Aims & Scope
Political Geography is the flagship journal of political geography and advances knowledge in all aspects of the geographical and spatial dimensions of politics and the political.
The journal brings together leading contributions in the field and promotes interdisciplinary debates in international relations, political science, and other related fields.
While we welcome articles with an empirical focus or that center on policy implications, all research published in the journal is expected to engage with and advance the subdiscipline's conceptual, methodological, and theoretical literature.
We encourage contributions drawn from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, covering all scales of inquiry, and from scholars in all parts of the world.
Examples include, but are not limited to, research into: - critical engagement of the theory and practice of geopolitics; - geographies of sovereignty and the state; - peace and conflict studies; - geographies of policy, institutions, and elections; - feminist, queer, and postcolonial engagements with the political; - politics of spatiality, networks, and scale; - intersections of political economy and political geography; - territoriality, mobility, and identity within and across borders; - political ecology, the politics of the environment, and post-human politics.
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Impact Factor
| Year | Value |
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| 2025 | 4.9 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 1.524 |
Quartile
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | Q1 |
h-index
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 120 |
Impact Factor Trend
Abstracting & Indexing
Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.
Subjects & Keywords
Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.
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.
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Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization
Citation: 1064
Authors: Arturo
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Reconfiguring environmental governance: Towards a politics of scales and networks
Citation: 682
Authors: Harriet
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Spaces of dependence, spaces of engagement and the politics of scale, or: looking for local politics
Citation: 647
Authors: Kevin R.