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SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
8.8
SJR
3.185
CiteScore
15.7
Years of issue
2024-2026
journal names
npj Urban Sustainability
NPJ URBAN SUSTAIN
Publications
329
Citations
5 420
h-index
38
Publications
329
Citations
5 165
Top-3 citing journals
npj Urban Sustainability
npj Urban Sustainability (298 citations)
Sustainability
Sustainability (166 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Stockholm University
Stockholm University (26 publications)
University of Helsinki
University of Helsinki (18 publications)
University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne (17 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (77 publications)
China (51 publications)
United Kingdom (30 publications)

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11 citations, 0.2%
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11 citations, 0.2%
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11 citations, 0.2%
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11 citations, 0.2%
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10 citations, 0.18%
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8 citations, 0.15%
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7 citations, 0.13%
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Climate Risk Management
7 citations, 0.13%
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Elsevier
1949 citations, 35.96%
Springer Nature
1261 citations, 23.27%
MDPI
636 citations, 11.73%
Taylor & Francis
254 citations, 4.69%
Wiley
199 citations, 3.67%
Frontiers Media S.A.
128 citations, 2.36%
IOP Publishing
84 citations, 1.55%
SAGE
81 citations, 1.49%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
65 citations, 1.2%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
33 citations, 0.61%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
30 citations, 0.55%
American Geophysical Union
30 citations, 0.55%
Emerald
29 citations, 0.54%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
26 citations, 0.48%
Oxford University Press
22 citations, 0.41%
IGI Global
18 citations, 0.33%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
14 citations, 0.26%
Research Square Platform LLC
14 citations, 0.26%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
13 citations, 0.24%
Cambridge University Press
12 citations, 0.22%
Copernicus
12 citations, 0.22%
Walter de Gruyter
11 citations, 0.2%
The Royal Society
11 citations, 0.2%
Annual Reviews
10 citations, 0.18%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
8 citations, 0.15%
IWA Publishing
8 citations, 0.15%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
7 citations, 0.13%
Environmental Health Perspectives
6 citations, 0.11%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
5 citations, 0.09%
AIP Publishing
5 citations, 0.09%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
4 citations, 0.07%
EDP Sciences
4 citations, 0.07%
BMJ
4 citations, 0.07%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
4 citations, 0.07%
SciELO
4 citations, 0.07%
OAE Publishing Inc.
4 citations, 0.07%
IntechOpen
4 citations, 0.07%
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
4 citations, 0.07%
Cogitatio
4 citations, 0.07%
World Scientific
3 citations, 0.06%
American Society for Microbiology
3 citations, 0.06%
Pensoft Publishers
3 citations, 0.06%
PeerJ
3 citations, 0.06%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
3 citations, 0.06%
World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)
3 citations, 0.06%
American Meteorological Society
2 citations, 0.04%
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
2 citations, 0.04%
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
2 citations, 0.04%
Hindawi Limited
2 citations, 0.04%
Thomas Telford
2 citations, 0.04%
JMIR Publications
2 citations, 0.04%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
2 citations, 0.04%
CAIRN
2 citations, 0.04%
AOSIS
2 citations, 0.04%
South Florida Publishing LLC
2 citations, 0.04%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
2 citations, 0.04%
Maximum Academic Press
2 citations, 0.04%
The Japanese Society of Health and Human Ecology
2 citations, 0.04%
University of California Press
1 citation, 0.02%
Pleiades Publishing
1 citation, 0.02%
Liverpool University Press
1 citation, 0.02%
American Physiological Society
1 citation, 0.02%
Mary Ann Liebert
1 citation, 0.02%
University of Chicago Press
1 citation, 0.02%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
1 citation, 0.02%
1 citation, 0.02%
Associacao Brasileira de Enfermagem
1 citation, 0.02%
American Academy of Pediatrics
1 citation, 0.02%
Index Copernicus
