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Asian Geographer is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1022-5706Verify ISSN ↗2158-1762Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 224 / 876 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present (also 1991–1995, 1982–1987), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Asian Geographer is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 224 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Geographer is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.443, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
Asian Geographer is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1022-5706 and its online ISSN is 2158-1762.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Geographer has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #324 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Asian Geographer published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 17. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 53 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (13.4%), China (10.7%) and United States (10.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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