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JPER Impact Factor increases

June 19, 2017

We are pleased to announce that the Impact Factor for Journal of Planning Education and Research has increased from 1.051 to 1.689, according to the 2016 Journal Citation Reports® announced June 15, 2017 (Clarivate Analytics, 2017). The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal.

JPER Co-editors are Professors Clinton Andrews and Frank Popper, managing editor is Dr. Karen Lowrie, and editorial assistant is Bloustein PhD student Jonathan Stiles. For more information go to http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jpe.

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