Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Journal Title

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

J HOUS BUILT ENVIRON

ISSN / eISSN

1566-4910 / 1573-7772

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Housing and the Built Environment is a scholarly journal presenting the results of scientific research and new developments in policy and practice to a diverse readership of specialists, practitioners and policy-makers. This refereed journal covers the fields of housing, spatial planning, building and urban development. The journal guarantees high scientific quality by a double blind review procedure. Next to that, the editorial board discusses each article as well. Leading scholars in the field of housing, spatial planning and urban development publish regularly in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. The journal publishes articles from scientists all over the world, both Western and non-Western, providing a truly international platform for developments in both theory and practice in the fields of housing, spatial planning, building and urban development.<p/>Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (HBE) has a wide scope and includes all topics dealing with people-environment relations. Topics concern social relations within the built environment as well as the physicals component of the built environment. As such the journal brings together social science and engineering. HBE is of interest for scientists like housing researchers, social geographers, (urban) planners and architects. Furthermore it presents a forum for practitioners to present their experiences in new developments on policy and practice. Because of its unique structure of research articles and policy and practice contributions, HBE provides a forum where science and practice can be confronted. Finally, each volume of HBE contains one special issue, in which recent developments on one particular topic are discussed in depth. <p/>The aim of Journal of Housing and the Built Environment is to give international exposure to recent research and policy and practice developments on the built environment and thereby open up a forum wherein re searchers can exchange ideas and develop contacts. In this way HBE seeks to enhance the quality of research in the field and disseminate the results to a wider audience. Its scope is intended to interest scientists as well as policy-makers, both in government and in organizations dealing with housing and urban issues.

Subject Area

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING

URBAN STUDIES

CiteScore

3.50 View Trend

CiteScore Ranking

Category	Quartile	Rank
Social Sciences - Urban Studies	Q1	#64/261
Social Sciences - Geography, Planning and Development	Q2	#234/779

Web of Science Core Collection

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)	Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
-	Indexed

Category (Journal Citation Reports 2023)	Quartile
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - SSCI	Q4
REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING - SSCI	Q4
URBAN STUDIES - SSCI	Q4

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Frequency

4 issues per year

Annual Article Volume

72

Open Access

NO