Bosman 2009 - THE CHANGING POSITION OF SOCIETY JOURNALS IN GEOGRAPHY

JEROEN BOSMAN Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie – 2009, Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 20–32.


From abstract:
"This paper shows how these journals perform in terms of numbers of citations, internationalisation of authorship and exposure in libraries, databases and on the web, compared to some key journals from commercial publishers. It discusses choices made by these journals and the threats and opportunities they are confronted with. The paper concludes that although the conditions for non-UK and non-US society journals in geography have become less favourable, there are viable routes forward."

The paper is about the importance of language, location, library access, and database indexing on impact factors.

Bodman 2010 - Measuring the influentialness of economic geographers during the ‘great half century’: an approach using the h index

Journal of Economic Geography 10 (2010) pp. 141–156

An explanation of usefulness and flaws of the h-index.  This article also argues for the importance of economic geography in the field.

Making Political Geography - John Agnew 2002

John Agnew provides a history of the geopolitics and political geography from the 18th century to present.  He tells the history of early thinkers in geopolitics and their opponents.  He fleshes out how that associations of thinkers like Ratzel and Haushofer's association with Nazis tainted Geopolitics.  The book also explains the revival of political geography and its progress away from state-centric studies.

Unwin 1994 - Book Review of All Possible Worlds

This is a scathing book review of a history of geography.  The reviewer accuses the book of focuses too much on people and not enough on the society that informed their ideas.  It also notes the lack of discussion of critical or postmodern geography and lack of GIS discussion.