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Overview

Chinese Geographical Science is an international journal that covers all fields of geography.

Published since 1991 and covers physical geography and its sub-disciplines, human geography and its sub-disciplines, cartography, geographic information science.
Presents original research papers, review articles, short communications, perspectives, letters, highlights, etc.
Makes available geographical information for the study of global issues and regional comparisons.
Keeps readers updated on the latest geographical research achievements worldwide.

Editor-in-chief

Bojie Fu PhD

Executive Editor-in-Chief

Xingyuan He PhD

Responsible Editors

Ling Luo PhD
Lina Shang PhD
Chunli Zhang PhD

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Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor: 4.0 (2025)

5-year Journal Impact Factor: 3.8 (2025)

Downloads: 99.3k (2025)

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Collection

Innovative Research and Practice of Geographical Sciences in Artificial Intelligence Era

Significance: The arrival of the AI era is creating unprecedented opportunities and challenges for innovation and practice in geographical science.

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Latest issue

July 2026 Volume 36, Issue 7

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Latest articles

Dynamic Changes of Rainfall Erosivity and Its Correlation with El Niño-Southern Oscillation in Huaihe River Basin, China
Lijun Shang
Xiaochun Zha
Ruixi Zhang
Article 18 July 2026 Pages: 1317 - 1334
Spatiotemporal Differentiation of Land Carbon Metabolism in the Shiyang River Basin of China: An Ecological Network Utility Perspective
Xuexia Li
Jinghu Pan
Article 18 July 2026 Pages: 1299 - 1316
Assessing Regional Resilience of Sub-Saharan Africa Economic Crisis: A Spatial-temporal Analysis Framework Integrating Fisher Information and Multi-scale Geographically Weighted Regression
Ignatius Abasimi
Ye Wei
Xin Sun
Article 18 July 2026 Pages: 1283 - 1298
Spatial Patterns and Multidimensional Drivers of Land Use Inefficiency in Quanzhou, China: Insights from Explainable Machine Learning
Zehua Ke
Wei Wei
Junnan Xia
Article 18 July 2026 Pages: 1265 - 1282
Identifying Residential Spatial Differentiation Based on Neighborhood-scale Multidimensional Residential Quality Evaluation and Mapping: A Case Study of Xi’an, China
Kui Liu
Wenlin Zhou
Jinfeng Du
Article 18 July 2026 Pages: 1229 - 1245

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Journal updates

Supporting the Sustainable Developmental Goals

We are proud to acknowledge that over 50% of the articles published in this journal in 2025 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN: 1993-064X
Print ISSN: 1002-0063
Abstracted and indexed in: AGRICOLA

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