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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	54
2	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	53
3	Journal of Rural Studies	43
4	Journal of Transport Geography	40
5	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	37
6	Applied Geography	32
7	Regional Studies	29
8	Geoforum	28
9	Political Geography	27
10	Progress in Human Geography	26
11	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	25
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	25
13	European Planning Studies	23
14	Antipode	22
-	Economic Geography	22
16	Transactions in GIS	21
17	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	20
18	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	18
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	18
-	Local Environment	18
21	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	17
-	Geography Compass	17
23	Annals of Regional Science	16
-	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	16
-	Geopolitics	16
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	16
-	Population Space and Place	16
-	Urban Geography	16
-	Dialogues in Human Geography	16
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	16
31	Sociologia Ruralis	15
-	Papers in Regional Science	15
-	Geographical Journal	15
-	Journal of Economic Geography	15
-	Mobilities	15
36	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	14
-	Social & Cultural Geography	14
-	Area	14
39	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	13
40	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	12
-	Competition & Change	12
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	12
-	Geographical Analysis	12
-	Landscape Research	12
-	Territory Politics Governance	12
46	Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien	11
-	Gender Place and Culture	11
-	Journal of Geographical Systems	11
-	Journal of Maps	11
-	Childrens Geographies	11

-	Emotion Space and Society	11
-	Professional Geographer	11
53	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	10
-	Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography	10
-	Geographical Research	10
-	Island Studies Journal	10
57	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography	9
-	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	9
-	Cultural Geographies	9
-	Eurasian Geography and Economics	9
-	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	9
-	Human Geography	9
-	Australian Geographer	9
64	Space and Culture	8
-	Urban Policy and Research	8
-	South African Geographical Journal	8
-	Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography	8
68	Scottish Geographical Journal	7
-	New Zealand Geographer	7
-	Geographical Review	7
-	Journal of Geography	7
72	Journal of Historical Geography	6
73	Geography	5
-	Cartographic Journal	5
-	Erdkunde	5
-	Geografie	5
77	Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles	4
-	Revue de Geographie Alpine-Journal of Alpine Research	4
79	Revista de Geografia Norte Grande	3
-	Scripta Nova-Revista Electronica de Geografia y Ciencias Sociales	3
-	Geodetski Vestnik	3
-	Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography	3
-	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	3
84	Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft	2