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Journal of Geo-Information Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1). Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1560-8999Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 86 / 194 | 55th | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 276 / 570 | 51st | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 251 / 519 | 51st | Q2 |
| Computers in Earth Sciences | 38 / 76 | 50th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 531 / 1022 | 48th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Journal of Geo-Information Science is Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 86 of 194), Q2 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 276 of 570) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 251 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Geo-Information Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.337, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 31.
Journal of Geo-Information Science is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1560-8999.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Geo-Information Science has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #166 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Geo-Information Science published 8 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2010 with 259. 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.
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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