Here are a few examples of geography journals. You can locate other journals by using the journal locator.
Antipode: Peer reviewed coverage of radical geography theory and research, particularly that which contributes to politics and practice. The journals ecumenical approach aims to challenge and dominant orthodox views of the world through debate and scholarship.
Gender, Place, and Culture: This journal provides a forum for debate in human geography and related disciplines on theoretically-informed research concerned with gender issues. It also seeks to highlight the significance of such research for feminism and women's studies.
Professional Geographer: Publishes short articles of academic or applied geography, emphasizing empirical studies and methodologies, as well as book reviews.
Environment and Planning: An international and interdisciplinary journal that publishes theoretically innovative scholarship that examines the contingent and possible relations between the social and the spatial. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space is one of the journals within the Environment and Planning journal that focuses on society and space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space also has an online companion. To access the online companion website, click here: Society and Space.
Periodicals are publications that are published in a series such as magazines, academic journals, and newspapers. For example, Time, the Journal of Psychology, and the Chicago Tribune are considered periodicals. Periodicals are issued at regular intervals i.e. daily, weekly, monthly or periodically hence the name.
Scholarly journals are also called academic, peer-reviewed or refereed journals. These are journals that academics submit articles for other scholars, experts or academics peers in the field to review and comment. These reviewers must agree that the article represents properly conducted original research or writing before it can be published. LITS Tip: these are the sources that you will use for your research paper.
What to look for:
Examples of scholarly journals:
American Economic Review
Applied Geography
Archives of Sexual Behavior
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Theoretical Biology
For more information, check out this helpful guide from Cornell University: Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals
Clicking the MHC Get It button for an article will help you locate the full text.
Science Daily is one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites. Since starting in 1995, the award-winning site has earned the loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, educators and the general public around the world.
National Geographic gets you closer to the stories that matter. Through the world’s best scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, National Geographic captivates and entertains a global community through television channels, magazines, children’s media, travel expeditions, books, maps, consumer products, location-based entertainment and experiences, and some of the most engaging digital and social media platforms in the world.
LITS Tip: you can access National Geographic two different ways. The first link directs you to magazine issues dating back to 1888. The second link will direct you to the online publication.
