Aims & Scope

Proposed by Italo Pardo, Urbanities was founded in 2011 by a group of anthropologists and sociologists under the chair of Giuliana B.

Prato and is edited by a Social Anthropologist ─ Italo Pardo ─ and a Sociologist ─ Jerome Krase.

Urbanities has established a partnership with the International Urban Symposium (IUS) and the IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA).

The journal’s scope is to provide a forum for debate on issues of scientific and public interest worldwide.

It aims at providing the scientific community and the general public with up-to-date news on urban research and its relevance in understanding the social, cultural, political, economic and environmental changes of today’s world.

Urbanities is an open-access international peer-reviewed academic journal.

The Editorial and Scientific Boards reflect the journal’s aims and broad ethnographic spread, and include international scholars of high calibre who specialize in different ethnographic, theoretical and disciplinary fields.

Urbanities aims at publishing original articles by established and younger scholars, at exploring new trends and debates in Urban Ethnography that promote critical scholarship and at highlighting the contribution of urban research to the broader society.

Committed to promoting cross-disciplinary debate, Urbanities welcomes contributions on research at the forefront of disciplines in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, including Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, History, Political Sciences, Economics, Architecture, Archaeology.

Articles published in the journal are ethnographically based and address theoretical, methodological or public issues concerning all aspects of urban research.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year Value
2025 0.2

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year Value
2024 0.127

Quartile

Year Value
2024 Q4

h-index

Year Value
2024 7

Journal Rank

Year Value
2024 26661

Journal Citation Indicator

Year Value
2024 14

Impact Factor Trend


Abstracting & Indexing

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


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.


Quick Facts

Current Factor
0.2
First Published: 2025

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

SJR
0.127
First Published: 2024

Quartile

Current Quartile
Q4
First Published: 2024

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