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Editorial: Research impact of the real estate journals

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Date13 February 2025
Pages1-1
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/JPIF-02-2025-239
Published date13 February 2025
AuthorGraeme Newell
Editorial: Research impact of the
real estate journals
Research impact has taken on increased importance in real estate academics’ careers in recent
years. This includes the h-index; and real estate academics should be regularly monitoring
their h-index in terms of assessing the impact of their research. Obviously,this is a key element
to report when applying for promotion and for your annual performance review. These
h-indices are routinely reported via your Google Scholar profile, providing a strong roadmap
for your research agenda.
But the reporting of h-indices goes beyond the individual real estate academic level to also
be assessed for the real estate journals. Scimago (www.scimagojr.com) provide this
information, across all journals including the real estate journals. Other journal research
impact metrics are also reported. This provides an excellent way for you to see which real
estate journals are publishing impactful research and to assess which real estate journals are
likely to highlight the impact of your research more fully.
The Journal of Property Investment & Finance (JPIF) figures prominently in the mix for
h-indices for the various real estate journals. As at October 2024, the h-index for JPIF was 42.
This means JPIF has 42 papers that have been cited at least 42 times. The h-index for JPIF
compares favourably with many of the other leading real estate journals, including Journal of
Property Research (h-index 539), Journal of Real Estate Research (38), International
Journal of Strategic Property Management (38), Journal of Corporate Real Estate (34),
Property Management (32), International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis (27),
Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management (23) and Journal of European Real Estate
Research (22). The leading US real estate journals include Real Estate Economics (72) and
Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics (71).
Other journals that should be on your radar screen that have very impressive h-indices
include Urban Studies (174), Cities (127) and Habitat International (114). Obviously, the
scope of these three journals sees a fuller mandate beyond real estate to the broader urban
environment. Other factors influencing these journal h-indices include the timeframe of the
journal and number of copies per year. For example, some of these journals have been
published for over 48 years, and some are published 12 times a year.
Overall, it is important that real estate researchers select an appropriate journal for their
research; where the journal’s research impact should be a factor that you take into account in
this journal selection decision. Importantly, JPIF figures prominently in this real estate journal
mix that publishes impactful research and JPIF should be on your list of key journals in the real
estate space that can help shape your publications record and your real estate research career.
Youshould review these real estate journal h-indices regularly, as they are updated frequently.
Graeme Newell
Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
Journal of
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DOI10.1108/JPIF-02-2025-239

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