Top journals in geography
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 1999-October 2009
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 1999-October 2009

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Universities will be able to take an unlimited number of non-funded students, but they cannot transfer their places to funded students. Melanie Newman reports

We may be losing printed materials, but let’s not forget we’re also gaining useful digital resources, says Tara Brabazon
Colleagues speak of loss after death of Mike Pittilo. Zoë Corbyn reports

Financial woes make a short-term solution tempting. How desperate must I be to jettison my principles?
British fundraisers still upbeat despite record fall in American gifts. Hannah Fearn reports
Governments unable to wait for all the evidence before making decisions. Matthew Reisz reports
Departure comes as UEA launches second probe into climate science. Zoë Corbyn reports

Lord Mandelson criticises v-cs’ attempts to ‘get a retaliation in first’ and hints that Budget will not deliver additional cuts. John Gill reports

Many scholars feel that their freedom to question is in danger of being eroded or even lost. Zoe Corbyn examines the threat in the UK, while Christoph Bode and David Gunkel consider the state of...
Mike Petterson's geological expertise has seen him travel the world, but perhaps his greatest eureka moments have come in Afghanistan, amid his efforts to help rebuild a shattered country

A cool critique of Web 2.0 needs a pedagogic angle, writes Tara Brabazon

Delightful images of America's difficult birth are let down by textual inaccuracies, writes Michael Heale
Written by a former Gurkha officer and United Nations researcher with many years of conflict-related experience, The Insurgent Archipelago proposes that in the post-Cold War era, the concept of...