Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Geography, Planning and Development journal rankings 2023
33 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Geography, Planning and Development has 33 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2022 to 0.59, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.27. The top three are Progress in Human Geography, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and Dialogues in Human Geography.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.03Q1 | 8.53 1.54 up from 2022 | 187 | 74% | $3,900 | ||
2Journal of Geography in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 2.82 0.62 down from 2022 | 135 | 66% | — | ||
3Dialogues in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 2.45 1.24 down from 2022 | 156 | 63% | $3,900 | ||
4Journal of GeographyNational Council for Geographic Education · United States | 2.46Q1 | 2.25 0.56 down from 2022 | 81 | 33% | — | ||
5Cultural GeographiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 2.25 0.01 up from 2022 | 127 | 70% | $3,650 | ||
6International Research in Geographical and Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · Australia | 2.24Q1 | 2.50 0.20 down from 2022 | 69 | 45% | — | ||
7Environmental HumanitiesOADuke University Press · United States | 1.99Q1 | 1.64 1.31 down from 2022 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
8Journal of Geoscience EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.41Q1 | 2.46 0.61 up from 2022 | 95 | 60% | — | ||
9The Journal of Island and Coastal ArchaeologyRoutledge · United States | 1.27Q1 | 1.59 0.13 down from 2022 | 105 | 50% | — | ||
10Cartography and Geographic Information ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 3.79 1.01 up from 2022 | 98 | 34% | — | ||
11Journal of Spatial Information ScienceOAUniversity of Maine · United States | 1.25Q2 | 2.85 1.09 up from 2022 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
12The Cartographic JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.09 0.10 down from 2022 | 86 | 36% | — | ||
13KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic InformationSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.00Q2 | 2.58 1.34 down from 2022 | 79 | 80% | $3,190 | ||
14GeoHumanitiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.96Q2 | 1.14 0.29 up from 2022 | 105 | 56% | — | ||
15Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and GeovisualizationUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada | 0.86Q2 | 1.18 0.09 down from 2022 | 63 | 14% | — | ||
16TransfersBerghahn Books · United States | 0.73Q2 | 1.09 0.39 up from 2022 | 85 | 28% | — | ||
17AGILE GIScience SeriesOAGermany | 0.59Q2 | 1.53 0.49 up from 2022 | 139 | 100% | — | ||
18Animal studies journalOAAustralia | 0.58Q3 | 0.85 0.01 up from 2022 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
19New Zealand GeographerWiley · Australia | 0.56Q3 | 0.91no change | 77 | 77% | $2,900 | ||
20Journal of Animal EthicsUniversity of Illinois Press · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.61 0.19 up from 2022 | 95 | 0% | — | ||
21The Geography TeacherRoutledge · United States | 0.46Q3 | 0.66 0.23 down from 2022 | 86 | 18% | — | ||
22Asian perspectivesUniversity of Hawaii Press · United States | 0.46Q3 | 0.23 0.28 down from 2022 | 94 | 24% | — | ||
23Scottish Geographical JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 1.39 0.14 up from 2022 | 54 | 64% | — | ||
24Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of KnowledgeOAUnited States | 0.38Q3 | 0.37 0.44 down from 2022 | 97 | 100% | — | ||
25GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.37Q3 | 0.85 0.26 up from 2022 | 95 | 24% | — | ||
26Journal of Map & Geography LibrariesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.36Q4 | 0.46 0.32 up from 2022 | 43 | 38% | — | ||
27International Journal of CartographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.33Q4 | 0.53 0.19 down from 2022 | 77 | 39% | — | ||
28HumanimaliaOAUnited States | 0.31Q4 | 0.28 0.13 up from 2022 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
29Cartographic PerspectivesOAUnited States | 0.27Q4 | 0.27 0.13 up from 2022 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
30Anthropocenes – Human Inhuman PosthumanOAUnited Kingdom | 0.26Q4 | 0.26 0.40 down from 2022 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
31Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen GesellschaftÖsterreichische Geographische Gesellschaft · Austria | 0.22Q4 | 0.28 0.04 up from 2022 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
32Proceedings of the ICAOAGermany | 0.16Q4 | 0.33 0.13 up from 2022 | 129 | 100% | — | ||
33Abstracts of the ICAOAGermany | 0.08Q4 | 0.20 0.13 up from 2022 | 360 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Geography, Planning and Development highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,403
- Education732
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication73
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research59
- Health55
- Transportation53
- Public Administration52
- Urban Studies52
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences4
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 33
- Window papers (baseline)
- 39,172 +20.8% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.59 -28.9% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.