The Professional Geographer

The Professional Geographer is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal publishing short articles on all aspects of geography. The journal is published by Taylor and Francis on behalf of the American Association of Geographers. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.411, ranking it 46th out of 85 journals in the category "Geography".^[2]

The Professional Geographer

Discipline	Geography
Language	English
Edited by	Heejun Chang
Publication details
History	1949-present
Publisher	Routledge on behalf of the Association of American Geographers (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	2.411 [1] (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Prof. Geogr.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	PFGGAC
ISSN	0033-0124 (print) 1467-9272 (web)
LCCN	52048680
OCLC no.	311148488
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Every year, the journal publishes a special section with papers that were finalists for the J. Warren Nystrom Award, given to the best paper based upon a recent dissertation in geography.^[3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Academic ASAP
• Bibliography and Index of Geology
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Science
• EBSCO databases
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
• GEOBASE
• GeoRef
• InfoTrac OneFile
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
• Social Sciences Citation Index