Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Encyclopedia
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers continues transactions and Papers (Institute of British Geographers) and is a journal of the Royal Geographical Society
. Transactions is considered to be at the frontier of leading international research in geography. Transactions has one of the widest geographical readerships and is highly cited with the highest citation index
for all social science journals worldwide. Transactions publish an array of papers from cutting-edge research in geography to book reviews and interdisciplinary research. Transactions has an impact factor
of 3.5 and was ranked third out of 38 in 2005 in the ISI Journal Citation Reports Ranking.
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...
. Transactions is considered to be at the frontier of leading international research in geography. Transactions has one of the widest geographical readerships and is highly cited with the highest citation index
Citation index
A citation index is a kind of bibliographic database, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. The first citation indices were legal citators such as Shepard's Citations...
for all social science journals worldwide. Transactions publish an array of papers from cutting-edge research in geography to book reviews and interdisciplinary research. Transactions has an impact factor
Impact factor
The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...
of 3.5 and was ranked third out of 38 in 2005 in the ISI Journal Citation Reports Ranking.