Nature Cities

Nature Cities is a monthly online journal published by Springer Nature under its Nature Portfolio, launched in January 2024 to deepen basic and applied understanding of cities, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 15.3（Nature Cities）是由（Springer Nature）旗下（Nature Portfolio）出版的月刊在线期刊，2024 年 1 月创刊，旨在深化对城市性质的基础与应用认识，2025 年影响因子为 15.3。

Scope

• It covers the full scope of research, opinion and ideas relevant to understanding cities broadly, at global, regional and local levels该刊覆盖与广义理解城市相关的全部研究、观点与思想，涵盖全球、区域与地方层面。^[1]
• It welcomes both quantitative and qualitative research from the natural and social sciences, engineering, professional disciplines and the humanities该刊欢迎来自自然科学、社会科学、工程学、专业学科与人文学科的定量与定性研究。^[2]
• Its topics include urban planning, urban studies, governance, housing, transportation, infrastructure, hazards, health and pollution其主题包括城市规划、城市研究、治理、住房、交通、基础设施、灾害、健康与污染。
• It also spans adaptation, resilience, sustainability, ecology, global change, resource issues, sanitation and smart cities该刊同样涵盖适应、韧性、可持续性、生态学、全球变化、资源问题、卫生设施与智慧城市。^[3]
• It encourages research and views from and about the Global South and other geographies traditionally marginalized from urban scholarship该刊鼓励来自全球南方及其他长期被城市研究边缘化地区的研究与观点。
• It publishes Articles, Brief Communications, Reviews, Perspectives, Policy Briefs, Comments and Correspondences该刊刊载论文、简报、综述、观点文章、政策简报、评论与通讯。

History

• It was launched in January 2024 as a new Nature Portfolio title alongside Nature Chemical Engineering该刊于 2024 年 1 月作为新的（Nature Portfolio）期刊创刊，与（Nature Chemical Engineering）同期推出。
• It is a thematic title relevant to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, above all the urban goal该刊是与联合国可持续发展目标相关的专题期刊，尤其对应其中的城市目标。
• It is an exclusively online publication that uses an Advanced Online Publication process to give authors earlier publication dates该刊为纯在线出版，采用高级在线发表流程，使作者获得更早的发表日期。
• It is a transformative journal that offers both subscription and open access publication routes该刊为变革性期刊，同时提供订阅与开放获取两条发表路径。
• More than half of its articles published in 2025 related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals其 2025 年发表的论文中逾半数与 17 个可持续发展目标中的一项或多项相关。
• Its correct abbreviation for abstracting and indexing is Nat. Cities, and it carries the single electronic ISSN 2731-9997其用于文摘与索引的标准缩写为（Nat. Cities），仅持有电子 ISSN 2731-9997。

Editors

• Its Chief Editor is William Burnside, PhD, based in the New York office of Springer Nature其主编为（William Burnside），拥有博士学位，常驻（Springer Nature）纽约办公室。
• Wei Chen, PhD, serves as Senior Editor from the Shanghai office, handling urban mapping, modelling, engineering and Earth science（Wei Chen）博士担任高级编辑，常驻上海办公室，负责城市制图、建模、工程与地球科学。
• Luis Fernando Amato-Lourenco, PhD, is an Associate Editor based in Berlin, covering environmental science, health, waste and green space（Luis Fernando Amato-Lourenco）博士是驻柏林的副编辑，负责环境科学、健康、废弃物与绿地。
• Allison Laskey, PhD, is an Associate Editor based in Washington, D.C., covering urban planning and public policy（Allison Laskey）博士是驻华盛顿特区的副编辑，负责城市规划与公共政策。
• Like other Nature titles, the journal has no external editorial board, and all decisions are made by a team of full-time professional editors与其他（Nature）系列期刊一样，该刊不设外部编委会，所有决定均由全职专业编辑团队作出。
• William Burnside joined Nature Sustainability in 2017 before becoming Chief Editor of Nature Cities（William Burnside）2017 年加入（Nature Sustainability），后出任（Nature Cities）主编。