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One of the world’s leading geography journals since 1911, AAG’s flagship publication publishes original, timely, and innovative articles that advance geographic knowledge in all facets of the discipline. Articles adhere to a high standard of scholarship and make an important contribution to geographic knowledge. They are grounded in the relevant literature of the specialization it represents and, where appropriate, establish relationships to themes within the broader discipline. Journal articles span across but are not limited to Geographic Methods; Human Geography; Nature and Society; and Physical Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Published 10 times a year, one special issue is dedicated to a single theme drawing on a diversity of papers from across the discipline.
Impact Factor: 3.9, ranking 18th out of 86 geography journals worldwide
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Read the Journal- Geographies of Waiting: Politics, Methods, and Praxis—A Case Study of Indian Railway Stations
- Protected Truths: Neoextractivism, Conservation, and the Rise of Posttruth Politics in Brazil
- Forests of Fear: Illegal Logging, Criminalization, and Violence in the Carpathian Mountains
- Red or Expert: Reforming Geographers in Communist China, 1949–1953
- Ellen Churchill Semple’s Political Economy: Slavery, Frontier, Imperium
- Evolving Coagency between Artists and AI in the Spatial Cocreative Process of Artmaking
- Geographies of Hegemonic Gay Masculinity: Interplays of Trans and Racialized In/Exclusions in the Gay Village of Toronto
- Geoforensics with Pollen Quantification: A Spatial Perspective
- Geographic Isolation and Vulnerability Across Peru’s Ecological Regions: The Influence of Regional Contexts of Extraction
- Urban Mobility and Knowledge Extraction from Chaotic Time Series Data: A Comparative Analysis for Uncovering COVID-19 Effects
- Disruption and Control: Contesting Mobilities through the Picket Line
- Accumulated Cyclone Energy-Based Tropical Cyclone Return Periods in Florida
- At a Loss at the Loss at Sea: Families of the Missing Migrants of the Mediterranean and the (Bermuda) Triangle of Space, Articulation, and Justice
- Spatiotemporal Transmission Model to Simulate an Interregional Epidemic Spreading
- Reproducing the Plantation
- Reconsidering the “Nature” of Agriculture: Racial Capitalism, H-2A Labor, and Political Ecologies of Extreme Heat in Georgia
- More-Than-Climate Temporalities of Loss and Damage in Australia
- Hal Baron as Radical Geographer: Institutions, Geopolitics, and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism
- Information Consistency-Based Measures for Spatial Stratified Heterogeneity
- Transnational Affective Circuitry: Public Information Campaigns, Affective Governmentality, and Border Enforcement
- Measuring the Unmeasurable: Models of Geographical Context
- From Proximity to Quality: The Capitalization of Public Facilities into Housing Prices
- Uneven Geographies of the Embodied Effects of Water Insecurity Among Women Irrigators in Northern Ghana
- A Cross-Scale Representation of Tourist Activity Space
- Mapping in an Echo Chamber: How Cartographic Silence Frames Conservative Media’s Climate Change Denial
- Four Fundamental Questions to Evaluate Land Change Models with an Illustration of a Cellular Automata–Markov Model
- Lake Atotonilco: A First Approach to Determining the Minimum Lake Level Necessary to Sustain Its Biodiversity
- Understanding Social Inequality in Individual Perceived Exposures to Air Pollution in Residential and Visited Neighborhoods: A Study Using Association Rule Mining
- Feminist Agroecology Viewed through the Lens of the Plantationocene
- Plantationocene and Contemporary Agrarian Struggles
- Subalternization of a Postplantation City
- Inclusive Accessibility: Integrating Heterogeneous User Mobility Perceptions into Space-Time Prisms
- Labor, Democracy, and the Postcolonial State: Spaces of Union Organizing and the Duppy State in Britain and Trinidad
- “Humanistic” City in the Age of “Capitalocene”
- The Chemical Geographies of Misoprostol: Spatializing Abortion Access from the Biochemical to the Global
- Platform Firms, Commercial Real Estate Cycles and San Francisco’s Growth as a Tech Cluster, 2008–2020
- Sustaining Hierarchies: A Cross-Level and Cross-Scale Analysis of Power, Politics, and Dominant Discourse in Adaptive Decision Making
