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Town and Regional Planning is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of the Free State.
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ISSN 1012-280XVerify ISSN ↗2415-0495Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of the Free State
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 141 / 295 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 516 / 876 | 41st | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 313 / 432 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Town and Regional Planning is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 141 of 295), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 516 of 876) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 313 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Town and Regional Planning 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.301, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
Town and Regional Planning is published by University of the Free State. Its print ISSN is 1012-280X and its online ISSN is 2415-0495.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Town and Regional Planning has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #162 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Town and Regional Planning published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 33. 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 South Africa (55.1%), Nigeria (14%) and Kenya (3.4%). 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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