Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Title	Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Discipline	Geography
Abbreviation	Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr.
Publisher	Taylor & Francis for the Association of American Geographers
Country	United States
History	1911–present
Frequency	Monthly

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Annals of the Association of American Geographers is a peer‑reviewed scholarly journal published on behalf of the Association of American Geographers that has served as a principal venue for research in human and physical Ohio and American Geographical Society-related geographic scholarship since 1911. The journal has documented the work of prominent figures associated with institutions such as Harvard University, University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and London School of Economics while engaging topics connected to events like the Great Depression, World War II, Cold War, and transformations in United States urbanization. Contributors have included scholars linked to National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, Royal Geographical Society, United Nations, and World Bank initiatives.

History

The journal was founded in 1911 amid professionalization efforts associated with the founding of the Association of American Geographers and early 20th‑century expansions of research at places such as Clark University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Yale University, and Princeton University. Early editors and contributors drew on intellectual networks that included figures connected to the Pan-American Union, American Geographical Society, and international congresses like the International Geographical Congress. Through the interwar period and after World War II, the journal reflected shifts tied to projects sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and postwar reconstruction efforts across Europe and Japan. During the late 20th century the journal intersected with debates involving scholars associated with University of California, Los Angeles, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, and University of Toronto. In the 21st century the editorial trajectory has been influenced by collaborations with publishers such as Taylor & Francis and institutional priorities at centers like MIT, Stanford University, and University College London.

The journal operates a peer review process managed by editorial boards composed of academics from institutions including Dartmouth College, Brown University, Rutgers University, University of Washington, and University of British Columbia. Submissions undergo anonymized review by referees drawn from networks spanning University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Cornell University, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Texas at Austin, and McGill University. Special issues have been guest‑edited in collaboration with centers like the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Production and distribution are handled by Taylor & Francis in coordination with the Association’s governance bodies and conference programs hosted at venues such as Chicago Cultural Center, Washington Convention Center, and Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

The journal has been cited across disciplines and recognized in citation indices alongside periodicals associated with Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Economic Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Its influence is reflected in curricular adoption at departments of geography and affiliated programs at University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Arizona, University of Southern California, and Georgetown University. The journal’s standing has prompted responses from editorial boards and professional groups including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and policy actors at United Nations Development Programme, International Monetary Fund, and national ministries in countries such as Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. Critical reception has addressed methodological shifts associated with cohorts linked to Annales School, Chicago School, and scholars influenced by debates at Radcliffe Institute and Institute for Advanced Study.

Noteworthy contributions have examined urbanization in case studies of Detroit, Detroit riots, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Hong Kong, environmental transformations related to Mississippi River, Colorado River, Aral Sea, and Great Lakes, and theoretical pieces addressing spatial analysis methods developed in contexts connected to Harvard Graduate School of Design, MIT Media Lab, and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Special issues have focused on climate change responses with contributors from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, migration studies featuring research on Syrian civil war, Bosnian War, Rwandan genocide, and methodological innovations associated with projects at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The journal is indexed in major services alongside titles from Clarivate, Scopus, Gale, ProQuest, and bibliographic databases used by libraries at Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, National Diet Library (Japan), and university consortia including Big Ten Academic Alliance and Association of Research Libraries. It appears in citation lists compiled by organizations such as Thomson Reuters and is discoverable through aggregators used by scholars at University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, University of Auckland, and University of Cape Town.

Category:Geography journals