City & Community

City & Community is published by SAGE and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Urban Planning and Governance and Homelessness and Social Issues, together about 34.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

City & Community aims to advances urban sociological theory, promote the highest quality empirical research on communities and urban social life, and encourage sociological perspectives on urban policy. It is the journal of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good. With 12,000 members, ASA encompasses sociologists who are faculty members at colleges and universities, researchers, practitioners, and students. About 20 percent of the members work in government, business, or non-profit organizations. ASA hosts an annual meeting with more than 6,000 participants and publishes 14 professional journals and magazines. As the national organization for sociologists, ASA, through its Executive Office, is well positioned to provide a unique set of services to its members and to promote the vitality, visibility, and diversity of the discipline. Working at the national and international levels, ASA aims to articulate policy and implement programs likely to have the broadest possible impact for sociology now and in the future.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 19, Canada 1 (20 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

2.63LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

3.2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

6.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.18LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.71LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

80OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

427OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.17OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

7.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

13.89%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

9LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher)

3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Publisher

SAGE

ISSN

1535-6841

Electronic ISSN

1540-6040

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website