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Geoforum

Elsevier B.V. · United Kingdom

ISSN0016-7185eISSN1872-9398

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

/ 100

Medium Risk

Score Breakdown

✓ WoS SCIE/SSCI+25

✓ Scopus Q1+25

Total50

Journal Impact Factor

This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗

SJR Score

1.345

H-Index

182

CiteScore

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Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIP

1.676

Total Works

6,040

Total Citations

207,035

2yr Mean Citedness

2.54

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Aims & Scope✦ Inferred from recent articles

This journal publishes research on the spatial dimensions of social, economic, and environmental justice, focusing on how inequalities are produced, experienced, and contested in diverse geographical contexts. Articles examine issues such as territorial stigma, urban community gardens as infrastructures of care, geographical indications and rural development, the merging of home and work, energy justice for marginalized groups, backlash politics against climate transitions, the colonial logic of green extraction, housing discrimination, and waterfront regeneration.

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⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

SJR Rank

Top 25% in field

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary Language—

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 213 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications6,040

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelHybrid

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Review Time—

Acceptance Rate—

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Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

⚡ Hybrid journal — subscription model available.

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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5/12 · 42%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier B.V.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0016-7185 / 1872-9398

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Times cited

2019

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2026

Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Sociology and Political ScienceQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Geography

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Water Governance and InfrastructureGeographies of human-animal interactionsAgriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentUrban Planning and GovernanceConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management