Indexing
ESCI is a database of the Web of Science Core Collection. It includes all the journals that in practice are being evaluated to enter to SCI, SSCI or A&HCI.
SCOPUS is a database managed by Elsevier that is linked to various impact metrics, such as CiteScore.
The Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) is an impact metric linked to SCOPUS. In its more recent edition (2024), Ciudades is included in the areas of “Conservation” (Q3), “Urban Studies” (Q3) and “Geography, Planning and Development” (Q4).
The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT) awards a seal of quality that recognises for an annual period the editorial and scientific quality of the journals that have passed an evaluation process. Ciudades was awarded the seal in 2021 and has renewed it since then.
Avery is a specialized database managed by the Columbia University Library that contains references on architecture, archeology, urban planning, landscape, etc. from journals around the world.
ERIH PLus is a norwegian Index of Humanities and Social Sciences that works for the visibility of contents at European level.
Latindex is a regional information system on journals published in the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Ciudades is included both in its directory and in the Catalogue 2.0, composed of the journals with the highest quality standards according to the Latindex methodology.
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Google Scholar is a Google search engine focused and specialized in the search of content and scientific-academic literature. According to its data, the papers that have been published in Ciudades reach 3,000 citations, with an H-index of 25.
ANVUR (Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca) is the agency responsible for assessing the quality of research in Italy. Among other things, it maintains a ranking of “scientific” journals in which Ciudades is included (area 08, period 2023-2025).
Dialnet is a dissemination portal of Hispanic scientific production, open access, which contains the indices of scientific and humanistic magazines in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, also including books (monographs), doctoral theses, tributes and other documents.
MIAR is a database of the University of Barcelona that analyses the presence of journals in databases and multidisciplinary directories.
CIRC (Integrated Classification of Scientific Journals) is a classification of Social and Human Science journals by the EC3metrics group, based on other evaluation products. Ciudades is currently included in group B in the Social Sciences classification.
Información y Documentación de la Ciencia en España (ÍnDICEs-CSIC) is a multidisciplinary bibliographic resource that mainly collects and disseminates research articles published in Spanish scientific journals, which was active until 2022.
REDIB is a platform for the aggregation of scientific and academic content in electronic format produced in the Ibero-American context, which was active until 2022.
Dulcinea is a project whose objective is identifying the editorial policies of Spanish journals in relation to the access to their files, usage rights and publishing licenses.
ROAD is a directory of open access scholarly resources.
URBADOC is a database of more than 700,000 bibliographical references on urban planning and land management, gathered by a group of European producers in order to promote international exchange and the dissemination of information on the topics mentioned.
Ulrich’s Web is a multidisciplinary database containing complete references of sale and / or missing periodicals publications.
Crossref is an oficial Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation. It provides information and access to contents thanks to papers and journals metadata. It also allows to generate bibliographic references in several formats.
