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Cartographic Perspectives

NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society) · United States

ISSN1048-9053

SJR Q2✓ Scopus / SJR✓ Open Access

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.393

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.647

Total Worksi

1,573

Total Citationsi

8,709

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.12

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous); Environmental Science (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Languageen

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 28 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications1,573

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer Reviewpeer-reviewed

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

7/11 · 64%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society)

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1048-9053

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

peer-reviewed

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

118

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Q2

Environmental Science (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Environmental Science (miscellaneous)Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Geographic Information Systems StudiesDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHistorical Geography and CartographyEducational Robotics and EngineeringHuman auditory perception and evaluation

Frequently asked questions about Cartographic Perspectives

Is Cartographic Perspectives a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Cartographic Perspectives: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Cartographic Perspectives?

Cartographic Perspectives is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.393.

Is Cartographic Perspectives indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Cartographic Perspectives is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Cartographic Perspectives?