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Urban Climate is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2212-0955Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 6 / 295 | 98th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 25 / 876 | 97th | Q1 |
| Atmospheric Science | 6 / 160 | 96th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 22 / 307 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.2.
Urban Climate is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 6 of 295), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 25 of 876) and Q1 in Atmospheric Science (rank 6 of 160), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Urban Climate 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 12.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.714, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 102.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,690 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.
Urban Climate is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2212-0955.
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.
Urban Climate has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 7.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Urban Climate published 484 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (31.3%), United States (6.3%) and Spain (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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