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Frontiers in Sustainable Citiesopen access

Country

Switzerland

Universities and research institutions in Switzerland
Media Ranking in Switzerland

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Frontiers Media SA

H-Index

20

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

26249634

Coverage

2019-2023

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

sustainable.cities.editorial.office@frontiersin.org

Scope

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities aims to develop a multi-disciplinary academic approach to life in contemporary and future urban environments. The journal publishes rigorously peer-reviewed, cutting-edge research on a broad range of topics, from engineering and urban studies to social sciences, with a focus on achieving sustainable living processes within future urban landscapes (in line with SDGs). To achieve resilience, environmental health, people’s inclusion, equality and healthy living in the face of the severe economical and environmental challenges facing the world today, international collaboration across all disciplines is required, including aspects on energy engineering, human geography and economics, architecture, governance and political science, public health, natural and behavioural science. Our journal’s key sections cover varied specialties and bring together prominent scholars, policy makers and key opinion leaders. Led by an outstanding Editorial Board of international experts, this new multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics and the general public worldwide. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Public Administration2022Q2
Public Administration2023Q2
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment2022Q3
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment2023Q2
Urban Studies2022Q2
Urban Studies2023Q1
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20220.526
20230.599
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
20199
202062
2021146
2022203
2023134
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20202.667
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20212.169
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20222.931
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20232.819
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20202.667
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20212.169
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20222.931
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20232.745
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20202.667
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20212.169
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20222.851
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20232.447
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20190
Self Cites20206
Self Cites20219
Self Cites202244
Self Cites202318
Total Cites20190
Total Cites202024
Total Cites2021154
Total Cites2022636
Total Cites20231128
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20190
External Cites per document20202.000
External Cites per document20212.042
External Cites per document20222.728
External Cites per document20232.701
Cites per document20190.000
Cites per document20202.667
Cites per document20212.169
Cites per document20222.931
Cites per document20232.745
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
201955.56
202037.10
202127.40
202231.03
202335.07
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20190
Non-citable documents20200
Non-citable documents20210
Non-citable documents20225
Non-citable documents202319
Citable documents20190
Citable documents20209
Citable documents202171
Citable documents2022212
Citable documents2023392
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20190
Uncited documents20202
Uncited documents202120
Uncited documents202261
Uncited documents2023109
Cited documents20190
Cited documents20207
Cited documents202151
Cited documents2022156
Cited documents2023302
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