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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	63
2	Journal of Rural Studies	45
3	Applied Geography	44
4	Journal of Transport Geography	42
5	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	41
6	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	39
7	Regional Studies	32
8	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	30
9	Political Geography	29
10	Progress in Human Geography	27
11	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	26
12	Geoforum	24
13	Antipode	22
14	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	21
15	Geopolitics	20
-	European Planning Studies	20
-	Geography Compass	20
18	Local Environment	19
-	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	19
-	Dialogues in Human Geography	19
21	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	18
-	Journal of Economic Geography	18
-	Urban Geography	18
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	18
-	Geographical Journal	18
26	Papers in Regional Science	17
-	Population Space and Place	17
-	Sociologia Ruralis	17
-	Transactions in GIS	17
-	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	17
-	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	17
32	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	15
-	Economic Geography	15
-	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	15
-	Mobilities	15
-	Territory Politics Governance	15
37	Annals of Regional Science	14
-	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	14
-	Competition & Change	14
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	14
41	Journal of Maps	13
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	13
-	Social & Cultural Geography	13
-	Childrens Geographies	13
45	Journal of Geographical Systems	12
-	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	12
-	Geographical Analysis	12
-	Geographical Research	12
-	Professional Geographer	12
50	Eurasian Geography and Economics	11

-	Gender Place and Culture	11
-	Area	11
-	Emotion Space and Society	11
54	Landscape Research	10
-	Urban Policy and Research	10
-	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	10
-	Journal of Historical Geography	10
-	Human Geography	10
-	Australian Geographer	10
60	Island Studies Journal	9
-	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	9
-	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography	9
-	Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien	9
-	Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography	9
-	South African Geographical Journal	9
66	New Zealand Geographer	8
-	Scottish Geographical Journal	8
-	Space and Culture	8
-	Cultural Geographies	8
-	Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography	8
-	Journal of Geography	8
-	Geographical Review	8
73	Geography	6
-	Revue de Geographie Alpine-Journal of Alpine Research	6
75	Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles	5
-	Erdkunde	5
-	Geografie	5
78	Cartographic Journal	4
79	Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft	3
-	Revista de Geografia Norte Grande	3
-	Scripta Nova-Revista Electronica de Geografia y Ciencias Sociales	3
-	Geodetski Vestnik	3
-	Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography	3
-	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	3