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Japanese Journal of Human Geography is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Human Geographical Society of Japan.
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ISSN 0018-7216Verify ISSN ↗1883-4086Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Human Geographical Society of Japan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 757 / 876 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1950–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Japanese Journal of Human Geography is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 757 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Japanese Journal of Human Geography is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4, 13th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
Japanese Journal of Human Geography is published by Human Geographical Society of Japan. Its print ISSN is 0018-7216 and its online ISSN is 1883-4086.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Japanese Journal of Human Geography has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #731 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Japanese Journal of Human Geography published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 74. 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 89 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (98.9%), United Kingdom (0.6%) and United States (0.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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