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Abstract： |
A questionnaire survey was conducted from October 2011 to December 2011 to 3 categories of readerships on the use and evaluation of 37 urban planning and planning related journals. The main conclusions are as followed: firstly, the backgrounds of researchers affect their usage of journals to varying degrees; secondly, Urban Planning Forum, City Planning Review and Urban Planning International are the three most influential journals for planning studies; thirdly, peer assessments of the 37 journals have no correlation with their impact factors, as far as the 10 journals on planning and urban studies are concerned, the peer assessments and impact factors have positive correction; fourthly, journals of the related disciplines that stepped in urban planning do help the overlapping and innovative development of disciplines; finally, the developing of planning journals should be improved on the aspects of journal positioning, compelling standards and operational procedure etc. |
