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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

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	39
5	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	38
6	Applied Geography	35
7	Regional Studies	29
8	Political Geography	28
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	28
10	Geoforum	27
-	Progress in Human Geography	27
12	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	26
13	European Planning Studies	23
14	Antipode	21
15	Economic Geography	20
16	Local Environment	19
-	Transactions in GIS	19
-	Annals of the American Association of Geographers	19
19	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	18
-	Geopolitics	18
-	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers	18
22	Geographical Journal	17
-	Geography Compass	17
-	Dialogues in Human Geography	17
-	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	17
-	Sociologia Ruralis	17
-	Annals of Regional Science	17
-	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	17
29	Urban Geography	16
-	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	16
-	Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs	16
-	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Population Space and Place	16
34	Mobilities	15
35	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	14
-	Journal of Economic Geography	14
-	Social & Cultural Geography	14
-	Territory Politics Governance	14
-	Geographical Analysis	14
-	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	14
-	Cartography and Geographic Information Science	14
42	Journal of Geographical Systems	13
-	Competition & Change	13
44	Area	12
-	Childrens Geographies	12
-	Journal of Maps	12
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	12
48	Professional Geographer	11
-	Emotion Space and Society	11
-	Gender Place and Culture	11

-	Landscape Research	11
-	Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien	11
53	Eurasian Geography and Economics	10
-	Geographical Research	10
-	Island Studies Journal	10
-	Journal of Geography in Higher Education	10
-	Space and Culture	10
-	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	10
59	South African Geographical Journal	9
-	Australian Geographer	9
-	Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography	9
-	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography	9
-	Asia Pacific Viewpoint	9
64	Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography	8
-	Human Geography	8
-	Urban Policy and Research	8
-	Cultural Geographies	8
68	Geographical Review	7
-	Journal of Historical Geography	7
-	New Zealand Geographer	7
-	Scottish Geographical Journal	7
72	Erdkunde	6
-	Geografie	6
-	Journal of Geography	6
75	Cartographic Journal	5
-	Geography	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
-	Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft	3
84	Scripta Nova-Revista Electronica de Geografia y Ciencias Sociales	2