1 citation, 0.02%
American Physical Society (APS)
1 citation, 0.02%
Tsinghua University Press
1 citation, 0.02%
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
1 citation, 0.02%
Tongji University Press
1 citation, 0.02%
American Economic Association
1 citation, 0.02%
American Public Health Association
1 citation, 0.02%
Samara State Technical University
1 citation, 0.02%
National Biological Information Infrastructure
1 citation, 0.02%
Kemerovo State University
1 citation, 0.02%
Science in China Press
1 citation, 0.02%
Medknow
1 citation, 0.02%
The Electrochemical Society
1 citation, 0.02%
Academic Journals
1 citation, 0.02%
ASME International
1 citation, 0.02%
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
1 citation, 0.02%
American Psychological Association (APA)
1 citation, 0.02%
Akademiai Kiado
1 citation, 0.02%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
1 citation, 0.02%
LLC Kartfond
1 citation, 0.02%
National University of Science & Technology (MISiS)
1 citation, 0.02%
CABI Publishing
1 citation, 0.02%
Scientific Research Publishing
1 citation, 0.02%
MGIMO University
1 citation, 0.02%
Bristol University Press
1 citation, 0.02%
The City Planning Institute of Japan
1 citation, 0.02%
AACN Publishing
1 citation, 0.02%
Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association
1 citation, 0.02%
International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)
1 citation, 0.02%
AMO Publisher
1 citation, 0.02%
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Stockholm University
26 publications, 7.9%
University of Helsinki
18 publications, 5.47%
University of Melbourne
17 publications, 5.17%
Arizona State University
16 publications, 4.86%
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
15 publications, 4.56%
University of Cape Town
13 publications, 3.95%
Peking University
10 publications, 3.04%
ETH Zurich
10 publications, 3.04%
Humboldt University of Berlin
9 publications, 2.74%
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
9 publications, 2.74%
Utrecht University
9 publications, 2.74%
University of Twente
8 publications, 2.43%
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
8 publications, 2.43%
Australian National University
8 publications, 2.43%
University College London
8 publications, 2.43%
University of Sydney
8 publications, 2.43%
University of Hong Kong
8 publications, 2.43%
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
8 publications, 2.43%
Zhejiang University
7 publications, 2.13%
Fudan University
7 publications, 2.13%
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
7 publications, 2.13%
University of Cambridge
7 publications, 2.13%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7 publications, 2.13%
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
7 publications, 2.13%
Stanford University
7 publications, 2.13%
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
7 publications, 2.13%
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
6 publications, 1.82%
Delft University of Technology
6 publications, 1.82%
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
6 publications, 1.82%
Autonomous University of Barcelona
6 publications, 1.82%
North-West University
6 publications, 1.82%
University of Chicago
6 publications, 1.82%
University of Minnesota
6 publications, 1.82%
Beijing Normal University
5 publications, 1.52%
Tsinghua University
5 publications, 1.52%
Tongji University
5 publications, 1.52%
University of Lisbon
5 publications, 1.52%
Aalto University
5 publications, 1.52%
Polytechnic University of Milan
5 publications, 1.52%
University of Turku
5 publications, 1.52%
University of Oxford
5 publications, 1.52%
National University of Singapore
5 publications, 1.52%
Yale University
5 publications, 1.52%
University of KwaZulu-Natal
5 publications, 1.52%
Princeton University
5 publications, 1.52%
City University of Hong Kong
5 publications, 1.52%
Northeastern University
5 publications, 1.52%
Leiden University
5 publications, 1.52%
Hunter College
5 publications, 1.52%
University of Indonesia
4 publications, 1.22%
Uppsala University
4 publications, 1.22%
Linköping University
4 publications, 1.22%
Nanjing University
4 publications, 1.22%
University of Zurich
4 publications, 1.22%
University of New South Wales
4 publications, 1.22%
University of Eastern Finland
4 publications, 1.22%
Imperial College London
4 publications, 1.22%
University of Copenhagen
4 publications, 1.22%
University of Edinburgh
4 publications, 1.22%
University of Manchester
4 publications, 1.22%
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
4 publications, 1.22%
Curtin University
4 publications, 1.22%
Boston University
4 publications, 1.22%
