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GIScience & Remote Sensing
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GIScience & Remote Sensing

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 133 80 115 31

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 195
Documents by Best Scientists*: 207
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 6.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Giscience & Remote Sensing?

The aim of Giscience & Remote Sensing is to expand the discussion of research in Remote sensing, Remote sensing (archaeology), Land cover, Artificial intelligence and Cartography. Giscience & Remote Sensing explores topics in Remote sensing which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Vegetation and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. The journal focuses on Vegetation research which is adjacent to topics in Physical geography.

The research on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index discussed in the journal draws on the closely related field of Climatology. The study on Land cover presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Hydrology. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Artificial intelligence, it also covered topics in Machine learning, Computer vision and Pattern recognition.

The Lidar study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Digital elevation model.

  • Remote sensing (40.64%)
  • Remote sensing (archaeology) (13.89%)
  • Land cover (13.16%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI): A New Integrated Approach for Monitoring Drought Stress in Vegetation (289 citations)
  • Population Estimation Methods in GIS and Remote Sensing: A Review (197 citations)
  • Regional Scale Land Cover Characterization Using MODIS-NDVI 250 m Multi-Temporal Imagery: A Phenology-Based Approach (143 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Giscience & Remote Sensing:

The journal articles investigate studies in Remote sensing, Cartography, Land cover, Remote sensing (archaeology) and Artificial intelligence. While work presented in the published articles provide substantial information on Remote sensing, it also covers topics in Pixel and Vegetation, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. The published articles explore issues in Artificial intelligence which can be linked to other research areas like Machine learning, Data mining, Computer vision and Pattern recognition.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Ecology
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Remote sensing, Remote sensing (archaeology), Climate change, Physical geography and Artificial intelligence. Some problems in Remote sensing that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Cover (telecommunications) and Vegetation. While Remote sensing (archaeology) is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Ecosystem services, Land cover, Aboveground biomass, Deformation (meteorology) and Subsidence.

It addresses concerns in Climate change which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Mainland China, Ecosystem, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Environmental resource management. Glacier research are fields of study within Physical geography but they also intertwine with concepts in Series (stratigraphy), Index method and Spatial extent. Topics in Artificial intelligence explored in Giscience & Remote Sensing were investigated in conjunction with research in Machine learning and Pattern recognition.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A new type of dual-scale neighborhood based on vectorization for cellular automata models (4 citations)
  • Improvement of Mangrove Soil Carbon Stocks Estimation in North Vietnam Using Sentinel-2 Data and Machine Learning Approach (4 citations)
  • Classification of polarimetric SAR images using compact convolutional neural networks (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Giscience & Remote Sensing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jungho Im (16 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Dengsheng Lu (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • John Rogan (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Deepak Mishra (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lênio Soares Galvão (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Giscience & Remote Sensing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (41 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • United States Geological Survey (25 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Clark University (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • National Institute for Space Research (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wuhan University (15 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 4.62% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 33.87% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.84% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.35% of all publications and 41.94% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • A large-scale change monitoring of wetlands using time series Landsat imagery on Google Earth Engine: a case study in Newfoundland

    Masoud Mahdianpari;Hamid Jafarzadeh;Jean Elizabeth Granger;Fariba Mohammadimanesh

    (2020)
    149 Citations
  • Thematic accuracy assessment of the NLCD 2019 land cover for the conterminous United States

    (2023)
    147 Citations
  • Agricultural cropland extent and areas of South Asia derived using Landsat satellite 30-m time-series big-data using random forest machine learning algorithms on the Google Earth Engine cloud

    Murali Krishna Gumma;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Pardhasaradhi G. Teluguntla;Adam Oliphant

    (2020)
    144 Citations
  • Google Earth Engine for large-scale land use and land cover mapping: an object-based classification approach using spectral, textural and topographical factors

    Hossein Shafizadeh-Moghadam;Morteza Khazaei;Seyed Kazem Alavipanah;Qihao Weng

    (2021)
    94 Citations
  • Multi-sensor and multi-platform consistency and interoperability between UAV, Planet CubeSat, Sentinel-2, and Landsat reflectance data

    Unknown

    (2022)
    94 Citations
  • Estimating ground-level particulate matter concentrations using satellite-based data: a review

    Minso Shin;Yoojin Kang;Seohui Park;Jungho Im

    (2020)
    91 Citations
  • A stacking ensemble algorithm for improving the biases of forest aboveground biomass estimations from multiple remotely sensed datasets

    (2022)
    79 Citations
  • A deep learning model using geostationary satellite data for forest fire detection with reduced detection latency

    (2022)
    76 Citations
  • Simulating mixed land-use change under multi-label concept by integrating a convolutional neural network and cellular automata: a case study of Huizhou, China

    (2022)
    68 Citations
  • Seasonal and diurnal surface urban heat islands in China: an investigation of driving factors with three-dimensional urban morphological parameters

    (2022)
    56 Citations

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