Journal of Regional Science

*Journal of Regional Science*
Discipline	Regional Science
Language	English
Edited by	, , , and
Publication details
History	1958-present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Frequency	5/year
Impact factor	2.713 (2020)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	J. Reg. Sci.
Indexing;
ISSN	0022-4146 (print); 1467-9787 (web);
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

The Journal of Regional Science is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. Proceeded in the field of Regional Science only by Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association (now ), the JRS was established in 1958 and published by the now-defunct Regional Science Research Institute in Philadelphia. The current are (University of Groningen), (University of California - Irvine), (), and (Nihon University). Contributors hold positions in a variety of academic disciplines, but (in no p[articular order) dominated by economics, geography, agricultural economics, rural sociology, urban and regional planning, and civil engineering. Articles are usually empirical, occasionally methodological or theoretical, but always quantitative.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.743, ranking it 19th out of 55 journals in the category "Planning & Development".^[1]

References[]

^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Planning & Development". 2016 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017.

External links[]

Official website

[WoS-1] "Journals Ranked by Impact: Planning & Development". 2016 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017.

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