Applied Geography

Applied Geography

Discipline	Human geography
Language	English
Edited  by	Jian Peng and Yehua Dennis Wei
Publication details
History	1981–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	4.240 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Appl. Geogr.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	0143-6228
LCCN	84641848
OCLC  no.	663066772
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Applied Geography is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. ^[1] The journal covers research that applies geographic methods to solve human problems, including human geography, physical geography, and geographical information system science. ^[2]

The co-editors-in-chief are Jian Peng (Peking University) and Yehua Dennis Wei (University of Utah). ^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents
• Ecological Abstracts
• Elsevier BIOBASE
• Envirofiche
• Environmental Abstracts
• GeoRef
• Geographical Abstracts
• International Development Abstracts
• Oceanographic Literature Review
• Scopus
• Social Sciences Citation Index

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.240.

References

1. Juhász, Levente (2024). "Assessing publication trends in selected GIScience journals". International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 38 (8): 1443–1467. doi:10.1080/13658816.2024.2347306.
2. "Applied Geography". ScienceDirect. Retrieved 2025-09-21.

External links

• Official website