Canadian Journal of Urban Research

Canadian Journal of Urban Research is published by University of Winnipeg. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Urban Planning and Governance, Local Governance and Planning and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, together about 35.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Canadian Journal of Urban Research (CJUR) is free for authors and readers and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC) as of 2026. The Canadian Journal of Urban Research (CJUR) is a peer reviewed, multidisciplinary, scholarly journal dedicated to publishing articles that address a wide range of issues relevant to the field of Canadian urban studies. CJUR has been published by the Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg since 1992. Effective 2015 CJUR became an open access journal and has broadened its impact in terms of knowledge mobilization. Upwards of 100,000 CJUR articles are downloaded annually via Erudit, Ebsco, Proquest, and OJS and read by a global audience. CJUR welcomes papers focusing on urban theory and methodology, empirical research, problem and policy-oriented analyses, and cross-national comparative studies. CJUR is financially supported by the Institute of Urban Studies and The University of Winnipeg. Since becoming open access CJUR no longer receives subscription fees. Non-commercial communicating and reproducing of CJUR is governed by the CC-BY-NC license. All other communication and reproduction uses should be requested from the editor of CJUR. See Submission Guidelines [PDF] La Revue canadienne de recherche urbaine (JCRU) est une revue scientifique multidisciplinaire dédiée à la publication d'articles dans Cette adresse large éventail de questions relavant du champ des études urbaines. JCRU a été publiée par l'Institute of Urban Studies, Université de Winnipeg depuis 1992. JCRU félicite documents axés sur la théorie urbaine et de la méthodologie, de la recherche empirique, des problèmes et des analyses axées sur les politiques, et les études comparatives transnationales. JCRU est soutenu financièrement par l'Institut d'études urbaines et par abonnements.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Urban Studies

Editor-in-chief Jino DistasioPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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Database indexing

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.1LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.2LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.24LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

20OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

44OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.71OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Publisher

University of Winnipeg

ISSN

1188-3774

Latest issue on the website

Volume 34 (2025)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex