Land Use Policy

11 papers in the last 7 days · category: Economics · publisher: Elsevier BV · ISSN 0264-8377

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Key findings#

Land Use Policy has a 2-year mean citedness of 7.58 and an h-index of 212 in OpenAlex, #6 of 120 tracked economics journals by citedness.
In 2025 it published 367 papers, and its papers received 44,009 citations.
Land Use Policy published 34 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31), ranking #17 of 400 journals.
Leading institutions: Sun Yat-sen University (3), University of Oxford (2) and University of Nottingham (2).
Countries: China (15), United Kingdom (6) and Italy (4).
44% of the papers Land Use Policy published in 2023–2025 are open access in OpenAlex (hybrid 36%, bronze 3% and green 6%), #90 of 123 tracked economics journals by open-access share.
From Oct 2023 to Sep 2026, Land Use Policy published 1,167 papers (32 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
Its most frequent keywords over that period were “land use change” (107), “China” (96) and “food security” (66).

Citation metrics# Economics journals →

20162025

Citation metrics (OpenAlex)
Metric	Value
2-year mean citedness	7.58
h-index	212
i10-index	6,246
Papers in OpenAlex	8,734
Citations in OpenAlex	378,202
Rank among tracked economics journals	#6 of 120

Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)
Year	Papers	Citations received
2026 (so far)	417	34,305
2025	367	44,009
2024	345	44,764
2023	425	43,595
2022	493	42,012
2021	617	35,710
2020	742	27,970
2019	612	20,096
2018	689	16,638
2017	577	12,430
2016	441	10,166

2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly.

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The last 36 months#

Oct 23Sep 26

Papers by publication date, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026
Oct 23–Sep 24	Oct 24–Sep 25	Oct 25–Sep 26	36 months
364	321	482	1,167

Most frequent keywords, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026
#	Keyword	Papers
1	land use change	107
2	China	96
3	food security	66
4	urbanization	62
5	land use planning	56
6	ecosystem services	55
7	climate change adaptation	51
8	land tenure	46
9	urban expansion	45
10	land governance	42

Open access# Economics journals →

Papers per year by open-access status (OpenAlex)
Year	Papers	Open access	Diamond	Gold	Hybrid	Bronze	Green	Closed
2017	577	33%	0%	0%	7%	7%	19%	67%
2018	689	34%	0%	0%	9%	7%	18%	66%
2019	612	30%	0%	0%	10%	7%	13%	70%
2020	742	32%	0%	0%	12%	6%	14%	68%
2021	617	35%	0%	0%	19%	6%	10%	65%
2022	493	38%	0%	0%	24%	5%	9%	62%
2023	425	48%	0%	0%	35%	6%	7%	52%
2024	345	44%	0%	0%	36%	1%	7%	56%
2025	353	40%	0%	0%	36%	1%	3%	60%
2026 (so far)	417	42%	0%	0%	34%	6%	2%	58%

Open-access status as OpenAlex reports it for each paper (diamond: published in an open-access journal that charges authors no fee; gold: published in an open-access journal; hybrid: open under a licence in a subscription journal; bronze: free to read on the publisher's site without an open licence; green: only a free copy in a repository; closed: no free copy found). Papers count by publication year; the share is of the papers whose status is known.

