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Looking to publish in a Discover journal? Springer Nature provides interactive tutorials to help you as an author write the best article possible by providing points to consider, from your background reading and study design to manuscript structuring and figure preparation. Find out more (this opens in a new tab).

In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Cities. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:

• Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review 
• Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level 
• Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.

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The journal publishes guest-edited Topical Collections on emerging hot topics of relevance to all aspects of urban science. Our Topical Collections allow readers to quickly identify research on subject areas of particular interest to them.

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