''Cartography and Geographic Information Science'' is an
academic journal about
cartography and
geographic information science Geographic information science or geographical information science (GIScience or GISc) is the scientific discipline that studies geographic information, including how it represents phenomena in the real world, how it represents the way humans unders ...
published by
Taylor & Francis on behalf of the U.S.
Cartography and Geographic Information Society,
in affiliation with the
International Cartographic Association.
Its
editor-in-chief is Alexander Ken;
its 2018
impact factor is 2.271.
It started in 1974 as ''The American Cartographer'', was renamed in 1990 to ''Cartography and Geographic Information Systems'', and in 1999 received its current name.
Indexing
The journal is
abstracted and indexed
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in the following
bibliographic databases:
References
Taylor & Francis academic journals
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of the United States
Geography journals
Cartography
Publications established in 1974
Bimonthly journals
Geographic information science
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