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Best Geography, Planning and Development journals

864 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Geography, Planning and Development. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Sustainability 44.1 99th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
2 Business Strategy and the Environment 23.8 99th Q1 SSCI A No
3 Journal of Tourism Futures 23.1 99th Q1 ESCI B Yes
4 Journal of Sustainable Tourism 22.8 99th Q1 SSCI A* No
5 Journal of Travel Research 22.7 99th Q1 SSCI A* No
6 Sustainable Cities and Society 22.3 99th Q1 SCIE No
7 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 20.4 99th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
8 Environmental Impact Assessment Review 19.6 99th Q1 SSCI No
9 Global Environmental Change 19.2 99th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
10 Tourism Review 18.8 98th Q1 SSCI A No
11 Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 17.3 98th Q1 SSCI No
12 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 16.7 98th Q1 SCIE No
13 Economic Geography 15.9 98th Q1 SSCI A No
14 Building and Environment 15 98th Q1 SCIE No
15 Progress in Human Geography 14.9 98th Q1 SSCI No
16 Progress in Planning 14.3 98th Q1 SSCI No
17 Land Use Policy 14 98th Q1 SSCI A No
18 Current Issues in Tourism 13.7 98th Q1 SSCI A No
19 Ecosystem Services 13.7 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
20 Ambio 13.6 97th Q1 SCIE No
21 Long Range Planning 12.6 97th Q1 SSCI A* No
22 Weather and Climate Extremes 12.6 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
23 Sustainability Science 12.4 97th Q1 SCIE No
24 Water Resources and Industry 12.4 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
25 Urban Climate 12.2 97th Q1 SCIE No
26 Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 11.9 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI C No
27 Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis 11.8 96th Q1 ESCI No
28 Tourism Geographies 11.7 96th Q1 SSCI A No
29 Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 11.6 96th Q1 SSCI B No
30 Environment, Development and Sustainability 11.6 96th Q1 SCIE No
31 Journal of Remote Sensing (United States) 11.4 96th Q1 ESCI Yes
32 Tourism Recreation Research 11.3 96th Q1 ESCI A No
33 Geography and Sustainability 11.3 96th Q1 ESCI Yes
34 Environmental Science and Policy 11.1 96th Q1 SCIE No
35 Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment 11 96th Q1 No
36 Journal of Planning Literature 11 95th Q1 SSCI No
37 International Journal of Geographical Information Science 10.9 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
38 Journal of Rural Studies 10.9 95th Q1 SSCI No
39 Multimodal Transportation 10.9 95th Q1 ESCI Yes
40 Geocarto International 10.8 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
41 Groundwater for Sustainable Development 10.7 95th Q1 ESCI No
42 Climate Risk Management 10.4 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
43 Transport Policy 10.3 95th Q1 SSCI A No
44 Travel Behaviour and Society 10.3 95th Q1 SSCI A No
45 Maritime Policy and Management 10.3 94th Q1 SSCI B No
46 Environment and Planning A 10.2 94th Q1 SSCI A* No
47 Tourism and Hospitality Research 10.2 94th Q1 ESCI B No
48 Dialogues in Human Geography 10.2 94th Q1 SSCI No
49 Geo-Spatial Information Science 10.2 94th Q1 SCIE Yes
50 International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks 10.2 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
51 Journal of Transport Geography 10 94th Q1 SSCI A No
52 Tourism Economics 10 94th Q1 SSCI A No
53 Applied Geography 10 94th Q1 SSCI No
54 Energy for Sustainable Development 9.9 93th Q1 SCIE No
55 ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 9.9 93th Q1 ESCI Yes
56 Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 9.7 93th Q1 SSCI B No
57 International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 9.7 93th Q1 SSCI B No
58 Geographical Analysis 9.7 93th Q1 SSCI No
59 Natural Hazards Research 9.7 93th Q1 ESCI Yes
60 Geopolitics 9.6 93th Q1 SSCI No
61 New Political Economy 9.5 93th Q1 SSCI A No
62 World Development 9.3 92th Q1 SSCI A* No
63 Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 9.2 92th Q1 ESCI Yes
64 Climate and Development 9.1 92th Q1 SSCI B No
65 Political Geography 9.1 92th Q1 SSCI No
66 Regional Sustainability 8.9 92th Q1 ESCI Yes
67 Sustainability (Switzerland) 8.9 92th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
68 Journal of Urban Mobility 8.8 92th Q1 ESCI Yes
69 World Development Sustainability 8.8 92th Q1 Yes
70 European Planning Studies 8.7 92th Q1 SSCI No
71 Research in Globalization 8.7 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
72 International Journal of Tourism Cities 8.6 91th Q1 ESCI B No
73 Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 8.5 91th Q1 SSCI No
74 Environmental Development 8.5 91th Q1 SCIE No
75 Journal of Urban Management 8.5 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
76 Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights 8.4 91th Q1 ESCI B Yes
77 Journal of Ecotourism 8.4 91th Q1 ESCI B No
78 International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 8.4 91th Q1 SSCI Yes
79 Journal of the American Planning Association 8.4 91th Q1 SSCI No
80 Cleaner and Responsible Consumption 8.4 90th Q1 ESCI Yes
81 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 8.4 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
82 Progress in Environmental Geography 8.3 90th Q1 No
83 Aquaculture Economics and Management 8.2 90th Q1 SCIE C No
84 Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 8.1 90th Q1 ESCI No
85 Extractive Industries and Society 8 90th Q1 SSCI No
86 Mineral Economics 7.9 90th Q1 ESCI C No
87 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 7.9 90th Q1 SSCI No
88 Planning Theory 7.8 90th Q1 SSCI No
89 Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica 7.8 89th Q1 No
90 International Journal of Urban Sciences 7.7 89th Q1 SSCI No
91 Environmental Policy and Governance 7.6 89th Q1 SSCI No
92 Progress in Physical Geography 7.6 89th Q1 SCIE No
93 Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events 7.5 89th Q1 ESCI B No
94 Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 7.5 89th Q1 SSCI No
95 Earth System Governance 7.4 89th Q1 ESCI Yes
96 Health and Place 7.4 89th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
97 Urban Geography 7.4 88th Q1 SSCI No
98 Agriculture and Human Values 7.3 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
99 Annals of the American Association of Geographers 7.3 88th Q1 SSCI No
100 Folia Geographica 7.3 88th Q1 ESCI Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Geography, Planning and Development Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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