Planning Practice & Research (PPR) has established itself as the source for current research on planning practice – city and regional, town and country, urban or spatial planning. It is intended for reflective, critical academics, professionals and students who are concerned to keep abreast of and challenge current thinking.
PPR is committed to:
bridging perspectives across planning research, planning practice and planning education; and between planning, design, engineering and social disciplines;
critical evaluation of the contribution of planning practice to creating more sustainable, resilient and socially just places, in the face of climate change and illiberal politics;
providing a forum for an international readership to share and compare research and experiences on planning practice between countries and cultures;
presenting research in an accessible, succinct style, not overly theoretical, but analytical;
giving opportunities and support to practitioners and those new to publishing to share their work with the academic planning community.
PPR has carried articles on many aspects of planning systems around the world. We are especially keen to learn about the varying meanings and impact of 'spatial planning' in different places; about why and how planning policies change and the consequences; about citizen engagement in planning; and about the costs and benefits of new tools, methods and technologies in planning. In all this, we value the international comparative sharing of research and practice that puts all places on an equal footing. We will continue to build PPR into a significant resource for practitioners, researchers, teachers and students.
Peer Review Statement All research articles published in Planning Practice & Research have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous double-anonymized refereeing. All practice forum articles and review papers have ungergone rigorous review by members of the editorial board.
Journal metrics
Usage
149K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.0 (2023) Impact Factor
1.8 (2023) 5 year IF
3.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.885 (2023) SNIP
0.496 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
60 days avg. from submission to first
decision
83 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
9 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
42% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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.
Editor-in-Chief: Vincent Nadin -TU Delft, the Netherlands
Themes Editor: Alex Wandl -TU Delft, the Netherlands
Regional Editor: Kasia Piskorek -European Policies Research Centre, TU Delft, the Netherlands
Editorial Assistants: Azadeh Mashayekhi - University College London, UK Katharina Borgmann - Universität Duisberg, Essen, Germany Jakub Piskorek - Poland
Associate Editors
Australasia Stefanie Dühr - University of South Australia, Adelaide
Europe Giancarlo Cotella - Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Latin America Ana María Fernández Maldonado - TU Delft, the Netherlands
Editorial Board: Peter Ache -Planologie, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Philip Allmendinger - University of Cambridge, UK Libera Amenta - University of Naples Federico II, Italy Magdalena Belof - Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Verena Balz -TU Delft, the Netherlands Ray Bromley - State University of New York at Albany, USA Edwin Buitelaar - Utrecht University & PBL Environmental Agency, the Netherlands Caroline Brown - Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Brita Hermelin - Linköping University, Sweden Betty Hsiutzu Chang - National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan Tzu-Yuan Stessa Chao - National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Aksel Ersoy - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Fernando Fonseca - University of Minho, Portugal Daniel Galland - Aalborg University, Denmark Nick Gallent -University College London, UK Tony Gore - Sheffield Hallam University, UK Stephen Hall -University of the West of England, UK Clive Harridge - Amec Foster Wheeler, UK Hannah Hickman - University of the West of England/Private Practice, Bristol, UK Sonia Hirt - Virginia Tech, USA Justin Hollander - Tufts University, USA Anele Horn -Stellenbosch University, South Africa Alois Humer -Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Karel Maier -Prague Technical University, Czech Republic Bill Neill - University of Aberdeen, UK Sue Percy - The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation, UK Dongjin Qi - South China University of Technology Dory Reeves - University of Auckland, New Zealand Roberto Rocco -TU Delft, the Netherlands Peter Schmitt -Stockholm University, Sweden Dominic Stead - Aalto University, Finland Vladyslav Tyminskyi - University of Stuttgart, Germany Gwen Urey -Cal Poly Pomona, USA Jochem de Vries -University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ayse Yonder -Pratt Institute, USA Jin Zhu - University of Hong Kong
Updated 26-03-2024
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