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Urban Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2731-6483Verify ISSN ↗2731-6491Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 161 / 295 | 45th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 581 / 876 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Transportation | 139 / 169 | 18th | Q4 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 125 / 151 | 17th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Urban Sustainability is Q3 in Urban Studies (rank 161 of 295), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 581 of 876) and Q4 in Transportation (rank 139 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Urban Sustainability 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 1.2, quartile Q3, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Urban Sustainability is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 2731-6483 and its online ISSN is 2731-6491.
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 Sustainability has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #132 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Urban Sustainability published 348 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.
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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