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.

Read the Instructions for Authors .

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

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 KumarSchool 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

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