INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF E-PLANNING RESEARCH (IJEPR)
Editor-in-chief: Carlos Nunes Silva, Geographer, Lisbon, Portugal
● It is expected that a selection of the papers presented in the 10th International Conference on Urban e-Planning will be published in Open Access in the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR).
● The IJEPR is since January 2021 a Gold Open Access journal. Conference authors receive a 25% discount on the APC.
● Full paper to be submitted after the conference, no later than end of August 2026, should have approx. 8,000 words.
● The selected papers will undergo the IJEPR standard double-blind peer-review process.
● IJEPR open access offers authors the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensing arrangement. The copyright for the work remains solely with the author(s) of the article.
● The IJEPR is Indexed in: Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), SCOPUS, Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), INSPEC and 15 more indices.
● The IJEPR was ranked in Scimago's Q1 (1st Quartile) in 'Urban Studies', in 2023, and ranked Q2 (2nd Quartile) in 'Urban Studies', in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024.
● The IJEPR was ranked in Scimago's Q2 in 'Geography, Planning and Development' in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
● The IJEPR was ranked in Scimago's Q2 in 'Computer Science Applications' in 2022, 2023, and 2024.
● The Scopus CiteScore of the IJEPR in 2024 is 7.4
● The IJEPR was ranked in Scopus's CiteScore in percentile 94th in 2024 in Urban Studies (percentile 75th in 2020, in percentile 80th in 2021, in percentile 87th in 2022, in percentile 88th in 2023).
● The IJEPR was ranked in Scopus's CiteScore in percentile 91th in 2024 in Geography, Planning and Development (in percentile 75th in 2021, in percentile 85th in 2022, and in percentile 85th in 2023).
● In 2024 the IJEPR is in position 16th when all Scopus journals in the category Urban Studies are considered. It is in position 76th when all Scopus journals in the category Geography, Planning & Development are considered.
● The IJEPR is included in Class A of Scientific journals by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (Areas: 08/C1; 08/F1; 11B1 - Engineering and Architecture, Planning, Geography). IJEPR is also included in the Excellence in Research for Australia, from the Australian Research Council (ERA 2018 Journal List - ERA Journal Id 210655).
● The IJEPR is a member of the COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics.
● IJEPR is archived in the CLOCKSS and LOCKSS initiatives.
● The IJEPR is on ResearchGate.
● The IJEPR is on Elsevier ScienceDirect.
● A volume featuring selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Urban e-Planning is also being planned for publication.
● More information on the publication plan and formatting will be provided later.