《历史地理学杂志》是一份具有高学术质量的历史地理学国际学术期刊。通过对《历史地理学杂志》1981~2010年间所发表的论文、书评等的统计分析,结果表明,过去30年间,在研究内容方面,历史地理研究涉及5大领域18个方面,历史人文地理研究始终是热点领域,历史自然地理研究始终是薄弱环节,历史文化地理研究越来越热;在作者来源方面,历史地理作者来自全球36个国家,欧美化现象十分突出,英国、美国、加拿大籍作者占90%以上,与此同时,多元化特征趋弱,作者国籍从1981~1990年间的35个国家减少到2001~2010年间的19个国家;在研究区域方面,热点区域是欧美发达国家,对英国、美国、法国、加拿大4国的研究最多,欧洲、非洲、太平洋地区、加勒比海地区、大西洋等地区也受到较多关注。
Journal of Historical Geography is an international academic journal of high quality. By collecting and analyzing all the articles and book reviews published in the journal during 1981~2010, the conclusion comes that during the past 30 years, (1) The research contents involved 5 main fields and 18 divisions, in which historical human geography was always popular, while historical physical geography was relatively weak, and historical culture geography became more and more attractive; (2) The researchers came from 36 countries, more than 90% among them from Britain, the United States and Canada. At the same time, the number of the researcher’s nationality reduced continuously from 35 during 1981-1990 to 19 during 2001~2010; (3) The regions researched involved in mainly Britain, the United States, France and Canada, but such some across-countries regions as Europe, Africa, the Pacific, the Caribbean and the Atlantic also received rather attention.