专业地理学家最初是美国专业地理学家协会的出版物，1949年成为美国地理学家协会的期刊。它发表学术或应用地理学的短文，强调实证研究和方法论。这些特征可能包括内容和方法，从严格的分析到广泛的哲学或规定性。期刊提供了一个新观点和另类观点的论坛。
The Professional Geographer, initially a publication of the American Society for Professional Geographers, became a journal of the American Association of Geographers in 1949. It publishes short articles of academic or applied geography, emphasizing empirical studies and methodologies. These features may range in content and approach from rigorously analytic to broadly philosophical or prescriptive. The journal provides a forum for new ideas and alternative viewpoints.