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Increasing Impact Factors—
SAGE Geography, Urban Studies & Planning Journals

Dear Colleague,

SAGE is committed to developing the quality and impact of the journals we publish. We are pleased to highlight the following from the 2006 Journal Citation Reports® recently released by Thomson Scientific.

Geography, Urban Studies and Planning Highlights

SAGE is the market leader by number of journals covered in the Urban Studies category: 9 of the 29 journals included in this category are published by SAGE, including 3 of the journals ranked in the top 10.

SAGE's Urban Studies journals have shown an average increase in Impact Factor (IF) of 42% over last year.

Journal of Planning Literature saw its IF increase by more than 200% over last year, from 0.545 to 1.692.

Journal of Planning Education and Research saw its IF increase by more than 85% over last year, from 0.536 to 1.000.

Urban Affairs Review saw its IF increase by 63% over last year, from 0.780 to 1.268.

SAGE's Top Ranked Geography, Urban Studies and Planning Journals

Progress in Human Geography – ranked 2/39 in Geography (IF: 3.440)
Journal of Planning Literature – ranked 2/29 in Urban Studies and 3/37 in Planning & Development (IF: 1.692)
Urban Affairs Review – ranked 5/27 in Urban Studies (IF: 1.268)
European Urban and Regional Studies – ranked 6/29 in Urban Studies (IF: 1.189)
The Holocene – ranked 8/30 in Geography, Physical (IF: 2.000)
Journal of Planning Education and Research – ranked 9/29 in Urban Studies (IF: 1.000) Published in Association with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

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