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Area

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 425 24 31 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 51
Documents by Best Scientists*: 54
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 101
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.899
Impact Factor: 2.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Area?

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Gender studies, Social science, Politics, Context (language use) and Economic growth. Human geography is a primary topic of Social science research in the journal.

  • Gender studies (9.63%)
  • Social science (9.53%)
  • Politics (9.33%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Assemblage and geography (449 citations)
  • After or beyond feeling? A consideration of affect and emotion in geography (406 citations)
  • The forest transition: a theoretical basis (368 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Area:

The published papers tackle a plethora of topics, such as Gender studies, Social science, Epistemology, Politics and Context (language use). The studies on Gender studies discussed at the most cited papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Space (commercial competition) and Ethnography. The most cited articles hold forums on Social science that merge themes from other disciplines such as Aesthetics and Environmental ethics.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • World War II
  • Law
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal facilitates discussions on Climate change, Politics, Public relations, Environmental ethics and Epistemology. It focuses on Climate change but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Political economy and Adaptation (computer science). The Politics works featured in it incorporate elements from Media studies, Space (commercial competition) and Embodied cognition.

The research on Public relations featured in Area combines topics in other fields like Reflexivity and Process (engineering). It tackles research works in Environmental ethics as well as Socio ecological.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Disintegrating labour relations and depoliticised adaptation to climate change in rural São Tomé and Príncipe (5 citations)
  • Geographies of education: A journey (3 citations)
  • The geographers in the cupboard: Narrating the history of Geography using undergraduate dissertations (3 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Area (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Alessandro Massarente (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Rachel Pain (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter Hopkins (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • M. Argenti (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael J. Bradshaw (10 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Area (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Durham University (57 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Newcastle University (51 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Sheffield (46 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Loughborough University (42 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University College London (42 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 24.21% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.68% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 22.11% of all publications and 40.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Islands of vulnerability and resilience: Manufactured stereotypes?

    Ilan Kelman;Ilan Kelman

    (2020)
    59 Citations
  • Mining in Africa after the supercycle: New directions and geographies

    Andrew Bowman;Tomas Frederiksen;Deborah Fahy Bryceson;John Childs

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Poverty, Adaptation and Vulnerability: An Assessment of Women’s Work in Ghana’s Artisanal Gold Mining Sector

    Cynthia Kumah;Gavin Hilson;Ishmael Quaicoe

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • A regional geography of gentrification, displacement, and the suburbanisation of poverty: Towards an extended research agenda

    Cody Hochstenbach;Sako Musterd

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Geographies of education: A journey

    Peter Kraftl;William Andrews;Suzanne Beech;Giulia Ceresa

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Shealing: Post‐disaster slow healing and later recovery

    Kasia Mika;Kasia Mika;Ilan Kelman;Ilan Kelman

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • COVID‐19, commuter territories and the e‐bike boom

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • The geography of Australia's Marriage Law Postal Survey outcome

    Thomas Wilson;Fiona Shalley;Francisco Perales

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Courtwatching: Visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment in legal activism

    Nick Gill;Jo Hynes

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Classics Revisited: ‘Muddy Glee’ What geography fieldwork means in the current moment

    (2022)
    10 Citations

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