About this journal
Aims and scope
Journal of Maps (JoM) is a fully open access, inter-disciplinary journal for researchers to publish maps and spatial diagrams across the physical and social sciences.
Journal of Maps research examines social and physical processes that take place on a geographical scale, using maps or spatial diagrams to advance understanding. Topics could include, for example, footfall in retail marketing, the spread of bird flu or location of geological faults. Maps submitted must make a substantial contribution to knowledge in the field that is likely to be of broad interest to readers.
Research published in the Journal of Maps demonstrates a unique line of enquiry that requires the use of maps or spatial diagrams, collects new data or adds significant value to existing data and presents and communicates findings that adhere to high cartographic standards.
Origins
Journal of Maps has its origins in the geological and geographical journals of the late-1800s and early 1900s. The investigative research during this period was based strongly around fieldwork and the observation of phenomena. After observation, interpretation could be applied and then presented at a society meeting. The "proceedings" of these lectures were then published, often with extra plates of photographs and maps of the original fieldwork. As a result of these early pioneers, we now have a permanent record of this work which can be referred back to. This is important as we not only have the interpretive conclusions, but also the original data upon which the work was based. Therefore, JoM seeks to offer a forum for academics to present the geospatial products of their research.
Multi-Disciplinary and International
As a discipline, "geography" traditionally covers a wide range of subject areas due to its spatial nature. Maps and mapping science were often incorporated within geography; however spatial data are now widely used in many disciplines. JoM is intentionally multi-disciplinary and wants to draw upon and present work from all subject areas. Not only has this built an increasing archive of mapped data for future researchers to draw upon, but also fosters inter-disciplinary contexts.
The Journal of Maps operates an open peer review policy.
All articles are made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 459K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.9 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 4.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.900 (2023) SNIP
- 0.570 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 73 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 89 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 18 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 77% 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
EDITORS:
Dr Mike Smith , Editor-in-Chief
Editor: JoM Science
Ulster University, UK
BSc (Wales), MSc (UBC), PhD (Sheffield)
Research interests in palaeo-glaciology, geomorphometry and spectroscopy
Professor Nigel Walford, Editor: JoM Social Science
Professor of Applied GIS, Kingston University, UK
BA (Sussex), PhD (London)
Research interests include contemporary and historical applications of GIS relating to population dynamics, people-environment interaction and land use change in rural and urban areas
SCIENCE:
Dr Gina Cavan, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Research interests include the application of GIS to assess urban ecosystem services, climate change risk, vulnerability and adaptation across the UK, Europe and Africa
Dr Chi-Wen Chen, National Taiwan University
BSc (NTU), MSc (NTU), PhD (The University of Tokyo)
Research interests include slope disasters, engineering geology, and geospatial information analysis
Dr. M. Scott Harris, P.G., College of Charleston, USA
BS (William and Mary), MS (University of Virginia), Ph.D. (University of Delaware)
Research interests include marine geology, coastal plain and continental shelf evolution, and geoarchaeology.
PD Dr Tobias Heckmann, Senior Lecturer, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Dipl. Geogr. (Heidelberg), Germany
PhD (Eichstaett), PD (Eichstaett)
Research interests include geomorphological systems analysis in alpine areas (sediment budgets, natural hazards, environmental change)
Dr Martin Margold, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
MSc (Charles University), PhD (Stockholm University)
Research interests include glacial geomorphology, paleo-glaciology, quantitative geochronology, and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
Prof. Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
BSc (Anglia), PhD (Ulster)
Research interests include Quaternary climate and environmental change, geomorphology and sedimentary systems
Dr Jan-Christoph Otto, University of Salzburg, Austria
Dipl. Geogr. (Bonn), PhD (Bonn)
Research interests include alpine geomorphology, sediment budgets, human impact on natural systems, environmental change and geomorphological mapping
Dr Paolo Paron, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands
MSc (Roma Tre), PhD (G. D'Annunzio)
Research interests in GIS / Remote Sensing, Physical Geography, River Geomorphology and Groundwater
Dr Tommaso Piacentini, Department of Engineering and Geology, University "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti Pescara, Italy
BSc (Rome La Sapienza), PhD (Roma Tre)
Research interests include tectonic geomorphology, landslides, geomorphological hazards, geomorphological mapping
Dr Monica Pondrelli, Università d'Annunzio, Italy
Prof. Dr Claudio Riccomini, University of São Paulo, Brazil
BSc (São Paulo), MSc (INPE), PhD (São Paulo)
Research interests include tectonics (Neotectonics), basin analysis and geological mapping
Prof. Uwe Ring, Stockholm University, Sweden
Dipl. Geol. (Darmstadt), PhD (Tübingen)
Research interests include the formation and destruction of mountain belts using geologic/tectonic mapping, structural geology, metamorphic petrology and geochronology.
