The Journal of Location Based Services is a world-leading journal publishing cutting-edge research in all areas of location-based research and associated technologies, including both applied and theoretical research. The journal actively encourages interaction between industry and academia. The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Analysis of LBS-generated data
Augmented reality
Computational movement analysis
Context modelling and context-awareness
Context modelling, personalisation and context-aware adaptation
Evaluation methodologies for LBS
Geotagged big data
indoor spatial data modelling and mapping
Innovative LBS and applications
LBS in the era of autonomous cars and artificial intelligence
LBS, crowdsourcing, and volunteered geographic information (VGI)
Legal, ethical and business aspects in LBS
Location based social networks and games
Mobile healthcare
Mobile human-computer interaction
Mobile spatial cognition
Mobile user interface and interaction
Multi-sensor system and sensor fusion
Outdoor and indoor positioning
Privacy
Smart cities and transportation
Smart environments and ambient spatial intelligence
Social and behavioural implications of LBS
Ubiquitous positioning
User experiences of LBS
User studies and evaluation
Visualisation techniques for LBS
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous and rapid peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Proposals for innovative new Special Issues are actively encouraged and should be approved by the Editor-in-Chief. Queries regarding submissions can be made by contacting the Editor-in-Chief, whose decision is final.
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Journal metrics
Usage
23K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.2 (2023) Impact Factor
1.9 (2023) 5 year IF
3.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.658 (2023) SNIP
0.452 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
27 days avg. from submission to first
decision
58 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
17 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
35% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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.
Georg Gartner - Technische Universitat Wien, Austria
Haosheng Huang - Ghent University, Belgium
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Nico Van de Weghe - Ghent University, Belgium
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Anto Aasa – University of Tartu, Estonia Christophe Claramunt - Naval Academy Research Institute, France Sagi Dalyot – Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Somayeh Dodge – University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Weihua Dong – Beijing Normal University, China Matt Duckham - RMIT University, Australia Zhixiang Fang – Wuhan University, China Ioannis Giannopoulos - Technische Universitat Wien, Austria Gyözö Gidofalvi - KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden Michael Gould - Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), USA Anita Graser – Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Hartwig Hochmair - University of Florida, USA Carsten Keßler – Aalborg University, Denmark Peter Kiefer – ETH Zürich, Switzerland Christian Kray - University of Munster, Germany Jukka Krisp - University of Augsburg, Germany Lars Kulik - University of Melbourne, Australia Chun Liu - Tongji University, China Seng Loke - Deakin University, Australia Liqiu Meng - TU Munich, Germany Xiaolin Meng - Nottingham University, UK Harvey J. Miller - Ohio State University, USA Peter Mooney - National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland Juha Oksanen – National Land Survey of Finland, Finland Martin Raubal – ETH Zürich, Switzerland Karl Rehrl - Salzburg Research, Austria Kai-Florian Richter - Umeå University, Sweden Johannes Schöning - University of Bremen, Germany Steven Verstockt - Ghent University, Belgium Stephan Winter - University of Melbourne, Australia Frank Witlox - Ghent University, Belgium Sisi Zlatanova - UNSW Sydney, Australia Matthew Zook - University of Kentucky, USA
FOUNDING EDITOR:Jonathan Raper - CEO, Placr LTD and School of Informatics, City University, London, EC1V OHB, UK
Updated 11-11-2020
Abstracting and indexing
The Journal of Location Based Services is indexed and abstracted in:
ACM Digital Library British Library CLOCKSS CrossRef DBLP Computer Science Bibliography (University of Trier) EBSCO - Academic Search Complete EBSCO - STM Source Ei Compendex/ Engineering Village E-LIB (University of Bremen) Emerging Sources Citation Index Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Google Scholar Inspec (The IET) Microsoft Academic Naver Corporation Portico ProQuest - SciTech Premium Collection ProQuest - Technology Collection SCImago Scopus Transportation Research Information Services (Transportation Research Board) Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Web of Science WorldCat Local (OCLC) Zetoc
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