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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	55
2	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	53
3	Journal of Rural Studies	44
4	Journal of Transport Geography	39
5	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	38
6	Applied Geography	33
7	Regional Studies	31
8	Geoforum	29
9	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	27
-	Progress in Human Geography	27
11	Political Geography	26
-	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	26
13	European Planning Studies	23
14	Antipode	22
15	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	21
-	Economic Geography	21
17	Transactions in GIS	20
18	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	19
-	Local Environment	19
20	Annals of Regional Science	17
-	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	17
22	Dialogues in Human Geography	16
-	Geopolitics	16
-	Urban Geography	16
-	Geographical Journal	16
-	Geography Compass	16
-	Population Space and Place	16
-	Sociologia Ruralis	16
29	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	15
-	Mobilities	15
-	Journal of Economic Geography	15
32	Area	14
-	Social & Cultural Geography	14
-	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	14
-	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	14
-	Papers in Regional Science	14
37	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	13
38	Gender Place and Culture	12
-	Geographical Analysis	12
-	Professional Geographer	12
-	Competition & Change	12
-	Landscape Research	12
43	Childrens Geographies	11
-	Emotion Space and Society	11
-	Journal of Geographical Systems	11
-	Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien	11
47	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	10
-	Eurasian Geography and Economics	10
-	Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography	10
-	Geographical Research	10

-	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	10
-	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	10
53	Australian Geographer	9
-	Island Studies Journal	9
-	Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography	9
-	South African Geographical Journal	9
-	Space and Culture	9
-	Cultural Geographies	9
59	Urban Policy and Research	8
-	Human Geography	8
-	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography	8
62	Geographical Review	7
-	Journal of Geography	7
-	Journal of Historical Geography	7
-	New Zealand Geographer	7
-	Scottish Geographical Journal	7
67	Cartographic Journal	6
68	Geography	5
-	Erdkunde	5
-	Geografie	5
71	Revue de Geographie Alpine-Journal of Alpine Research	4
-	Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles	4
-	Revista de Geografia Norte Grande	4
74	Geodetski Vestnik	3
-	Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography	3
-	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	3
77	Scripta Nova-Revista Electronica de Geografia y Ciencias Sociales	2
-	Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft	2