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SpringerBriefs in Regional Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2192-0427Verify ISSN ↗2192-0435Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 191 / 283 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 594 / 876 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 587 / 755 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2023, 2019–2021, 2013–2016, 2011), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
SpringerBriefs in Regional Science is Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 191 of 283), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 594 of 876) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 587 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
SpringerBriefs in 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 1.2, quartile Q3, 32nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
SpringerBriefs in Regional Science is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2192-0427 and its online ISSN is 2192-0435.
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.
SpringerBriefs in Regional Science has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #254 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
SpringerBriefs in Regional Science published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 18. 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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