About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal of Urban Design is a scholarly international journal which advances theory, research and practice in urban design.
There is a growing recognition of the need for urban design in shaping, managing and improving the quality of the urban environment. It is now considered one of the core knowledge components of planning and architectural education and practice. Thus, increasing numbers of architects, planners, surveyors, landscape architects and other professions concerned with the quality of urban development are specialising in urban design.
The Journal of Urban Design provides a new forum to bring together those contributing to this re-emerging discipline and enables researchers, scholars, practitioners and students to explore its many dimensions. The Journal publishes original articles in specialised areas such as urban aesthetics and townscape; urban structure and form; sustainable development; urban history, preservation and conservation; urban regeneration; local and regional identity; design control and guidance; property development; practice and implementation.
Peer Review Statement
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two referees.
Practice Notes are anonymously refereed by at least one referee after the initial screening by the editor.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 208K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.4 (2023) Impact Factor
- 2.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 4.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.181 (2023) SNIP
- 0.701 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 2 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 42 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 19 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 12% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal 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
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. 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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor:
Professor Taner Oc - The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK & University of Nottingham, UK
North American Associate Editor:
Professor Michael Southworth - Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, USA
European Associate Editor:
Professor Matthew Carmona - The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK
Deputy Editor:
Professor Elisabete Cidre - The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.
Book Reviews Editors:
North and South America - Professor Rachel Berney - Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, USA
Europe - Anthony Grout - University College London, UK
Editorial Assistant:
Anthony Grout - University College London, UK
Reviews to be sent to: UCL, Central House, 14 Woburn Place, London WC1H 0NN, UK.
International Advisory Board:
Tribid Banerjee - USC, USA
Jonathan Barnett - Pennsylvania, USA
Diane Brand - Auckland, New Zealand
Eran Ben-Joseph - MIT, USA
Peter Bosselmann - Berkeley, USA<
Georgia Butina-Watson - Oxford Brookes, UK
Jay Chatterjee - Cincinnati, USA
Mark C. Childs - Albuquerque, USA
Renee Chow - Berkeley, USA
Alexander Cuthbert - New South Wales, Australia
Kristen Day - NYU-Poly, USA
Claudio de Magalhães , UCL, UK
Kim Dovey - Melbourne, Australia
Renia Ehrenfeucht - Albuquerque, USA
Nan Ellin - Denver, USA
Jennifer Evans-Cowley - North Texas, USA
Terry Farrell - London, UK
Ann Forsyth - Cambridge, USA
Karen Franck - New Jersey, USA
Robert Freestone - New South Wales, Australia David Gordon - Queens, CanadaAspa Gospodini - Thessaly, Greece
Gary Hack - Pennsylvania, USA
Robin Hickman - UCL, UK
Susan Handy - Berkeley, USA
Tim Heath - Nottingham, UK
Klaus Kunzmann - Berlin, Germany
Jon Lang - New South Wales, Australia
Peter Larkham - Birmingham City, UK
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris - UCLA, USA
Ali Madanipour - Newcastle, UK
Elizabeth Mcdonald - Berkeley, USA
Vikas Mehta - Cincinnati, USA
Anne Moudon - Washington, USA
Jack Nasar - Ohio, USA
Jeremy Nemeth - Colorado, USA
John Punter - Cardiff, UK
Marion Roberts - Westminster, UK
Brent Ryan - MIT, USA
Fahriye Sancar - Colorado, USA
Stephan Schmidt - Cornell, USA
Marichela Sepe - Naples, Italy
Philip Speranza - Oregon, USA
Frederik Steiner - Pennsylvania, USA
Quentin Stevens - RMIT, Australia
Emily Talen - Chicago, USA
Dogan Tirtiroglu, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Tim Townshend - Newcastle, UK
Jacob Wagner - Kansas, USA
Stephen M. Wheeler - Davis, USA
James White - Glasgow, UK
Helen Woolley - Sheffield, UK
John Zacharias - Beijing, China
Antoine Zammit - Msida, Malta
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Urban Design is currently indexed and abstracted in CSA Abstracts; Dietrich's Index Philosophicus; EBSCOhost (Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier Academic Source Complete, Academic Source Premier, Advanced Placement Source, Business Source Corporate, Art & Architecture Complete, Art & Architecture Index Current Abstracts, Environment Complete, Environment Index, Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index, MegaFILE, Public Affairs Index, SocINDEX, SocINDEX with Full Text, Sustainability Reference Center, TOC Premier Urban Studies Abstracts); GEOBASE; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur; Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur; OCLC (ArticleFirst, Electronic Collections Online, Periodical Abstracts); ProQuest (ProQuest Central, ProQuest Research Library, Social Sciences Module); Scopus and Swets.
Open access
Journal of Urban Design is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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