About this journal
Aims and scope
The aim of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is to provide a forum for the exchange of original ideas, approaches, methods and experiences in the field of GIScience.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science covers the following topics:
- Innovations and novel applications of GIScience in natural resources, social systems and the built environment
- Relevant developments in computer science, cartography, surveying, geography, and engineering
- Fundamental and computational issues of geographic information
- The design, implementation and use of geographical information for monitoring, prediction and decision making
- GIScience research addressing one or more of the UN SDGs
The journal publishes original articles, reviews, foresight papers, technical communications, editorials and book reviews.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science operates a double-anonymized peer review policy. Authors can choose to publish gold open access within this journal.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 371K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 4.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 5.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 11.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.831 (2023) SNIP
- 1.436 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 1 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 54 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 12 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 11% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor in Chief
May Yuan, Ashbel Smith Professor of Geospatial Information Sciences- University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA
Associate Editors
Michela Bertolotto, Professor– University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Christophe Claramunt, Professor–École Navale, Lanvéoc, France
Urska Demsar, Senior Lecturer, Geoinformatics– University of St Andrews, UK
Andreas Züfle , Associate Professor– Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Bo Huang, Chair Professor – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Song Gao, Associate Professor, Director of Geospatial Data Science Lab – University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
Shawn Laffan, Professor – University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
David O’Sullivan, Dr–University of Auckland, New Zealand
Editorial Board
Jared Aldstadt, Associate Professor - Dept. of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
Scott Bell Professor, Geography & Planning - University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Tom Cova, Professor of Geography - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Andrew Crooks, Professor - Dept. of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
Styze de Bruin, Universitair Hoofddocent - Wageningen University, Netherlands
Sergio di Martino, Professor in Computer Science - University of Napoli, Federico II, Italy
Somayeh Dodge, Associate Professor, Spatial Data Science - University of California - Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Matt Duckham, Professor in Geographic Information Science - RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Sara Fabrikant, Professor, Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mark Gahegan, Professor of Computer Science - University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jianya Gong, Professor - Wuhan University, China
Michael Goodchild, Distinguished Professor Emeritus - University of California - Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Amy Griffin, Senior Lecturer, Geospatial Science - RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Francis Harvey, Professor for Visual Communication in Geography - Leipzig University, Hannover, Germany
Yingjie Hu, Associate Professor - University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Bin Jiang, Professor - University of Gävle, Sweden
Meipo Kwan, Professor of Geography and Resource Management - The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Patrick Laube, Prof. Dr - ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland
Thomas Leduc, Dr - Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
WenWen Li, Professor - Arizona State University, AZ, USA
Xia Li, Professor - East China Normal University, China
Xiang Li, Professor - East China Normal University, China
Jed Long, Associate Professor - Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Guonian L ü, Professor - Nanjing Normal University, China
Steve Manson, Professor - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Gavin McArdle, Associate Professor - University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Grant McKenzie, Associate Professor - McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jeremy Mennis, Professor - Temple University, Philidelphia, PA, USA
Harvey Miller, Professor, Reusche Chair in Geographic Information Science - Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Jennifer Miller, Professor - University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Ludovic Moncla, Associate Professor - National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (INSA Lyon), France
Dan Montello, Professor - University of California - Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Antoni Moore, Professor - University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Alan Murray, Professor - University of California - Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Trisalyn Nelson, Professor, Jack and Laura Dangermond Chair of Geography - University of California - Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Atsuyuki Okabe, Emeritus Professor - University of Tokyo, Japan
