Journal profile · REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING
Foresight
ISSN 1463-6689 · eISSN 1465-9832 · Emerald
Foresight: CAS Zone 4 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; 29 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Foresight is published by Emerald 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 Complex Systems and Decision Making, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance and Legal and Regulatory Analysis, together about 26.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Complex Systems and Decision MakingDecision Sciences11.3%
- Sustainability and Climate Change GovernanceEnvironmental Science9.3%
- Legal and Regulatory AnalysisSocial Sciences6.2%
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary StudiesSocial Sciences6.2%
- Military Technology and StrategiesEngineering6.2%
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting5.7%
- Regional Development and PolicySocial Sciences4.2%
- Global Energy and Sustainability ResearchEnergy4.2%
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 | Regional & Urban Planning | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Regional & Urban Planning | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 8.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.14LetPub ·
- h-index
- 64OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 492OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.97OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 5.22%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 27LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,398 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 30 | 5 | 21 |
| 2025 | 29 | 6 | 298 |
| 2024 | 56 | 12 | 252 |
| 2023 | 35 | 6 | 448 |
| 2022 | 49 | 4 | 1,157 |
| 2021 | 61 | 8 | 1,249 |
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 1 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.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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
- Emerald
- ISSN
- 1463-6689
- Electronic ISSN
- 1465-9832
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Foresight
What CAS zone is Foresight in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Foresight is in Zone 4 of Economics, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Regional & Urban Planning. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
Which databases index Foresight?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Foresight is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Foresight open access, and what is the APC?
Foresight is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex; 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: .