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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	55
2	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	50
3	Journal of Rural Studies	44
4	Journal of Transport Geography	40
5	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	37
6	Applied Geography	34
7	Regional Studies	30
8	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	28
9	Geoforum	27
10	Political Geography	26
-	Progress in Human Geography	26
-	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	26
13	European Planning Studies	23
14	Economic Geography	22
15	Antipode	21
16	Local Environment	20
-	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	20
18	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	19
19	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	18
20	Transactions in GIS	17
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	17
-	Geographical Journal	17
-	Sociologia Ruralis	17
-	Annals of Regional Science	17
-	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	17
-	Geopolitics	17
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	17
28	Urban Geography	16
-	Dialogues in Human Geography	16
-	Geography Compass	16
-	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Population Space and Place	16
33	Mobilities	15
-	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	15
35	Social & Cultural Geography	14
-	Territory Politics Governance	14
-	Journal of Economic Geography	14
-	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	14
39	Area	13
-	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	13
-	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	13
-	Competition & Change	13
-	Geographical Analysis	13
44	Gender Place and Culture	12
-	Journal of Maps	12
46	Childrens Geographies	11
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	11
-	Journal of Geographical Systems	11
-	Landscape Research	11
50	Professional Geographer	10

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