Planning Perspectives welcomes papers that increase understanding of the institutions, documents, processes, practices and practitioners that have shaped the historical development of urban and regional planning. It features original research in manuscripts of up to 10,000 words. Papers of a comparative or thematic nature are welcomed. No historical period is excluded.
The journal is affiliated to the International Planning History Society (IPHS), the interdisciplinary network for planning historians worldwide. In order to raise awareness of current work in the field, IPHS has its own section in the journal, peer-reviewed on the same basis as regular papers but with shorter contributions of no more than 4,000 words. The section editor welcomes manuscripts on research in progress and historiographical essays, as well as personal reminiscences, accounts of archival sources or datasets, reports of conferences, symposia and seminars and announcements of relevance to IPHS members.
Peer Review Statement
All articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double anonymized refereeing by at least two referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
131K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.8 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
0.9 (2023) 5 year IF
1.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.896 (2023) SNIP
0.377 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
15 days avg. from submission to first
decision
51 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
14 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
26% acceptance rate
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and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
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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*:
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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),
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.
Carola Hein- Professor and Head of the Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning, TU Delft-Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft, Netherlands
Daniel Abramson - University of Washington, USA Fukuo Akimoto -Kyushu University, Japan Luce Beeckmans - Ghent University, Belgium Eugenie Birch - University of Pennsylvania, USA Juliet Davis - Cardiff University, UK Marie Delaplace - Gustave Eiffel University, France Carmen Díez Medina - University of Zaragoza, Spain Christine Garnaut - University of South Australia David Goldfield - University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA Simon Gunn - University of Leicester, UK Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Joseph Heathcott - New York School, New York, USA Michael Hebbert - Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK Sonia Hirt - University of Georgia, USA Robert Home - Anglia Ruskin University, UK Anthony King - State University of New York, Binghamton, USA (emeritus) Laura Kolbe - University of Helsinki, Finland Peter Larkham - Birmingham City University, UK Helen Meller - University of Nottingham, UK Javier Monclus - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Ian Morley - The Chinese University of Hong Kong Clément Orillard - Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France John Pendlebury - Newcastle University, UK Renato Rego - Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil Dirk Schubert - HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Germany Carlos Nunes Silva - University of Lisbon, Portugal Ellen Shoshkes - Portland State University, USA Andre Sorensen - University of Toronto, Canada Lawrence Vale - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Rosemary Wakeman - Fordham University, USA Stephen Ward - Oxford Brookes University, UK Shun'ichi Watanabe - Tokyo University of Science, Japan (retired) Bing Zhang - China Academy of Urban Planning and Design
Abstracting and indexing
Planning Perspectives is abstracted/indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index®, Current Contents®/Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences Citation Index®, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences, IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (Zeller Verlag), Sage Urban Studies Abstracts, Geo Abstracts, Journal of Planning Literature, University of West England Library Services, America: History & Life, Architectural Publications Index, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Current Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, EbscoHost, SCOPUS and Dietrich's Index Philosophicus.
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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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The International Planning History Society (IPHS) was inaugurated in January 1993 as a successor body to the Planning History Group, founded in England in 1974.
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