Journal profile · ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Geocarto International
ISSN 1010-6049 · eISSN 1752-0762 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · ENGLAND
Geocarto International: CAS Zone 4 · Earth Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.83; JCR Q2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,630; median 115 days to acceptance (115 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 189 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Geocarto International is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 4 of Earth Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services and Remote-Sensing Image Classification, together about 32.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
*Please note that Geocarto International converted to a full Open Access journal from Volume 38 (2023). Previous volumes will continue to provide access through a Pay to Read model. Geocarto International is a fully open access professional academic journal serving the world-wide scientific and user community in the fields of remote sensing, GIS, geoscience and environmental sciences. The journal is designed: To promote multidisciplinary research in and application of remote sensing and GIS in geosciences and environmental sciences; To enhance international exchange of information on new developments and applications in the field of remote sensing and GIS and related disciplines; To foster interest in and understanding of science and applications on remote sensing and GIS technologies; and To encourage the publication of timely papers and research results on remote sensing and GIS applications in geosciences and environmental sciences from the world-wide science community. The journal welcomes contributions on the following: Precise, illustrated papers on new developments, technologies and applications of remote sensing; Research results in remote sensing, GISciences and related disciplines; Reports on new and innovative applications and projects in these areas; and Assessment and evaluation of new remote sensing and GIS equipment, software and hardware. Peer Review Statement Geocarto International considers original research articles and scientific and technical reviews. Editors may also invite submissions of special reports on specific topics. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via the Taylor & Francis Submission Portal. Please note, from 2023 the Print ISSN is not in active use as this journal is no longer published in print.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Remote Sensing in AgricultureEnvironmental Science14.6%
- Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesEnvironmental Science9.7%
- Remote-Sensing Image ClassificationEngineering7.9%
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR ApplicationsEnvironmental Science6.9%
- Flood Risk Assessment and ManagementEnvironmental Science6.4%
- Remote Sensing and Land UseEarth and Planetary Sciences5.6%
- Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesEnvironmental Science4.8%
- Groundwater and Watershed AnalysisEnvironmental Science4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Earth Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Earth Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Imaging Science & Photographic Technology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Remote Sensing | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Earth Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Earth Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Remote Sensing | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Imaging Science & Photographic Technology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Earth Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Earth Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Imaging Science & Photographic Technology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Remote Sensing | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePubMedINSPECGeoRefPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, OCLC
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 3.83LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 10.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 10.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.82LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.82Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.03LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.03Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 29LetPub ·
- h-index
- 97OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,607OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.99OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.6%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 189LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,023Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 475,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,524 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 144 | 144 | 64 |
| 2025 | 189 | 189 | 631 |
| 2024 | 144 | 144 | 1,208 |
| 2023 | 159 | 159 | 2,146 |
| 2022 | 433 | 89 | 7,026 |
| 2021 | 278 | 41 | 6,519 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
115 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 91 days – 147 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 16 days (115 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 138 days
- Sample
- 115 articles with submission and acceptance dates (335 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 51%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 43 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 48 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 11 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 14 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,630 / GBP 2,100 / EUR 2,520 / AUD 3,655 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | AUD 3,265 / EUR 2,180 / GBP 1,880 / USD 2,390 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,230 / GBP 2,392 / EUR 2,875 / AUD 4,495 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Not considered
- preprint
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- data noteResearch Article Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and met…main text ≤ 3,000 words · abstract ≤ 250 words
- methodGeocarto International accepts the following types of article: Research Article Method Data Note Review Article Software Tool ArticleLength not stated
- methods articleResearch Article Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and met…Length not stated
- research articleResearch Article Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and met…Length not stated
- review articleShould be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, di…main text ≤ 200 words · abstract ≤ 200 words
- software tool articleGeocarto International accepts the following types of article: Research Article Method Data Note Review Article Software Tool ArticleLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Data availability Data Sharing Policy
Data sharing policy: share upon reasonable request Model summary
This journal applies the Taylor & Francis share upon reasonable request data sharing policy. Authors agree to make data and materials supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper available upon reasonable request. It is up to the author to determine whether a request is reasonable. Authors are required to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability S…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Options
Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Taylor & Francis offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. Read more on publishing agreements.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
Language policy: publishes manuscripts in English only Model summary
Overview Open journals Open Select Dove Medical Press F1000Research
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review and Ethics
Peer review policy: double anonymous peer review Model summary
Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double anonymous peer reviewed by one independent, anonymous expert referees, each delivering at least one report. If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, pleas…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1010-6049
- Electronic ISSN
- 1752-0762
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 41, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Geocarto International
What CAS zone is Geocarto International in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Geocarto International is in Zone 4 of Earth Sciences, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Imaging Science & Photographic Technology / Environmental Sciences / Geosciences, Multidisciplinary / Remote Sensing. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Earth Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Geocarto International?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.83; CiteScore 10.8, h-index 97.
How long does peer review take at Geocarto International?
Based on the dates recorded on 115 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 115 days (interquartile range 91–147 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 51%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What JCR quartile is Geocarto International in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Earth Sciences.
Which databases index Geocarto International?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Geocarto International is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PubMed, INSPEC and GeoRef; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Geocarto International open access, and what is the APC?
Geocarto International is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,630.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .