Journal profile · GEOGRAPHY
New Zealand Geographer
ISSN 0028-8144 · eISSN 1745-7939 · Wiley-Blackwell
New Zealand Geographer: CAS Zone 4 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.34; hybrid open access; APC about USD 2,900; median 88 days to acceptance (34 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 60% (journal website); 20 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
New Zealand Geographer is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Rural development and sustainability, Island Studies and Pacific Affairs and Geographic Information Systems Studies, together about 38.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Geography, Planning and Development. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
For over 50 years the New Zealand Geographer has been the internationally refereed journal of the New Zealand Geographical Society. The Society represents professional geographers in academic, school, business, government, community and other spheres in New Zealand and the South Pacific. The journal publishes academic papers on aspects of the physical, human and environmental geographies, and landscapes, of its region; commentaries and debates; discussions of educational questions and scholarship of concern to geographers; short interventions and assessments of topical matters of interest to university and high school teachers; and book reviews. Abstracting and Indexing Information Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases (CABI) CAB Abstracts® (CABI) Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) GEOBASE (Elsevier) GeoRef (AGI) Global Health (CABI) Grasslands & Forage Abstracts (CABI) IBR & IBZ: International Bibliographies of Periodical Literature (KG Saur) InfoTrac (GALE Cengage) Irrigation & Drainage Abstracts (CABI) Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics) Leisure Tourism Database (CABI) Leisure, Recreation & Tourism Abstracts (CABI) Periodical Index Online (ProQuest) Review of Agricultural Entomology (CABI) Rural Development Abstracts (CABI) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) Soils & Fertilizers Abstracts (CABI) Tropical Diseases Bulletin (CABI) Weed Abstracts (CABI) World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts (CABI)
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): GEOGRAPHY
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named New Zealand 10, Canada 1, Australia 1, Singapore 1 (13 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Rural development and sustainabilityAgricultural and Biological Sciences14.7%
- Island Studies and Pacific AffairsSocial Sciences12.8%
- Geographic Information Systems StudiesSocial Sciences10.7%
- Pacific and Southeast Asian StudiesSocial Sciences6.9%
- Historical Geography and Geographical ThoughtSocial Sciences5.8%
- New Zealand Economic and Social StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.7%
- Indigenous Studies and EcologyHealth Professions4.8%
- Australian History and SocietySocial Sciences3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CAB AbstractsGeoRefPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, ISI
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
- 1.34LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.29LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- h-index
- 56OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 458OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.71OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 83.33%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 10LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 14Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 52,046Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,194 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 | 15 | 10 |
| 2025 | 20 | 13 | 7 |
| 2024 | 30 | 22 | 35 |
| 2023 | 39 | 30 | 152 |
| 2022 | 30 | 16 | 72 |
| 2021 | 40 | 7 | 174 |
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
88 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 50 days – 196 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 16 days (34 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 101 days
- Sample
- 34 articles with submission and acceptance dates (45 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)
- 60%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 60%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 61 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 61 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 92 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 14 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 2,900 / EUR 2,390 / GBP 1,930 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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 prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- academic papersThe journal publishes academic papers on aspects of the physical, human and environmental geographies, and landscapes, of its regionLength not stated
- book reviewries should not exceed 3,000 words, and Book Reviews should be 800-1,000 words. Parts of the Manuscript The manuscript should be submittedmain text ≤ 1,000 words
- book reviewsand book reviewsLength not stated
- commentaries and debatescommentaries and debatesLength not stated
- commentaryes. Geo-Ed articles, Research Notes and Commentaries should not exceed 3,000 words, and Book Reviews should be 800-1,000 words. Parts of the Mmain text ≤ 3,000 words
- research articleRESEARCH ARTICLELength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
Data sharing encouraged. Model summary
The journal encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
COPE member. Model summary
The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and subscribes to the principles set out by COPE. The journal also refers to Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics: http://exchanges.wiley.com/ethicsguidelines.
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 the author’s responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ at http://exchanges.wiley.com/authors/faqs---copyright-terms--conditions_301.html.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access 7. COPYRIGHT, LICENSING AND OPEN ACCESS
Accepted papers will be passed to Wiley’s production team for publication. The author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Wiley’s Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be asked to complete an electronic license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-anonymous peer review policy; manuscripts must be anonymized with separate title page. Model summary
Important: the journal operates a double-anonymous peer review policy. Please anonymize your manuscript and supply a separate title page file.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint Policy
Preprints accepted. Model summary
Please find the Wiley preprint policy here. This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers.
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
- 0028-8144
- Electronic ISSN
- 1745-7939
- Society / sponsor
- New Zealand Geographical Society
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about New Zealand Geographer
What CAS zone is New Zealand Geographer in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, New Zealand Geographer is in Zone 4 of Sociology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Geography. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of New Zealand Geographer?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.34; CiteScore 2.3, h-index 56.
How long does peer review take at New Zealand Geographer?
Based on the dates recorded on 34 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 88 days (interquartile range 50–196 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 60% (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.
Where are the editorial board members of New Zealand Geographer based?
Of the 13 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are New Zealand (10), Canada (1) and Australia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index New Zealand Geographer?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, New Zealand Geographer is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists CAB Abstracts and GeoRef; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is New Zealand Geographer open access, and what is the APC?
New Zealand Geographer is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 2,900.
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: .