Journal of Urban History

Cover of the Journal of Urban History.
Discipline	Urban studies
Language	English
Edited by	David Goldfield
Publication details
History	1974–present
Publisher	SAGE Publications (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	0.261 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Urban Hist.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0096-1442 (print) 1552-6771 (web)
LCCN	78641478
OCLC no.	1798556
Links
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The Journal of Urban History (abbreviated JUH) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of urban studies. The current editor-in-chief is David Goldfield, who is Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The journal was established in 1974 and is published by SAGE Publications in association with the Urban History Association.

History

The journal published its first issue in November 1974. Raymond A. Mohl served as editor-in-chief from the inaugural issue until 1977. At that point, Blaine A. Brownell was appointed as editor, and he was succeeded by David Goldfield in 1990.^[1] Mohl's first editorial noted that the journal would encompass a variety of subjects, methodologies, and interpretations of urbanity in the then-emerging field of urban history.^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor was 0.261.^[3]