Planning Practice and Research

ISSN 0269-7459 · Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom · active 1986–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile (2025)
Q2
Cites per paper (2y)
1.9
SJR
0.607
h-index
69

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 1 November 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Planning Practice and Research is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (#252 of 853 journals).

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Planning Practice and Research in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Geography, Planning and DevelopmentQ2#252 of 853
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
2.05
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
104

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Planning Practice and Research is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (2025 edition, #252 of 853 journals), with SJR 0.607 (Scimago) and an h-index of 69 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Indexing & access

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Scope

urbanplanninggovernanceurbanizationcityruraldevelopmentsustainabilityagriculturalbiologicalhousingfinance

Frequently asked

Is Planning Practice and Research a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Planning Practice and Research. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Planning Practice and Research indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Planning Practice and Research appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Planning Practice and Research?

Papers in Planning Practice and Research are cited about 1.9 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 69. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Planning Practice and Research (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Planning Practice and Research is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (#252 of 853 journals). Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Planning Practice and Research is cited about 1.9 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 69.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Planning Practice and Research?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Planning Practice and Research. The open equivalent is its Scimago quartile, Q2, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Planning Practice and Research open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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