Journal profile · URBAN STUDIES
Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid
ISSN 1133-6579 · eISSN 2445-3943 · Universidad de Valladolid · Spain
Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid: CAS Zone 4 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 28 weeks (community reports); 20 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid is published by Universidad de Valladolid and is in Zone 4 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Latin American Urban Studies, Regional Development and Innovation and Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies, together about 49.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Ciudades is a scientific journal of annual periodicity, founded in 1993 and edited by the Instituto Universitario de Urbanística of the University of Valladolid (Spain), whose object is urbanism in a broad sense and that addresses the academic world as well as the citizenship interested in urban and territorial issues from various disciplines. The journal was born within the area of knowledge of Urban and Regional Planning with the vocation to promote the debate on the city and with the perspective of a better knowledge of urban phenomena. It refers to both theoretical and propositional approaches and to their interrelation with other disciplines such as architecture, engineering, geography, sociology, history, political science, anthropology, economics and ecology. The complexities and contradictions affecting cities are always on debate. Professionals and scholars of urban planning need to know urban and territorial phenomena and benefit from the promotion of a rooted culture that is sometimes little known or ignored, and yet constantly evolving. Ciudades proposes the study of cities and urban planning with a critical sense, from a theoretical approach and with a transdisciplinary intention, with the conviction of the need for planning and with the idea that urban planning must be a public function to serve everybody. Therefore, it aims to be a mean of scientific dissemination of research and proposals for intervention that address, critically, all those issues related to urban knowledge and planning, which affect cities, territories and landscapes.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): URBAN STUDIES
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Spain 20, France 4, Italy 3, United Kingdom 2, United States 1 (38 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Latin American Urban StudiesSocial Sciences22.4%
- Regional Development and InnovationSocial Sciences13.6%
- Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism StudiesSocial Sciences13.6%
- Social Sciences and PoliciesSocial Sciences7.7%
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regionsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.6%
- Galician and Iberian cultural studiesSocial Sciences3.3%
- Employment, Labor, and Gender StudiesSocial Sciences2.9%
- Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental DynamicsEnvironmental Science2.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Economics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Urban Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Urban Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.23LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.03LetPub ·
- h-index
- 13OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 34OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.4OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 25%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 17LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 968 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| 2025 | 20 | 20 | 8 |
| 2024 | 16 | 16 | 13 |
| 2023 | 14 | 14 | 17 |
| 2022 | 13 | 13 | 31 |
| 2021 | 15 | 15 | 32 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 28 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 28 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 100 words
- Keywords
- ≤ 5
- Reference style
- Harvard
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, License & copyright, Open access, Plagiarism
- AI use
Policy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) Model summary
Policy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI)
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
All contents published in Ciudades are under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Attribution: any use of the work authorized by the license will be required to acknowledge authorship. Authors continue to own their work and may republish their articles by other means without having to seek permission, as long as they state that the work was originally published in …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Edition, open access and gratuity
Ciudades is edited by the Instituto Universitario de Urbanística of the University of Valladolid as electronic journal (ISSN-E 2445-3943) and, with a limited edition with institutional purposes, as paper journal (ISSN 1133-6579). The issues published on paper, by tradition and by their partial condition of monographs, also have their own ISBN. Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid is a technical co-…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Assignment of DOI, preservation of digital files and prevention of plagiarism
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) will be assigned to all articles published in Ciudades. For their digital preservation, the articles will be housed on the journals’ platform (Revistas UVa) and the institutional repository (UVaDOC) of the University of Valladolid, as well as on many other platforms and repositories outside the University of Valladolid, such as Dialnet. They will also be archived …
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Universidad de Valladolid
- Country or region
- Spain
- Language
- Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, English
- ISSN
- 1133-6579
- Electronic ISSN
- 2445-3943
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid
What CAS zone is Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid is in Zone 4 of Economics, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Urban Studies. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid?
Authors report an average review time of about 28 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 100 words; Keywords: ≤ 5; Reference style: Harvard. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid based?
Of the 38 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Spain (20), France (4) and Italy (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid open access, and what is the APC?
Ciudades-Revista del Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica de la Universidad de Valladolid is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .