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Geography Teacher

Routledge · United States · Est. 2004

ISSN1752-6884

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.222

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.4

Total Worksi

609

Total Citationsi

1,125

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.43

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

The Geography Teacher provides a forum for educators and scholars to present innovative teaching strategies and essential content for elementary and secondary geography, AP Human Geography, and introductory college geography. The journal invites scholarly work in the areas of how students learn and instructors teach geography.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2004

Annual Volume~ 40 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications609

Publisher OrgRoutledge

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1752-6884

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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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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

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

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

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2019

129

2020

102

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

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

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Q3

EducationQ3

Geography, Planning and DevelopmentQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Geography, Planning and DevelopmentEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Geography Education and PedagogyEducator Training and Historical PedagogyGeographic Information Systems StudiesDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesDiverse Educational Innovations StudiesEducational Robotics and EngineeringHuman auditory perception and evaluationHistorical Geography and Geographical ThoughtGeography and Education MethodsIndigenous and Place-Based Education

Frequently asked questions about Geography Teacher

Is Geography Teacher a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Geography Teacher: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Geography Teacher?

Geography Teacher is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.222.

Is Geography Teacher indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Geography Teacher is indexed in Scopus.