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Physical Geography is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE. 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 0272-3646Verify ISSN ↗1930-0557Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 71 / 201 | 64th | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 72 / 194 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 110 / 249 | 56th | Q2 |
| Atmospheric Science | 86 / 160 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present (also 1975), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Physical Geography is Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 71 of 201), Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 72 of 194) and Q2 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 110 of 249), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Physical Geography is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.432, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
Physical Geography is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0272-3646 and its online ISSN is 1930-0557.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Physical Geography has an h-index of 67 and a 2-year mean of 1.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
Physical Geography published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 46. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (25.9%), India (15.3%) and China (9.7%).
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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