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SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
8.8
SJR
3.185
CiteScore
15.7
Years of issue
2024-2025
journal names
npj Urban Sustainability
NPJ URBAN SUSTAIN
Publications
280
Citations
4 921
h-index
36
Publications
280
Citations
4 734
Top-3 citing journals
npj Urban Sustainability
npj Urban Sustainability (267 citations)
Sustainability
Sustainability (157 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Stockholm University
Stockholm University (26 publications)
Arizona State University
Arizona State University (16 publications)
University of Helsinki
University of Helsinki (16 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (76 publications)
China (51 publications)
United Kingdom (30 publications)

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npj Urban Sustainability
267 citations, 5.43%
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137 citations, 2.78%
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Ecological Indicators
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Journal of Cleaner Production
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Remote Sensing
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Scientific Reports
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Ambio
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Nature Cities
35 citations, 0.71%
Urban Ecosystems
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Environmental Research Letters
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Urban Climate
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20 citations, 0.41%
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15 citations, 0.3%
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15 citations, 0.3%
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15 citations, 0.3%
Frontiers in Public Health
14 citations, 0.28%
Sustainable Development
14 citations, 0.28%
Landscape Ecology
14 citations, 0.28%
People and Nature
14 citations, 0.28%
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14 citations, 0.28%
Scientific data
13 citations, 0.26%
PLoS ONE
13 citations, 0.26%
Sustainable Development Goals Series
13 citations, 0.26%
Ecosystem Services
12 citations, 0.24%
Nature Sustainability
12 citations, 0.24%
Earth's Future
12 citations, 0.24%
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12 citations, 0.24%
Heliyon
12 citations, 0.24%
Geo Journal
12 citations, 0.24%
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
12 citations, 0.24%
Discover Sustainability
12 citations, 0.24%
Geography and Sustainability
12 citations, 0.24%
Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability
12 citations, 0.24%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
11 citations, 0.22%
Atmosphere
11 citations, 0.22%
Applied Energy
11 citations, 0.22%
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
11 citations, 0.22%
GIScience and Remote Sensing
10 citations, 0.2%
Global Environmental Change
10 citations, 0.2%
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10 citations, 0.2%
Ecosystems and People
10 citations, 0.2%
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10 citations, 0.2%
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10 citations, 0.2%
Regional Environmental Change
9 citations, 0.18%
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9 citations, 0.18%
Forests
9 citations, 0.18%
Transport Policy
9 citations, 0.18%
Environment, Development and Sustainability
9 citations, 0.18%
Energy and Buildings
9 citations, 0.18%
Energy
9 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Urban Affairs
9 citations, 0.18%
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
9 citations, 0.18%
Communications Earth & Environment
9 citations, 0.18%
The Lancet Planetary Health
8 citations, 0.16%
Climate Risk Management
8 citations, 0.16%
Science Bulletin
8 citations, 0.16%
Energies
8 citations, 0.16%
City and Environment Interactions
8 citations, 0.16%
Environmental International
7 citations, 0.14%
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7 citations, 0.14%
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7 citations, 0.14%
International Journal of Digital Earth
7 citations, 0.14%
Travel Behaviour and Society
7 citations, 0.14%
Atmospheric Pollution Research
7 citations, 0.14%
Environmental Pollution
7 citations, 0.14%
Reliability Engineering and System Safety
7 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Hydrology
7 citations, 0.14%
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
7 citations, 0.14%
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7 citations, 0.14%
Urban Transformations
7 citations, 0.14%
Smart Cities
7 citations, 0.14%
npj Climate Action
7 citations, 0.14%
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Elsevier
1816 citations, 36.9%
Springer Nature
1149 citations, 23.35%
MDPI
593 citations, 12.05%
Taylor & Francis
242 citations, 4.92%
Wiley
188 citations, 3.82%
Frontiers Media S.A.
118 citations, 2.4%
IOP Publishing
79 citations, 1.61%
SAGE
78 citations, 1.59%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
62 citations, 1.26%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
32 citations, 0.65%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
29 citations, 0.59%
American Geophysical Union
28 citations, 0.57%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
25 citations, 0.51%
Emerald
22 citations, 0.45%
Oxford University Press
21 citations, 0.43%
IGI Global
18 citations, 0.37%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
14 citations, 0.28%
Research Square Platform LLC
14 citations, 0.28%
Cambridge University Press
12 citations, 0.24%
Copernicus
12 citations, 0.24%
The Royal Society
11 citations, 0.22%
Walter de Gruyter
9 citations, 0.18%
Annual Reviews
9 citations, 0.18%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
9 citations, 0.18%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
8 citations, 0.16%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
6 citations, 0.12%
IWA Publishing
6 citations, 0.12%
Environmental Health Perspectives
6 citations, 0.12%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
5 citations, 0.1%
AIP Publishing
5 citations, 0.1%
BMJ
4 citations, 0.08%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
4 citations, 0.08%
SciELO
4 citations, 0.08%
OAE Publishing Inc.