- Understanding the Hybridization of Everyday Activities from a Time-Geographic Perspective
- Children and Young People’s Experiences and Understandings of Gambling-Style Systems in Digital Games: Loot Boxes, Popular Culture, and Changing Childhoods
- Urban Environmental Imaginaries and Aesthetic Sensibilities in Mumbai, India
- Governing the Extraterritorial: Global Environmentalities of China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative
- Intentional Automobility: Mobility Choice Between Socialist and Postsocialist Chrononormativity
- Signaling Hinterlands and the Spatial Networks of Digital Capitalism
- “The Last Victims of the Indian War”: Celilo Falls, the Dalles Dam, and Infrastructural Colonization
- A Multiscale Assessment of the Impact of Perceived Safety from Street View Imagery on Street Crime
- Critical Stakeholder Engagement: The Road to Actionable Science Is Paved with Scientists’ Good Intentions
- Flow Piracy and Percolation in a Hydropower Watershed: Interceptions of Indigenous Languages in Upland Laos
- Patterns of Multidimensional Poverty in the United States
- Unruly River and Plantation Logics
- A Spatial Network-Based Assessment of Individual Exposure to COVID-19
- Policy Mobilities, Infrastructures, and Nonhuman Political Agency
- Four Decades of Landscape Change on a Granite Dome (Enchanted Rock, Texas): A Photographic Field Work Analysis
- Environmental NGOs and Protected Area Conservation in Australia: The Political Consequences of Aligning with Private Interests
- The Healer, the Witch, and the Law: The Settler Magic That Criminalized Indigenous Medicine Men as Frauds and Normalized Colonial Violence as Care
- Reproducible Research Practices and Barriers to Reproducible Research in Geography: Insights from a Survey
- When Is a Matrix a Geographical Network?
- Indonesia’s Plantationocene
- Disaster Misinformation and Its Corrections on Social Media: Spatiotemporal Proximity, Social Network, and Sentiment Contagion
- Geographic Variation in Household Disaster Preparedness in the United States
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The Annals publishes papers in four categories: Regular Manuscripts, Special Issues, Forums, and Commentaries. The journal also publishes the AAG Presidential Address and memorials for former AAG Presidents and distinguished geographers.
- Regular Manuscripts—Articles submitted for publication should be original, timely, innovative, and advance knowledge in all facets of the discipline. They should address significant research problems and issues, and be attuned to the sensibilities of a diverse scholarly audience. Articles should be a maximum of 11,000 words, including abstract, references, notes, tables, and figure captions.
- Special Issues—Special Issues are curated by Editors and include a collection of shorter manuscripts (around 5000 words) about a specific theme or issue. Topics rotate across the areas covered by the Annals; each year there is one Special Issue that highlights the work of geographers on a significant global theme. Abstracts of potential articles will be solicited via an open call. The articles are by invitation only, led by an Annals Editor, and based on the evaluation of the abstracts.
- Forums—Forums are a collection of short papers on a focused topic that are published together in the journal. Forums are an opportunity to showcase and advance significant intellectual insights in the discipline in a coherent and collective way. Forums consist of an introduction (2,500 words) and short individual papers (5,000 words each), with a maximum total word limit of 25,000. A forum is proposed by a forum organizer, and if accepted, the forum organizer works in tandem with an Editor to guide the papers through the peer review process. Forum proposals should provide a background and context, table of contents, timeline, and justification of the forum’s significance and relevance to the Annals audience.
- Commentaries—Commentaries are responses to specific published Annals articles and appear in online form only. They should be submitted within one year of the publication of the original article and written in a style and tone that is professional, scholarly and concise (less than 2,000 words including references). Commentaries will be peer reviewed. Authors of the original article will be invited to respond to the commentary in a short endorsement and/or rebuttal. To submit a commentary, please see the commentary submission guidelines linked above.