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Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Tokyo Geographical Society.
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ISSN 0022-135XVerify ISSN ↗1884-0884Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tokyo Geographical Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 507 / 876 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 111 / 184 | 39th | Q3 |
| Geophysics | 111 / 183 | 39th | Q3 |
| Geology | 216 / 333 | 35th | Q3 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 110 / 134 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 507 of 876), Q3 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 111 of 184) and Q3 in Geophysics (rank 111 of 183), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.197, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) is published by Tokyo Geographical Society. Its print ISSN is 0022-135X and its online ISSN is 1884-0884.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #392 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 68. 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 86 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (89.9%), China (2.3%) and Switzerland (1.6%). 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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