Professional Geographer

Aims & Scope

The Professional Geographer, initially a publication of the American Society for Professional Geographers, became a journal of the American Association of Geographers in 1949.

It publishes short articles of academic or applied geography, emphasizing empirical studies and methodologies.

These features may range in content and approach from rigorously analytic to broadly philosophical or prescriptive.

The journal provides a forum for new ideas and alternative viewpoints.

View Aims & Scope

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.9
2024	1.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.606

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	93

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	9570

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	528

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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 Earth and Planetary Sciences and 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.

• Getting Personal: Reflexivity, Positionality, and Feminist Research∗

  Citation: 1066

  Authors: Kim V. L.

• Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality: A Challenge for Feminist Geography*

  Citation: 753

  Authors: Gill

• Fatal Couplings of Power and Difference: Notes on Racism and Geography

  Citation: 679

  Authors: Ruth Wilson

• MONTHLY PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION: A COMPARATIVE INDEX

  Citation: 484

  Authors: John E.

• Generating Surface Models of Population Using Dasymetric Mapping

  Citation: 419

  Authors: Jeremy

• Playing the Field: Questions of Fieldwork in Geography

  Citation: 408

  Authors: Cindi

• Gender and Individual Access to Urban Opportunities: A Study Using Space–Time Measures

  Citation: 399

  Authors: Mei-Po

• Interpolating U.S. Decennial Census Tract Data from as Early as 1970 to 2010: A Longitudinal Tract Database

  Citation: 357

  Authors: John R., Zengwang, Brian J.

• Women in the Field: Critical Feminist Methodologies and Theoretical Perspectives∗

  Citation: 348

  Authors: Heidi J.

• Place and Health: Towards a Reformed Medical Geography∗

  Citation: 340

  Authors: Robin A.

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