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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	56
2	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	48
3	Journal of Rural Studies	45
4	Journal of Transport Geography	41
5	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	36
6	Applied Geography	34
7	Regional Studies	29
8	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	28
-	Geoforum	28
-	Political Geography	28
11	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	27
12	Progress in Human Geography	26
13	European Planning Studies	23
14	Economic Geography	22
15	Antipode	21
16	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	20
-	Local Environment	20
18	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	19
19	Geopolitics	18
-	Transactions in GIS	18
21	Population Space and Place	17
-	Sociologia Ruralis	17
-	Annals of Regional Science	17
-	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	17
-	Urban Geography	17
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	17
-	Dialogues in Human Geography	17
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	17
-	Geographical Journal	17
-	Geography Compass	17
31	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	16
33	Mobilities	15
-	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	15
35	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	14
-	Journal of Economic Geography	14
-	Social & Cultural Geography	14
-	Territory Politics Governance	14
39	Journal of Geographical Systems	13
-	Competition & Change	13
-	Geographical Analysis	13
-	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	13
43	Journal of Maps	12
-	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	12
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	12
-	Gender Place and Culture	12
-	Area	12
-	Childrens Geographies	12
49	Landscape Research	11
-	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	11

51	Island Studies Journal	10
-	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	10
-	Space and Culture	10
-	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	10
-	Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien	10
-	Eurasian Geography and Economics	10
-	Geographical Research	10
-	Professional Geographer	10
-	Emotion Space and Society	10
60	Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography	9
-	Australian Geographer	9
62	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography	8
-	Urban Policy and Research	8
-	Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography	8
-	South African Geographical Journal	8
-	Human Geography	8
67	New Zealand Geographer	7
-	Scottish Geographical Journal	7
-	Cultural Geographies	7
-	Journal of Historical Geography	7
-	Geographical Review	7
72	Journal of Geography	6
-	Cartographic Journal	6
-	Erdkunde	6
-	Geografie	6
76	Geography	5
77	Revista de Geografia Norte Grande	4
-	Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles	4
-	Revue de Geographie Alpine-Journal of Alpine Research	4
-	Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography	4
81	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	3
-	Geodetski Vestnik	3
83	Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft	2
-	Scripta Nova-Revista Electronica de Geografia y Ciencias Sociales	2