Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP) is an open access journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the RSAI. Although RSPP charges Article Processing Charges (APCs), Elsevier has signed agreements with many countries and universities that allow papers to be fully or partially free of APCs (Please check here your situation). Nevertheless, the Editorial Team of RSPP can allocate waivers or provide some support to authors to secure the publication of accepted papers that fit into Special Issues and do not have enough funding. This situation must be addressed when submitting the paper. To access Regional Science Policy & Practice visit https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/regional-science-policy-and-practice Our journals are now both publushed Gold Open Access with Elsevier; APCs are USD 2740 for PiRS and USD 1596 for RSPP. However: Selected Countries, beneficiaries of the Research4Life program, are eligible for a 100% or a 50% discount on APCs; Authors from entities with an institutional agreement with Elsevier do not pay APCs; PiRS' editorial team has 20 waivers, and RSPP's has 50 waivers, to allocate each year for accepted articles based on the decision of the EiCs, and the merits of each paper; If none of the former applies, RSAI members are in any case eligible for a 20% discount on APCs. Journal Impact Factor™ of 1.7 Scopus 2023 CiteScore: 3.6 Scopus Citescore Category Rankings 2023: - Geography, Planning and Development - 258/821 - Development - 90/360 - Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law - 185/399 SCImago Journal Rank 2023:  0.585 SNIP 2023: 0.892

RSPP Working Papers Special Series on Covid-19 RSPP Working Paper nº 2020.001 Differentiated territorial effect of Covid-19 on the tourism sector in Morocco By Ilyes Boumahdi, Nouzha Zaoujal and Abdellali Fadlallah   RSPP Working Paper nº 2020.002 Socio-Demographic Disparities in COVID-19 Case Rates and Testing: An exploratory spatial analysis of ZIP code data in Chicago, IL By Kevin Credit

Aims and Scope

Regional Science Policy and Practice (RSPP) is the journal of the Regional Science Association International that publish high quality papers in regional science, assumed to be the discipline that looks at people’s and places interaction within space; with sound, replicable and advanced methods; suitable to generate robust evidences that are able to inform effective policies for regional sustainable development. It welcomes papers from a range of academic disciplines and practitioners including planning, public policy, geography, economics and environmental science and related fields. Papers should address the interface between academic debates and policy development and application. RSPP provides an opportunity for academics and policy makers to develop a dialogue to identify and explore many of the challenges facing local and regional economies.

RSPP publishes high quality papers targeted at informing the policy development process leading to the formation of theoretically grounded regional policy. The editors invite submissions dealing with the policy and practice of regional and local development. Contributions that are the outcome of collaborations between researchers and policy and practice professions are encouraged.

Keywords

regional, science, policy, practice, RSAI, journal, geography, applied, local development, planning, public policy, economics, environmental science

Abstracting and Indexing Information

• Academic OneFile (GALE Cengage)
• Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
• Environment Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ProQuest)
• InfoTrac (GALE Cengage)
• Political Science Complete (EBSCO Publishing)
• SCOPUS (Elsevier)
• Sustainability Science Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)

Please note: Members of the Regional Science Association International are eligible for a 20% discount on the article publishing charge.