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Land Use Policy

Country

United Kingdom

Universities and research institutions in United Kingdom
Media Ranking in United Kingdom

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

SJR 2024

1.894 Q1

H-Index

171

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

02648377

Coverage

1984-2025

Information

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Scope

Land Use Policy is an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the social, economic, political, legal, physical and planning aspects of urban and rural land use. It provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information from the diverse range of disciplines and interest groups which must be combined to formulate effective land use policies. The journal examines issues in geography, agriculture, forestry, irrigation, environmental conservation, housing, urban development and transport in both developed and developing countries through major refereed articles and shorter viewpoint pieces. Land Use Policy aims to provide policy guidance to governments and planners and it is also a valuable teaching resource. 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
Forestry1999Q2
Forestry2000Q2
Forestry2001Q1
Forestry2002Q1
Forestry2003Q2
Forestry2004Q1
Forestry2005Q1
Forestry2006Q1
Forestry2007Q1
Forestry2008Q1
Forestry2009Q1
Forestry2010Q1
Forestry2011Q1
Forestry2012Q1
Forestry2013Q1
Forestry2014Q1
Forestry2015Q1
Forestry2016Q1
Forestry2017Q1
Forestry2018Q1
Forestry2019Q1
Forestry2020Q1
Forestry2021Q1
Forestry2022Q1
Forestry2023Q1
Forestry2024Q1
Geography, Planning and Development1999Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2000Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2001Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2002Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2003Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2004Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2005Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2006Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2007Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2008Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2009Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2010Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2011Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2012Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2013Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2014Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2015Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2016Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2017Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2018Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2019Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2020Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2021Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2022Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2023Q1
Geography, Planning and Development2024Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law1999Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2000Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2001Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2002Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2003Q2
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2004Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2005Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2006Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2007Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2008Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2009Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2010Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2011Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2012Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2013Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2014Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2015Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2016Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2017Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2018Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2019Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2020Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2021Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2022Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2023Q1
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2024Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation1999Q3
Nature and Landscape Conservation2000Q3
Nature and Landscape Conservation2001Q2
Nature and Landscape Conservation2002Q2
Nature and Landscape Conservation2003Q3
Nature and Landscape Conservation2004Q2
Nature and Landscape Conservation2005Q2
Nature and Landscape Conservation2006Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2007Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2008Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2009Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2010Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2011Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2012Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2013Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2014Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2015Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2016Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2017Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2018Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2019Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2020Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2021Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2022Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2023Q1
Nature and Landscape Conservation2024Q1
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
19990.337
20000.345
20010.599
20020.515
20030.474
20040.687
20050.667
20061.039
20070.987
20080.889
20091.147
20101.178
20111.363
20121.443
20131.496
20141.491
20151.452
20161.408
20171.348
20181.406
20191.479
20201.668
20211.635
20221.656
20231.847
20241.894
Total Documents

