Geography
Most Cited & ISI Rankings
Most Cited & ISI Rankings
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> 20 journals ranked in Geography including top ranked journals of the RGS-IBG Transactions of the IBG and The Geographical Journal
> 7 journals ranked in Geography, Physical including the number one journal Global Ecology and Biogeography and Journal of Biogeography #3
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The collection below features highly cited articles from Wiley’s ISI-ranked titles in Geography and Geography, Physical

Impact Factor: 2.413
15/79 (Geography)
The Urban Injustices of New Labour's "New Urban Renewal": The Case of the Aylesbury Estate in London
Loretta Lees
Provincializing Urban Political Ecology: Towards a Situated UPE Through African Urbanism
Mary Lawhon, Henrik Ernstson, Jonathan Silver
The Myth of "Broken Britain": Welfare Reform and the Production of Ignorance
Tom Slater
Impact Factor: 1.755
30/79 (Geography)
Partnership funding in flood risk management: new localism debate and policy in England
Thomas Thaler, Sally Priest
Practising participatory geographies: potentials, problems and politics
Sophie Wynne-Jones, Peter North, Paul Routledge
Land grabbing as a driver of environmental change
Eli D Lazarus
Impact Factor: 1.212
6/69 (Area Studies); 44/79 (Geography)
Making REDD plus pay: Shifting rationales and tactics of private finance and the governance of avoided deforestation in Indonesia
Rini Astuti, Andrew McGregor
Analysing access to the local REDD plus benefits of Sungai Lamandau, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Peter Howson, Sara Kindon
The idea of 'Country': Reframing post-disaster recovery in Indigenous Taiwan settings
Minna Hsu, Richard Howitt, Chun-Chieh Chi
Impact Factor: 2.348
26/49 (Geography Physical); 67/188 (Geosciences Multidisciplinary)
The last Eurasian ice sheets - a chronological database and time-slice reconstruction, DATED-1
Anna L. C. Hughes, Richard Gyllencreutz, Øystein S. Lohne, Jan Mangerud, John Inge Svendsen
The Last Permafrost Maximum (LPM) map of the Northern Hemisphere: permafrost extent and mean annual air temperatures, 25-17ka BP
Jef Vandenberghe, Hugh M. French, Aldar Gorbunov, Sergei Marchenko, Andrey A. Velichko, Huijun Jin, Zhijiu Cui, Tingjun Zhang, Xudong Wan
A Be-10-based reconstruction of the last deglaciation in southern Sweden
Johanna Anjar, Nicolaj K. Larsen, Lena Håkansson, Per Möller, Henriette Linge, Derek Fabel, Sheng Xu
Impact Factor: 0.896
55/79 (Geography)
Crowdsourced mapping of land use in urban dense environments: An assessment of Toronto
Eric Vaz, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
Geocoding for public health research: Empirical comparison of two geocoding services applied to Canadian cities
Tayyab Ikram Shah, Scott Bell, Kathi Wilson
Intervention: Critical physical geography
Rebecca Lave, Matthew W. Wilson, Elizabeth S. Barron, Christine Biermann, Mark A. Carey, Chris S. Duvall, Leigh Johnson, K. Maria Lane, Nathan McClintock, Darla Munroe, Rachel Pain, James Proctor, Bruce L. Rhoads, Morgan M. Robertson, Jairus Rossi, Nathan F. Sayre, Gregory Simon, Marc Tadaki, Christopher Van Dyke
Impact Factor: 3.697
8/49 (Geography Physical); 22/188 (Geosciences Multidisciplinary)
Plants as river system engineers
Angela Gurnell
Size, shape and spatial arrangement of mega-scale glacial lineations from a large and diverse dataset
Matteo Spagnolo, Chris D. Clark, Jeremy C. Ely, Chris R. Stokes, John B. Anderson, Karin Andreassen, Alastair G. C. Graham, Edward C. King
Mitigating systematic error in topographic models derived from UAV and ground-based image networks
Mike R. James, Stuart Robson

Impact Factor: 1.905
27/79 (Geography)
Spatial Autoregressive Models for Geographically Hierarchical Data Structures
Guanpeng Dong, Richard Harris
A Dynamic Spatial Weight Matrix and Localized Space-Time Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average for Network Modeling
Tao Cheng, Jiaqiu Wang, James Haworth, Benjamin Heydecker, Andy Chow
Evaluating Polygon Overlay to Support Spatial Optimization Coverage Modeling
Ran Wei, Alan T. Murray