4 citations, 0.08%
IntechOpen
4 citations, 0.08%
Cogitatio
4 citations, 0.08%
World Scientific
3 citations, 0.06%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
3 citations, 0.06%
EDP Sciences
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%
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
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%
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%
World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)
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%
CAB International
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%
Hindawi Limited
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%
Scientific Research Publishing
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, 9.29%
University of Helsinki
16 publications, 5.71%
Arizona State University
16 publications, 5.71%
University of Melbourne
14 publications, 5%
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
13 publications, 4.64%
University of Cape Town
13 publications, 4.64%
Peking University
10 publications, 3.57%
Humboldt University of Berlin
9 publications, 3.21%
Utrecht University
9 publications, 3.21%
ETH Zurich
8 publications, 2.86%
Australian National University
8 publications, 2.86%
University of Twente
7 publications, 2.5%
University College London
7 publications, 2.5%
University of Cambridge
7 publications, 2.5%
University of Sydney
7 publications, 2.5%
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
7 publications, 2.5%
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
7 publications, 2.5%
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
7 publications, 2.5%
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
7 publications, 2.5%
Zhejiang University
6 publications, 2.14%
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
6 publications, 2.14%
Delft University of Technology
6 publications, 2.14%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 publications, 2.14%
Stanford University
6 publications, 2.14%
North-West University
6 publications, 2.14%
University of Hong Kong
6 publications, 2.14%
University of Chicago
6 publications, 2.14%
Fudan University
5 publications, 1.79%
Tongji University
5 publications, 1.79%
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
5 publications, 1.79%
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
5 publications, 1.79%
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
5 publications, 1.79%
University of Turku
5 publications, 1.79%
University of Oxford
5 publications, 1.79%
Yale University
5 publications, 1.79%
Princeton University
5 publications, 1.79%
City University of Hong Kong
5 publications, 1.79%
Northeastern University
5 publications, 1.79%
University of Minnesota
5 publications, 1.79%
Leiden University
5 publications, 1.79%
Hunter College
5 publications, 1.79%
Tsinghua University
4 publications, 1.43%
University of Indonesia
4 publications, 1.43%
University of Lisbon
4 publications, 1.43%
Aalto University
4 publications, 1.43%
University of New South Wales
4 publications, 1.43%
Autonomous University of Barcelona
4 publications, 1.43%
University of Copenhagen
4 publications, 1.43%
University of Edinburgh
4 publications, 1.43%
University of Manchester
4 publications, 1.43%
National University of Singapore
4 publications, 1.43%
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
4 publications, 1.43%
Curtin University
4 publications, 1.43%
University of KwaZulu-Natal
4 publications, 1.43%
Boston University
4 publications, 1.43%
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
4 publications, 1.43%
University of Washington
4 publications, 1.43%
Technical University of Berlin
4 publications, 1.43%
University of California, Davis
4 publications, 1.43%
Kyonggi University
4 publications, 1.43%
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
4 publications, 1.43%
Trinity College Dublin
4 publications, 1.43%
University of Tokyo
4 publications, 1.43%
Erasmus University Rotterdam
4 publications, 1.43%
Wageningen University and Research Centre
4 publications, 1.43%
Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4 publications, 1.43%
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
4 publications, 1.43%
Beijing Normal University
3 publications, 1.07%
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