Dr Brent Ward, Simon Fraser University, Canada
BSc (Alerta), PhD (Alberta)
Research interests include sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleoenvironmental reconstructions, surficial mapping, drift prospecting and landslides
Prof. Yichin Xie, Eastern Michigan University, USA
SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Dr Alistair Geddes, Univesity of Dundee, UK
BSc (Edinburgh), MSc (Edinburgh), PhD (Pennsylvania State University)
Research Interests: GIS applications focussed on contemporary and historical population-environment relations; socio-spatial inequalities
BSc (Middle East Technical University), MA (KU Leuven), PhD (UCLouvain)
Research interests include computational archaeology, digital humanities, and map art
Prof. Haosheng Huang, Ghent University, Belgium
BSc/MSc (SCNU), PhD (TU Wien)
Research interests include location-based services, navigation systems, spatial cognition, urban analytics, mobility, and GeoAI
Dr Paul Holloway, University College Cork, Ireland
BSc (University of Nottingham), MSc (University of Nottingham), PhD (University of Texas at Austin)
Research interests include movement science, geocomputation, geoprivacy and applications of GIS to a variety of topics
Dr Izabela Karsznia, University of Warsaw, Poland
Research interests include automation of cartographic generalization with the use of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Graph Theory, map design and visualization, application of maps and spatial analysis in other disciplines (e.g. UAV studies; historical hydrography; land use changes).
Dr Marynia Kolak, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
MS, MFA, PhD
Research interests include spatial epidemiology, spatial econometrics, and the application of GIS to assess the influence of place on health and the production of social, spatial, and racial inequalities on driving health disparities
BSc (Tianjin University, China), MSc (Tianjin University, China), PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Research Interests include urban governance, Chinese urbanisation, application of GIS in urban studies
CARTOGRAPHIC EDITORS:
Ms Jessica Baker, Ordnance Survey, UK
Dr Giedre Beconyte, Centre for Cartography, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Mr Steve Bernard, Financial Times, UK
Dr Bieke Cattoor, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands
Juliane Cron, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Chandra Jayasuriya, Cartographer, School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mr Andrew Lynch, Cartographer
Prof. Dr Menno-Jan Kraak, International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, the Netherlands
BSc & MSc (Utrecht University), PhD (Delft University of Technology)
Dr Chris Orton, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
Prof. Makram Murad-al-shaikh, University of Wisconsin, Madison; ESRI, Inc.- Educational Services, USA
Research interests include GIS and cartography
Dr. Jirí Pánek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Dr Vit Paszto, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Dr Thomas Pingel, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Mike Shand, GIS Cartographer, University of Glasgow, UK
Mike Siegel, Cartographer, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, USA
Dr Luis M. Tanarro, Department of Geography, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR:
Tim Prestby, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Updated 29 April 2024
Abstracting and indexing
Indexing
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Scopus
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
2 issues per year
Collection: Celebrating Census (2022)
Collection: Geomorphological Mapping in Urban Areas (2022)
Special Issue: Geomorphological Tools for Mapping Natural Hazards (17.03.2021)
2020 Student Edition (16.03.2020)Special Issue: Art–Geoscience (15.03.2019)
Special Issue: Structural Mapping in the Mediterranean: Bringing Laboratory to Lithosphere (11.01.2015)
Special Issue: Mapping Environmental Risks: Quantitative and Spatial Modeling Approaches (10.02.2014)
Special Issue: Mapping Innovations in Spatial Demography, Part III (09.02.2013)
Special Issue: Mapping Innovations in Spatial Demography, Part II (09.01.2013)
Special Issue: Mapping Innovations in Spatial Demography, Part I (08.04.2012)
Special Section: Mapping the Impacts of Transport (06.01.2010)
Special Section: National Social Maps (06.01.2010)
2010 Student Edition (06.Supp1.2010)
Special Section: Geomorphological Mapping for a Sustainable Development (05.01.2009)
2008 Student Edition: RSPSoc Annual Student Meeting 2008 (04.Supp1.2008)
Special Section: Applied Geomorpholigical Mapping (04.01.2008)
Special Section: Quaternary of the British Isles and Adjoining Seas (04.01.2008)
Special Section: Transport Networks (04.01.2008)
2007 Student Edition (03.Supp1.2007)
Special Issue: Maps in Motion (03.01.2007)
Special Issue: Glacial Geology and Geomorphology (02.01.2006)
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