Journals in Geography general

Applied Geography

ISSN: 0143-6228
5 Year impact factor: 4.8
Impact factor: 4

Putting the World's Human and Physical Resource Problems in a Geographical PerspectiveApplied Geography is a journal devoted to the publication of research which utilizes geographic approaches (human, physical, nature-society and GIScience) to resolve human problems that have a spatial dimension. These problems may be related to the assessment, management and allocation of the world's physical and/or human resources. The underlying rationale of the journal is that only through a clear understanding of the relevant societal, physical, and coupled natural-humans systems can we resolve such problems.Papers are invited on any theme involving the application of geographical theory and methodology in the resolution of human problems. This may include papers on the techniques, problems and results of environmental and/or social research, as well as those concerned with the principles, policies and consequences of resource management and allocation. Articles are refereed before publication.Benefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support Center

Digital Geography and Society

ISSN: 2666-3783

Digital Geography and Society (DG&S) is an open access journal publishing interdisciplinary work that critically examines the social and spatial contexts of our digital present, past and futures. The primary aim of the journal is to champion work across the social sciences and humanities that questions and reveals how digital technologies shape and are shaped by people and places. Central to that aim is the principal scope of geographies, taken in the broadest terms as the ongoing concern for negotiations of space and place.As the foremost journal focused on digital geographies, DG&S is dedicated to publishing any and all high-quality research that investigates how the spaces and places of our societies shape and are shaped by digital technologies. There is no assertion or presumption of what constitutes ‘digital geography’ for DG&S, instead we invite critical and generous, ongoing, debate negotiating the geographies of, through and with the digital (following Ash et al.), agnostic of discipline. Our aim, in other words, is to foster and promote a route for advancing digital geographies scholarship and enhance their breadth, depth and diversity.DG&S is a digital-only journal with an ambition to publish traditional journal articles and a variety of multimedia, video and audio content. We have dedicated sections for full-length research articles as well as opinion pieces, case studies & reviews. Core to our mission is the championing of ‘Early Career’ research in digital geographies and we have a dedicated section promoting ‘New Voices’. As part of our goal to champion digital geographies research we also welcome digitally generated, creative pieces that speak to current issues and experiences across digital geographies. Special issues are an important part of DG&S’s mission to support cutting edge work and will be actively considered for publication in the journal.Key topics include, but are not limited to:Digital culturesGeographies of AI and roboticsIdentities and subjectivities of/for digital mediaDigital dividesUrban & rural digital geographiesDigital infrastructuresMobile spatial technologiesDigital urbanismGeopolitics and digital mediaDigital access and infrastructure for the global majority

Emotion, Space and Society

ISSN: 1755-4586
5 Year impact factor: 2.3
Impact factor: 1.9

Emotion, Space and Society provides a forum for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary debate on theoretically informed research on the emotional intersections between people and places. These objectives are broadly conceived and seek to encourage investigations of feelings, encounter and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. Submissions may focus on the core journal concepts - emotion, space and society - in both conceptual and methodological capacity. Submissions should critically consider the multiplicity of spaces and places that produce and are produced by emotional and affective life, representing an inclusive range of theoretical and methodological engagements with emotion as a social, cultural and spatial phenomenon.Questions of emotion are relevant across diverse disciplines, and the editors welcome submissions across the humanities and social sciences. The journal's editorial ethos is grounded in taking emotions, the emotional and the place of emotions and affect seriously, as central to all human interactions with each other and the worlds in which we live.The journal's presentational structure and style demonstrates the richness generated by multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary engagements with emotions and affects. The journal is open to questioning normative models of academic paper presentation and writing, instead emphasising intellectually and critically grounded work, and offering a unique and timely opportunity to explore exciting new ways to think about natures, cultures and histories of emotional life.

