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

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	58
2	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	49
3	Journal of Rural Studies	46
4	Journal of Transport Geography	40
5	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	38
6	Applied Geography	36
7	Regional Studies	31
8	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	30
9	Political Geography	29
10	Progress in Human Geography	28
11	Geoforum	27
-	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	27
13	European Planning Studies	23
14	Antipode	22
15	Economic Geography	21
16	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	20
-	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	20
18	Local Environment	19
-	Transactions in GIS	19
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	19
-	Dialogues in Human Geography	19
22	Urban Geography	18
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	18
-	Geopolitics	18
25	Geographical Journal	17
-	Geography Compass	17
-	Sociologia Ruralis	17
28	Mobilities	16
-	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	16
-	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	16
-	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Annals of Regional Science	16
33	Journal of Economic Geography	15
-	Territory Politics Governance	15
35	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	14
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	14
-	Population Space and Place	14
-	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	14
39	Social & Cultural Geography	13
-	Area	13
-	Journal of Geographical Systems	13
-	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	13
-	Competition & Change	13
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	13
45	Professional Geographer	12
-	Childrens Geographies	12
-	Geographical Analysis	12
-	Journal of Maps	12
-	Landscape Research	12
50	Eurasian Geography and Economics	11

-	Gender Place and Culture	11
-	Geographical Research	11
-	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	11
54	Emotion Space and Society	10
-	Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography	10
-	Space and Culture	10
57	Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography	9
-	South African Geographical Journal	9
-	Human Geography	9
-	Australian Geographer	9
-	Island Studies Journal	9
-	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	9
-	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography	9
-	Urban Policy and Research	9
-	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	9
-	Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien	9
67	Journal of Historical Geography	8
-	Cultural Geographies	8
69	Geographical Review	7
-	New Zealand Geographer	7
-	Scottish Geographical Journal	7
72	Erdkunde	6
-	Geografie	6
-	Journal of Geography	6
-	Geography	6
76	Cartographic Journal	5
77	Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography	4
-	Revue de Geographie Alpine-Journal of Alpine Research	4
-	Revista de Geografia Norte Grande	4
-	Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles	4
81	Geodetski Vestnik	3
-	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	3
-	Scripta Nova-Revista Electronica de Geografia y Ciencias Sociales	3
-	Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft	3