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Review of Regional Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. Published by Southern Regional Science Association.
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ISSN 0048-749XVerify ISSN ↗1553-0892Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Southern Regional Science Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 554 / 876 | 36th | Q3 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 122 / 184 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present (also 1984, 1977–1982), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Review of Regional Studies is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 554 of 876) and Q3 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 122 of 184), by CiteScore 2025.
Review of Regional Studies 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 36th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.275, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 24.
Review of Regional Studies is published by Southern Regional Science Association. Its print ISSN is 0048-749X and its online ISSN is 1553-0892.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Review of Regional Studies has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #543 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Review of Regional Studies published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 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 74 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (64.2%), China (5.2%) and Mexico (4.7%). 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. 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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