Geography and Sustainability

ISSN: 2666-6839
5 Year impact factor: 8.4
Impact factor: 8

Geography and Sustainability aims to serve as the focal point for developing, coordinating and implementing interdisciplinary research and education to promote sustainable development through an integrated geography perspective. The journal encourages wider analysis and innovative thinking about global and regional sustainability by bridging and synthesising natural and human sciences.Geography and Sustainability welcomes original, high-quality research articles, review articles, short communications, technical comments, perspective articles and editorials on the following themes:Geographical Processes: Interactions with and between water, soil, atmosphere and the biosphere and their spatio-temporal variations;Human-Environmental Systems: Interactions between humans and the environment, resilience of socio-ecological systems and vulnerability;Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing: Ecosystem structure, processes, services and their linkages with human wellbeing;Sustainable Development: Theory, practice and critical challenges in sustainable development;Geo-data and Sustainability Models: Geodata and models to support sustainable development and decision-making

Heliyon

ISSN: 2405-8440
5 Year impact factor: 3.9
Impact factor: 3.4

Heliyon considers research from all areas of the physical, applied, life, social and medical sciences. We publish manuscripts reporting scientifically accurate and valuable research, which adheres to accepted ethical and scientific publishing standards. As such Heliyon publishes new insights as well as extensions on existing theories, negative/null results and replication studies.Submissions covering arts, humanities and law are not considered in Heliyon. Authors of these submissions are encouraged to submit directly to our partner journal Social Sciences & Humanities Open.Heliyon classifies manuscripts/articles into different sections based on the research topic discussed. Some sections exclude certain types of studies from their scope. To know more and to see the kind of manuscripts the various sections publish, please visit: https://www.cell.com/heliyon/sectionsA dedicated in-house editorial office team, internal editors as well as external academic section and associate editors handle your manuscript and manage the publication process, giving your research the editorial support and quality control it deserves.If it's important to you, it's important to us. Submit your paper today.

International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks

ISSN: 2577-4441

The International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks is a referenced interdisciplinary journal that encompasses a broad range of topics related to geoheritage and parks, including: management, assessment, planning, policies, education, tourism, travel behaviour, interpretation, economics, museology, protection, nature resilience, nature-based therapy for human health, diversity, time scaling, ecology, and sustainable development of global geoheritage, geosites and parks. The journal promotes high quality science with free, divergent, pluralistic visions, ideas, and opinions regarding all aspects of geoheritage and parks.Published papers are ideally based on both conceptual and empirical studies around the broad themes of geoheritage and parks.Studies on geoheritage and parks, including national parks, protected areas, marine heritage, archaeological and paleontological sites, UNESCO Global Geoparks, World Heritage sites, and other globally significant sites recognized for their geological and/or geographical values, are welcomed. Natural and physical scientists writing to a social science audience are very welcome contributors, and the inverse is true. To the greatest extent possible, we aim to make the scope of this journal cross-disciplinary, global, and without borders.All articles published in this journal are subjected to a rigorous peer view, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.The journal is Diamond Open Access, and no fees are charged to authors or readers, making it one of the most accessible high quality journals in its field.Editorial Board

Journal of Historical Geography

ISSN: 0305-7488
5 Year impact factor: 1.2
Impact factor: 1.3

As the benchmark sub-disciplinary quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. As well as hosting original research papers and special issues of interest to a wide international and interdisciplinary readership, the journal encourages agenda-setting interventions into methodological and conceptual debates and new challenges facing researchers in the field. Each issue includes a substantial review section (of books, exhibitions, databases, and others), and there is a regular feature on 'Historical Geography at Large' devoted to engaged research, and its impact, beyond the academy. The journal is especially keen to expand its scholarship into those regions and academic communities beyond anglophone Europe and North America which have traditionally been underrepresented in the journal. We offer extra editorial support to students, early career researchers, underrepresented researchers, and those for whom English is not their first language.Questions commonly addressed in the journal include:How to describe, represent, and reconstruct past geographies (spaces, places, landscapes, environments, mobilities and networks)?How is the presentness of the past produced through landscapes, texts, memories and archives? How can we recognise diverse spatial and temporal imaginaries (for instance, ancestral, spiritual, religious, or environmental)? What has been the reach and influence of different models and institutional hubs of historical geography? How can the theories and methods used to study historical geography be applied to geography's disciplinary histories?

