![]() ![]() There are 53 journals in English language, while 44 are in open access. The largest numbers of mapping sciences journals are published in Germany, the United States of America and Poland. ![]() The corpus of mapping sciences journals is described in detail, and the ISSN for each printed and online journal, the publisher, country, URL, language of publication and data on free accessibility are given. By applying set of criteria, a corpus of active journals in the field of mapping sciences was defined: it consists of 1 05 selected journals. A systematic review of different subject-specific and multidisciplinary databases (GEOPHOKA, Bibliographia Cartographica, VINITI, GeoRef, Scopus and Web ofScience), library catalogues, publishers’ web sites, professional associations’ web sites and other web resources was carried out. In this research, we form the corpus of active journals relevant to the mapping sciences and present their distribution by country, language of publication and level of accessibility. The large number of journals and the constant changes which are happening in the world of scholarly publishing make it difficult to identify a group of journals relevant to a specific scientific field, particularly when dealing with a sub-field such as mapping sciences, which is inter-linked with many other disciplines. The PERO browser (web service of the Ruđer Bošković Institute) was used to make a list of cartographic and related electronic journals and electronic versions of printed journals with full text avaiable to Croatian academic and scientic community. Data are also given about two most cited cartographic papers in the last 50 years. ![]() According to the Web of Science citation database, data are given about the most cited cartographers in papers published during the period between 1955 and the end of 2008 on the condition that each paper was cited at least once between 20. Searching the Current Contents database resulted in data about cartographers with more than 10 papers in CC journals. Bibliographic databases Bibliographia Cartographica, GEOPHOKA, Scopus and Current Contents (CC) are analyzed concerning cartographic content representation. The paper describes Internet information sources divided into following three groups: bibliographic databases, citation databases and databases with full texts including electronic journals. ![]()
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