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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	60
2	Journal of Rural Studies	47
3	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	43
4	Applied Geography	41
5	Journal of Transport Geography	40
6	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	39
7	Regional Studies	31
8	Political Geography	30
9	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	28
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	28
11	Geoforum	27
12	Progress in Human Geography	26
13	European Planning Studies	22
14	Antipode	21
15	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	20
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	20
-	Dialogues in Human Geography	20
18	Local Environment	19
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	19
-	Geography Compass	19
-	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	19
22	Urban Geography	18
-	Sociologia Ruralis	18
-	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	18
-	Geopolitics	18
26	Transactions in GIS	17
-	Journal of Economic Geography	17
28	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	16
-	Geographical Journal	16
-	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Population Space and Place	16
-	Economic Geography	16
33	Mobilities	15
-	Territory Politics Governance	15
-	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	15
-	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	15
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	15
38	Annals of Regional Science	14
-	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	14
-	Competition & Change	14
41	Professional Geographer	13
-	Social & Cultural Geography	13
-	Childrens Geographies	13
-	Journal of Maps	13
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	13
-	Journal of Geographical Systems	13
47	Area	12
-	Landscape Research	12
-	Geographical Analysis	12
-	Geographical Research	12

51	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	11
-	Eurasian Geography and Economics	11
-	Gender Place and Culture	11
54	Human Geography	10
-	Emotion Space and Society	10
-	Space and Culture	10
-	Urban Policy and Research	10
-	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	10
-	Island Studies Journal	10
60	Journal of Historical Geography	9
-	Australian Geographer	9
-	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography	9
-	Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien	9
-	Cultural Geographies	9
-	Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography	9
66	Journal of Geography	8
-	Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography	8
-	South African Geographical Journal	8
-	Geographical Review	8
-	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	8
-	Scottish Geographical Journal	8
72	New Zealand Geographer	7
-	Geography	7
74	Revue de Geographie Alpine-Journal of Alpine Research	5
-	Cartographic Journal	5
-	Erdkunde	5
-	Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles	5
78	Geografie	4
79	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
-	Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft	3
-	Revista de Geografia Norte Grande	3