Citation of research in journals of interest to applied geographers

Citation statistics from 1997 to 2004 for 393 journals of interest to applied geographers were examined. Manuscripts in serials with economic, environmental, inter-disciplinary, global, and contemporary foci are cited most frequently—an advantageous trend for applied geographers. Physical geography articles tend to be cited more frequently than those in human geography, but undercounts of citations of books and other monographs may unfairly portray human geography citations. Geography's flagship journals perform in proportion to the size of the discipline, compared with flagship journals in sister disciplines. The top GIScience journals show somewhat more “immediate impact” features than other geographical journals.