Journal profile · GEOGRAPHY
Space and Polity
ISSN 1356-2576 · eISSN 1470-1235 · Taylor & Francis
Space and Polity: CAS Zone 3 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.4 (journal website); JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,350; median 211 days to acceptance (34 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 14% (journal website); 26 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Space and Polity is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Urban Planning and Governance, Migration, Refugees, and Integration and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, together about 33.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
For a quarter of a century, Space and Polity has served as an international peer reviewed scholarly journal publishing the very best political geographical research from across the world. The mission of the journal is to play a leading role in advancing Political Geography as a distinctive branch of knowledge. Under the leadership of a new Editorial team, the journal will continue to accept submissions from across the political geographical spectrum and will actively procure, publish and promote articles which: Strengthen ties between political philosophy, political philosophers, and political geographical thought and make foundational theoretical and conceptual contributions Conduct politically aware historiographical investigations of political geographical thinkers, theories, concepts, ideas and debates and interrogate and reimagine the trajectory of political geography as a politico-intellectual project itself Advance significant new insights, through new approaches, methodologies, data sets, and empirical analyses, into the most pressing public political problems which present in the 2020s Provincialise and decolonise political geography and increase awareness and appreciation of Global South political geographical theory and debate Inspire political geographical centred scholar activism and enhanced civic and cultural engagement and think anew about the contribution of political geographical scholarship, research, pedagogy and praxis to the public square and the public good. Whilst primarily serving the political geographical scholarly community, social scientists currently working in disciplines beyond human geography, including political science, sociology, philosophy, management studies, economics, anthropology and development studies, are welcome to submit articles to the journal provided these articles explicitly foreground the nexus between political processes and core geographical themes such as scale, space, place, landscape and environment. Space and Polity accepts the following types of article: Regular articles: The mainstay of Space and Polity remains the traditional ‘regular’ research article. Most of the articles the journal publishes combine conceptual, methodological and empirical dimensions to make a significant and original theoretical and/or substantive contribution. Innovative theoretical focussed articles are also welcome. Provocations: Provocations provide authors with an opportunity to develop more concise interventions on topi
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): GEOGRAPHY
Editor-in-chief Derek RuezPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 3, Finland 3, Israel 1, Singapore 1, Ireland 1 (9 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Urban Planning and GovernanceSocial Sciences15.1%
- Migration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial Sciences10.6%
- Housing, Finance, and NeoliberalismEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.8%
- Cross-Border Cooperation and IntegrationSocial Sciences5.5%
- Cultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentSocial Sciences4.5%
- Irish and British StudiesSocial Sciences4.5%
- Rural development and sustainabilityAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.4%
- Geographies of human-animal interactionsSocial Sciences4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q2 · 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
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Geoabstracts: Human Geography, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), International Political Science Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Zeller Verlag (IBZ/IBR)Publisher 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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.38LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.38Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.11LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.11Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 56OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 298OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.42OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 35.85%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 21LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 72,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 669 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22 | 11 | 10 |
| 2025 | 26 | 14 | 26 |
| 2024 | 36 | 12 | 83 |
| 2023 | 27 | 18 | 74 |
| 2022 | 23 | 12 | 176 |
| 2021 | 24 | 7 | 168 |
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 Crossref · to
211 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 59 days – 390 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 11 days (34 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 222 days
- Sample
- 34 articles with submission and acceptance dates (48 in the window); the latest was accepted on
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".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 14%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 166 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | USD 3,350 | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted3
- book reviews and authors meet critics foraBook reviews and authors meet critics fora: Space and Polity publishes reviews of recent books and monographs which contribute to the advancement of knowledge i…Length not stated
- provocationsProvocations: Provocations provide authors with an opportunity to develop more concise interventions on topical matters and concerns.Length not stated
- regular articlesRegular articles: The mainstay of Space and Polity remains the traditional ‘regular’ research article.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Space and Polity is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and reader…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Statement
Double anonymized peer review by at least two independent referees after initial editorial appraisal. Model summary
All submitted manuscripts, including those which form part of special issue sets, are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to double anonymized peer review by at least two independent, anonymous expert referees.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1356-2576
- Electronic ISSN
- 1470-1235
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 30, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Space and Polity
What CAS zone is Space and Polity in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Space and Polity is in Zone 3 of Sociology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Geography. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Space and Polity?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.4 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.7, h-index 56.
How long does peer review take at Space and Polity?
Based on the dates recorded on 34 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 211 days (interquartile range 59–390 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 14%. 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 JCR quartile is Space and Polity in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Sociology.
Where are the editorial board members of Space and Polity based?
Of the 9 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (3), Finland (3) and Israel (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Space and Polity?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Space and Polity is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Space and Polity open access, and what is the APC?
Space and Polity is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,350.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, 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: .