About the journal
Progress in Human Geography is the flagship review journal in human geography. Founded at Edward Arnold in 1977 as the human-geography counterpart to Progress in Physical Geography, the journal has been since launch one of the most-cited periodicals in the geographical sciences and the principal venue for long-form review essays surveying the state of the discipline.
Editorial scope spans the full breadth of human geography: political geography, economic geography and the cultural-economy literature, urban studies and the geography of the contemporary city, environmental geography and the human dimensions of climate change, development geography, geographies of health and care, feminist and queer geographies, and the methodological frontiers of the discipline. The journal's signature format is the "Progress Report" — a regularly commissioned long-form survey of a sub-field's recent work, written by a senior figure in that area and rotated on a three-year cycle.
Edited for an extended period by Ron Johnston (University of Bristol) among other editors, the journal was transferred to SAGE Publications in the 2006 Hodder Arnold journal-list sale and has continued under SAGE with its review-essay format intact.
Scope
- critical review essays in human geography
- political, economic and cultural geography
- environment, development and urban theory
Editorial contributors
- Ron Johnston
Co-Editor (1979–2006)
Indexing & abstracting
- Scopus
- Web of Science (SSCI)
- GEOBASE
- IBSS
Indexing coverage reflects the journal’s inclusion in standard bibliographic databases during the Arnold imprint years and (where applicable) under subsequent publishers.
Bibliographic identifiers
- ISO 4 abbreviation
- Prog. Hum. Geogr.
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