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Progress in Physical Geography is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0309-1333Verify ISSN ↗1477-0296Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 17 / 194 | 91st | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 91 / 876 | 89th | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 25 / 201 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.6.
Progress in Physical Geography is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 17 of 194), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 91 of 876) and Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 25 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Progress in 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 7.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.021, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 129.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Progress in Physical Geography is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0309-1333 and its online ISSN is 1477-0296.
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.
Progress in Physical Geography has an h-index of 163 and a 2-year mean of 2.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Progress in Physical Geography published 62 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (24.2%), India (11.6%) and United Kingdom (8.4%).
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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