Journal profile · GEOGRAPHY
Antipode
ISSN 0066-4812 · eISSN 1467-8330 · Wiley-Blackwell
Antipode: CAS Zone 1 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 3.63; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,520; median 292 days to acceptance (83 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 26% (journal website); 139 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Antipode is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 1 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Urban Planning and Governance, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism and Geographies of human-animal interactions, together about 30.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Since 1969 Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography has published peer-reviewed papers that push Geography’s critical edge, intending to engender the development of a new and better society. Many are inspired by Marxist, socialist, anarchist, anti-racist, anticolonal, feminist, queer, trans*, green, and postcolonial thought; however, the journal has always welcomed the infusion of new ideas and the shaking-up of old positions through dialogue and discussion, never being committed to just one view of critique. Antipode is committed to the new, the innovative, the creative, and the heretofore unthought radical edges of spatial theorisation and analysis. Its papers are groundbreaking, their clear arguments develop geographical thinking, and they do much more than simply add examples to support what we already know. Antipode papers reflect upon and extend the debates of our time, pushing literatures, knowledge and politics to and beyond their extant boundaries, exploring new themes and agendas, and putting new research or critical analysis to work to make interventions in the order of things. Now appearing six times a year and published by Wiley, Antipode offers some of the best and most provocative geographical work available today; work from both geographers and their fellow travellers; from scholars both eminent and emerging. Antipode also publishes translated essays (both new and already published), short commentaries (or “Interventions”; these meditate on the state of radical practice and/or theory, cast a radical geographer’s eye over “live” events, or report strategies for change and forms of organisation producing more socially just and radically democratic life), book reviews and review symposia (like Interventions, these are online-only and open access), and the Antipode Book Series (which publishes scholarship reflecting distinctive new developments in radical geographical research). It is complemented by a companion website, antipodeonline.org Antipode is owned by the Antipode Foundation. The Foundation was incorporated as a private company limited by guarantee (no. 7604241) and registered as a charity (no. 1142784) in 2011. It has a governing body of seven trustees/directors and a secretary to whom the day-to-day management of its affairs is delegated. The Foundation’s principal charitable activity and source of income is the production of Antipode; surpluses generated are either [i] distributed in the form of grants made to universities and simil
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): GEOGRAPHY
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 3, United Kingdom 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Urban Planning and GovernanceSocial Sciences12.6%
- Housing, Finance, and NeoliberalismEconomics, Econometrics and Finance9.9%
- Geographies of human-animal interactionsSocial Sciences7.7%
- Water Governance and InfrastructureSocial Sciences7.6%
- Political Economy and MarxismSocial Sciences6.7%
- Migration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial Sciences4.9%
- Anthropological Studies and InsightsSocial Sciences4.1%
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
AHCICurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, Astrophysics Data System
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 3.63LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.44LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.21LetPub ·
- h-index
- 158OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,759OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.29OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 71.61%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 116LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 122Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 634,578Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,457 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 108 | 86 | 41 |
| 2025 | 139 | 109 | 323 |
| 2024 | 113 | 91 | 819 |
| 2023 | 111 | 88 | 1,261 |
| 2022 | 124 | 57 | 1,863 |
| 2021 | 98 | 47 | 2,428 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
292 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 220 days – 355 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 28 days (83 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 324 days
- Sample
- 83 articles with submission and acceptance dates (259 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 26%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 26%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 33 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 33 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 294 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 42 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,520 / EUR 2,950 / GBP 2,380 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted1
- articlesArticles Articles should be politically-engaged, timely, and passionate, and often combine critical theoretical interventions and empirical rigor.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use Disclosing the use of artificial intelligence (AI)
If you or your co-authors have used Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs) to develop any portion of a manuscript, their use must be described transparently and in detail [in the Methods section and/or the Acknowledgments section]. Find more details in Wiley’s AI policy in full in the Best Practices Guidelines on Rese…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Availability
This journal encourages data sharing. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Reproduction of Copyright Material
If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Wiley's Preprints Policy statement for subscription/hybrid Open Access journals
No submission fees. Model summary
This Journal operates a double-anonymized peer review process. Authors are responsible for anonymizing their manuscript in order to remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout the peer review process (see “Main Text File” above for more details). Since the journal also encourages posting of preprints, however, please note that if authors share their manuscript in preprint form this may compromise…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 1. Submission and Peer Review Process
Double-anonymized peer review with at least two anonymous reviewers and an Associate or Assistant Editor. Model summary
New submissions should be made via the Wiley Authors submission portal https://authors.wiley.com/journal/anti. You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to authors.wiley.com and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact submissionhelp@wiley.com. This journal does not charge submission fees. Art…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Wiley's Preprints Policy statement for subscription/hybrid Open Access journals
Preprint servers accepted. Model summary
This Journal operates a double-anonymized peer review process. Authors are responsible for anonymizing their manuscript in order to remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout the peer review process (see “Main Text File” above for more details). Since the journal also encourages posting of preprints, however, please note that if authors share their manuscript in preprint form this may compromise…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 0066-4812
- Electronic ISSN
- 1467-8330
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 58, Issue 6 (November 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Antipode
What CAS zone is Antipode in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Antipode is in Zone 1 of Sociology, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Geography; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Antipode?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.63; CiteScore 7, h-index 158.
How long does peer review take at Antipode?
Based on the dates recorded on 83 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 292 days (interquartile range 220–355 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 26% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Antipode?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Antipode based?
Of the 4 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (3) and United Kingdom (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Antipode?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Antipode is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists AHCI and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Antipode open access, and what is the APC?
Antipode is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,520.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .