Urban Research & Practice

Urban Research & Practice 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 Urban Planning and Governance, Urbanization and City Planning and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, together about 37.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Urban Studies. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Urban Research & Practice is a well-established, vibrant and cross-disciplinary journal with a focus on urban studies, that publishes a wide range of original academic research articles along with innovative articles on policy and practice. The journal is published in association with EURA (European Urban Research Association), a network of urban researchers that offers a bridge between research and policy, promoting innovative research design, exchange of ideas and good practice, and knowledge transfer. Urban Research & Practic e seeks to reflect and further enhance the rich diversity of thought, approach and research that currently characterises the study of urban areas in Europe and elsewhere. As such it has played a key part in the renaissance of urban studies making contributions to academic research and policy development. The journal seeks to bridge the intellectual and geographical 'divides' that currently exist in the field of urban affairs, specifically the North/South divide, the East/West divide, divides between distinct academic disciplines, and divides between urban researchers, policy makers, practitioners and activists. The journal publishes research of the highest quality relating to the challenges facing urban environments today including papers that: provide a critical and/or comparative perspective of urban issues, urban developments, urban policies or urban policy making and policy implementation at various scales, seek to explain, analyse and/or evaluate variations in and effects of urban policies or urban governance cross-sectorally, cross-nationally or temporally, analyse European and International factors that impact on urban areas, urban policies and urban governance, explore and evaluate urban sustainability including environmental, social and economic dimensions, analyse how cities - through public policies, place-based actions, and bottom-up initiatives - meet the changing needs of their communities, whilst addressing major challenges such as social inequalities, social segregation and climate change. Article types Academic research articles The journal favours empirical articles suitably positioned in theoretical and/or conceptual terms. Contributions with qualitative research that delve deeply into the empirical experience are particularly welcome. The journal seeks contributions that, while grounded in specific locations, contribute to the wider urban studies literature and theory rather than profile specific cities or pheno

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): URBAN STUDIES

Editor-in-chief Cristiana RossignoloPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 2, United Kingdom 1, South Africa 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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

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

2.27LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

5.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

5.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.26Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

45OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

267OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.67OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

28.41%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

33LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

114,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

9%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

4 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

89 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

11 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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

1753-5069

Electronic ISSN

1753-5077

Society / sponsor

EURA

Latest issue on the website

Volume 19, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

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