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Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science
ISSN 2399-8083 · eISSN 2399-8091 · SAGE
Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science: CAS Zone 3 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.92; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,650; 149 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science is published by SAGE and is in Zone 3 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Urban Transport and Accessibility, Land Use and Ecosystem Services and Urban Design and Spatial Analysis, together about 40.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Transportation. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
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From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Urban Transport and AccessibilitySocial Sciences16%
- Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesEnvironmental Science13.2%
- Urban Design and Spatial AnalysisEngineering11.1%
- Human Mobility and Location-Based AnalysisSocial Sciences9.9%
- Urban Green Space and HealthEnvironmental Science6.9%
- Housing Market and EconomicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.6%
- Transportation Planning and OptimizationSocial Sciences4.2%
- Regional Economics and Spatial AnalysisEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Regional & Urban Planning | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Urban Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Regional & Urban Planning | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Urban Studies | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Regional & Urban Planning | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Urban Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- Impact factor
- 2.92LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.02LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.28LetPub ·
- h-index
- 65OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 584OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.51OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 34.08%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 135LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,452 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 119 | 63 | 20 |
| 2025 | 149 | 77 | 279 |
| 2024 | 182 | 115 | 829 |
| 2023 | 158 | 87 | 1,292 |
| 2022 | 191 | 99 | 2,710 |
| 2021 | 125 | 54 | 1,947 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 6 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,650 / GBP 2,676 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 2399-8083
- Electronic ISSN
- 2399-8091
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science
What CAS zone is Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science is in Zone 3 of Economics, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Environmental Studies / Geography / Regional & Urban Planning / Urban Studies. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.92; CiteScore 7.5, h-index 65.
Which databases index Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science open access, and what is the APC?
Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .