457.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Local and Urban Governance has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #846 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Local and Urban Governance published 98 papers in 2025. 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.
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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