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Urban Research and Practice
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Urban Research and Practice

1753-5069

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rurp20

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 1003 9 8 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 16
Documents by Best Scientists*: 14
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 38
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.638
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Urban Research & Practice?

Urban Research & Practice covers a variety of subjects, including Economic growth, Urban planning, Public administration, Politics and Corporate governance. The journal focuses on Economic growth but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Regional science, State (polity), Urban policy and Sustainable development. In the journal, Metropolitan area and Spatial planning are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Regional science research.

More specifically, the research on Urban planning in it is related to Urban density. The study on Public administration presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Government. The study on Politics presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Political economy.

  • Economic growth (23.28%)
  • Urban planning (15.99%)
  • Public administration (14.78%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Self-organization in urban development: towards a new perspective on spatial planning (470 citations)
  • The New Urban Agenda: key opportunities and challenges for policy and practice (137 citations)
  • The role of rankings in growing city competition (120 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Urban Research & Practice:

The journal papers focus on Economic growth, Urban planning, Politics, Corporate governance and Public administration. The published articles with studies in Economic growth featured incorporate elements of Solidarity, Urban policy and Environmental planning. The works on Urban planning tackled in the published articles bring together disciplines like Meaning (linguistics), Field (Bourdieu) and Cycling.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • China
  • Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The discussions in Urban Research & Practice mainly cover the fields of Urban regeneration, Urban planning, Politics, Economic growth and Regional science. Urban planning research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Statutory law and Actor–network theory. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Politics, it also covered topics in Urban sustainability, Brick, Symbol and Architectural engineering.

The studies in Economic growth featured incorporate elements of Promotion (rank) and Urban policy. The journal explores topics in Regional science which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Corporate governance, Socio spatial and Appropriation. The journal holds forums on Corporate governance that merges themes from other disciplines such as Welfare, Power dynamics and Public administration.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Informal urban regeneration as a way out of the crisis? Airbnb in Athens and its effects on space and society (23 citations)
  • Neighbourhood branding and urban regeneration: performing the ‘right to the brand’ in Casilino, Rome (5 citations)
  • Regionalised sprawl : conceptualising suburbanisation in the European context (5 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Urban Research & Practice (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Nadia Caruso (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sasha Tsenkova (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Asbjørn Røiseland (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Elena Pede (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sako Musterd (4 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Urban Research & Practice (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Polytechnic University of Turin (33 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Amsterdam (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of Gothenburg (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Polytechnic University of Milan (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 2.44% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 2.50% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.00% of all publications and 57.50% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Conceptualising smart cities

    (2022)
    24 Citations
  • Assessing job-access inequity for transit-based workers across space and race with the Palma ratio

    Dong Liu;Mei-Po Kwan;Zihan Kan

    (2021)
    18 Citations
  • Urban renewal policies in the Netherlands in an era of changing welfare regimes

    Sako Musterd;Wim Ostendorf

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments

    Ralf Martin Soe;Luiza Schuch de Azambuja;Kalle Toiskallio;Kalle Toiskallio;Marko Nieminen;Marko Nieminen

    (2021)
    9 Citations
  • The impacts of neighbourhood governance on residents’ sense of community: a case study of Wuhan, China

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • An analysis of urban policies and strategies on health and nutrition in Nigeria

    Obinna Onwujekwe;Prince Agwu;Prince Agwu;Julianna Onuh;Benjamin Uzochukwu

    (2021)
    4 Citations
  • Perceived benefits and risks of developing mixed communities in New Zealand: implementer perspectives

    Elinor Chisholm;Nevil Pierse;Philippa Howden-Chapman

    (2020)
    3 Citations
  • Enterprise discourses in Dutch urban policies; a comparison between two cities in the Netherlands

    (2020)
    0 Citations

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