External Links

You can find Information Box 3.1 reprinted here, with a link to each journal home page. Follow these links and browse the content of a journal that is of interest to you. See what has been recently published. Do any of the topics provide inspiration for further study?

  • Annals of the Association of American Geographers – publishes empirically informed articles in all areas of geography .
     
  • Applied Geography – publishes work that applies theory and methodology explicitly (i.e. GIS, statistics and so on) to understanding socio-spatial relations.
     
  • Area – publishes short articles on new and cutting-edge research in all areas of geography.
     
  • Cultural Geographies – articles explore the cultural dimensions of environment, landscape, space, and place.
     
  • Children’s Geographies – articles focus on giving voice to the geographies of young people and children in contemporary society, and historically.
     
  • Economic Geography – features research that attends to significant economic geography issues around the world.
     
  • Environment and Planning A – interdisciplinary journal that focuses mainly on urban and regional research.
     
  • Environment and Planning D: Society and Space – publishes philosophically and theoretically driven work that explores relations between society and space.
     
  • Gender, Place and Culture – focuses on research relating to gender and feminist issues along with work that explores the intersections between gender and other facets of identity.
     
  • Geoforum – publishes wide-ranging research across environmental, political and social geography that explores relations with space and time. 
     
  • Geography Compass – publishes high-quality review articles on key areas of investigation in geography. There is a ‘political’ compass, ‘cultural’ compass, and so on for each area of interest.
     
  • The Geographical Journal – publishes policy relevant and informed articles that have distinct ‘relevance’ to the wider world.
     
  • Global Environmental Change – articles consider the human and policy implications of environmental change across multiple scales and times.
     
  • The Journal of Historical Geography – publishes on all areas of historical geography: the histories of geography, and historical geographies of socio-spatial relations.
     
  • Political Geography – articles focus on the spatial dimensions of politics, and geopolitical relations.
     
  • Population, Space and Place – publishes empirically led and theoretically informed research on understanding population.
     
  • The Professional Geographer – publishes short empirically informed and incisive articles in all areas of geography.
     
  • Progress in Human Geography – publishes the most cutting-edge work in human geography, with papers indicating where and how geographical study can progress in the future.
     
  • Social and Cultural Geography – articles focus on the spatial dimensions informing both social and cultural life.
     
  • Tourism Geographies – papers consider tourism and leisure from a geographical perspective.
     
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers a landmark geography journal publishing high-quality papers across all areas of the discipline.
     
  • Urban Studies – the leading journal for debates concerning urban spaces and places; the urban condition, urban policies and planning; and regional and global connections.