Social and Cultural Geography

Aims & Scope

Social & Cultural Geography publishes theoretically consequential empirical research that makes a strong intellectual contribution to critical human geography and its allied fields.

The journal confronts topical issues relating to social/cultural problems and issues in geography and fosters scholarly debate about them.

It strives for international authorship and readership, as well as in the peer-review process.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.3
2024	2.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.120

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	95

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4007

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	952

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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.

• On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place

  Citation: 828

  Authors: Katherine

• Embodying emotion sensing space: introducing emotional geographies

  Citation: 520

  Authors: Joyce, Christine

• Fast food/organic food: Reflexive tastes and the making of 'yuppie chow'

  Citation: 292

  Authors: Julie

• Memory and place: geographies of a critical relationship

  Citation: 292

  Authors: Steven, Derek H.

• Mundane mobilities, performances and spaces of tourism

  Citation: 261

  Authors: Tim

• Sense and the city: exploring the embodied geographies of urban walking

  Citation: 254

  Authors: Jennie

• Spaces of care in the city: the place of a community drop-in centre

  Citation: 221

  Authors: David

• Parenting gone wired: empowerment of new mothers on the internet?

  Citation: 207

  Authors: Clare, Henrietta

• Geographies of care: spaces, practices, experiences

  Citation: 191

  Authors: David

• Flexible families? 'Astronaut' households and the experiences of lone mothers in Vancouver, British Columbia

  Citation: 190

  Authors: Johanna L.

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