Housing, Theory and Society regards housing as a research topic embedded in wider issues of concern across the social and behavioural sciences. The journal accordingly aims to develop housing research as a theoretically sophisticated field spanning the diverse academic and professional disciplines concerned with such issues. It encourages innovative intra- and multidisciplinary research and academic debate on all aspects of housing as they intersect with behavioural, cultural, economic, political and social phenomena.
A critical criterion for publication Housing, Theory and Society is explicit engagement with theory. The journal welcomes purely theoretical discussions as well as contributions of theoretically informed empirical research that apply and develop general concepts and propositions. Through its Focus Articles, with open peer commentary, the journal seeks to stimulate debate among leading scholars in the field.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor or an Associate Editor, with a view to, for example, fit to the journal’s aims and scope, theoretical engagement, and originality of the contribution. If it is found suitable for further consideration, the manuscript will be sent to independent expert referees for peer review. With the exception of Focus Articles and related open peer commentary, all peer review is double anonymized. Submission of all work should be done online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Housing, Theory and Society is owned by the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. It is the successor to Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research, which was published from 1984 through 1998 (volumes 1-15).
Journal metrics
Usage
169K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.5 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
3.2 (2023) 5 year IF
5.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.429 (2023) SNIP
0.810 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
27 days avg. from submission to first
decision
91 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
10 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
38% acceptance rate
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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
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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*:
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.
Editor Hannu Ruonavaara - University of Turku, Finland
Associate Editors Timothy Blackwell - Uppsala University, Sweden Desiree Fields - University of California, Berkeley, USA Christopher Foye - University College London (UCL), UK Jennifer Mack - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Book Review Editor Julie Lawson - RMIT University, Australia
Other members of the Editorial Board Irene Molina - Uppsala University, Sweden Terry Hartig - Uppsala University, Sweden Brett Christophers - Uppsala University, Sweden
Advisory Board Manuel Aalbers - University of Leuven, Belgium Marianne Abramsson - Stockholm University, Sweden Rowland Atkinson - University of Sheffield, UK Emma Baker - University of Adelaide, Australia Rebecca Chiu - The University of Hong Kong, China David Clapham - University of Glasgow, UK William A.V. Clark - University of California, Los Angeles, USA James R. Dunn - McMaster University, Canada Marja Elsinga - Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Suzanne Fitzpatrick - Heriot Watt University, UK James Fraser - University of Minnesota, USA Ken Gibb - University of Glasgow, UK Nils Hertting - Uppsala University, Sweden Keith Jacobs - University of Tasmania, Australia Rachel Garshick Kleit - Ohio State University, USA Roderick Lawrence - University of Geneva, Switzerland Martin Lux - Czech Academy of Sceinces, Czech Republic Viggo Nordvik - Husbanken, Norway Sampo Ruoppila - University of Turku, Finland Susan Saegert - City University of New York, USA Nancy Wells - Cornell University, USA Mats Wilhelmsson - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Zan Yang - Tsinghua University, China
Previous Editors David Clapham (2005-2014). Jim Kemeny (1999-2004)
Abstracting and indexing
Housing, Theory and Society is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services/
Current Contents - Social & Behavioural Sciences (Clarivate Analytics) GeoBase (Elsevier) ProQuest Sociology Collection Scopus (Elsevier) Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest) Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research
(1984 - 1998)
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