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The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien
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The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 685 18 31 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 35
Documents by Best Scientists*: 56
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 1.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Canadian Geographer?

Ethnology, Humanities, Cartography, Media studies and Forestry are among the topics commonly tackled in Canadian Geographer. The journal focuses on Media studies as well as the interrelated topic of Art history.

  • Ethnology (16.18%)
  • Humanities (13.59%)
  • Cartography (6.00%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The concept of a tourist area cycle of evolution: implications for management of resources. (2938 citations)
  • THE TOURISM CLIMATIC INDEX: A METHOD OF EVALUATING WORLD CLIMATES FOR TOURISM (347 citations)
  • VEGETATION AND RIVER CHANNEL DYNAMICS (271 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Canadian Geographer:

The published articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Ethnology, Humanities, Context (language use), Politics and Cartography. The studies on Ethnology discussed at the journal articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Indigenous, Forestry, Immigration and Settlement (litigation). The journal papers focus on Immigration but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Metropolitan area and Refugee.

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:

Canadian Geographer focuses largely on the fields of Criminalization, Religious studies, Indigenous, Economic history and Humanities. It explores the study of Criminalization to improve our understanding of the broader topic of Criminology. In Canadian Geographer, Turtle (robot), Fishery and Ethnology are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Indigenous research.

It facilitates discussions on Ethnology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Epidemiological transition, Foodways, Immigration, Metis and Food security. The work on Economic history tackled in Canadian Geographer brings together disciplines like Futures contract, Neoliberalism (international relations), Colombie britannique and Global city. The research on Humanities featured in it combines topics in other fields like Subaltern and Emancipation.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Gwaabaw: Applying Anishinaabe harvesting protocols to energy governance (4 citations)
  • Assessing climate change adaptation progress in Canada's protected areas (3 citations)
  • Supporting food security for Indigenous families through the restoration of Indigenous foodways (2 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 Canadian Geographer (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Richard Harris (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Glen Norcliffe (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Roger Hayter (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Richard Shearmur (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Louis-Edmond Hamelin (11 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 Canadian Geographer (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Toronto (184 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of British Columbia (164 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • McMaster University (120 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Waterloo (103 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • York University (103 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 6 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, 3.08% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 41.27% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.29% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.05% of all publications and 25.40% 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

  • Geographic accessibility to primary care providers: Comparing rural and urban areas in Southwestern Ontario

    Tayyab I. Shah;Tayyab I. Shah;Andrew F. Clark;Jamie A. Seabrook;Shannon Sibbald

    (2020)
    50 Citations
  • Indigenous learning on Turtle Island: A review of the literature on land-based learning

    Andrea Bowra;Angela Mashford‐Pringle;Blake Poland

    (2021)
    37 Citations
  • Mapping the uneven geographies of digital phenomena: The case of blockchain

    (2021)
    34 Citations
  • Analyzing disparities in transit-based healthcare accessibility in the Chicago Metropolitan Area

    Dong Liu;Dong Liu;Mei-Po Kwan;Mei-Po Kwan;Zihan Kan

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • An ecological systems analysis of food access barriers and coping strategies adopted by older adults in Ghana

    (2021)
    19 Citations
  • Pathways of crime: Measuring crime concentration along urban roadways

    Kathryn Wuschke;Martin A. Andresen;Martin A. Andresen;Patricia L. Brantingham

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • A comparison of young and older adults’ attitudes and preferences towards different travel modes and residential characteristics: A study in Hamilton, Ontario

    (2022)
    9 Citations
  • Places of paid work and unpaid work: Caregiving and work‐from‐home during COVID‐19

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • What does community‐embedded care mean to aging‐in‐place in China? A relational approach

    Yuan Li;Jie Yu;Xiaolu Gao;Mark W. Rosenberg

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Long‐term trends in health status and determinants of health among the off‐reserve Indigenous population in Canada, 1991–2012

    Darius Wrathall;Kathi Wilson;Mark W. Rosenberg;Marcie Snyder

    (2020)
    6 Citations

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