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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	62
2	Journal of Rural Studies	49
3	Applied Geography	43
4	Journal of Transport Geography	42
-	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	42
6	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	40
7	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	29
8	Political Geography	28
9	Progress in Human Geography	26
-	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	26
11	Geoforum	25
12	Antipode	22
13	Geopolitics	20
-	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	20
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	20
-	European Planning Studies	20
17	Local Environment	19
-	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	19
-	Dialogues in Human Geography	19
-	Geography Compass	19
21	Urban Geography	18
-	Sociologia Ruralis	18
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	18
-	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	18
25	Transactions in GIS	17
-	Geographical Journal	17
-	Journal of Economic Geography	17
28	Population Space and Place	16
-	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	16
-	Economic Geography	16
-	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	16
32	Papers in Regional Science	15
-	Territory Politics Governance	15
-	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	15
-	Mobilities	15
36	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	14
-	Competition & Change	14
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	14
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	14
40	Social & Cultural Geography	13
-	Journal of Maps	13
42	Annals of Regional Science	12
-	Geographical Analysis	12
-	Geographical Research	12
-	Journal of Geographical Systems	12
-	Professional Geographer	12
-	Area	12
-	Childrens Geographies	12
49	Landscape Research	11
-	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	11

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