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Courtesy Bruce Stiftel, below is information on top ranked planning journals.
In 2010, Harvey Goldstein and Gunther Maier published survey results of US planning educators' assessments of the importance of planning journals ("The use
and valuation of journals in planning scholarship: peer assessment versus impact factors". JPER 30 (1):66-75.
http://jpe.sagepub.com/content/30/1/66.abstract). They showed 35 journals in order of ranked importance as:
- Journal of the American Planning Association
- Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Urban Studies
- Housing Policy Debate
- Journal of Urban Affairs
- Journal of Planning Literature
- Economic Development Quarterly
- Environment and Planning A
- Urban Affairs Review
- Environment and Planning B
- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
- Journal of Planning History
- Journal of Urban Design
- Landscape and Urban Planning
- Regional Studies
- Transportation Research Part A
- Planning Theory
- Journal of Architectural and Planning Research
- Planning Theory and Practice
- Housing Studies
- Journal of Regional Science
- Journal of Urban Economics
- World Development
- Planning
- Transportation
- Environment and Planning D
- Transportation Research Record
- American Journal of Sociology
- Environmental Management
- Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
- Land Economics
- Land Use Policy
- Natural Hazards Review
- Town Planning Review
Also in 2010, Willem Salet and Rene Boer of AESOP compiled a list of 235 journals cited by 214 European planning scholars as important to their work in a
survey. Their analysis (How European planning scholars rank the importance and reputation of journals: summary of findings") is available on the AESOP
website: http://www.aesop-planning.eu/uploads/news/2010_surveyjournals_europeanplanning.pdf and is also summarized in JPER ("Commentary: comparing the use
and valuation of journals between US and European planning scholars". JPER 31(2011): 95-8; http://jpe.sagepub.com/content/31/1 ). The top 15 journals in
that study in reputation order were:
- Urban Studies
- Environment and Planning A
- European Planning Studies
- Planning Theory and Practice
- Town Planning Review
- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Environment and Planning B
- Planning Theory
- Journal of Planning Education and Research
- DISP
- Journal of the American Planning Association
- Planning Practice and Research
- Environment and Planning
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung
- Journal of Urban Design
Other listings of planning journals include:
Bruce Stiftel and Rebecca Mogg. 2008. A planner's guide to the digital bibliographic revolution. JAPA. 73(1):68-85 (lists 98 English language planning
journals). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944360708976137
Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson and Henri Acselrad. 2007. Introduction: global commonality and regional specificity. Pp. 1-24 in Dialogues in Urban and Regional
Planning, volume 2, Stiftel, Watson, Acselrad, eds. (Routledge, 2007) lists 141 planning journals in various languages.
http://www.routledge.com/books/search/ Pre-publication proofs of the chapter are online at:
http://www.coa.gatech.edu/~stiftel/DURP2%20Proofs%20Chapter%20One%20Sept%2006.pdf
Chris Webster, C. 2006. Ranking planning journals. Environment and Planning B 33:485-90 (gives citation metrics for 40 planning journals).
http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=b3304ed .