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GIScience and Remote Sensing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1548-1603Verify ISSN ↗1943-7226Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 7 / 201 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.9.
GIScience and Remote Sensing is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 7 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
GIScience and Remote Sensing is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 11.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.808, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 76.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,390 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
GIScience and Remote Sensing is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1548-1603 and its online ISSN is 1943-7226.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
GIScience and Remote Sensing has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 5.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
GIScience and Remote Sensing published 149 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (64.7%), United States (4.8%) and South Korea (4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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