Geography: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	54
2	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	53
3	Journal of Rural Studies	43
4	Journal of Transport Geography	39
5	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	36
6	Applied Geography	30
7	Regional Studies	29
8	Geoforum	28
9	Political Geography	27
10	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	26
11	Progress in Human Geography	25
12	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	24
13	European Planning Studies	23
14	Antipode	20
-	Economic Geography	20
16	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	18
-	Local Environment	18
-	Transactions in GIS	18
19	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	17
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	17
21	Annals of Regional Science	16
-	Geopolitics	16
-	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Population Space and Place	16
-	Geography Compass	16
26	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	15
-	Dialogues in Human Geography	15
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	15
-	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	15
-	Urban Geography	15
31	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	14
-	Sociologia Ruralis	14
-	Journal of Economic Geography	14
-	Mobilities	14
35	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	13
-	Area	13
-	Geographical Journal	13
-	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	13
-	Social & Cultural Geography	13
-	Territory Politics Governance	13
41	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	12
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	12
-	Geographical Analysis	12
-	Landscape Research	12
-	Professional Geographer	12
46	Competition & Change	11
-	Gender Place and Culture	11
-	Journal of Geographical Systems	11
-	Journal of Maps	11
-	Childrens Geographies	11

51	Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien	10
-	Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography	10
-	Geographical Research	10
-	Emotion Space and Society	10
55	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	9
-	Cultural Geographies	9
-	Eurasian Geography and Economics	9
-	Island Studies Journal	9
-	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	9
-	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography	9
-	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	9
62	Space and Culture	8
-	Urban Policy and Research	8
-	Australian Geographer	8
-	South African Geographical Journal	8
-	Human Geography	8
67	Journal of Geography	7
68	New Zealand Geographer	6
-	Scottish Geographical Journal	6
-	Geographical Review	6
-	Journal of Historical Geography	6
-	Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography	6
73	Geography	5
-	Cartographic Journal	5
-	Erdkunde	5
76	Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles	4
-	Geografie	4
78	Revista de Geografia Norte Grande	3
-	Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography	3
-	Revue de Geographie Alpine-Journal of Alpine Research	3
81	Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft	2
-	Geodetski Vestnik	2
-	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	2
-	Scripta Nova-Revista Electronica de Geografia y Ciencias Sociales	2