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Landscape and Urban Planning

Elsevier B.V. · Netherlands

ISSN0169-2046eISSN1872-6062

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

2.952

H-Indexi

275

SNIPi

2.496

Total Worksi

5,894

Total Citationsi

419,203

2yr Mean Citednessi

8.37

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Landscape and Urban Planning is an international journal aimed at advancing conceptual, scientific, and applied understandings of landscape in order to promote sustainable solutions for landscape change. Landscapes are visible and integrative social-ecological systems with variable spatial characteristics.

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General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Frequency8 No. A Year, <Nov. 1991->

StatusActive

Total Publications5,894

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelHybrid

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

⚡ Hybrid journal — subscription model available.

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier B.V.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0169-2046 / 1872-6062

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

225

13k

2019

208

15k

2020

229

13k

2021

239

9.2k

2022

224

7.7k

2023

203

2024

198

1.5k

2025

137

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

EcologyQ1

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ1

Nature and Landscape ConservationQ1

Urban StudiesQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

EcologyEnvironmental StudiesGeographyGeography, PhysicalRegional & Urban PlanningUrban Studies

Scopus Categories

Urban StudiesNature and Landscape ConservationManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawEcology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesUrban Green Space and HealthUrban Heat Island MitigationEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesUrban Agriculture and Sustainability

Frequently asked questions about Landscape and Urban Planning

Is Landscape and Urban Planning a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Landscape and Urban Planning: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Landscape and Urban Planning?

Landscape and Urban Planning is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 8.37.

Is Landscape and Urban Planning indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Landscape and Urban Planning is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.