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Key Geography Databases

GeoBase This link opens in a new window
Indexes research literature on the earth sciences, ecology, geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management, and nature conservation. Tutorial for GeoBase database.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
Tutorial for the JSTOR database.
Web of Science: Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and searchable author abstracts, covering scholarly literature in journals, books and conference proceedings. Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Emerging Sources Citation Index. Additional resources available by selecting from the dropdown list next to the Core Collection heading. Tutorial for the Web of Science: Core Collection database.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. Contains new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Tutorial for the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text database.
Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
Evaluates leading journals worldwide, in the sciences and social sciences. Compiles articles' cited references, to help measure research influence and impact at journal and category levels, and show the relationship between citing and cited journals. Part of the InCites platform available through Web of Science.
Tutorial for the Journal Citation Report database.

See more: Mason Geography and Geoinformation Databases.
See also Cited Reference Searching : identify importance of articles or journal impact factors (JIF).

Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Peer Reviewed articles and reviews that advance knowledge in all facets of geography since 1911.
Progress in Human Geography
Peer Reviewed articles in all areas of human geography research-philosophical, theoretical, thematic, methodological or empirical.
Progress in Physical Geography
Peer Reviewed articles on approaches incorporating the latest development and debates within Physical Geography and the Earth, Biological and Ecological System Sciences.
Dialogues in Human Geography
Peer Reviewed journal covering the categories related to Geography, Planning and Development.

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See also browse JournalTOCs to keep up-to-date latest issues of journals in geography.

See also Cited Reference Searching to identify importance of a journal or an article based on it's cited numbers.