Based on Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science, Springer data and manuscripts statistics data, we analyzed the citation indices of Journal of Geographical Sciences (JGS) from 2011 to 2015. The main indices include the number and rate of internaltional manuscripts, published articles, downloads, impact factors, total cites, cited journals, citing journals, highly cited papers. The internaltional manuscripts come from more countries. Up to 2015, JGS has received manuscripts from 80 countries and published papers from 32 countries. The citation indices of JGS show increasing trends in recent 5 years. Impact factor of JGS increased from 0.832 in 2011 to 1.923 in 2015. Total cites increased from 366 in 2011 to 1276 in 2015. The international download number of papers in JGS increased year by year, and the download number in 2015 was 2.82 times that of 2011. The published papers have good influences. The research can provide scientific suggestions for the development of Journal of Geographical Sciences and references for the quality improvement of other Chinese geographical journals.

Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, research on geomorphology has made great progress in China. Based on its funding information for projects on geomorphology from 2010 to 2015, a summary of the overall development on the funded projects of geomorphology was made and the regional imbalance in the geomorphological branches was also analyzed. Consequently, some hotspots, as well as the research achievement and effect, were summed up. In this paper several major results can be drawn as follows. Firstly, the mumber of funded projects has showed an upward trend, which indicates that the relevant research is gradually deepening, and research teams have been expanding steadily. Secondly, research institutions on geomorphology are diversified from dual structure to multivariate one. Thirdly, geomorphology among different fields has shown a regional imbalance in terms of research subject and hot issues. Fourthly, tectonic landform, fluvial landform, loess landform, glacial landform and aeolian landform have become the main research hotspots of geomorphology.