Planning, at the urban, regional, and national and international levels, faces new challenges, notably those related to the growth of globalisation as both an objective socio-economic process and a shift in policy-maker perceptions and modes of analysis.
International Planning Studies ( IPS) addresses these issues by publishing quality research in a variety of specific fields and from a range of theoretical and normative perspectives, which helps improve understanding of the actual and potential role of planning and planners in this context.
Specific policy areas covered include:
urban design
economic development
environmental policy
spatial planning
housing
transport
social inclusion.
IPS fills a gap between the more specialist theoretical and empirical journals in planning and urban-regional studies. In so doing it throws new light on the influences on, and effects of, the evolution of planning around the world.
The editor particularly welcomes contributions addressing the relationships between the ideas informing planning theory, practice and process, and the outcomes of planning, past and present Contributors are invited to submit articles based on original empirical or theoretical work, or assessments or critiques of existing studies, that offer new perspectives, critical insights, or new data to stimulate and inform debate over the future development of planning.
All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by two independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized.
The IPS editors will strive to enable any interesting paper coming from any part of the world to enter the peer review process. If the manuscript is deemed unsuitable in its current form but of interest - in principle - to our readership, the editors will seek to engage in a dialogue with the author(s) in order to improve the submission to fit the standards we work with so that it could be sent out to referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
72K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.7 (2023) Impact Factor
1.8 (2023) 5 year IF
4.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.166 (2023) SNIP
0.742 (2023) SJR
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and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
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Impact Factor*:
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journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
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Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
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Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
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within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
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journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
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Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Editor in Chief: Francesca Sartorio - School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK
Executive Editors: Gabriel Silvestre -Newcastle University Louie Sieh -City University of Hong Kong Abid Mehmood -Cardiff University Shibu Raman -Cardiff University Christine Mady -Aalto University Nastaran Peimani -Cardiff University Susan Moore -University College London Barbara Pizzo -Sapienza Università di Roma Beacon Mbiba -Oxford Brookes University Andy Inch -University of Sheffield Prof Izabela Mironowicz -Gdansk Tech
International Editorial Board: Hirofumi Abe -Engineering and Planning, Okayama University Wesley Aelbrecht -Cardiff University Ash Amin -University of Durham (Emeritus) Ileana Apostol -ETH Zuerich Tridib Banerjee -University of Southern California John M Batty -University College London (Emeritus) Luca Bertolini -Universiteit van Amsterdam Kai Boehme -Spatial Foresight, Luxembourg Surajit Chakrabarty -Indian Institute of technology, Delhi Karen Chapple -University of Toronto Camila Cocina -International Institute of Environment and Development Juan de Dios Ortuzar -Universidade Catolica de Santiago, Chile (Emeritus) Andreas Faludi -Delft University of Technology (Emeritus) Valeria Fedeli -Politecnico di Milano, Italy Luca Gaeta -Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alan Gilbert -University College London (Emeritus) Brendan Gleeson -University of Melbourne William Goldsmith -Cornell University (Emeritus) Jamie Gough -University of Sheffield Jill Grant -Dalhousie University, Canada (Emeritus) Philip Harrison -University of Witwatersrand Maxwell Hartt -Queen’s University Canada Shenjing He -University of Hong Kong Jean Hillier -RMIT Australia (Emeritus) Margo Huxley -University of Sheffield (Emeritus) Amin Kamete -Glasgow University Ioanna Katapidi -University of Birmingham Abdul Khakee -University of Umea, Sweden (Emeritus Kwang Sik Kim -University of Technology Malaysia (Emeritus) Euijune Kim -Seoul National University Klaus Kunzmann -Dortmund Universitaet (Emeritus) Daniel Inkoom -Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Clara Irazabal -University of Maryland Yosef Jabareen -Technion Myiung-Jin Jun -Chung-Ang University Renaud Le Goix -Paris Sorbonne (Paris 7) Enza Lissandrello -Aalborg University Greg Lloyd -Ulster University (Emeritus) Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris -UCLA Naison Mutizwa-Mangiza -UN-Habitat director of Regional Office for Africa Susan Owens -Cambridge University (Emeritus) Balaji Parthasarathy -Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Adrian Philips -IUCN Madeleine C Pill -University of Sheffield Tim Richardson -University of Oslo Artur da Rosa Pires -University of Aveiro Willem Salet -Universiteit van Amsterdam (Emeritus) Saskia Sassen -Columbia University (Emeritus) Sina Shahab -Cardiff University Peter Shirlow -University of Liverpool Gilbert Siame -Norwegian University of Science and Technology Mfaniseni Sihlongnyane -University of Witwatersrand Andre Sorensen -University of Toronto Bruce Stiftel -Georgia Tech (Emeritus) Mamory Taniguchi -Okayama University Huw Thomas -Cardiff University (Emeritus) Asuman Turkun -University of Bilkent, Turkey Sophie Watson -Open University Martin Watts -University of Newcastle, Australia (Emeritus) Brian Webb -Cardiff University Rachel Weber -University of Illinois at Chicago Tanja Winkler -University of Cape Town, South Africa Anthony Yeh -Hong Kong University
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