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
4 publications, 1.22%
University of California, Berkeley
4 publications, 1.22%
University of Washington
4 publications, 1.22%
Technical University of Berlin
4 publications, 1.22%
University of California, Davis
4 publications, 1.22%
Kyonggi University
4 publications, 1.22%
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
4 publications, 1.22%
Trinity College Dublin
4 publications, 1.22%
University of Tokyo
4 publications, 1.22%
Erasmus University Rotterdam
4 publications, 1.22%
Wageningen University and Research Centre
4 publications, 1.22%
Texas A&M University
4 publications, 1.22%
Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4 publications, 1.22%
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
4 publications, 1.22%
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
3 publications, 0.91%
Basque Foundation for Science
3 publications, 0.91%
Technical University of Munich
3 publications, 0.91%
Lund University
3 publications, 0.91%
Wuhan University
3 publications, 0.91%
East China Normal University
3 publications, 0.91%
University of Milan
3 publications, 0.91%
University of Oulu
3 publications, 0.91%
Tianjin University
3 publications, 0.91%
Johns Hopkins University
3 publications, 0.91%
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
3 publications, 0.91%
University of Trento
3 publications, 0.91%
Monash University
3 publications, 0.91%
Columbia University
3 publications, 0.91%
National Institute of Standards and Technology
3 publications, 0.91%
Yunnan University
3 publications, 0.91%
Queen's University Belfast
3 publications, 0.91%
University of Bristol
3 publications, 0.91%
University of Michigan
3 publications, 0.91%
McGill University
3 publications, 0.91%
Ruhr University Bochum
3 publications, 0.91%
University of British Columbia
3 publications, 0.91%
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
3 publications, 0.91%
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USA
77 publications, 23.4%
China, 51, 15.5%
China
51 publications, 15.5%
United Kingdom, 30, 9.12%
United Kingdom
30 publications, 9.12%
Australia, 29, 8.81%
Australia
29 publications, 8.81%
Sweden, 28, 8.51%
Sweden
28 publications, 8.51%
Germany, 22, 6.69%
Germany
22 publications, 6.69%
South Africa, 21, 6.38%
South Africa
21 publications, 6.38%
Netherlands, 20, 6.08%
Netherlands
20 publications, 6.08%
Switzerland, 12, 3.65%
Switzerland
12 publications, 3.65%
Finland, 10, 3.04%
Finland
10 publications, 3.04%
India, 9, 2.74%
India
9 publications, 2.74%
Canada, 9, 2.74%
Canada
9 publications, 2.74%
Japan, 9, 2.74%
Japan
9 publications, 2.74%
Denmark, 8, 2.43%
Denmark
8 publications, 2.43%
Spain, 8, 2.43%
Spain
8 publications, 2.43%
Singapore, 7, 2.13%
Singapore
7 publications, 2.13%
France, 6, 1.82%
France
6 publications, 1.82%
Portugal, 6, 1.82%
Portugal
6 publications, 1.82%
Italy, 6, 1.82%
Italy
6 publications, 1.82%
Brazil, 5, 1.52%
Brazil
5 publications, 1.52%
Mexico, 5, 1.52%
Mexico
5 publications, 1.52%
Norway, 5, 1.52%
Norway
5 publications, 1.52%
Belgium, 4, 1.22%
Belgium
4 publications, 1.22%
Poland, 4, 1.22%
Poland
4 publications, 1.22%
Austria, 3, 0.91%
Austria
3 publications, 0.91%
Israel, 3, 0.91%
Israel
3 publications, 0.91%
UAE, 3, 0.91%
UAE
3 publications, 0.91%
Bulgaria, 2, 0.61%
Bulgaria
2 publications, 0.61%
Vietnam, 2, 0.61%
Vietnam
2 publications, 0.61%
Greece, 2, 0.61%
Greece
2 publications, 0.61%
Ireland, 2, 0.61%
Ireland
2 publications, 0.61%
Cyprus, 2, 0.61%
Cyprus
2 publications, 0.61%
New Zealand, 2, 0.61%
New Zealand
2 publications, 0.61%
Slovenia, 2, 0.61%
Slovenia
2 publications, 0.61%
Russia, 1, 0.3%
Russia
1 publication, 0.3%
Estonia, 1, 0.3%
Estonia
1 publication, 0.3%
Angola, 1, 0.3%
Angola
1 publication, 0.3%
Argentina, 1, 0.3%
Argentina
1 publication, 0.3%
Bangladesh, 1, 0.3%
Bangladesh
1 publication, 0.3%
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1, 0.3%
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 publication, 0.3%
Hungary, 1, 0.3%
Hungary
1 publication, 0.3%
Guyana, 1, 0.3%
Guyana
1 publication, 0.3%
Indonesia, 1, 0.3%
Indonesia
1 publication, 0.3%
Lebanon, 1, 0.3%
Lebanon
1 publication, 0.3%
Malta, 1, 0.3%
Malta
1 publication, 0.3%
Mozambique, 1, 0.3%
Mozambique
1 publication, 0.3%
Nigeria, 1, 0.3%
Nigeria
1 publication, 0.3%
Republic of Korea, 1, 0.3%
Republic of Korea
1 publication, 0.3%
Thailand, 1, 0.3%
Thailand
1 publication, 0.3%
Turkey, 1, 0.3%
Turkey
1 publication, 0.3%
Uganda, 1, 0.3%
Uganda
1 publication, 0.3%
Uruguay, 1, 0.3%
Uruguay
1 publication, 0.3%
Croatia, 1, 0.3%
Croatia
1 publication, 0.3%
Chile, 1, 0.3%
Chile
1 publication, 0.3%
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