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Journal Indexing and Metrics

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Impact Metrics

The following citation metrics are produced by abstracting and indexing databases using their respective datasets. These metrics represent a variety of methods for measuring the citation impact of published research on a journal level.

h5-index

4

Google’s h5-index is calculated by finding the h-index for articles in a publication over the last five complete calendar years, where h is equal to the number of articles over a five year period that have at least h citations each.

h5-median

4

The h5-median is calculated by finding the median number of citations for the articles that comprise a publication’s h5-index.

Sources: Journal Citation Reports (Source Clarivate, 2021), Scopus®, 2020 release and Google Scholar.

Readership

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Full Text Usage

21818

Full text usage is the sum of PDF and HTML downloads from the journal platform during the prior calendar year.

Abstracting and Indexing

This journal is included in the following abstracting and indexing databases.

Peer Review and Production

Where available, average peer review decision speed and production speed are listed below. Please note: time to first decision includes all original submissions (planning research, planning education, commentary) in calendar days (avg.) and time from acceptance to online publication is in business days.