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Urban Review

Springer Netherlands · Netherlands · Est. 1967

ISSN1573-1960

SJR Q1✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 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

0.978

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.877

Total Worksi

1,799

Total Citationsi

41,118

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.72

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education; Sociology and Political Science; Urban Studies.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1967

FrequencyQuarterly, <1984- >

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,799

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer Netherlands

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1573-1960

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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?

N/A

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

978

2019

907

2020

516

2021

257

2022

160

2023

2024

2025

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.

EducationQ1

Sociology and Political ScienceQ1

Urban StudiesQ1

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Urban StudiesSociology and Political ScienceEducation

Frequently asked questions about Urban Review

Is Urban Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Urban Review: it is indexed in 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 Urban Review?

Urban Review is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.978.

Is Urban Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Urban Review is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Urban Review?