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Town Planning Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. Published by Liverpool University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0041-0020Verify ISSN ↗1478-341XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 106 / 295 | 64th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 394 / 876 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Town Planning Review is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 106 of 295) and Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 394 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Town Planning Review 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.420, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 54.
Town Planning Review is published by Liverpool University Press. Its print ISSN is 0041-0020 and its online ISSN is 1478-341X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Regional Studies, Planning and Environment field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Town Planning Review has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 1.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Town Planning Review published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 106. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (35.6%), United States (15.1%) and Germany (6.6%).
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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