Smart Cities (ISSN: 2624-6511) released its inaugural issue in 2018 and is now published bimonthly. Since it was established, Smart Cities has aimed to provide a professional publishing service to the scientific community and has strived towards the effective dissemination of high-quality scientific work. In 2021, Smart Cities was accepted for coverage in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science and Scopus (Elsevier). The CiteScore (Scopus) 2021 of Smart Cities was 5.5, which equals to a ranking of 24/241 (Q1) in the “Urban Studies” category, 174/708 (Q1) in the “Electrical and Electronic Engineering” category, and 87/269 (Q2) in the “Artificial Intelligence” category.

In order to support the scientific community and contribute to the faster distribution of important scientific research, Smart Cities has cooperated with various academic conferences. For more details, please visit the following events website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/smartcities/events.

Smart Cities is now seeking cooperation with additional academic conferences, and is open to a diverse range of collaborations, such as media partnerships, awards, exhibitions, and publications, amongst others.

We welcome consultations with any conferences related to “smart cities”. If you are interested in collaborating with Smart Cities, please contact us at [email protected].

Smart Cities is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal containing research on the science and technology of smart cities. The scope of Smart Cities includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Information and communication technology (ICT) in the smart city;
• Internet of Things (IoT) for smart cities;
• Smart sensing;
• Smart grids and smart infrastructures;
• Smart transportation and mobility;
• Smart energy;
• Smart buildings;
• Smart food and agriculture;
• Smart governance;
• Smart people;
• Smart economy;
• Smart healthcare;
• Smart living.