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Noise Mapping is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 2084-879XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 58 / 295 | 80th | Q1 |
| Acoustics and Ultrasonics | 12 / 54 | 78th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 154 / 432 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Noise Mapping is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 58 of 295), Q1 in Acoustics and Ultrasonics (rank 12 of 54) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 154 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Noise Mapping 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.344, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,187 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.
Noise Mapping is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its ISSN is 2084-879X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Noise Mapping has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 2.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Noise Mapping published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 26. 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 89 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Italy (22.8%), India (16.3%) and Spain (8.5%).
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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