Antonio Paez, Professor - McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Jonathan Reades, Associate Professor in Spatial Data Science - Kings College London, UK
Karl Rehrl, Head of Group - Salzburg Research, Austria
Chiara Renso, Researcher - Instituto di Scienza e Tecnolgie dell;Infomazione (ISTI CNR), Pisa, Italy
Sergio Rey, Professor of Geography - San Diego State University, CA, USA
Yukio Sadahiro, Assistant Professor - University of Tokyo, Japan
Johannes Scholz, Professor of Geoinformatics - Technical University Graz, Austria
Monika Sester, Prof. Dr-Ing. habil - Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany
Shih-Lung Shaw, Professor, Human Geography and GIST - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, Senior Lecturer, Geographic Information Science - University of Auckland, New Zealand
Kathleen Stewart, Professor, Department of Geographical Sciences and Director of the Center for Geospatial Information Science - University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Robert Stewart, Distinguished Scientist, Spatial Statistics Group - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA
Nicholas Tate, Associate Professor in Geographical Information - University of Leicester, UK
Martin Tomko, Associate Professor in Spatial Information Infrastructure Engineering - University of Melbourne, Australia
Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Professor - Dept. of Geography, San Diego State University, CA, USA
Nico Van de Weghe, Professor of GIScience - Ghent University, Belgium
Jinfeng Wang, Distinguished Professor of Spatial Statistics - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Shaowen Wang, Professor - University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, IL, USA
Robert Weibel, Professor, Geographic Information Systems - University of Zurich, Switzerland
René Westerholt, Jun.-Prof. Dr - TU Dortmund University, Germany
Stephen Winter, Professor for Spatial Information Science - University of Melbourne, Australia
Levi Wolf, Associate Professor of Quantitative Human Geography - University of Bristol, UK
Liyang Xiong, Associate Professor - Nanjing Normal University, China
Jing Yao, Senior Lecturer, Urban Studies - University of Glasgow, UK
Founding Editors
J.T. Coppock
Eric Anderson
Former Editor in Chief
Brian Lees
Updated 28-05-2024
Abstracting and indexing
International Journal of Geographical Information Science is currently abstracted and indexed in: ACM Guide to Computing Literature; British Library Inside; CompuMath Citation Index®; Current Contents®/Social and Behavioural Sciences; EBSCO Databases; ERIC; GEOBASE; INSPEC®; Science Citation Index®; Science Citation Index Expanded™; Social Sciences Citation Index®; New Jour; SciBase; SCOPUS and Zetoc.
Open access
International Journal of Geographical Information Science is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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News, offers and calls for papers
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Calls for papers
Society information
Members of the following groups can receive an individual print and online subscription to International Journal of Geographical Information Science at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for details.
- Association for Geographic Information
- Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers Geographical Information Science Research Group
12 issues per year
Currently known as:
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science (1997 - current)
Formerly known as
- International journal of geographical information systems (1987 - 1996)
IJGIS Foresight papers
IJGIS invites Foresight papers that bring new perspectives and stimulations to GIScience research. Foresight papers might be disruptive to current research, ask questions that the conventional wisdom thinks unquestionable (e.g., violate the fundamental assumptions or principles), caution research pitfalls, revoke shortsighted stale research approaches, or suggest possible diverging lines of thinking.
Foresight papers may address the following in a reflective or thought-provoking way:
- The context: what is the current state of related research innovations or novel ideas in all related fields to GIScience, especially those fields that GIScience community has not fully recognize the potential;
- The hook: what are new connections to GIScience and new intellectual challenges; and
- The opportunities: low hanging fruits and new research directions.
Foresight papers will receive expedited peer-review processes to assure timely publications. View all past Foresight papers for free:
N. Sillero, A. M. Barbosa; Common Mistakes in Ecological Niche Models (35.02.2021)
J. Malczewski, P. Jankowski; Emerging Trends and Research Frontiers in Spatial Multicriteria Analysis (34.07.2020)
M. Gahegan; Fourth Paradigm GIScience? Prospects for automated discovery and explanation from data (34.01.2020)
H. J. Miller, S. Dodge, J. Miller, G. Bohrer; Towards an Integrated Science of Movement: Converging research on animal movement ecology and human mobility science (33.05.2019)
M. F. Goodchild; GIScience for a Driverless Age (32.05.2018)
Explore past special issues from the history of International Journal of Geographical Information Science and view the special sections below:
Special Section: Computational Movement Analysis (34.12.2020)
Special Section In Honor of Andrew U. Frank (32.12, 2018)
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