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Springer Geography is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2194-315XVerify ISSN ↗2194-3168Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 211 / 295 | 28th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 740 / 876 | 15th | Q4 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 166 / 194 | 14th | Q4 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 201 / 231 | 13th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Springer Geography is Q3 in Urban Studies (rank 211 of 295), Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 740 of 876) and Q4 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 166 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Springer Geography is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3, 28th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.196, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Springer Geography is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2194-315X and its online ISSN is 2194-3168.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Springer Geography has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #166 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Springer Geography published 221 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 259. 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.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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