Papers, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-29	Land consolidation in the context of linear infrastructure projects: Adverse outcomes from southern Poland	Land Use Policy	Jarosław Taszakowski, Arkadiusz Doroż, Piotr Bożek et al.
2026-10-29	Effects, spatio-temporal evolution, chain transmission mechanism and precision governance of farmland resource curse in China: Based on Farmland Resource Curse Index and multi-scale raster data with causal identification	Land Use Policy	Renyi Yang, Yu Liu, Yongdong Zhang et al.
2026-10-28	Financial and economic performance of coconut plantation rejuvenation assisted by engineered wood products: A Fijian case study	Land Use Policy	Tyron J. Venn, Jack W. Dorries, Sefanaia Tawake et al.	The University of Queensland; University of the South Pacific; New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
2026-10-28	German farmers' preferences for peatland rewetting schemes: Autonomy, flexibility and institutional trust	Land Use Policy	Marius Michels, Oliver Mußhoff	University of Göttingen; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2026-10-27	Global soybean markets and land-use emissions: Evidence from the China–Brazil soybean trade relationship	Land Use Policy	Matheus Koengkan, José Alberto Fuinhas, Zakir Khan et al.	Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária; University of Coimbra; National Yunlin University of Science and Technology; …
2026-10-27	The land use challenge in the United Kingdom: Finding space for food production and biodiversity	Land Use Policy	Dustin Benton, Michael Winter, H. Charles J. Godfray	University of Exeter; University of Oxford
2026-10-26	Integrating logistics into urban land use planning	Land Use Policy	Bruno Reges Almeida de Brito, Carlos David Pedrosa Pinheiro, Bruno Vieira Bertoncini	Universidade Federal do Ceará; Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará
2026-10-26	Regional heterogeneity in land use conflicts in an emerging economy: Evidence from Vietnam	Land Use Policy	Guanfeng Li, Yutian Liang, Weihuan Deng et al.	Sun Yat-sen University; Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development
2026-10-26	Spatiotemporal characteristics and driving forces of carbon emissions during the period 2011–2020: Empirical evidence from the nineteen urban agglomerations of China	Land Use Policy	Shizhuang Zhang, J. Si, Lin Zhang et al.	Ocean University of China; Xi'an University of Technology; University of International Business and Economics; …
2026-10-26	Peatland vulnerability to agricultural expansion: Conversion risk, inactivity, and carbon loss	Land Use Policy	Hongyu Wang, Feng Qiu, Wei Zhou	University of Alberta; China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
2026-10-26	Balancing urbanization, climate change, and biodiversity conservation with nature-based solutions: A case study of Hong Kong	Land Use Policy	Ashley H. Y. Bang, Anna Freeman, Eleanor Jane Milner‐Gulland	University of Oxford
2026-10-24	Structural heterogeneity and spatial clustering in mountain agriculture: Evidence from European compensatory payments in the Central-Southern Apennines (Italy)	Land Use Policy	Angelo Belliggiano, Corrado Ievoli, Giuseppe Pistacchio et al.	University of Molise
2026-10-24	Service-fund coupling for ecological compensation and payments for ecosystem services in transboundary watersheds within China: A systematic review and conceptual framework	Land Use Policy	Mengdong Huang, Yangyang Wang, 杨荣金 YANG Rongjin et al.	Beijing Normal University; Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; University of Michigan
2026-10-23	Fintech, climate shocks, and agricultural land use transition: Evidence from farmers in China	Land Use Policy	Chenying Zhang, Yiwen Li, Bing Zhang	Hohai University
2026-10-23	Indigenous peoples in isolation inside protected areas: Mandate mismatch and inter-institutional coordination gaps in the Brazilian Amazon	Land Use Policy	D. Cangussu, D. Figueiredo Silva, H. De Jesus et al.	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2026-10-23	Editorial Board	Land Use Policy
2026-10-23	Intelligent on-site photograph interpretation by coupling deep learning and a clue knowledge graph for land administration	Land Use Policy	Sichen Lu, Da He, Zhenhao Chen et al.	Sun Yat-sen University
2026-10-16	Shaping street rhythms: Spatial context and the temporal patterns of pedestrian activity	Land Use Policy	Haeryung Lee, Jae Seung Lee	Seoul National University
