About the journal
Progress in Physical Geography (full title: Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment) is the flagship review journal in physical geography. Founded under Edward Arnold in 1977 with Sir Ronald U. Cooke (University College London) among the founding editors, the journal was designed as the physical-geography counterpart to Progress in Human Geography — the two together giving the discipline a pair of review periodicals to cover its sub-disciplinary breadth.
Editorial scope covers geomorphology (fluvial, glacial, coastal, aeolian, biogeomorphology), biogeography and ecological geography, hydrology and soils, palaeoenvironmental research, climatology and climate change, and the methodological frontiers of remote sensing and geographical information science as applied to physical geographic problems. The journal's signature format is the "Progress Report" — a regularly commissioned long-form review surveying recent work in a specific sub-field — alongside research-led reviews and methodological synthesis articles.
Transferred to SAGE Publications in the 2006 Hodder Arnold journal-list sale, the journal has continued without editorial disruption and remains one of the highest-cited periodicals in the geographical sciences.
Scope
- geomorphology
- biogeography
- palaeoenvironmental research
- hydrology and soils
Editorial contributors
- Sir Ronald U. Cooke
Founding Editor (from 1977)
Indexing & abstracting
- Scopus
- Web of Science (SCI-Expanded)
- GEOBASE
- Current Contents
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. Phys. Geogr.
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