3 publications, 1.07%
Uppsala University
3 publications, 1.07%
Lund University
3 publications, 1.07%
Linköping University
3 publications, 1.07%
Nanjing University
3 publications, 1.07%
Wuhan University
3 publications, 1.07%
University of Zurich
3 publications, 1.07%
East China Normal University
3 publications, 1.07%
Polytechnic University of Milan
3 publications, 1.07%
University of Oulu
3 publications, 1.07%
University of Eastern Finland
3 publications, 1.07%
Johns Hopkins University
3 publications, 1.07%
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
3 publications, 1.07%
University of Trento
3 publications, 1.07%
Monash University
3 publications, 1.07%
Columbia University
3 publications, 1.07%
National Institute of Standards and Technology
3 publications, 1.07%
Yunnan University
3 publications, 1.07%
Queen's University Belfast
3 publications, 1.07%
University of Bristol
3 publications, 1.07%
McGill University
3 publications, 1.07%
Ruhr University Bochum
3 publications, 1.07%
University of British Columbia
3 publications, 1.07%
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
3 publications, 1.07%
Purdue University
3 publications, 1.07%
University of Potsdam
3 publications, 1.07%
University of Toronto
3 publications, 1.07%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3 publications, 1.07%
Texas A&M University
3 publications, 1.07%
Université Paris-Saclay
3 publications, 1.07%
University of York
3 publications, 1.07%
University of Oklahoma
3 publications, 1.07%
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USA
76 publications, 27.14%
China, 51, 18.21%
China
51 publications, 18.21%
United Kingdom, 30, 10.71%
United Kingdom
30 publications, 10.71%
Australia, 29, 10.36%
Australia
29 publications, 10.36%
Sweden, 28, 10%
Sweden
28 publications, 10%
Germany, 22, 7.86%
Germany
22 publications, 7.86%
South Africa, 21, 7.5%
South Africa
21 publications, 7.5%
Netherlands, 20, 7.14%
Netherlands
20 publications, 7.14%
Switzerland, 12, 4.29%
Switzerland
12 publications, 4.29%
Finland, 10, 3.57%
Finland
10 publications, 3.57%
India, 9, 3.21%
India
9 publications, 3.21%
Canada, 9, 3.21%
Canada
9 publications, 3.21%
Japan, 9, 3.21%
Japan
9 publications, 3.21%
Denmark, 8, 2.86%
Denmark
8 publications, 2.86%
Spain, 8, 2.86%
Spain
8 publications, 2.86%
Singapore, 7, 2.5%
Singapore
7 publications, 2.5%
France, 6, 2.14%
France
6 publications, 2.14%
Portugal, 6, 2.14%
Portugal
6 publications, 2.14%
Italy, 6, 2.14%
Italy
6 publications, 2.14%
Brazil, 5, 1.79%
Brazil
5 publications, 1.79%
Mexico, 5, 1.79%
Mexico
5 publications, 1.79%
Norway, 5, 1.79%
Norway
5 publications, 1.79%
Belgium, 4, 1.43%
Belgium
4 publications, 1.43%
Poland, 4, 1.43%
Poland
4 publications, 1.43%
Austria, 3, 1.07%
Austria
3 publications, 1.07%
Israel, 3, 1.07%
Israel
3 publications, 1.07%
UAE, 3, 1.07%
UAE
3 publications, 1.07%
Bulgaria, 2, 0.71%
Bulgaria
2 publications, 0.71%
Vietnam, 2, 0.71%
Vietnam
2 publications, 0.71%
Greece, 2, 0.71%
Greece
2 publications, 0.71%
Ireland, 2, 0.71%
Ireland
2 publications, 0.71%
Cyprus, 2, 0.71%
Cyprus
2 publications, 0.71%
New Zealand, 2, 0.71%
New Zealand
2 publications, 0.71%
Slovenia, 2, 0.71%
Slovenia
2 publications, 0.71%
Russia, 1, 0.36%
Russia
1 publication, 0.36%
Estonia, 1, 0.36%
Estonia
1 publication, 0.36%
Angola, 1, 0.36%
Angola
1 publication, 0.36%
Argentina, 1, 0.36%
Argentina
1 publication, 0.36%
Bangladesh, 1, 0.36%
Bangladesh
1 publication, 0.36%
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1, 0.36%
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 publication, 0.36%
Hungary, 1, 0.36%
Hungary
1 publication, 0.36%
Guyana, 1, 0.36%
Guyana
1 publication, 0.36%
Indonesia, 1, 0.36%
Indonesia
1 publication, 0.36%
Lebanon, 1, 0.36%
Lebanon
1 publication, 0.36%
Malta, 1, 0.36%
Malta
1 publication, 0.36%
Mozambique, 1, 0.36%
Mozambique
1 publication, 0.36%
Nigeria, 1, 0.36%
Nigeria
1 publication, 0.36%
Republic of Korea, 1, 0.36%
Republic of Korea
1 publication, 0.36%
Thailand, 1, 0.36%
Thailand
1 publication, 0.36%
Turkey, 1, 0.36%
Turkey
1 publication, 0.36%
Uganda, 1, 0.36%
Uganda
1 publication, 0.36%
Uruguay, 1, 0.36%
Uruguay
1 publication, 0.36%
Croatia, 1, 0.36%
Croatia
1 publication, 0.36%
Chile, 1, 0.36%
Chile
1 publication, 0.36%
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