Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis - Impact Factor, Indexing, Rank, and APC 2025

Aims & Scope

Urban and regional questions are crucial in understanding the present territorial conditions.

From the World Bankâ€™s â€˜rediscoveryâ€™ in its 2009 Report of the potential of cities in encouraging economic growth, to the multiple ways in which cities are being drawn into the processes of neoliberalism, to the dynamic growth of cities in the developing countries in Asia far out stripping the scale of cities in the older urbanized nations â€“ everywhere there are signs of a rapidly changing urban condition.

The same is true for the regions where â€˜old questionsâ€™ of regional economic disparity and uneven development are being given a new twist as economic globalization impacts the national and local arenas.

JURA, the Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, working as an Open-access journal (with two issues/year, in February and in August - starting with 2020; previously annually publishing in June and in December, for the period 2009-2019), was launched as a response to the exciting world of urban and regional research emerging in reaction to these changes happening in the real world.

JURA represents the initiative of the Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Research on Territorial Dynamics (CICADIT) at the University of Bucharest working in collaboration with Ronan Paddison at the University of Glasgow.

While the intention is that articles published by JURA will draw on examples throughout the world, particular emphasis will be given to urban and regional change as it is being experienced in Eastern Europe.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1
2024	0.80

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	16771

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	56

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.296

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	14

Impact Factor Trend

Abstracting & Indexing

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Subjects & Keywords

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

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

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Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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Most Cited Articles

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