“Progress in Human Geography is the first place I send my new graduate students and interested non-geography colleagues when they want to understand what's happening in the field. It is the perfect place to learn where the cutting edge of human geography is.”
Professor Sallie A Marston, Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona
For over 30 years Progress in Human Geography has been the journal of
choice for those wanting to know about the state-of-the-art in all of
human geography’s major research and teaching fields. It remains the
only journal in the social sciences and humanities dedicated to
publishing major reviews of geographical scholarship and pedagogy. It is
consistently among the most influential journals in human geography, and
each issue provides a ready guide to what ‘progress’ is being made in a
range of topical and sub-disciplinary areas within the discipline. As
well as publishing major critical reviews, each volume of PiHG contains
an attractive array of other sections and features. These include annual
‘Progress reports’ about established and new subject areas, a ‘Classics
in human geography’ section, a ‘Textbooks that move generations’
section, the invited commentaries that are ‘Viewpoints’, occasional
‘Forums’ on major topical items, book review essays and symposia, and a
‘Makers of human geography’ section. Together, these components of PiHG
make it perhaps the most lively and interesting journals of human
geography today – one that is both prospective and future-looking
without losing sight of the intellectual progress made by geographical
researchers and teachers to date.
Each editor has responsibility for one or more sections of the journal,
as well as handling several submissions to the journal every year l and
editing a set of annual Progress Reports. Currently, Noel Castree has
oversight for the Viewpoints and Forums sections; Anssi Paasi for book
reviews and book review symposia, as well as the Makers of Human
Geography section; Charles Withers for the Textbooks that Moved
Generations section and the Geobits (obituaries of deceased
geographers); Sarah Radliffe for the Classics in Human Geography
section; and Vicky Lawson for the suite of Progress Reports.
JCR Impact Factor
2007 Ranking:
3/44 in Geography
2007 Impact Factor: 3.762
Electronic access:
Progress in Human Geography is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://phg.sagepub.com