Journal of Urban Affairs

The Journal of Urban Affairs is a peer-reviewed academic journal published ten times per year by Routledge on behalf of the Urban Affairs Association. It was established in 1979 and the current editor-in-chief is Bernadette Hanlon (Ohio State University).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.377.

Editors-in-chief
The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief:
 * Patricia Klobus Edwards (1981–1984)
 * John R. Gist (1984–1987)
 * Scott Cummings and Knowlton W. Johnson (1987–1989)
 * Scott Cummings and C. Theodore Koebel (1989–1992)
 * Scott Cummings and Hank Savitch (1993–1998)
 * Scott Cummnings (1998–2005)
 * Victoria Basolo (2005–2010)
 * Laura Reese (2010–2015)
 * Igor Vojnovic (2015–2021)
 * Bernadette Hanlon (2021–present)