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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: 3.2, ranking 21st out of 171 geography journals worldwide
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Read the Journal- Nexus Between Exposure to Natural Outdoor Environments and Cognitive Competence among Older Adults in China
- Commodification in Disguise: Growth Dynamics and Emerging Geography of Culture-Led Urban Redevelopments in Contemporary China
- Introducing Jurisdiction
- Black Self-Defense as Social Reproduction: Geographies of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Amidst Racialized Uneven Development in Atlanta
- Revisiting the Uncertain Geographic Context Problem: Expanding Its Scope to Include Indoor Geographic Contexts and Dynamics in Environmental Health and Social Science Research
- Urban Sprawl and Subjective Well-Being: U.S. County-Level Evidence
- Disaster Risk Reduction and the Cuban Exception: Infrastructural and Ideological Power after Hurricane Flora (1963)
- Inheriting Racial Privilege and Oppression Through Proximity: Evidence from the Everyday Lives of Mixed-Race Couples in Australia
- A Reciprocal Statistic for Detecting the Full Range of Local Patterns of Bivariate Spatial Association
- More-Than-Rebel Territory: War, Resistance, and Relations in the Salween Peace Park
- Vegan Geographies: Negotiations, Contestations, and Encounters in the Everyday Spaces of Veganism
- Story Mapping Praxis to Principles: Learning from the Atlascine Project
- The Great Death Valley National Monument Mission 66 Conspiracy (That Never Was)
- Reimagining National Parks for the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from Yosemite’s Past
- Nine Processes That Have Shaped the U.S. National Park System
- Regional Relevance of a Cultural Park: Leverage Points Identified Through Spatial-Social Network Analysis
- Representing Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument: Encounters with a U.S. Public Lands Artist-in-Residence Program
- Identification of High Fire Potential and High-Use Spatial Intersections at a National Forest to Understand Recreation Displacement Related to Wildfire Events
- Managing the Imagined Spatialities of Protected Sites: (Un)Bounding Industrial World Heritage via Mental Maps
- Protected Areas on an Amazon Frontier: Payments for Environmental Services and the Future of Extractive Reserves in the Terra da Meio
- Reframing the Dualistic Nature of Ride-Hailing for Women: Empowerment Versus Adaptive Preferences
- A Big “X” in the Open Wound: A Queer and Decolonial Borderlands Tale of the Chamizal Parklands
- Maximizing Finance for Sustainable Development? Microfinance, Debt-Driven Deforestation, and the Self-Regulation of Environmental Harm
- An Efficient Approach for Solving Hub Location Problems Using Network Autocorrelation Structures
- On the Example: The Need for a Complementary Contraposition to Giorgio Agamben’s Theorization of the Exception
- Toward a Humanitarian Geographic Information Science (HGISci): Principles and Applications
- Prometheus in the Periphery? The Extent, Drivers, and Nature of Innovation in the Urban Peripheries of Chinese Cities
- Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework
- From High-Footprint to Low-Footprint Intervention in U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: What Changed?
- Knowing More About Losing More: Investigating Spatial-Temporal Patterns of Damage from Storm-Related Hazards in the Contiguous United States
- Fashion’s Relation to the “Geo”: From Global Impacts to Earthly Practices
- Where Is Central Ohio? Many-Valued Logic Approaches to Understanding and Measuring Vague Geographic Regions
- Negotiating Constraints to Recreation in Everglades National Park Among Underserved South Florida Residents
- Evaluation of MODIS, ERA5, and MERRA2 Derived Integrated Precipitable Water Vapor of India Using Ground-Based GPS Data
- Gambling: A Story of Remarkable Stability in Fast-Changing High Streets
- Unbounding Homeland: Spatiality in the Kurdish Freedom Movement’s Project of Kurdistan
- Geographical Sensemaking: Situating, Relating, and Positioning as Spatial Practices Between Self and World
- The Kruger Prism: Possibilities and Limitations of a National Park
- Crime and Visually Perceived Safety of the Built Environment: A Deep Learning Approach
- How Far to Go to Encounter the Differences: Examining the Nonlinear Relationships Between Low-Income Migrants’ Activity-Space Segregation and Traveling Distances in Shenzhen, China
- How Distance Decay Effects Shape Accessibility of Food Provided by Online Food Delivery Services: Evidence from Two Chinese Megacities
- Evaluating Change in the Prevalence of River Anabranching Before and After Agricultural Development in the Upper Midwest, United States
- Porous Conservation: The Complex History of Residents in National Parks in Latin America
- Neoliberalism’s Urban Fringe: On the Trail of Actually Imagined Free-Market Cities
- Exploring the Uneven Terrain of Perceived Benefits from Protected Areas
- Controls on Longitudinal Stream Profile Evolution in Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Biocultural Geographies: Stewardship, Indigenous Territories, and Conservation in Ecuador’s Amazon
- Geographical Scene: The Natural Unit for Geographical Analysis and Its Recognition Based on Data with Spatial and Semantic Features
- Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in U.S. Boundary Enforcement
- Arriving at Airport City Manchester: “Exporting” and “Importing” the Enterprise Zone, Entrepreneurial Governance, and the Geopolitics of Economic Development
- How the Interplay of Gender, Care Work, and Couple Dynamics Is Expressed in the Journey to Work: A Study of Travel Times to Work in the Dallas/Fort Worth MSA
- Patterns of Strategic Land Use: A Critical Remote Sensing Analysis of the Role of the Ceyanpınar State Farm in the Making of the Turkish-Syrian Borderland
- Nowcasting International Student Migration: From Core–Periphery to Multipolar Global Geographies
- Paving Over the Past: Oregon Historical Markers, White Innocence, and Manifest Destiny
- GeoConformal Prediction: A Model-Agnostic Framework for Measuring the Uncertainty of Spatial Prediction
- A New Model for Public Participatory Engagement in Social Sciences and Spatial Humanities Digital Mapping Projects
- Waterfront as Accumulation Strategy: Urban Greening, Real Estate Making, and the Assetization of Water
- Immersive Realities in the “Place of Flowers” and Southern Sea Country, Australia: Slow Science, Artistic Visualizations, and Deep Time Stories of the Earth Otherwise
- (Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive
- Density as Threshold and Resource: Urban Life and Futures in Dar-es-Salaam
- Changes of School Travel During Shantytown Redevelopment: Evidence from Heze, China
- Evaluating Justice: Toward A Methodological Framework for Geographic Research
- From Securing the Border to Securing Nature: Homeland Security as an Emerging Environmental Actor in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands
- Rethinking Indigenous Hunting in National Parks
- Decoupling and Decomposition of Emissions and Economic Growth Based on Interprovincial Embodied Carbon Flow in China
- Mapping the Invisible: Decoding Perceived Urban Smells Through Geosocial Media in New York City
- Heterogeneous Perceptions of Rainfall Patterns Among Agropastoral Land Users in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Multimodal Accessibility and the Capitalization of Realized Access by Car and Transit in Housing Prices Across Canada
- Changing Climates, Conservation Genetics, and Protected Areas in the Northern Rockies
- Regression Toward the Mean in Neighborhood Effects Research: A Geographic Perspective
- From Street View Imagery to the Countryside: Large-Scale Perception of Rural China Using Deep Learning
- Mapping the Landscape of Public Participation GIS Using Natural Language Processing
- #CiclismoSinMachismo: The Geographies of Latin American Feminist Cycling Activism
- Local Demand for AI Skills: A Multiscale Perspective in Great Britain
- America the Beautiful: Meeting “30 × 30” Conservation Goals Through Connected Protected Areas
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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.