Aims and scope

International Journal of Health Geographics is fully dedicated to publishing novel, high quality and internationally significant manuscripts on all aspects of geospatial information systems and science applications in health and healthcare.

International Journal of Health Geographics covers a wide range of interdisciplinary geospatial topics in a health/healthcare context, from spatial data infrastructure and Web geospatial interoperability research, to research into real-time Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-enabled surveillance services, remote sensing applications, spatial epidemiology, spatio-temporal statistics, internet GIS and cyberspace mapping, participatory GIS and citizen sensing, geospatial big data, healthy smart cities and regions, and geospatial Internet of Things and blockchain. The journal is thus of interest to audiences from many different fields.

Special Issue on The Generative Revolution: Generative AI in Health Geomatics
截稿日期: 2026-04-30

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing our world, with the latest wave of generative AI methods, models and tools in particular bringing us one step closer to AGI (artificial general intelligence). Various fields of medicine and healthcare, but also health geomatics/geoinformatics and public health research, have already started exploring the potential of the latest generative AI developments in improving practice and outcomes. However, this potential is not without many challenges, limitations and risks that need to be overcome or mitigated to ensure the safe and ethical use of these technologies.

For this Collection, we invite novel contributions in the form of original research and methodology articles from practitioners and scholars working at the intersection of generative AI, health and healthcare, and geospatial analysis. Two Int J Health Geogr editorials (doi:10.1186/s12942-025-00392-z, doi:10.1186/s12942-025-00391-0) are already published that together set the scope and direction of this collection. Prospective authors and contributors are kindly referred to these two articles for further details about what can be expected in articles belonging to this Collection.

All submissions in this collection undergo the journal’s standard peer review process. Similarly, all manuscripts authored by a Guest Editor(s) will be handled by the Editor-in-Chief. As an open access publication, this journal levies an article processing fee (details here). We recognize that many key stakeholders may not have access to such resources and are committed to supporting participation in this issue wherever resources are a barrier. For more information about what support may be available, please visit OA funding and support, or email OAfundingpolicy@springernature.com or the Editor-in-Chief.