《世界地理研究》杂志是中国科学技术协会主管、中国地理学会主办的学报级学术期刊。本刊主要刊登以下方面的研究成果：世界政治与经济地理理论及实证研究，全球经济联系和经济要素空间运动规律，世界各国区域发展、城乡建设、生产布局、产业结构变动的理论与实践，世界热点地区形成的地理背景分析，世界地理教育改革和世界各国地理学发展动态等。
World Regional Studies (WRS) is one of the academic journals sponsored by the Geographical Society of China (GSC), and superintended by China Association for Science Technology. The journal publishes rigorous academic articles in the following main fields: 1) theoretical and empirical analysis on world geopolitics and economic geography; 2) analysis on global economic connectivity and spatial flow of economic factors; 3)theories and practices on international regional development, urban and rural construction, and spatial production and restructuring; 4) analysis on the background and evolution of global geopolitical hotspots; 5) international development of geography as a discipline and reform trends of geography in both K12 and higher education.
《世界地理研究》创刊于1992年，但其渊源可追溯到1981年。那时正值中国改革开放伊始，鉴于中国了解外部世界的巨大需求，及分析研究国外情况、学习国外先进经验的必要，中国地理学会编辑出版了《世界地理集刊》，此即《世界地理研究》的前身，由我国著名地理学家李春芬教授担任主编。在30多年发展中，本刊始终坚持“从中国的视角研究世界，从全球视野研究中国”的办刊特色，是中国唯一的以刊发全球性地理现象和世界区域地理研究成果为主的地理学术期刊，成为中国“世界地理”专业的研究者们重要的学术成果展示和交流平台，为中国地理学的发展及国家建设做出了积极的贡献。
WRS was officially established in 1992, but its predecessor can be traced back to 1981 when China started to implement its reform and opening-up policies. To meet the immense demand of Chinese to understand, analyze and learn foreign advanced experiences, the Geographical Society of China published the journal “Collected Papers of World Regional Studies.”The well-known Chinese geographer, Dr. Chunfen Lee, served as the editor-in-chief of the journal that was later renamed as WRS. Over the last several decades, WRS has always kept the unique feature of ‘studying the world from the perspective of China, researching China against the background of world’. Being the only academic journal publishing articles in world regional geography, WRS has long been an important platform for exhibition and exchange of research achievements by experts, academics and researchers in this field.
目前，《世界地理研究》是中国中文核心期刊，也是中文社会科学引文索引(CSSCI)扩展版来源期刊;在2011年中国人民大学复印报刊资料“人文地理学学科期刊”中，转载率排列第三名，综合指数排名第四，被列为人大《复印报刊资料》的重要转载来源期刊;2012年，《世界地理研究》又被评为华东地区优秀期刊。目前，刊物被《中国学术期刊综合评价数据库来源期刊》、《中国期刊网》、《中国学术期刊(光盘版)》、《中国核心期刊(遴选)数据库》、《中文科技期刊数据库》和《中国学术期刊文摘》等收录。
As a state level academic publication, WRS is ranked as a core Chinese academic journal in China, and a source journal of the extended Chinese Social Science Citing Index (CSSCI). It was ranked the third in terms of articles appearing in “human geography article reprinting”, published by the information center for social sciences, Renmin University of China in 2011. In 2012, it was awarded the “Excellent Journal”in East China area by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Press and Publication. WRS has been included as a fundamental journal in many databases, such as China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Longyuan Journals, and so on.
《世界地理研究》编委由40余名国内外相关研究领域的著名专家学者组成。现任主编为华东师范大学人文地理学系主任、中国地理学会世界地理专业委员会主任杜德斌教授。编辑部设于华东师范大学。
The editorial Committee of WRS consists of more than 40 members, including famous academicians, experts and professors throughout the country. Dr. Du Debin, the Head of the Department of Human Geography in East China Normal University, the Director of the World Regional Geography Commission of GSC, is currently serving as the editor-in-chief. The editorial work is carried out by a group of geographers from the East China Normal University, Shanghai, where the editorial office is housed.
