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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 eight times a year, one special issue is dedicated to a single theme drawing on a diversity of papers from across the discipline.
Impact Factor: 4.683, ranking 16th out of 85 geography journals worldwide
Read the Journal- Indignation, Civic Virtue, and the Right of Resistance: Critical Geography and Antifascism in Italy
- Precise Elevation Thresholds Associated with Salt Marsh–Upland Ecotones along the Mississippi Gulf Coast
- Regionalization with Self-Organizing Maps for Sharing Higher Resolution Protected Health Information
- Between Flood and Drought: Environmental Racism, Settler Waterscapes, and Indigenous Water Justice in South America’s Chaco
- The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Decolonial Geopolitics
- Community-Level Social Topic Tracking of Urban Emergency: A Case Study of COVID-19
- Whose Value Lies in the Urban Mine? Reconfiguring Permissions, Work, and the Benefits of Waste in South Africa
- Finding Queer Life through Allies: The Geography and Intentions of Mainstream-Oriented, Ostensibly LGBTQ-Supportive Businesses in a Smaller Metropolitan Area of the U.S. South
- Spatial Associations between COVID-19 Incidence Rates and Work Sectors: Geospatial Modeling of Infection Patterns among Migrants in Oman
- Imposing Worlds: Ontological Marginalization and Reclamation through Irrigation Infrastructure in Rajapur, Nepal
- “100 Resilient Cities”: Addressing Urban Violence and Creating a World of Ordinary Resilient Cities
- The Hispania Map of the Hogenberg Road Atlas (1579) and the Current Spanish Transport Network
- Sleeping Lion or Sick Man? Machine Learning Approaches to Deciphering Heterogeneous Images of Chinese in North America
- Anticipating a Crisis: Creating a Market for Transnational Dementia Care in Thailand
- More than Bare-Bones Survival? From the Urban Margins to the Urban Commons
- Welcome to the Digital Village: Networking Geographies of Agrarian Change
- Five-Star Homes: Hotel Imaginaries and Class Distinction in Australia’s Elite Vertical Urbanism
- Ethics and the Geography–Military Nexus: Responses to Wainwright and Weaver
- The Ethics of Geography–Military Relations: A Reply to Our Interlocutors
- Response to Commentary: Probing the Politics of Plurality, Inclusion, and Diversity in the Earth System Governance Project
- Toward “Total Freedom”: Black Ecologies of Land, Labor, and Livelihoods in the Mississippi Delta
- “They Will Destroy Themselves Wanting Purely American”: Labor and Carceral Immigration Enforcement in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
- Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship
- Integrating the Who, What, and Where of U.S. Retail Center Geographies
- Another Form of Neighborhood Effect Bias:The Neighborhood Effect Polarization Problem (NEPP)
- Plantationocene: A Vegetal Geography
- Black Businesses Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Black-Owned Restaurants in the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Geospatial Big Data
- Understanding Intercity Mobility Patterns in Rapidly Urbanizing China, 2015–2019: Evidence from Longitudinal Poisson Gravity Modeling
- Regulating Improvement: Industrial Water Pollution, White Settler Authority, and Capitalist Reproduction in the St. Clair–Detroit River Corridor, 1945–1972
- An Impact of Short-Term Climate Oscillations in the Late Pleniglacial and Lateglacial Interstadial on Sedimentary Processes and the Pedogenic Record in Central Poland
- Legal Rights for Whose Nature?
- Estimation and Inference of Special Types of the Coefficients in Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression Models
- Living with Touchscreens: Haptic Geographies of Home in the Digital Context
- Funnels of Unfreedom: Time-Spaces of Recruitment and (Im)Mobility in the Trajectories of Trafficked Migrant Fishers
- Infrastructuring Gardens: The Material Politics of Outdoor Water Conservation in Los Angeles
- Federally Overlooked Flood Risk Inequities in Houston, Texas: Novel Insights Based on Dasymetric Mapping and State-of-the-Art Flood Modeling
- Art, Geography/GIScience, and Mathematics: A Surprising Interface
- Diverging Mobility Situations: Measuring Relative Job Accessibility and Differing Socioeconomic Conditions in New York City
- The Business Climate and the Commodification of Place: The Making of a Market for Location
- Epistemic Borderwork: Violent Pushbacks, Refugees, and the Politics of Knowledge at the EU Border
- A Crisis of Data? Transparency Practices and Infrastructures of Value in Data Broker Platforms
- County-Level Spatiotemporal Patterns of New HIV Diagnoses and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Use in Mississippi, 2014–2018: A Bayesian Analysis of Publicly Accessible Censored Data
- “When and Where I Enter”: The National Council of Negro Women, Black Women’s Organizing Power, and the Fight to End Hunger
- Rapid Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Indo-Malaysian Region over the Last Thirty-Four Years Based on AVHRR NDVI Data
- Optimizing for Equity: Sensor Coverage, Networks, and the Responsive City
- Just Transition for All? Labor Organizing in the Energy Sector Beyond the Loss of “Jobs Property”
- Rakhine Skies: Remote Sensing, Human Rights, and the Rohingya Crisis
- The Stories We Tell: Challenging Exclusionary Histories of Geography in U.S. Graduate Curriculum
- A Generalized Model of Activity Space
- Integrating Spatial and Ethnographic Methods for Resilience Research: A Thick Mapping Approach for Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
- Transgressive Capabilities: Skill Development and Social Disruption in Rural India
- Politics of Disavowal: Megaprojects, Infrastructural Biopolitics, Disavowed Subjects
- Participatory Mapping: A Systematic Review and Open Science Framework for Future Research
- The Resilience Fix to Climate Disasters: Recursive and Contested Relations with Equity and Justice-Based Transformations in the Global South
- Applying a Population Flow–Based Spatial Weight Matrix in Spatial Econometric Models: Conceptual Framework and Application to COVID-19 Transmission Analysis
- From Residential Neighborhood to Activity Space: The Effects of Educational Segregation on Crime and Their Moderation by Social Context
- Sanctuary Space, Racialized Violence, and Memories of Resistance
- Centaur VGI: An Evaluation of Engagement, Speed, and Quality in Hybrid Humanitarian Mapping
- New Data Technologies and the Politics of Scale in Environmental Management: Tracking Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
- Natural Exceptions or Exceptional Natures? Regulatory Science and the Production of Rarity
- Promises and Profit in “Debt-Free” Higher Education: The Geographies of Income Share Agreements in the United States
- The Digital Growth Machine: Urban Change and the Ideology of Technology
- Infrastructure’s (Supra)Sacralizing Effects: Contesting Littoral Spaces of Fishing, Faith, and Futurity along Sri Lanka’s Western Coastline
- Articulating Populism in Place: A Relational Comparison of Kirchnerism in Argentina
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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.
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.
