Regional Studies

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Regional Studies is a peer-reviewed economic journal whose subject area is regional studies - including urban economics - and which is published with a frequency of ten issues per year by the British publisher Taylor & Francis . Regional Studies is the official journal of the Regional Studies Association and was founded in 1967.

Content

Regional Studies sees itself as the leading international journal for theoretical development, empirical analysis and political debate in the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field of regional science . Regional Studies contains contributions on the economic, ecological, political and social aspects of change in regional (subnational) development and politics.

editorial staff

The editors-in-chief of Regional Studies are Arnoud Lagendijk ( Radboud University Nijmegen ), deputized by Ron Boschma ( University of Utrecht ) and supported by ten other editors and specialized editors for the special sections of Regional Studies .

reception

The Impact Factor of Regional Studies was in 2012 at 1,465. Thus demonstrating Regional Studies in the statistics of the Social Sciences Citation Index Rank 83 out of 333 journals in the category "Economics", number 40 of 93 journals in the category "Environmental Studies" and rank 29 out of 72 in the "Geography".

Individual evidence

  1. Editorial Board of Regional Studies (English)
  2. ^ ISI Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports Social Sciences Edition, 2012.

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