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Urban Lifeline is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), DOAJ. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2731-9989Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 117 / 282 | 58th | Q2 |
| Building and Construction | 130 / 258 | 49th | Q3 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 295 / 570 | 48th | Q3 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 244 / 434 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Urban Lifeline is Q2 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 117 of 282), Q3 in Building and Construction (rank 130 of 258) and Q3 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 295 of 570), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Urban Lifeline 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 2.6, quartile Q2, 58th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.422, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
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 Lifeline is published by Springer. Its ISSN is 2731-9989.
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 Lifeline has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 3.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Urban Lifeline published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 22. 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 75 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (51.4%), United States (12%) and Japan (8.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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