Impact Factor: 3.132
7/79 (Geography)
Resilience and responsibility: governing uncertainty in a complex world
Marc Welsh
Geographies of UK flooding in 2013/4
Colin Thorne
Intimate encounters: the negotiation of difference within the family and its implications for social relations in public space
Gill Valentine, Aneta Piekut, Catherine Harris

Impact Factor: 1.677
33/79 (Geography)
Renting Over Troubled Waters: An Urban Political Ecology of Rental Housing
Kathleen J. Mee, Lesley Instone, Miriam Williams, Jane Palmer, Nicola Vaughan
Geography and Global Change Science: Relationships Necessary, Absent, and Possible
Noel Castree
Gendered Risk Engagement: Challenging the Embedded Vulnerability, Social Norms and Power Relations in Conventional Australian Bushfire Education
Christine Eriksen
Zone Fever, Project Fever: Development Policy, Economic Transition, and Urban Expansion in China
Yehua Dennis Wei
Urban Heat and Climate Justice: A Landscape of Thermal Inequity in Pinellas County, Florida
Bruce Coffyn Mitchell, Jayajit Chakraborty
High Points: An Historical Geography of Cannabis
Barney Warf

Impact Factor: 6.045
2/49 (Geography Physical); 10/153 (Ecology)
Interpreting the replacement and richness difference components of beta diversity
Pierre Legendre
Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites
The n-dimensional hypervolume
Benjamin Blonder, Christine Lamanna, Cyrille Violle, Brian J. Enquist

Impact Factor: 1.359
29/82 (Anthropology); 37/79 (Geography); 46/143 (Sociology)
French connections: the networking strategies of French highly skilled migrants in London
Louise Ryan, Jon Mulholland
Forced transnationalism: transnational coping strategies and gendered stigma among Jamaican deportees
Tanya Golash-Boza
Rewiring global networks at local events: congresses in the stock photo trade
Robert Panitz, Johannes Glückler

Impact Factor: 4.248
6/49 (Geography Physical); 26/153 (Ecology)
Making better MAXENT models of species distributions: complexity, overfitting and evaluation
Aleksandar Radosavljevic, Robert P. Anderson
Why are there so many species in the tropics?
James H. Brown
Dispersal strength determines meta-community structure in a dendritic riverine network
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, Kate S. Boersma, Michael T. Bogan, Julian D. Olden, Ivan Phillipsen, Tiffany A. Schriever, David A. Lytle
Impact Factor: 0.455
72/79 (Geography)
Truncated dunes as evidence of the 2004 tsunami in North Sumatra and environmental recovery post-tsunami
Claire Kain, Christopher Gomez, Patrick Wassmer, Franck Lavigne, Deirdre Hart
The construction of human-animal relations: National Jumps Day 2013 at Te Rapa, Hamilton, New Zealand
Phil McManus, Raewyn Graham, Karen Ruse
Who's in and who's out? Inclusion and exclusion in Canterbury's freshwater governance
Sylvia Nissen

Impact Factor: 1.272
42/79 (Geography); 77/105 (Environmental Studies); 121/347 (Economics)
Spatial patterns and determinants of skilled internal migration in China, 2000-2005
Ye Liu, Jianfa Shen
Fiscal decentralization and regional disparities: The importance of good governance
Andreas P. Kyriscou, Leonel Muinelo-Gallo, Oriol Roca-Sagalés
The impact of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail on residential property appreciation
Kyeongsu Kim, Michael L. Lahr

Impact Factor: 2.815
6/47 (Geology); 16/49 (Geography Physical)
Cryostratigraphy and Permafrost Evolution in the Lacustrine Lowlands of West- Central Alaska
Mikhail Kanevskiy, Torre Jorgenson, Yuri Shur, Jonathan A. O'Donnell, Jennifer W. Harden, Qianlai Zhuang, Daniel Fortier
Quantifying Wedge-Ice Volumes in Yedoma and Thermokarst Basin Deposits
Mathias Ulrich, Guido Grosse, Jens Strauss, Lutz Schirrmeister
Observing a Catastrophic Thermokarst Lake Drainage in Northern Alaska
Benjamin M. Jones, Christopher D. Arp

