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South African Geographical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0373-6245Verify ISSN ↗2151-2418Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 286 / 876 | 67th | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 68 / 201 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1938–present (also 1934–1936, 1931–1932), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
South African Geographical Journal is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 286 of 876) and Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 68 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Geographical Journal 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.458, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
South African Geographical Journal is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0373-6245 and its online ISSN is 2151-2418.
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.
South African Geographical Journal has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 2.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #223 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
South African Geographical Journal published 42 papers in 2025. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (78.8%), Zimbabwe (3.5%) and Nigeria (2.5%). 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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