Papers in Regional Science

ISSN: 1056-8190
5 Year impact factor: 2.7
Impact factor: 2.4

PIRS has been publishing as a fully Open Access journal since January 2024 and welcomes submissions from all authors. Papers in Regional Science is the official journal of the Regional Science Association International. It encourages high quality scholarship on a broad range of topics in the field of regional science. These topics include, but are not limited to, behavioural modelling of location, transportation, and migration decisions, land use and urban development, inter-industry analysis, environmental and ecological analysis, resource management, urban and regional policy analysis, geographical information systems, and spatial statistics.The journal publishes papers that make a new contribution to the theory, methods and models related to urban and regional (or spatial) matters. The editors invite submissions of papers that emphasize the application of theoretical frameworks, methods and models, developed specifically for the study of urban and regional phenomena. They also welcome contributions to the understanding of regional phenomena that employ theoretical frameworks and methods developed in other fields.

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

ISSN: 2590-1982
Impact factor: 3.9

The Transportation Research family of journals forms the most cohesive and comprehensive reference of current research in transportation science. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TRIP) is an addition to the family which accepts papers on any topic within the scope of any of Parts A-F. It is an interdisciplinary journal concerned with any and all social science aspects of transportation. The journal is the destination for rapid communication from acceptance to publication of quality research on transportation, and publishes research articles, review articles, case studies, research notes, tutorials and opinion pieces. It particularly welcomes articles reporting negative or controversial results and new (and less mature) ideas. Articles are relevant to both academics and practitioners, and are the results of anonymous reviews by at least two referees chosen by the editor for their specialist knowledge. TRIP aims for rapid review.TRIP welcomes papers of many kinds, including those where:the research is multi-disciplinary and straddles Transportation Research Parts A-F;the research is novel, untested, integrative, promising and lacks an established venue for publication;the research uses novel methods or mixed methods;the research is policy or practice oriented;the research focuses on education, training and curriculum development;the research includes and supports efforts in low income developing countries;case studies and evaluations of local, state and provincial transportation projects are welcome;the work of consultants, industry, think tanks and government agencies is highlighted;summaries of presentations made at international conferences and workshops as well as Elsevier sponsored events;TRIP also welcomes editorial think pieces which focus on transportation research needs and developments and advocacy for improved research;share best practices in terms of research methods, data access, reporting and management.TRIP is supported by an experienced international editorial board whose members also serve on the editorial boards of the parent Part journals.

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Wellbeing, Space and Society

ISSN: 2666-5581
5 Year impact factor: 2.4
Impact factor: 2.4

Wellbeing, Space & Society is an interdisciplinary journal concerned with the role that space and place play in shaping wellbeing across the range of spatial scales from the local to the global.Wellbeing, Space & Society shares the same general approach to manuscripts as its companion titles, Health & Place and Social Science & Medicine. We publish papers from a range of social science disciplines, including geography, sociology, social psychology, social epidemiology, economics, anthropology and political science.We encourage your submissions that address a problem of interest to society and illustrate the links (potential or theorized) between (aspects of) society and space and wellbeing. We are particularly interested in:the policy implications of the research, including work informed by policy analysisthe wellbeing of places - how is that conceptualized, theorized, operationalised and translated?the transactive nature of wellbeing along with the constitutive (or emergent) processes across the scales from the individual through the household to community, etc. that shape wellbeingKey themes for the journal include inequalities across space that have been shaped by societal forces; inequities across social categories (gender, age, race, etc) that are spatially expressed; the shaping of wellbeing in places (a range of socio-political and/or cultural contexts such as indigenous communities or alternative forms of nation states) across a range of spatial scales from the individual to the household to the community to the region to the nation and up to the global context; and the socio-spatial implications of policy interventions at the national (e.g. welfare, taxation) or local (e.g. urban infrastructure, community resources, green spaces).Types of papers accepted by the journal include research articles (both empirical and theoretical), reviews and short communications. We also welcome your proposals for special issues on topics that represent an unusual, even unique area that is likely to be of high interest to the journal's readership.The journal welcomes submissions from a range of ontological and epistemological approaches and is particularly keen to receive work that demonstrates theoretical and/or methodological innovation. Methodological plurality and innovation are encouraged; interpretation of wellbeing in this context may be subjective or objective, eudonic or hedonic, and may also be at the individual and/or community levels.We look forward to receiving your submissions that are thought-provoking, informative, innovative, illustrative, dialogue-worthy pieces that seek to understand, question, and identify approaches to enhancing wellbeing.

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