Journal of the American Planning Association
Last updated ISSN 0194-4363
Journal of the American Planning Association is published by Taylor & Francis in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of the American Planning Association concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Housing Market and Economics
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0194-4363, 1939-0130 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,370 |
| Publishing since | 1937 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpa20/current |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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