Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

Aims & Scope

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space is an international journal of critical, heterodox, and interdisciplinary research into the relations between the political and the spatial.

It advances debates on the spatialization of politics and the politicization of spatial relations.

The journal welcomes original contributions that integrate empirical and theoretical analyses to engage, advance, challenge, and reframe debates about the political.

Politics and Space values a wide range of critical and radical perspectives and encourages new theorizations, novel methodologies, and decentring ontologies.

This is a global journal that supports and welcomes scholarship produced from and about all regions of the world.

It encourages scholarship that engages marginalized and oppressed standpoints and critically engages hegemonic forms of power.

The journal aims to push the boundaries and potential of research on the political and the spatial by exploring questions including: What is the status of the political in such research?

How does thinking politics spatially help us understand pressing contemporary concerns in the world?

And how can or should researchers act politically through their scholarship?

The editors welcome empirically-oriented contributions as well as work that is more conceptual.

The substantive scope of Politics and Space extends from urban politics to the politics of international institutions; from political economies of development and empire to political geographies of mobilities and identities; from geopolitics to the governance of environmental crises; and from the spatialities of states and sovereign power to the geographies of social justice.

Papers should advance knowledge on the intersection of the spatial and the political in any area of the social sciences or humanities.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.2
2024	2.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.291

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	88

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	3125

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1137

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Environmental Science and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Smart urbanism and smart citizenship: The neoliberal logic of ‘citizen-focused’ smart cities in Europe

  Citation: 231

  Authors: Paolo, Rob

• Slow violence and toxic geographies: ‘Out of sight’ to whom?

  Citation: 195

  Authors: Thom

• Governing migrant mobility through mobility: Containment and dispersal at the internal frontiers of Europe

  Citation: 90

  Authors: Martina

• Policy entrepreneurs and problem framing: The case of climate change

  Citation: 88

  Authors: Michael, Joannah

• Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda

  Citation: 86

  Authors: Matthew, Caroline, Catherine, Richard

• What can co-creation do for the citizens? Applying co-creation for the promotion of participation in cities

  Citation: 74

  Authors: Helena, Eeva

• Nurturing novelty: Regional innovation policy in the age of smart specialisation

  Citation: 69

  Authors: Kevin

• Tensions in the transition: The politics of electricity distribution in South Africa

  Citation: 65

  Authors: Lucy, Jon

• Social innovation in question: The theoretical and practical implications of a contested concept

  Citation: 61

  Authors: Pedro, Kevin, Ranald

• Media coverage of climate change: An international comparison

  Citation: 58

  Authors: Ralf, Frank, Andreas, Diane, Johannes Marcelus, Pei-Shan

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