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City, Culture and Society

Elsevier Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 2010

ISSN1877-9174

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

0.587

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.266

Total Worksi

552

Total Citationsi

11,063

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.75

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Urban Studies; Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2010

Annual Volume~ 35 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications552

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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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?

Elsevier Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1877-9174

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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

690

2019

176

2020

705

2021

366

2022

210

2023

147

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.

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q1

Urban StudiesQ1

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Urban StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Cultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentUrban Planning and GovernanceEducational Robotics and EngineeringCultural Heritage Management and PreservationDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationDiverse Aspects of Tourism ResearchScientific Measurement and Uncertainty EvaluationMechatronics Education and ApplicationsSport and Mega-Event Impacts

Frequently asked questions about City, Culture and Society

Is City, Culture and Society a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for City, Culture and Society: 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 City, Culture and Society?

City, Culture and Society is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.587.

Is City, Culture and Society indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

City, Culture and Society is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of City, Culture and Society?