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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	56
2	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	49
3	Journal of Rural Studies	45
4	Journal of Transport Geography	39
5	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	36
6	Applied Geography	34
7	Regional Studies	30
8	Geoforum	29
9	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	27
-	Political Geography	27
11	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	26
12	Progress in Human Geography	25
13	European Planning Studies	23
14	Antipode	22
15	Economic Geography	21
16	Local Environment	20
17	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	19
-	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	19
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	19
-	Transactions in GIS	19
21	Annals of Regional Science	17
-	Geographical Journal	17
-	Urban Geography	17
24	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	16
-	Geopolitics	16
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	16
-	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Population Space and Place	16
-	Sociologia Ruralis	16
-	Dialogues in Human Geography	16
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	16
-	Geography Compass	16
33	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	15
-	Mobilities	15
35	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	14
-	Journal of Economic Geography	14
-	Social & Cultural Geography	14
38	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	13
-	Area	13
-	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	13
-	Territory Politics Governance	13
42	Competition & Change	12
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	12
-	Gender Place and Culture	12
-	Geographical Analysis	12
-	Journal of Maps	12
47	Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien	11
-	Journal of Geographical Systems	11
-	Landscape Research	11
-	Childrens Geographies	11

-	Emotion Space and Society	11
52	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	10
-	Eurasian Geography and Economics	10
-	Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography	10
-	Geographical Research	10
-	Island Studies Journal	10
-	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	10
-	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	10
-	Professional Geographer	10
60	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography	9
-	Space and Culture	9
-	Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography	9
-	South African Geographical Journal	9
64	Urban Policy and Research	8
-	Australian Geographer	8
-	Human Geography	8
67	Cultural Geographies	7
-	New Zealand Geographer	7
-	Scottish Geographical Journal	7
-	Geographical Review	7
-	Journal of Geography	7
-	Journal of Historical Geography	7
73	Cartographic Journal	6
-	Erdkunde	6
75	Geography	5
-	Geografie	5
77	Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles	4
-	Revista de Geografia Norte Grande	4
-	Revue de Geographie Alpine-Journal of Alpine Research	4
80	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
84	Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft	2