Giorgos Mountrakis  

GIS and Remote Sensing Journal List with Impact Factors

The following list provides impact factors (IF) for relevant GIS and Remote Sensing scientific journals.

Format: |IF (2008) # 5-Year IF (2008) | IF(2010) # 5-Year IF (2010) | Journal Name

** Remote Sensing

|3.943 # 5.515 | 3.951 # 4.605 | Remote Sensing of Environment
|3.157 # 3.873 | 2.470 # 2.995 | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
|2.293 # 3.694 | 2.158 # 2.886 | ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
|1.947 #    -    | 1.557 # 2.039 | Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
|1.846 # 2.347 | 0.926 # 1.566 | Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
|1.832 #   –     | 1.420 # 1.684 | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
|1.315 # 2.014 | 0.962 # 1.156 | Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
|1.041 # 1.801 | 1.182 # 1.551 | International Journal of Remote Sensing
|         –          | 0.925 # 1.495 | The Photogrammetric Record
|0.707 #   –     | 1.000 #   –     | GIScience & Remote Sensing
|          -         |          -         | Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
|          -         |          -         | Remote Sensing Letters
|          -         | 1.140 #    -    | IEEE Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
|          -         |          -         | Remote Sensing

** GIS

|1.596 # 2.293 | 1.489 # 2.162 | International Journal of Geographical Information Science
|          -         |          -         | Transactions in GIS
|          -         | 1.416 # 1.632 | Computers & Geosciences
|          -         | 1.000 #     –   | Journal of Spatial Science
|          -         | 1.453 # 1.453 | International Journal of Digital Earth
|1.098 # 1.314 | 1.357 # 1.434 | GeoInformatica
|          -         |          -         | Journal of Geographical Systems
|          -         |          -         | Geocarto International
|          -         |          -         | Journal of Geographic Information System
|          -         |          -         | Geo-spatial Information Science
|          -         |          -         | GeoJournal
|1.638 #   –      |          -         | The Geographical Journal
|1.441 # 2.093 |        -           | Geoforum
|          -         |          -         | Geographical Research
|          -         |          -         | Geography Compass
|          -         |          -         | GeoJournal

Paper discussing impact factor of GIS Journals:
** C. Caron, S. Roche, D. Goyer, A. Jaton (2008). GIScience Journals Ranking and Evaluation: An International Delphi Study, Transactions in GIS, 12(3), pp. 293-321. [pdf]

** Broader Relevance

|4.099 # 4.249 | 4.417 # 5.325 | Ecography
|5.304 # 5.694 | 5.273 # 6.330 | Global Ecology and Biogeography
|2.659 # 2.444 | 2.871 # 2.900 | Environmental Modelling & Software
|1.109 # 1.635 | 2.596 # 2.760 | Journal of Environmental Management
|1.434 # 2.058 | 1.574 # 2.000 | Canadian Journal of Forest Research
|          ?        | 1.942 # 2.013 | European Journal of Forest Research
|          ?        | 1.992 # 2.507 | Forest Ecology and Management
|          ?        | 1.460 # 1.555 | Forestry
|          ?        | 1.196 # 1.590 | Forest Science
|2.959 # 3.137 | 3.505 # 3.549 | Geophysical Research Letters
|5.876 # 6.709 | 6.346 # 7.814 | Global Change Biology
|2.453 # 3.256 | 3.200 # 3.648 | Landscape Ecology
|28.103 # 30.268 | 31.364 # 31.769 | Science
|          ?        | 10.392 # 10.448 | Nature Geoscience
|1.874 # 2.593 | 2.091 # 2.746 | Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
|1.953 # 2.557 | 2.004 # 2.789 | Landscape and Urban PLanning
|2.421 # 3.803 | 1.238 # 2.894 | Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
|2.656 # 2.838 | 1.955 # 2.652 | Neural Networks
|3.726 # 4.144 | 2.624 # 3.417 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

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