CNPq productivity scholarship holders can be considered elite in terms of scientific production in Brazil. Therefore, it is expected from them a constant pool of high-quality publications. However, nowadays, high-quality research is increasingly understood as getting published in scientific, international, English-speaking journals with a high impact factor. In parallel, it makes sense to expect that the younger generation of CNPq productivity scholarship holders in Physical Geography will present a more internationalized production than the older ones, as the demand for greater internationalization is still recent. Furthermore, the younger ones were educated in a world inclusive academic, more globalized. Therefore, this paper analyzes the production published in scientific journals of all CNPq productivity scholarship holders in the field of Physical Geography between 2016 and 2020 and compares the differences and similarities of the production of the older generation with that of the former younger one. The results obtained demonstrate that there are no major differences between the production of the two generations, being, in general, the oldest most productive, both in national and international articles. This fact shows that the internationalization of Brazilian scientific production in Physical Geography is not a generational challenge. In parallel, the results obtained evidenced two other facts: that half of the scholarship holders work in the Geomorphology and Pedology sub-area and that the level 1 scholarships are heavily concentrated in the older generation.