Editorial

Abstract

In the last edition of the Cartographic Journal as its publisher, I celebrate a fruitful and positive 2013-2017 journey. In this period, I had the opportunity to coordinate major advances, which will certainly rise the quality standard of the journal, making it even more recognized by readers in the Americas and in the world. The journal is now published in digital format in the new web page <http://comisiones.ipgh.org/CARTOGRAFIA/revista-cartografica.html>, though the printed editions are still published on demand. We obtained the Latindex in 2015, an important indexing system of publications in the Americas. In 2016, the periodicity changed to two editions per year, with an average of 12 articles per edition. As a future goal, we aim at obtaining other prestigious indexing systems. The number of reviewers of the Editorial Board changed from eight to 70 highly-skilled professionals from different countries, reviewing articles in the four official languages of the PAIGH (Spanish, English, Portuguese and French). The review criteria and procedures have also been improved, by using the double blind system and standard sheets to include the reviewers´ comments. The Cartography Commission created the “Prize for the Outstanding Postgraduate’s Thesis”, which fosters part of the articles published in the journal, in addition to awarding relevant Master´s and Doctorate´s works.

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