About this journal
Aims and scope
Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk is an open access journal publishing research on geospatial (GIS and GPS) and remote sensing techniques applied to risk management of natural hazards.
The aim of Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk is to address new concepts and approaches using geospatial and remote sensing techniques to study monitoring, mapping, risk mitigation, risk vulnerability and early warning of natural hazards. Regional case studies must clearly demonstrate a broader implication for an international audience.
Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk covers the following topics:
- Remote sensing techniques
- Natural hazards associated with land, ocean, atmosphere, land-ocean-atmosphere coupling and climate change
- Emerging problems related to multi-hazard risk assessment, multi-vulnerability risk assessment, risk quantification and the economic aspects of hazards.
- Results of findings on major natural hazards
The journal accepts original research articles, reviews, data notes, and technical papers.
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk operates a single-anonymized peer review policy.Journal metrics
Usage
- 616K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 4.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 4.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 7.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.233 (2023) SNIP
- 0.913 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 39 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 45 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 15 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 46% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Ramesh P. Singh,
Earth System Science and Remote Sensing,
School of Life and Environmental Sciences,
Chapman University, Orange, CA
All journal queries should be sent to: [email protected]
Associate Editors
Prof. Raffaele Albano
School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
Prof. Vincenzo Lapenna
Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IMAA-CNR), Tito, PZ, Italy
Dr Sridhara Nayak
Disaster Prevention Risk Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Prof. Filippos Vallianatos
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Prof. Lixin Wu
School of Geoscience and Info-Physics,Central South University,Changsha, P.R. China
Prof. Tao Xu
Center for Rock Instability & Seismicity Research, Northeastern University, Shenyang, P. R. China
Editorial Board
Prof. Chandrashekhar Bhuiyan, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India
Prof. Manfred Buchroithner, Technische Universitat Dresden, Institute for Cartography, Dresden, Germany
Dr Wei Chen, Institute of Surface–Earth System Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P. R. China
Prof. John E. Ebel, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, MA, USA
Dr Mario Floris, Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Italy
Dr Vineet Gahalaut, National Geophysical Research Institute, Telangana, India
Dr Bin Gong, Brunel University London, London, UK
Prof. Dr Sharad Kumar Gupta, Dept. of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Dr Haoyuan Hong, School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, P. R. China
Prof. Dou Jie, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, P. R. China
Dr Feng Jing, Institute of Earthquake Forecasting, China Earthquake Administration, P. R. China
Dr Ashutosh Kainthola, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Prof. Ulrich Kamp, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA
Dr Jung Rack Kim, Future Vision, Inc., Iceon, Republic of Korea
Prof. Rajesh Kumar, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India
Prof. Sushil Kumar, School of Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
Prof. Vipin Kumar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Dr Kristofer Lasko, Geospatial Research Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, VA, USA
Dr Sansar Raj Meena, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Dr Tapas Ranjan Martha, Indian Space Research Organization, National Remote Sensing Centre Geosciences Group, RSA-A, Hyderabad, India
Dr Angela Perrone, Institute for Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA-CNR), Tito Scalo, Italy
Dr Binh Thai Pham, University of Transport Technology, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
Dr Francesco Pirotti, Universita di Padova, CIRGEO Interdepartmental Research Center in Geomatics, Padua, Italy
Dr Sujatha Evangelin Ramani, Centre for Advanced Research in Environment, School of Civil Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, India
Prof. RAAJ Ramsankaran, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Prof. Manjula Ranagalage, Department of Environmental Management, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale, Sri Lanka
Dr Keshab Sharma, BGC Engineering, Inc., Fredericton, NB, Canada
Prof. Anil Shukla, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
Dr Dericks Praise Shukla, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
Dr Ajay P. Singh, National Centre for Seismology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi, India
Prof. Valerio Tramutoli, Department of Engineering and Physics of The Environment (DIFA), University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
Dr Matej Vojtek, Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Regional Development, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia
Prof. Dongp Wang, State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Projection, Chengdu University of Technology, P. R. China
Prof. Sheng-Qi Yang, State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, P. R. China
Dr Sheng Zheng, Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
Prof. Dr Chao Zhou, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Last updated 4 July 2024
Abstracting and indexing
Indexing
- DOAJ
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- Scopus
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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