Important Geographical Journals

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What follows is a listing of important academic journals devoted to geography. You should be able to find most in large academic (university) libraries at universities that include geography departments

General U.S.

Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Focus
Geographical Review
Journal of Geography
Landscape
National Geographic Research
National Geographic Magazine
Professional Geographer

General International

Area
Australian Geographer
Australian Geographical Studies
Canadian Geographer
Canadian Geographic
Geoforum
Geographical
Geography
Geographical Journal of RGS
GeoJournal
Institute of British Geographers. Transactions
New Zealand Geographer
New Zealand Journal of Geography

Human Geography

Economic Geography
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography
Journal of Cultural Geography
Journal of Historical Geography
Political Geography
Progress in Human Geography
Urban Geography

Human Geography Related

Annals of Tourism Research
Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
Demography
Economic Development and Cultural Change
Ekistics
Human Ecology
Journal of Regional Science
Journal of the American Institute of Planners
Land Economics
Landscape and Urban Planning
Nationalities Papers
Population and Development Review
International Journal of Population Geography
International Migration Review
Planning
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Regional Studies
Social Science and Medicine D: Medical Geography
Urban Affairs Quarterly
Urban Anthropology
Urban Studies

Physical Geography

Atmosphere-Ocean
Boundary-Layer Meteorology
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Geografiska Annaler. Series A. Physical Geography
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Journal of Biogeography
Journal of Climate
Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology
Journal of Hydrology
Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
Meteorological Magazine
Monthly Weather Review
Physical Geography
Progress in Physical Geography
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Weather
Weatherwise
World Meteorology Organization Bulletin
Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie
Zeitschrift fur Meteorologie

Physical Geography Related

Advances in Hydroscience
Biological Conservation
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
Canadian Journal of the Earth Sciences
Catena
Earth Science
Earth Science Reviews
The Ecologist
Ecology
Environment
Environmental Ethics
Environmental Pollution
International Journal of Environmental Studies
Journal of Glaciology
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Mazingira
Quarternary Research
Water Resources Bulletin
Water Resources Research
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Journal of the Soil Science Society of America
Restoration Ecology
Wild Earth

Other - Technique/Approach

Antipode
Applied Geography
Cartographic Journal
Cartographica
Cartography
Cartography and Geographic Information Systems
Geographical Analysis
Geoworld
Imago Mundi
ITC Journal
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
World Cartography

Region-Based

Annals of Arid Zones
Arctic
Arctic and Alpine Research
Australian Meteorology Magazine
China Geographer
Geographica Polanica
Polar Record
Post-Soviet Geography

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