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International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by IGI Global Publishing.
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ISSN 1947-9654Verify ISSN ↗1947-9662Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IGI Global Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 678 / 876 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 157 / 194 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 678 of 876) and Q4 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 157 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.137, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research is published by IGI Global Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1947-9654 and its online ISSN is 1947-9662.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 2.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #222 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research published 5 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 31. 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 49 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (50.1%), Ghana (11.2%) and India (7.1%). 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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