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Urban Informatics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), DOAJ. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2731-6963Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 68 / 295 | 77th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 170 / 432 | 60th | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 227 / 570 | 60th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 431 / 1022 | 57th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Urban Informatics is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 68 of 295), Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 170 of 432) and Q2 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 227 of 570), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Urban Informatics 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 4.3, quartile Q1, 77th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.104, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 8.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Urban Informatics is published by Springer. Its ISSN is 2731-6963.
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 Informatics has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 7.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Urban Informatics published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 40. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (34.8%), United States (26.5%) and Hong Kong SAR China (8.8%).
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.
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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