ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography

Aims & Scope

Starting with issue 1/2022, the former journal Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (The German Journal of Economic Geography) was relaunched under the new title ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography.

With ongoing internationalization of academic disciplines, the journal made the decision to open up to the global academic community by focusing on English-language publications.

To support the relaunch and invite a broad readership, ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography is being transferred to Gold Open Access on a year-by-year basis since 2022.

All articles thus immediately appear under the Creative Commons license CC BY.

There are no publication costs for the authors.

The Open Access transformation is based on Subscribe to Open, an alternative model that enables the full Open Access transformation of journals through the continuation of existing subscriptions.

The prerequisite for successful transformation is that subscriptions are continued to the same extent as before.

The editors of ZFW and the publisher De Gruyter would therefore like to thank all subscribers for their support, which has made the transformation to Open Access possible.

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography aims to become a driver of and contributor to the global knowledge architecture in the field of economic geography broadly defined through its commitment to diversity regarding innovative themes and authors and by pushing for a non-partisan cross-disciplinary agenda.

It invites contributions that develop novel conceptualizations and present new empirical insights into economic structures, processes and practices, as well as their variations and outcomes in spatial perspective.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2
2024	2.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.606

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	23

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	9573

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	133

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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 Economics, Econometrics and Finance 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.

• Making history matter more in evolutionary economic geography

  Citation: 55

  Authors: Ron, Peter

• A Review of Transnational Migrant Entrepreneurship: Perspectives on Unequal Spatialities

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Laure, Christina, Yvonne, Etienne

• Friendshoring in global production networks: state-orchestrated coupling amid geopolitical uncertainty

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Linus, Gideon

• Lost in space? Refugee Entrepreneurship and Cultural Diversity in Spatial Contexts

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Carina, Ralf

• Hidden champions as a determinant of regional development: An analysis of german districts

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Lena, Jörn H., Matthias S.

• Resilience and specialization – How German regions weathered the Great Recession

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Christian, Lennart

• <b>Trucking (un)limited – the impact of digital platforms on labour in production networks of logistics</b>

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Veronique, Philip, Martin

• Innovation, scaling-up, and local development in peripheral regions: do establishments scale-up locally?

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Richard, David

• The impact of brexit on regional productivity in the UK

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Bernard, Ben, Ron, Luca

• Injecting climate finance into SME lending in Germany<b>: Opportunities for and limitations of regional savings and cooperative banks</b>

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Franz, Philipp, Hans-Martin, Michael

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