About this journal
Aims and scope
International Journal of Urban Sciences ( IJUS) is an interdisciplinary journal for scientific research and analytical methods on urban and regional studies. IJUS welcomes submissions in the areas of planning, transportation, economics, environment and geography, particularly those that consider the spatial context and focus on issues of theory, method, and public policy.
In addition to research articles, IJUS accepts insight papers that are expressed in non-traditional formats such as commentaries on urban policy, extended book reviews, interventions to current academic debates, descriptions of major consultancy works, short case studies, and others.
IJUS uses double anonymized peer review, and the time from submission to decision is normally within 90 days.
Peer Review Integrity
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 79K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.9 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.6 (2023) 5 year IF
- 5.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.123 (2023) SNIP
- 0.697 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 40 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 92 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 6% 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
EDITORS
DongJoo Park Department of Transportation Engineering, The University of Seoul, South Korea
Jung Won Sonn Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK
Dong Keun Yoon Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea
[email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Jae Hong Kim
Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, University of California, Irvine, USA
[email protected]
Joonho Ko Graduate School of Urban Studies, Hanyang University
Dongmin Lee Department of Transportation Engineering, University of Seoul, Korea
Kwan Ok Lee National University of Singapore, Singapore
[email protected]
Yingcheng Li School of Architecture, Southeast University, China
Shin Hyoung Park Department of Transportation Engineering, College of Urban Science, University of Seoul, South Korea
In Kwon Park Department of City and Regional Planning, Seoul National University, South Korea
[email protected]
Myungje Woo College of Urban Sciences, The University of Seoul, South Korea
Meng Xu State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, ChinaEDITORIAL BOARD
Marlon Boarnet
Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Matthew Carmona
Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK
John I. Carruthers
College of Professional Studies, The George Washington University, USA
Robert Cervero
Department of City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Edward Feser
College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University,USA
Ian Gordon
Department of Geography & Environment, London School of Economics, UK
Department of International Development Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
R. Jayakrishnan
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, USA
Koo Hong Jung
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), USA
Seungmo Kang
School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University
Jeongseob Kim
School of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Hyojung Lee
Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management, Virginia Tech, USA
Sugie Lee
Department of Urban Science, Hanyang University, South Korea
Julie Le Gallo
CESAER UMR1041, AgrosupDijon, Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Raul P. Lejano
Department of Teaching and Learning, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development,New York University, USA
Yingcheng Li
School of Architecture, Southeast University, China
School of Environmental and Public Affairs, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Kyung-Min Nam
Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kali Prasad Nepal
School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Australia
JiYoung Park
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA
Joon Park
International School of Urban Sciences, The University of Seoul, Korea
Soora Rasouli
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Catherine L. Ross
Center for Quality Growth & Regional Development, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Agachai Sumalee
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Tim Schwanen
Transport Geography, University of Oxford, UK
Mark Tewdwr-Jones
School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK
Jean-Claude Thill
Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA
Fulong Wu
Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK
Anthony G.O. Yeh
Department of Urban Planning and Design and Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
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