2008 Impact Factor: 2.250
Ranking: 1/32 (Urban Studies), 2/43 (Planning & Development)
  © 2009 Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports®

For more than 70 years, the quarterly Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) has published research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, policymakers, scholars, students, and citizens of urban, suburban, and rural areas.

JAPA publishes only peer-reviewed, original research and analysis. It aspires to bring insight to planning the future, to air a variety of perspectives, to publish the highest quality work, and to engage readers.

According to Impact Factor rankings from Journal Citation Reports in June 2009, JAPA is the highest-ranked journal in the Urban Studies category and the 2nd highest-ranked journal in the Planning and Development category.

JAPA is interested in manuscripts that examine historical or contemporary planning experience, broadly defined, in domestic or global contexts, and that do at least one of the following:

• contribute to the theoretical and conceptual foundation of planning;
• improve the link between planning and successful policy implementation;
• advance the methods used in planning practice and planning research;
• explain empirical relationships important to planning;
• interpret noteworthy physical, economic, and social phenomena that have spatial dimensions; or
• analyze significant consequences of planning approaches, processes, and contexts.

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