Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Geography, Planning and Development journal rankings 2020
33 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Geography, Planning and Development has 33 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR fell 0.43 on 2019 to 0.84, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.69. The top three are Progress in Human Geography, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and Dialogues in Human Geography.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
33 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.97Q1 | 6.77 0.40 up from 2019 | 194 | 45% | $3,900 | ||
2Journal of Geography in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 2.54 0.23 down from 2019 | 130 | 40% | — | ||
3Dialogues in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 2.47 0.07 up from 2019 | 123 | 54% | $3,900 | ||
4Cultural GeographiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 1.07 1.16 down from 2019 | 125 | 27% | $3,650 | ||
5International Research in Geographical and Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · Australia | 2.11Q1 | 1.91 0.44 down from 2019 | 66 | 30% | — | ||
6Journal of GeographyNational Council for Geographic Education · United States | 1.82Q1 | 1.54 0.26 down from 2019 | 69 | 14% | — | ||
7Cartography and Geographic Information ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.58 0.07 down from 2019 | 91 | 41% | — | ||
8Environmental HumanitiesOADuke University Press · United States | 1.73Q1 | 2.55 1.17 up from 2019 | 85 | 100% | — | ||
9Journal of Geoscience EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.69Q1 | 1.93 0.26 down from 2019 | 123 | 33% | — | ||
10The Journal of Island and Coastal ArchaeologyRoutledge · United States | 1.65Q2 | 2.19 0.03 up from 2019 | 101 | 22% | — | ||
11Journal of Map & Geography LibrariesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.61Q2 | 0.91 0.26 down from 2019 | 42 | 40% | — | ||
12International Journal of CartographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.26 0.80 down from 2019 | 69 | 50% | — | ||
13New Zealand GeographerWiley · Australia | 1.21Q2 | 1.05 0.73 down from 2019 | 77 | 14% | $2,900 | ||
14The Cartographic JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 1.17 0.47 up from 2019 | 110 | 29% | — | ||
15Journal of Spatial Information ScienceOAUniversity of Maine · United States | 1.12Q2 | 2.62 1.62 up from 2019 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
16GeoHumanitiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.94Q2 | 0.77 0.27 down from 2019 | 106 | 38% | — | ||
17Asian perspectivesUniversity of Hawaii Press · United States | 0.84Q2 | 0.48 0.06 down from 2019 | 59 | 29% | — | ||
18Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and GeovisualizationUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada | 0.75Q3 | 1.15 0.30 up from 2019 | 68 | 17% | — | ||
19TransfersBerghahn Books · United States | 0.75Q3 | 0.84 0.26 down from 2019 | 83 | 21% | — | ||
20Scottish Geographical JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 0.82 0.56 down from 2019 | 47 | 39% | — | ||
21KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic InformationSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.60Q3 | 1.40 1.15 up from 2019 | 198 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
22Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of KnowledgeOAUnited States | 0.45Q3 | 0.59 0.14 down from 2019 | 85 | 100% | — | ||
23The Geography TeacherRoutledge · United States | 0.30Q3 | 0.30 0.25 down from 2019 | 74 | 13% | — | ||
24Cartographic PerspectivesOAUnited States | 0.30Q3 | 0.29 0.04 down from 2019 | 138 | 100% | — | ||
25Journal of Animal EthicsUniversity of Illinois Press · United States | 0.29Q3 | 0.35 0.17 up from 2019 | 94 | 3% | — | ||
26Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen GesellschaftÖsterreichische Geographische Gesellschaft · Austria | 0.27Q4 | 0.26 0.26 up from 2019 | 87 | 100% | — | ||
27HumanimaliaOAUnited States | 0.22Q4 | 0.21 0.10 up from 2019 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.22Q4 | 0.32no 2019 value | 34 | — | — | — | ||
29Proceedings of the ICAOAGermany | 0.19Q4 | 0.26 0.01 up from 2019 | 289 | — | — | ||
| 0.15Q4 | 0.24 0.15 up from 2019 | 30 | 100% | — | |||
31Geodetski listSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Croatia | 0.13Q4 | 0.17 0.13 up from 2019 | 32 | 0% | — | ||
32Abstracts of the ICAOAGermany | 0.12Q4 | 0.17no 2019 value | 92 | 100% | — | — | |
33GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.10Q4 | 0.12 0.06 down from 2019 | 143 | 8% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Geography, Planning and Development highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,333
- Education727
- Political Science and International Relations332
- Communication79
- Gender Studies64
- Safety Research55
- Health54
- Urban Studies52
- Public Administration51
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law48
- Transportation46
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies8
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
8 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 33
- Window papers (baseline)
- 32,431 +28.5% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.84 -26.9% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.