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National Remote Sensing Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3). Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1007-4619Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 240 / 876 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 55 / 194 | 71st | Q2 |
| Instrumentation | 63 / 206 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
National Remote Sensing Bulletin is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 240 of 876), Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 55 of 194) and Q2 in Instrumentation (rank 63 of 206), by CiteScore 2025.
National Remote Sensing Bulletin 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 4.3, quartile Q2, 72nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.515, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
National Remote Sensing Bulletin is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1007-4619.
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.
National Remote Sensing Bulletin has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #492 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
National Remote Sensing Bulletin published 196 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 276. 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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