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Sustainable Cities and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 22.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2210-6707Verify ISSN ↗2210-6715Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,870 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 2 / 434 | 99th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 6 / 876 | 99th | Q1 |
| Transportation | 5 / 169 | 97th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 19 / 345 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 22.3.
Sustainable Cities and Society is Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 2 of 434), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 6 of 876) and Q1 in Transportation (rank 5 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Sustainable Cities and Society is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 22.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.982, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 184.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,870 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.
Sustainable Cities and Society is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2210-6707 and its online ISSN is 2210-6715.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sustainable Cities and Society has an h-index of 210 and a 2-year mean of 13.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 22.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 385 Scopus journals in Civil and Structural Engineering.
Sustainable Cities and Society published 977 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.
In its latest 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (52.7%), Hong Kong SAR China (6.6%) and Türkiye (5.5%). 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. 20 retracted papers are recorded (2.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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