Urban Studies (journal)

Urban Studies is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of urban studies. The editor-in-chief is Yingling Fan, and its managing editors are Jon Bannister and Michele Acuto. It was established in 1964 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of Urban Studies Journal Ltd.

Urban Studies

Discipline	Urban studies, urban planning
Language	English
Edited by	Yingling Fan
Publication details
History	1964-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	4.663 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Urban Stud.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0042-0980 (print) 1360-063X (web)
LCCN	64009449
OCLC no.	465377165
Links
Journal homepage SAGE online access Urban Studies Online website

The journal is also closely connected with the Urban Studies Foundation, a charity which awards grants to researchers in the wider urban studies field.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its two-year impact factor is 4.663, ranking it 32nd out of 125 journals in the category "Environmental Studies" and 7th out of 43 journals in the category "Urban Studies".^[1]