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Urban Governance is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2664-3286Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 113 / 1530 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Urban Studies | 31 / 295 | 89th | Q1 |
| Development | 38 / 314 | 88th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 32 / 248 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Urban Governance is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 113 of 1530), Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 31 of 295) and Q1 in Development (rank 38 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Urban Governance 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 6.7, quartile Q1, 92nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.873, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,500 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 Governance is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2664-3286.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Urban Governance has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 5.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Urban Governance published 66 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (9.2%), Ghana (7%) and Netherlands (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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