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Urban Book Series is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 2365-757XVerify ISSN ↗2365-7588Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 186 / 295 | 37th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 660 / 876 | 24th | 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 2016–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Urban Book Series is Q3 in Urban Studies (rank 186 of 295) and Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 660 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Urban Book Series 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 0.9, quartile Q3, 37th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Urban Book Series is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its print ISSN is 2365-757X and its online ISSN is 2365-7588.
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.
Urban Book Series has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #192 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Urban Book Series published 249 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 526. 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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