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

YearDocuments
199923
200030
200130
200226
200329
200429
200535
200658
200760
200850
2009152
2010123
201188
201291
2013300
2014253
2015321
2016441
2017477
2018652
2019568
2020698
2021670
2022551
2023434
2024330
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)19990.484
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20000.565
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20010.753
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20020.845
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20031.229
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20041.383
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20051.447
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20062.479
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20072.834
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20082.819
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20093.059
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20103.081
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20113.317
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20123.649
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20134.608
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20143.987
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20154.018
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20164.081
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20174.064
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20184.521
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20194.636
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20205.602
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20216.610
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20227.650
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20237.467
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20248.244
Cites / Doc. (3 years)19990.484
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20000.571
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20010.808
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20020.964
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20031.035
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20041.424
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20051.440
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20062.484
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20072.869
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20082.412
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20093.244
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20102.973
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20113.246
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20123.551
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20134.457
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20143.720
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20153.916
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20163.838
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20173.922
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20184.279
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20194.421
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20205.530
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20216.739
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20227.502
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20237.403
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20247.781
Cites / Doc. (2 years)19990.325
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20000.605
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20010.811
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20020.817
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20031.018
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20041.200
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20051.621
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20062.500
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20071.989
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20082.407
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20093.109
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20102.743
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20113.145
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20123.199
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20134.190
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20143.616
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20153.562
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20163.573
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20173.665
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20183.885
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20194.189
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20205.615
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20216.421
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20227.282
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20236.826
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20246.992
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 Cites19993
Self Cites20005
Self Cites200111
Self Cites20024
Self Cites200310
Self Cites200423
Self Cites20057
Self Cites200610
Self Cites200728
Self Cites200817
Self Cites200978
Self Cites201097
Self Cites201183
Self Cites201291
Self Cites2013202
Self Cites2014240
Self Cites2015404
Self Cites2016529
Self Cites2017616
Self Cites2018757
Self Cites2019964
Self Cites20201525
Self Cites20211421
Self Cites20221089
Self Cites2023698
Self Cites2024641
Total Cites199930
Total Cites200036
Total Cites200159
Total Cites200280
Total Cites200389
Total Cites2004121
Total Cites2005121
Total Cites2006231
Total Cites2007350
Total Cites2008369
Total Cites2009545
Total Cites2010779
Total Cites20111055
Total Cites20121289
Total Cites20131346
Total Cites20141782
Total Cites20152522
Total Cites20163354
Total Cites20173981
Total Cites20185302
Total Cites20196941
Total Cites20209384
Total Cites202112926
Total Cites202214523
Total Cites202314206
Total Cites202412877
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 document19990.435
External Cites per document20000.492
External Cites per document20010.658
External Cites per document20020.916
External Cites per document20030.919
External Cites per document20041.153
External Cites per document20051.357
External Cites per document20062.376
External Cites per document20072.639
External Cites per document20082.301
External Cites per document20092.780
External Cites per document20102.603
External Cites per document20112.991
External Cites per document20123.300
External Cites per document20133.788
External Cites per document20143.219
External Cites per document20153.289
External Cites per document20163.232
External Cites per document20173.315
External Cites per document20183.668
External Cites per document20193.807
External Cites per document20204.631
External Cites per document20215.998
External Cites per document20226.939
External Cites per document20237.039
External Cites per document20247.393
Cites per document19990.484
Cites per document20000.571
Cites per document20010.808
Cites per document20020.964
Cites per document20031.035
Cites per document20041.424
Cites per document20051.440
Cites per document20062.484
Cites per document20072.869
Cites per document20082.412
Cites per document20093.244
Cites per document20102.973
Cites per document20113.246
Cites per document20123.551
Cites per document20134.457
Cites per document20143.720
Cites per document20153.916
Cites per document20163.838
Cites per document20173.922
Cites per document20184.279
Cites per document20194.421
Cites per document20205.530
Cites per document20216.739
Cites per document20227.502
Cites per document20237.403
Cites per document20247.781
% 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
19990.00
200016.67
200116.67
200219.23
200320.69
200441.38
200520.00
200624.14
200733.33
200816.00
200915.13
201019.51
201122.73
201238.46
201334.00
201435.18
201534.89
201638.10
201736.48
201838.50
201939.96
202040.83
202136.27
202237.21
202339.40
202437.58
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 documents19992
Non-citable documents20001
Non-citable documents20011
Non-citable documents20020
Non-citable documents20030
Non-citable documents20040
Non-citable documents20051
Non-citable documents20062
Non-citable documents20072
Non-citable documents20084
Non-citable documents20093
Non-citable documents20104
Non-citable documents20113
Non-citable documents20123
Non-citable documents20132
Non-citable documents20141
Non-citable documents20154
Non-citable documents20164
Non-citable documents20173
Non-citable documents20180
Non-citable documents20192
Non-citable documents20203
Non-citable documents20213
Non-citable documents20224
Non-citable documents20237
Non-citable documents20247
Citable documents199960
Citable documents200062
Citable documents200172
Citable documents200283
Citable documents200386
Citable documents200485
Citable documents200583
Citable documents200691
Citable documents2007120
Citable documents2008149
Citable documents2009165
Citable documents2010258
Citable documents2011322
Citable documents2012360
Citable documents2013300
Citable documents2014478
Citable documents2015640
Citable documents2016870
Citable documents20171012
Citable documents20181239
Citable documents20191568
Citable documents20201694
Citable documents20211915
Citable documents20221932
Citable documents20231912
Citable documents20241648
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 documents199944
Uncited documents200042
Uncited documents200139
Uncited documents200238
Uncited documents200340
Uncited documents200437
Uncited documents200541
Uncited documents200635
Uncited documents200735
Uncited documents200844
Uncited documents200926
Uncited documents201047
Uncited documents201150
Uncited documents201256
Uncited documents201331
Uncited documents201478
Uncited documents201579
Uncited documents2016109
Uncited documents2017127
Uncited documents2018132
Uncited documents2019155
Uncited documents2020139
Uncited documents2021117
Uncited documents2022123
Uncited documents2023126
Uncited documents202497
Cited documents199918
Cited documents200021
Cited documents200134
Cited documents200245
Cited documents200346
Cited documents200448
Cited documents200543
Cited documents200658
Cited documents200787
Cited documents2008109
Cited documents2009142
Cited documents2010215
Cited documents2011275
Cited documents2012307
Cited documents2013271
Cited documents2014401
Cited documents2015565
Cited documents2016765
Cited documents2017888
Cited documents20181107
Cited documents20191415
Cited documents20201558
Cited documents20211801
Cited documents20221813
Cited documents20231793
Cited documents20241558
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
199930.00
200016.67
200115.38
200221.05
200320.31
200426.67
200521.33
200625.74
200733.33
200818.02
200931.87
201029.02
201134.55
201234.81
201332.20
201434.66
201532.14
201637.48
201735.66
201835.92
201936.61
202035.90
202138.37
202238.08
202339.55
202437.09
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton19990
Overton20000
Overton20010
Overton20020
Overton20030
Overton200423
Overton200528
Overton200647
Overton200744
Overton200838
Overton2009115
Overton201088
Overton201161
Overton201264
Overton2013185
Overton2014144
Overton2015183
Overton2016236
Overton2017215
Overton2018250
Overton2019223
Overton2020218
Overton2021209
Overton2022107
Overton202345
Overton20246
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evolution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG2018543
SDG2019487
SDG2020576
SDG2021563
SDG2022464
SDG2023372
SDG2024282
Estimated APC

It estimates the article processing charges (APCs) a journal might charge, based on its visibility, prestige, and impact as measured by the SJR. It does not reflect the actual APC, but rather a calculated approximation based on journal quality.

YearEst. APC (USD)
19992724
20002730
20012846
20022872
20032878
20042955
20053019
20063098
20073173
20083234
20093295
20103358
20113395
20123445
20133507
20143540
20153565
20163569
20173560
20183552
20193551
20203571
20213591
20223617
20233654
20243687
Estimated financial value

It represents the potential financial worth of a journal. It is obtained by multiplying the journal's Estimated APC by the total number of citable documents published over the past five years. This value reflects the hypothetical revenue a journal could generate based on its estimated publication costs and scholarly output.

YearEst. value (USD)
199962656
2000144696
2001236194
2002313069
2003397173
2004425547
2005449836
2006548280
2007669537
2008750188
20091169784
20101487641
20111606055
20121736353
20132644064
20143026353
20153753784
20165017901
20176380053
20187615581
20198731752
202010126315
202111005888
202211355176
202310673688
20249892768
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