The Professional Geographer

3.4k papers and 62.7k indexed citations

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The 3.4k papers published in The Professional Geographer in the last decades have received a total of 62.7k indexed citations. Papers published in The Professional Geographer usually cover Sociology and Political Science (810 papers), Geography, Planning and Development (651 papers) and Economics and Econometrics (390 papers) specifically the topics of Geographic Information Systems Studies (334 papers), Geography Education and Pedagogy (244 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (223 papers). The most active scholars publishing in The Professional Geographer are Kim England, Mei‐Po Kwan, Gill Valentine, B. L. Turner, Jeffrey R. Crump, Arch C. Gerlach, Jeremy Mennis, John E. Oliver, Rüth Wilson Gilmore and Richard Hartshorne.

In The Last Decade

The Professional Geographer

2.5k papers receiving 50.0k citations

Countries where authors publish in The Professional Geographer

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in The Professional Geographer. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in The Professional Geographer with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites The Professional Geographer more than expected).

Fields of papers published in The Professional Geographer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in The Professional Geographer. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in The Professional Geographer.

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