The Rivista Geografica Italiana is one of the oldest Italian scientific journals and aims to serve as the leading platform for advancing geographical research in Italy.

The Rivista was first published in Florence in 1894, on the initiative of the geographers Filippo Maria Pasanisi and Giovanni Marinelli. The aim of the journal, since the first issue, is to undertake with scientific rigour "the task of collecting, ordering, patiently and thoroughly investigating some of the fundamental facts about our country". This original aim, and the emphasis on scientific rigour, have remained unchanged over the decades, alongside a significant broadening of the journal’s geographical and thematic scope.

The Rivista has always been open to international scholarly dialogue, and publishes four issues per year (March, June, September and December), featuring articles in Italian, English, Spanish, and French. It publishes both research articles – that provide the elaboration and discussion of original empirical material – and review articles – that engage critically with specific themes or authors. In all cases, articles must make a relevant and original contribution to advancing the state of the art, and should go beyond merely reporting empirical findings or summarizing existing literature. To this end, the proposed articles are first evaluated by the editorial board, and then submitted to a double-blind peer-review process.

The “Opinioni e dibattiti” section of the Rivista includes commentaries, forums, interviews and critical reviews, aimed at promoting the scientific debate on significant themes, authors or books. These contributions are evaluated by the editorial board.

The Rivista is fully open access, and does not charge any article processing fees. It has been indexed in Scopus since 2013, and is a “Class A” journal according to the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Research, for human geography, and for economic, labour, environmental and territorial sociology.

This website includes issues published from 2021 to the present. Earlier issues, up to 1970, are accessible on the website of the Società di Studi Geografici