International Journal of Housing Policy

International Journal of Housing Policy is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Housing Market and Economics and Urbanization and City Planning, together about 55.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Urban Studies. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

International Journal of Housing Policy is a leading forum for the critical analysis of housing policy, systems and practice from a social science perspective. Our focus is broad, addressing policy-relevant research and analysis from all parts of the world. The journal essentially seeks to place housing policies and practice in the context of other public policies and to link developments in housing with broader social, economic and political change. We especially encourage papers that contribute to comparative housing analysis, however articles on national or sub-national housing systems are also welcome if they contain data, arguments or policy implications that are explicitly relevant to an international audience. Papers of both a disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature are favourably received, as are articles that critically address methodological issues. In addition to scholarly articles (typically of 8000 words in length), International Journal of Housing Policy also considers Policy Reviews (up to 4000 words including references etc.) for publication. Policy Reviews focus on a policy or series of policies related to housing that affect a city, region or country, or even a number of cities or countries. Reviews should be socially, politically or economically relevant and ideally appeal to the current interests and concerns of an international audience of housing researchers and practitioners. The journal also publishes book reviews of major publications in the field in the major languages. Another form of review article accepted by the journal are Viewpoint papers. These are short papers (of around 2500 words) that engage very critically with an area of current policy or academic debate. Papers that engage topically with articles and reviews appearing in the journal are also considered under this heading. Peer Review Statement: All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by at least two independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 2, Australia 2, Hong Kong, China 1, Canada 1, Netherlands 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

ESCIWeb of SciencePublisher website

Other: ProQuest, OCLC, De Gruyter Saur, EBSCOhost, Ovid

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.

Impact

Impact factor

2.48LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.4Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

6.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

6.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.95LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.95Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.63LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.63Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

59OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

416OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.72OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

20%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

27.19%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

51LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

207,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher)

18%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

14 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

86 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication

25 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

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.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1949-1247

Electronic ISSN

1949-1255

Latest issue on the website

Volume 26, Issue 4 (2026)

Official links

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