2026-10-15	Institutional resilience and land-acquisition governance: Participation and conflict-management mechanisms in the Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway project	Land Use Policy	Shanshan Lu, Yudi Azis, Meinanda Kurniawan et al.	Padjadjaran University
2026-10-15	Can digital-real integration effectively curb urban sprawl? Evidence from China using double/debiased machine learning	Land Use Policy	Chunjie Hu, Jinsong Zheng, 赖南希 et al.	Chongqing Jiaotong University
2026-10-14	From rules to learning: A GIS-integrated agent-based reinforcement learning framework for simulating farmers’ land-use decisions and sustainable policy design	Land Use Policy	Qi Xiaoxing, Qiaoyuan Huang, Jie Sun	Sun Yat-sen University
2026-10-14	Behavioural limits of market-led flood-risk allocation: Loss normalisation, investment discounting and planning-led land-use governance in urban China	Land Use Policy	Ziqing Lin, Jayalakshmy Ramachandran, Kah Mun Au	University of Nottingham; University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
2026-10-14	Auditing post-disaster recovery as land-use governance: Public investment after the 2024 floods in the Valencian Region, Spain	Land Use Policy	Juan A. García, Ignacio Toledo, L. Aragonés et al.	University of Alicante
2026-10-13	Seeing prosperity, confronting crime: Infrastructure inequality and perceived wealth in Chinese cities	Land Use Policy	Ziwen He, Wenlin Zhao, Jin Rui	Nankai University; University of Manchester; Peking University
2026-10-13	Optimizing grassland biodiversity and carbon co-benefits under climate change: An integrated climate-ecological-economic modelling framework	Land Use Policy	Rong‐Gang Cong, Xin Zhang, Wenying Han et al.	Beijing Institute of Technology; Democritus University of Thrace; Lund University
2026-10-12	Corrigendum to “Clarifying overlapping land rights in semi-formal systems: The case of Mailo Tenant Lands in Uganda” [Land Use Policy 170 (2026) 108139]	Land Use Policy	Heather Huntington, Kate Marple-Cantrell, Daniel Ayalew Ali et al.	University of Pennsylvania; World Bank
2026-10-12	Assessing industrial land-use efficiency at parcel scale: Actual vs. expected economic outputs across diverse parcel types and spatial conditions	Land Use Policy	Xiaoyan Dong, Xiuyuan Zhang, Xiangjun Zhang et al.	Peking University; China University of Geosciences; Ministry of Natural Resources
2026-10-12	Corrigendum to “Advocacy and credibility of land tenure in Ethiopia: Mitigating conflicts and threats” [Land Use Policy 147 (2024) 107265]	Land Use Policy	Hossein Azadi, Shaghayegh Ehteshammajd, Imaneh Goli et al.	University of Liège; Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech; Islamic Azad University, Tehran; …
2026-10-10	Insurance and land-use permanence in natural rubber: Implications for land transitions and carbon dynamics from Hainan, China	Land Use Policy	Zongjun Ling, Xiangrui Wang, Jialing Yu et al.	Renmin University of China; Hainan University
2026-10-10	Scale and space in industrial policy implementation: Geospatial evidence from urban Ethiopia	Land Use Policy	Dejene Tesema Bulti, Anteneh Lemmi Eshete	Adama Science and Technology University
2026-10-09	Identification of territorial spatial conflict and its influencing factors from a cross-scale and multi-dimensional perspective: A case study of the Three Gorges Reservoir area, China	Land Use Policy	Haohua Wang, Yiwen Sun, Li Zhou et al.	Southwest University; Ministry of Natural Resources
2026-10-08	Small farms and income generating activities in developing countries: Empirical insights from agricultural development projects	Land Use Policy	Sarah K. Lowder, Athur Mabiso, Sara Savastano et al.	International Fund for Agricultural Development; University of Rome Tor Vergata; Texas Tech University; …
2026-10-07	Corrigendum to [Land Use Policy 168 (2026) 108104]	Land Use Policy	Shiyuan Wang, Mingqiang Guo, Wei Cao et al.	China University of Geosciences; Wuhan Vocational College of Software and Engineering; The Ohio State University
2026-10-06	From coast to cost: Mispricing and reform scenarios in Italy’s coastal concession system	Land Use Policy	Emanuele Caggiano, Stefano d’Addona, Filippo Maurici et al.	Roma Tre University

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Land Use Policy. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy

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