29/49 (Geography, Physical)
Impact Factor: 1.622
State of the art in high density image matching
Fabio Remondino, Maria Grazia Spera, Erica Nocerino, Fabio Menna, Francesco Nex
Development and Status of Image Matching in Photogrammetry
Armin Guuen

Impact Factor: 1.683
8/26 (Demography); 32/79 (Geography)
Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Analysis of the Determinants of Intra-European Student Mobility
Christof Van Mol, Christiane Timmerman
Rural Outmigration, Natural Capital, and Livelihoods in South Africa
Lori M. Hunter, Raphael Nawrotzki, Stefan Leyk, Galen J. Maclaurin, Wayne Twine, Mark Collinson, Barend Erasmus
Reducing Depopulation in Rural Spain: The Impact of Immigration
Fernando Collantes, Vicente Pinilla, Luis Antonio Sáez, Javier Silvestre

Impact Factor: 1.277
40/79 (Geography)
Subaltern geographies: Geographical knowledge and postcolonial strategy
Tariq Jazeel
Coproducing urban space: Rethinking the formal/informal dichotomy
Martijn Koster, Monique Nuijten

Impact Factor: 1.698
31/79 (Geography); 35/143 (Sociology)
Problematising the Suicides of Older Male Farmers: Subjective, Social and Cultural Considerations
Bridget Garnham, Lia Bryant
The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Developing Networks for Sustainable Agriculture
Nigel Curry, James Kirwan
Introducing "Seeds of Change' into the Food System? Localisation Strategies in the Swiss Dairy Industry
Jérémie Forney, Isabel Häberli

Impact Factor: 1.122
46/79 (Geography); 139/347 (Economics)
From Yuppies to Yupps: Family Gentrifiers Consuming Spaces and Re-inventing Cities
Lia Karsten
World City Network Research at a Theoretical Impasse: On the Need to Re-establish Qualitative Approaches to Understand Agency in World City Networks
Allan Watson, Jonathan V. Beaverstock
A Process of Change and a Changing Process: Introduction to the Special Issue on Contemporary Gentrification
Brian Doucet

Impact Factor: 2.727
10/79 (Geography)
What is land? Assembling a resource for global investment
Tania Murray Li
Wild experiments at the Oostvaardersplassen: rethinking environmentalism in the Anthropocene
Jamie Lorimer, Clemens Driessen
Disabilities in academic workplaces: experiences of human and physical geographers
John Horton, Faith Tucker

Impact Factor: 2.252
20/79 (Geography)
A Comprehensive Framework for Intrinsic OpenStreetMap Quality Analysis
Christopher Barron, Pascal Neis, Alexander Zipf
Opportunities and Impediments for Open GIS
Daniel Sui
How to Apply the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) Properly to Parallel Geospatial Raster I/O?
Cheng-Zhi Qin, Li-Jun Zhan, A-Xing Zhu
Urban Studies
City & Community
Impact Factor: 0.541
32/38 (Urban Studies); 107/143 (Sociology)
Parks for Profit: The High Line, Growth Machines, and the Uneven Development of Urban Public Spaces
Kevin Loughran
Moving for the Kids: Examining the Influence of Children on White Residential Segregation
Kimberly Goyette, John Iceland, Elliot Weininger
Do-It-Yourself Urban Design: The Social Practice of Informal "Improvement" Through Unauthorized Alteration
Gordon C. C. Douglas
IJURR
Impact Factor: 2.181
5/38 (Urban Studies); 10/55 (Planning & Development); 21/79 (Geography)
The 'Urban Age' in Question
Neil Brenner, Christian Schmid
THE NATURE OF CITIES: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory
Allen J. Scott, Michael Storper
Gentrification in Spain and Latin America - a Critical Dialogue
Michael Janoschka, Jorge Sequera, Luis Salinas
Real Estate Economics
Impact Factor: 0.758
30/38 (Urban Studies); 65/96 (Business Finance); 204/347 (Economics)
Bidding Wars for Houses
Lu Han, William C. Strange
Speculators and Price Overreaction in the Housing Market
Yuming Fu, Wenlan Qian
Contagion Channels between Real Estate and Financial Markets
Martin Hoesli, Kustrim Reka






