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Romanian Journal of Regional Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), DOAJ. Published by ROMANIAN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.
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ISSN 1843-8520Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ROMANIAN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 239 / 295 | 19th | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 797 / 876 | 9th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 717 / 755 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Romanian Journal of Regional Science is Q4 in Urban Studies (rank 239 of 295), Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 797 of 876) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 717 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Romanian Journal of Regional Science 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 19th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.137, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 2.
Romanian Journal of Regional Science is published by ROMANIAN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. Its ISSN is 1843-8520.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Romanian Journal of Regional Science has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #253 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Romanian Journal of Regional Science published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 10. 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 22 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Romania (45.5%), Greece (25%) and Hungary (9.1%).
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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