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Cartography and Geographic Information Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1523-0406Verify ISSN ↗1545-0465Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 159 / 876 | 81st | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 106 / 434 | 75th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 112 / 317 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Cartography and Geographic Information Science is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 159 of 876), Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 106 of 434) and Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 112 of 317), by CiteScore 2025.
Cartography and Geographic Information Science is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.591, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
Cartography and Geographic Information Science is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1523-0406 and its online ISSN is 1545-0465.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cartography and Geographic Information Science has an h-index of 78 and a 2-year mean of 3.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Cartography and Geographic Information Science published 58 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (31.9%), United States (17.4%) and Germany (7.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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