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	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	28
-	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	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	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	19
-	Geography Compass	19
-	Local Environment	19
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	19
22	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	18
-	Geopolitics	18
-	Sociologia Ruralis	18
-	Urban Geography	18
26	Journal of Economic Geography	17
-	Transactions in GIS	17
28	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Population Space and Place	16
-	Economic Geography	16
-	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	16
-	Geographical Journal	16
33	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	15
-	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	15
-	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	15
-	Mobilities	15
-	Territory Politics Governance	15
38	Annals of Regional Science	14
-	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	14
-	Competition & Change	14
41	Journal of Geographical Systems	13
-	Journal of Maps	13
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	13
-	Professional Geographer	13
-	Social & Cultural Geography	13
-	Childrens Geographies	13
47	Geographical Analysis	12
-	Geographical Research	12
-	Landscape Research	12
-	Area	12

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