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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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ISSN 0196-2892Verify ISSN ↗1558-0644Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,645 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 6 / 201 | 97th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 38 / 1030 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.7.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 6 of 201) and Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 38 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience 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 16.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.649, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 342.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,645 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.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its print ISSN is 0196-2892 and its online ISSN is 1558-0644.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing has an h-index of 387 and a 2-year mean of 7.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing published 2,736 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 2,910. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (66%), United States (7.4%) and Italy (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 2 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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