Geopolitics

Aims & Scope

Geopolitics is an international and multidisciplinary journal devoted to contemporary research on geopolitics.

It provides an arena for scholarly analysis addressing the intersection of geography and global politics from various disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and from vantage points embedded in diverse locations.

It welcomes theories, methods and methodologies that advance our understanding of the geographic and multiscalar dynamics of global politics.

Themes include geopolitical traditions; critical geographical analysis of formal, practical and popular geopolitics; feminist geopolitics; urban geopolitics; geopolitics of the everyday; environmental geopolitics; spatial and cartographic analysis; and political economy.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.4

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2924

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1144

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.342

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	70

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Resource curse? governmentality, oil and power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

  Citation: 537

  Authors: Michael

• Exploring the Critical Potential of the Borderscapes Concept

  Citation: 395

  Authors: Chiara

• Boundaries as social processes: Territoriality in the world of flows

  Citation: 252

  Authors: Anssi

• Theorizing Borders: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

  Citation: 246

  Authors: Emmanuel

• Lines in the Sand? Towards an Agenda for Critical Border Studies

  Citation: 244

  Authors: Noel, Nick

• The Geopolitics of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative

  Citation: 232

  Authors: Jean-Marc F., Colin

• Off-shoring and Out-sourcing the Borders of EUrope: Libya and EU Border Work in the Mediterranean

  Citation: 231

  Authors: Luiza

• Border Studies: Changing Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches

  Citation: 199

  Authors: Vladimir

• In Search of the Global East: Thinking between North and South

  Citation: 193

  Authors: Martin

• Towards a Multiperspectival Study of Borders

  Citation: 181

  Authors: Chris

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