22
publication yearscompleted, 2004–2025
Established 2004 · Peer-reviewed · Open access
More than two decades of research on cities and regions
Urban Development Issues continues the publishing tradition of Problemy Rozwoju Miast. Its archive documents a continuous scholarly record from 2004 to 2025 and the gradual development of an interdisciplinary journal connecting research with public policy.
The scientific record
The journal in numbers
The indicators below were calculated from the cleaned publication register. Duplicate entries were removed before the totals were established.
60
consecutive volumesvolumes 17–76
584
unique publicationsafter deduplication
538
research articlesclassified as peer reviewed
6,407+
published pagesacross the cleaned archive
521+
individual authorsidentified in the register
28+
countriesrepresented by author affiliations
225
articles with DOIpublished in 2017–2025
Register audit completed in June 2026. The 2026 volume remains in editorial preparation and is therefore not counted as a completed publication year.
Continuity and development
One journal, four stages of development
The title changed in 2017, but the subject profile, volume sequence, publisher mission and archive remained connected.
2004–2016
Problemy Rozwoju Miast
A Polish-language forum for research and professional debate on urban development, housing, spatial policy, planning and regional transformation.
2017–2019
Internationalisation and digital development
Adoption of the title Urban Development Issues, English-language publication, systematic DOI registration and expansion of the digital archive.
2020–2021
Bilingual publication and stable identifiers
Publication in Polish and English while maintaining DOI coverage, full-text access and the declared peer-review process.
2022–2025
Annual volume and continuous publication
Development of an open annual volume, complete DOI coverage and nearly complete ORCID information for recently published research articles.
57.9%
of publications include authors from outside the publisher
A platform beyond its publisher
An external scholarly community
Urban Development Issues is published by the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, but it is not an internal institutional bulletin. Of the 584 unique publications identified in the archive, 338 include authors affiliated with institutions outside the publisher.
The author community includes universities, research institutes, public administration, local and regional authorities, professional organisations and international research institutions.
338
publications with external authors
166
multi-author publications
117
authors publishing at least twice
Science and public policy
Urban development crosses disciplinary boundaries
Cities are spatial, economic, social, environmental and institutional systems. The journal provides a venue for work situated at those intersections.
Socio-economic geography and spatial management
Economics, finance and regional development
Public policy, governance and management
Housing, mobility, environment and urban planning
The journal’s institutional setting supports the transfer of knowledge
between academic research and the practical responsibilities of cities,
regions, planners and public administration.
Publication infrastructure
Development of identifiable and accessible research
The archive records a shift from a national printed periodical towards a digitally identifiable and continuously available scholarly resource.
538
✓
Peer-reviewed research articles
Every record classified as a research article is marked as peer reviewed in the reconstructed publication register.
100%
DOI
DOI coverage since 2017
All 225 research articles identified for the period 2017–2025 have persistent DOI identifiers.
97.9%
iD
Recent ORCID completeness
Forty-seven of the 48 research articles published in 2022–2025 contain complete ORCID information.
584
PDF
Full-text source coverage
Every cleaned publication record is linked to a full-text PDF that allows bibliographic and content verification.
Auditable evidence base
How the record was reconstructed
The figures on this page are based on the UDI Master Register 2004–2026. The archive was reconstructed publication by publication, rather than estimated from issue counts or promotional materials.
584
unique records remained after 22 duplicated entries were removed: 20 for Volume 76 and two for Volume 18/2005.
- 01Individual article files and article-level metadata
- 02Complete issue and volume PDF files
- 03Public pages for annual volumes and historical issues
- 04DOI metadata and bibliographic information
- 05Publisher records, affiliations and page ranges
What information does the register contain?
Titles, authors, affiliations, countries, languages, publication types, page ranges, peer-review status, DOI and ORCID information, source links, issue identifiers and verification notes.
How should these statistics be interpreted?
The figures describe the reconstructed publication archive. They do not replace a citation audit, current verification of external indexing services or a formal review of individual peer-review files.
Current formal position
A recognised journal with a continuous serial identity
Urban Development Issues was awarded 40 points in the Polish ministerial list of scientific journals announced on 5 January 2024.
The current online title is registered under eISSN 2544-6258. Its ISSN record connects it with the former title Problemy Rozwoju Miast and the historical serial identifier 1733-2435.
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A scientific archive built over more than twenty years
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