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A ten‐year‐old review of impact factor calculations is available at http://www.isinet.com/isi/hot/essays/journalcitationreports/7.html
The top five geography journals (social science) ranked by 2002 impact factor (with rank position in 2000 in parentheses) are: Progress in Human Geography, 2.76 (2); Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2.586 (4); Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2.574 (1); Economic Geographer, 2.455 (5); Environment and Planning D, 2.377 (3). Indeed there is only one ‘new entry’ in the top ten—Australian Geographer at 10th. The rankings from 6–12 are: Geoforum, 1.848 (6); Antipode, 1.566 (7=); Political Geographer, 1.530 (7=); Environment and Planning A, 1.463 (10); Australian Geographer, 1.425 (20); Area, 1.256 (9); Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1.065 (11). Source: JCR Social Sciences Edition 2000 and 2002.
Many of the geography journals in the upper rankings are similar in size to JGHE, publishing 20–40 articles per year, the major exception being Environment and Planning A which published 100 articles in 2002.
The 66 citations in 2002 that count towards the citation impact factor compare with 222 total cites of articles published at any time. Total cites of Annals of the Association of American Geographers and of Environment and Planning A in 2002 both exceeded 1000.