Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Last updated ISSN 1523-0406
Cartography and Geographic Information Science is published by Taylor & Francis in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Cartography and Geographic Information Science concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Data Management and Algorithms
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Historical Geography and Cartography
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1523-0406, 1545-0465 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,062 |
| Publishing since | 1971 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcag20/current |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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