Journal profile
Scienze del Territorio
ISSN 2384-8774 · eISSN 2284-242X · Firenze University Press · Italy
Scienze del Territorio: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 8 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Scienze del Territorio is published by Firenze University Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Rural development and sustainability, Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, together about 29.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Urban Studies. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
As an identity code of its scientific method and action, the journal promotes forms of meeting and mediation among theoretical thought, technical expertise and local knowledge. It hosts scientific articles as well as contributions from local communities and institutional actors who share this approach and experiment innovation projects and practices accordingly. The journal is intended as an observatory on innovation practices and a place of theoretical reflection on them, providing information, conceptual and practical tools for active citizenship and institutions engaged in various forms of attention to care and government of territories as common goods. The aim is to foster experience exchange and knowledge dissemination and, in a wider perspective, to trigger continuing education and empowerment, by encouraging and strengthening ways of learning and self-learning which can be catalysed by readings.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Paolo BaldeschiPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Rural development and sustainabilityAgricultural and Biological Sciences13.5%
- Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism StudiesSocial Sciences8.8%
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.6%
- Urban Development and Cultural HeritageSocial Sciences6.7%
- Urban Planning and GovernanceSocial Sciences6.4%
- Social Sciences and GovernanceSocial Sciences5.3%
- Collaborative and Sustainable Housing InitiativesSocial Sciences4.7%
- Urban Development and Societal IssuesSocial Sciences4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
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
- h-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.26OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 346 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| 2024 | 23 | 23 | 43 |
| 2023 | 21 | 21 | 58 |
| 2022 | 29 | 29 | 41 |
| 2021 | 14 | 14 | 44 |
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 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 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 | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review, Preprints
- Open access Open Access Policy
Immediate open access to all content. Model summary
Scienze del Territorio provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, UNICApress at the University of Cagliari, complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access. By “open access”, we mean the free availability on the public internet, the permission for all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles, c…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Double-blind external peer review for all published articles, except "Visions" items assessed by the Editorial Committee. Model summary
All published articles undergo an external double-blind peer review process, except for those to be published in "Visions", directly assessed by the journal’s Editorial Committee. Submissions are first pre-evaluated by the Editors and the members of the Editorial Committee who must respond within three weeks. If a manuscript is considered suitable for publication, it is sent to referees (usually t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
National legal deposition and long-term digital preservation service being experimented. Model summary
UNICApress is experimenting a National legal deposition and long-term digital preservation service
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
- Firenze University Press
- Country or region
- Italy
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISSN
- 2384-8774
- Electronic ISSN
- 2284-242X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13, Issue 2 (2025)
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Scienze del Territorio
How long does peer review take at Scienze del Territorio?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 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.
Which databases index Scienze del Territorio?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Scienze del Territorio is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Scienze del Territorio open access, and what is the APC?
Scienze del Territorio 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .