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Journal of Geography is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0022-1341Verify ISSN ↗1752-6868Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 620 / 1698 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 338 / 876 | 61st | Q2 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 77 / 184 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1902–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Journal of Geography is Q2 in Education (rank 620 of 1698), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 338 of 876) and Q2 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 77 of 184), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Geography is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.463, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 43.
Journal of Geography is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0022-1341 and its online ISSN is 1752-6868.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Geography has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 1.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #831 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Journal of Geography published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 40. 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (49.9%), China (10.1%) and South Korea (9.6%).
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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