title: Cities (journal)
text: # Cities (journal)
  
  Cities is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. It focuses on analysis and assessment of current and historical urban development and management resulting from urban planning policies, while proffering solutions in the form of more effective urban policy implementations. Coverage includes developed and developing nations. The editor-in-chief is A. Modarres (University of Washington, Tacoma).
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  * Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  * Chemical Abstracts Service
  * Geographical Abstracts
  * Scopus
  * Social Sciences Citation Index
  * Sociological Abstracts
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.835.
  
  