Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Geography, Planning and Development journal rankings 2019
31 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Geography, Planning and Development has 31 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR rose 0.15 on 2018 to 1.26, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.14. The top three are Progress in Human Geography, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and Cultural Geographies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
31 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.56Q1 | 6.37 0.92 up from 2018 | 199 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
2Journal of Geography in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 2.77 0.87 up from 2018 | 118 | 35% | — | ||
3Cultural GeographiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 2.23 0.91 up from 2018 | 117 | 34% | $3,650 | ||
4Environmental HumanitiesOADuke University Press · United States | 2.76Q1 | 1.39 1.49 down from 2018 | 99 | 100% | — | ||
5Dialogues in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 2.40 1.48 up from 2018 | 132 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
6Journal of GeographyNational Council for Geographic Education · United States | 2.37Q1 | 1.81 0.84 up from 2018 | 91 | 21% | — | ||
7International Research in Geographical and Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · Australia | 2.34Q1 | 2.35 1.15 up from 2018 | 74 | 33% | — | ||
8Cartography and Geographic Information ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 2.64 0.17 down from 2018 | 112 | 36% | — | ||
9The Journal of Island and Coastal ArchaeologyRoutledge · United States | 2.04Q2 | 2.16 0.06 down from 2018 | 92 | 22% | — | ||
10New Zealand GeographerWiley · Australia | 1.59Q2 | 1.78 0.92 up from 2018 | 92 | 24% | $2,900 | ||
11GeoHumanitiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.47Q2 | 1.04 0.17 down from 2018 | 112 | 28% | — | ||
12International Journal of CartographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 2.06 0.14 down from 2018 | 60 | 39% | — | ||
13The Cartographic JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 0.70 0.86 down from 2018 | 130 | 25% | — | ||
14Journal of Geoscience EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.32Q2 | 2.19 0.55 up from 2018 | 112 | 45% | — | ||
15Journal of Map & Geography LibrariesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.28Q2 | 1.17 0.71 up from 2018 | 49 | 31% | — | ||
16TransfersBerghahn Books · United States | 1.26Q2 | 1.10 0.80 up from 2018 | 95 | 17% | — | ||
17Journal of Spatial Information ScienceOAUniversity of Maine · United States | 1.24Q3 | 1.00 0.95 down from 2018 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
18Scottish Geographical JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.07Q3 | 1.38 0.04 down from 2018 | 39 | 21% | — | ||
19Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and GeovisualizationUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada | 0.86Q3 | 0.85 0.06 up from 2018 | 67 | 15% | — | ||
20Asian perspectivesUniversity of Hawaii Press · United States | 0.78Q3 | 0.54 0.29 down from 2018 | 57 | 54% | — | ||
21Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of KnowledgeOAUnited States | 0.74Q3 | 0.74 0.57 up from 2018 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
22GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.18 0.38 down from 2018 | 112 | 12% | — | ||
23The Geography TeacherRoutledge · United States | 0.49Q3 | 0.54 0.26 up from 2018 | 72 | 17% | — | ||
24Cartographic PerspectivesOAUnited States | 0.36Q3 | 0.33 0.21 up from 2018 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
25Proceedings of the ICAOAGermany | 0.22Q4 | 0.26no 2018 value | 132 | 100% | — | — | |
26Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen GesellschaftÖsterreichische Geographische Gesellschaft · Austria | 0.17Q4 | 0.00 0.29 down from 2018 | 48 | 94% | — | ||
| 0.14Q4 | 0.09 0.08 down from 2018 | 32 | 100% | — | |||
28Journal of Animal EthicsUniversity of Illinois Press · United States | 0.13Q4 | 0.18 0.17 down from 2018 | 95 | 5% | — | ||
29KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic InformationSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.12Q4 | 0.25 0.19 up from 2018 | 281 | 94% | $3,190 | ||
30HumanimaliaOAUnited States | 0.08Q4 | 0.11 0.17 down from 2018 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
31Geodetski listSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Croatia | 0.05Q4 | 0.04no change | 37 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Geography, Planning and Development highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,325
- Education724
- Political Science and International Relations326
- Communication74
- Gender Studies64
- Safety Research56
- Health53
- Public Administration51
- Law48
- Linguistics and Language48
- Urban Studies48
- Transportation46
- Library and Information Sciences44
- Demography38
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development31
- Cultural Studies8
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 additional Geography, Planning and Development journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 31
- Window papers (baseline)
- 30,039 +29.1% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.26 +3.7% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 33 | 35 | 34 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 8,362 | 9,117 | 9,721 | 10,323 | 10,975 | 11,521 | 12,437 | 13,179 | 14,224 | 15,406 | 16,686 | 17,874 | 18,957 | 19,959 | 21,192 | 21,953 | 23,268 | 25,240 | 27,504 | 30,039 | 32,431 | 35,456 | 38,008 | 39,172 | 40,420 | 40,571 | |
| Median OJR | 0.83 | 0.90 | 0.629 | 0.79 | 0.82 | 0.87 | 0.812 | 0.814 | 1.02 | 1.41 | 1.35 | 1.33 | 1.03 | 1.28 | 1.07 | 1.40 | 1.22 | 1.14 | 1.11 | 1.26 | 0.84 | 0.714 | 0.711 | 0.59 | 0.635 | 0.69 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.