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Progress in Geography
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Progress in Geography

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Published by: Progress in Geography

https://www.progressingeography.com/EN/home

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 508 14 16 5
Environmental Sciences 592 20 36 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 71
Documents by Best Scientists*: 92
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 26
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.62
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Progress in geography?

China, Hydrology, Land use, Environmental resource management and Economic geography are the subjects of interest in Progress in geography. The research on China tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Economic growth and Regional science. Specifically, studies on Urbanization are prevalent in the Economic growth works discussed.

Surface runoff and Drainage basin are all aspects of Hydrology discussed in the journal. Land use, land-use change and forestry, Land cover and Land development are all aspects of Land use research featured in the journal. The Environmental resource management study featured in it draws parallels with the field of Sustainable development.

  • China (15.95%)
  • Hydrology (10.15%)
  • Land use (9.01%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Decompositional Multiattribute Preference Models in Spatial Choice Analysis: A Review of Some Recent Developments: (96 citations)
  • Telecommunications and the Geography of Metropolitan Areas (58 citations)
  • Scientific understanding of the Belt and Road Initiative of China and related research themes (56 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Progress in geography:

The journal papers tackle a plethora of topics, such as Hydrology, China, Land use, Economic growth and Land cover. The journal papers feature works in Land use, more specifically Land use, land-use change and forestry, and explore their relation to disciplines like Macro. The most cited papers explore topics in Economic growth which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Regional science, Institution and Economic geography.

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

  • World War II
  • Ecology
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Progress in geography generally zeroes in on subjects such as China, Economic geography, Perspective (graphical), Socioeconomics and Physical geography. It connects the study in Economic geography with the closely related area of Spillover effect. Issues in Perspective (graphical) were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Mechanism (sociology), Spatial distribution and Environmental planning.

The journal explores issues in Socioeconomics which can be linked to other research areas like Poverty and Beijing. Glacier is a focus of the Physical geography works in it.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A factor-based theoretical analysis of urban-rural relationship change (1 citations)
  • Impact of high-speed railway network on inter-city connections and its heterogeneity:Taking Nanjing City as the center of network (1 citations)
  • Land consolidation and rural vitalization:A perspective of land use multifunctionality (1 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 Progress in geography (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Zhang Wenzhong (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Liu Weidong (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jin Fengjun (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Limnology, Cas, Nanjing , China (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Fang Chuang-lin (9 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 Progress in geography (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (244 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peking University (91 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Beijing Normal University (49 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Henan University (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sun Yat-sen University (29 papers) absent at the last 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, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% 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.

Top Publications

  • Research progress and prospect of land-use conflicts in China

    Lilin Zou;Yansui Liu;Yongsheng Wang

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Land consolidation and rural vitalization:A perspective of land use multifunctionality

    Yanfeng Jiang;Hualou Long;Yuting Tang

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Quantitative attribution of national key town layout based on geodetector and the geographically weighted regression model

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • Spatiotemporal evolution and driving factors of urban-rural integration in China

    (2023)
    13 Citations
  • Research progress on the arrangement of territorial ecological restoration

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Spatiotemporal pattern and spillover effects of inclusive green efficiency in China

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • A literature review of urban growth boundary: Theory, modeling, and effectiveness evaluation

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • Advances and prospects of livestock snow disaster mechanism research and risk assessment

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Identification and evolution of peri-urban areas in the context of urban-rural integrated development:A case study of Suzhou City

    Xia Liao;Tianheng Shu;Liyin Shen;Yitian Ren

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Comparison of the variation characteristics of water resource use efficiency indicators in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region

    (2021)
    7 Citations

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