Urban History

Aims & Scope

Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors.

Each issue features wideranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities.

The journal coverage is worldwide in its scope.

In addition, it hosts innovative multi-media websites - including graphics, sound and interactive elements - to accompany selected print articles.

The journal also includes book reviews, reviews of recent PhD theses, and surveys of recent articles in academic journals.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	0.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.231

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	28

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	19474

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	51

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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 Arts and Humanities 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.

• Sounds of the city: the soundscape of early modern European towns

  Citation: 107

  Authors: DAVID

• Suburbs in transition: new approaches to suburban history

  Citation: 59

  Authors: RUTH, PHILIP J.

• Mapping the medieval city: plan analysis and urban history

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Keith D.

• Lawn cemeteries: the emergence of a new landscape of death

  Citation: 41

  Authors: JULIE

• Mapping spatial cultures: contributions of space syntax to research in the urban history of the nineteenth-century city

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Sam, Laura

• Race, space and the regulation of prostitution in Colonial Hong Kong

  Citation: 35

  Authors: PHILIP

• ‘An infection of locality’: plague, pythogenesis and the poor in Bombay, <i>c</i>. 1896–1905

  Citation: 34

  Authors: PRASHANT

• The Alliance for Progress and housing policy in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires in the 1960s

  Citation: 33

  Authors: LEANDRO

• Venice, print, and the early modern icon

  Citation: 31

  Authors: BRONWEN

• Modernity, space and national representation at the Tokyo Olympics 1964

  Citation: 29

  Authors: CHRISTIAN

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