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Journal of Remote Sensing
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Journal of Remote Sensing

1007-4619

Published by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

https://spj.science.org/journal/remotesensing

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 349 84 145 15
Computer Science 417 67 132 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 225
Documents by Best Scientists*: 325
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 37
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.574
Impact Factor: 6.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of remote sensing?

The aim of the journal is to expand the discussion of research in Remote sensing, Artificial intelligence, Satellite, Meteorology and Computer vision. The research on Remote sensing tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Land cover, Pixel and Vegetation, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. The journal focused on Land cover research but expanded to cover Cartography.

Studies on Artificial intelligence discussed in the journal link to the field of Pattern recognition. The Meteorology study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer.

  • Remote sensing (48.78%)
  • Artificial intelligence (15.81%)
  • Satellite (10.68%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A survey of image classification methods and techniques for improving classification performance (1920 citations)
  • Death to Kappa: birth of quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement for accuracy assessment (1063 citations)
  • Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: first mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data (864 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of remote sensing:

The journal publications cover a variety of subjects, including Remote sensing, Vegetation, Cartography, Land cover and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. The journal papers explore issues in Remote sensing which can be linked to other research areas like Pixel and Satellite, Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer. While work presented in the most cited articles provide substantial information on Vegetation, it also covers topics in Canopy, Hyperspectral imaging and Scale (map).

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

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Ecology
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The objective of the journal is to combine knowledge in the areas of Remote sensing, Satellite, Remote sensing (archaeology), Lidar and Land cover. Journal of remote sensing facilitates discussions in Multispectral image as part of the larger field of Remote sensing, however, it also tackles fields such as Reference data (financial markets). Discussions in Journal of remote sensing are anchored in the subject of Satellite and the similar topic of Geodesy.

While the journal focused on Land cover, it was also able to explore topics like Agriculture, Statistical classification, Wetland and Geographic information system. Vegetation research discussed connects with the study of Thematic map.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Finer-Resolution Mapping of Global Land Cover: Recent Developments, Consistency Analysis, and Prospects (10 citations)
  • Mapping Crop Phenology in Near Real-Time Using Satellite Remote Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities (6 citations)
  • Optical Remote Sensing of Oil Spills in the Ocean: What Is Really Possible? (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 Journal of remote sensing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Kyung-Soo Han (48 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Kohei Arai (46 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hyung-Sup Jung (44 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kiwon Lee (43 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • No-Wook Park (39 papers) absent at the last 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 Journal of remote sensing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (481 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Tokyo (125 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Beijing Normal University (123 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Wuhan University (114 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • National Institute for Environmental Studies (108 papers) absent at the last 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, 56.58% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 33.33% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 42.42% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 6.06% of all publications and 18.18% 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

  • Spatiotemporal Mapping of Salt Marshes in the Intertidal Zone of China during 1985–2019

    (2022)
    62 Citations
  • A Portable Algorithm to Retrieve Bottom Depth of Optically Shallow Waters from Top-Of-Atmosphere Measurements

    (2022)
    55 Citations
  • Nighttime light remote sensing and urban studies: Data, methods, applications, and prospects

    (2021)
    55 Citations
  • Remote sensing cloud computing platform development and Earth science application

    (2021)
    52 Citations
  • Continued Increases of Gross Primary Production in Urban Areas during 2000–2016

    (2022)
    46 Citations
  • Reviews of methods for land surface temperature retrieval from Landsat thermal infrared data

    (2021)
    42 Citations
  • Development status and future prospects of multi-source remote sensing image fusion

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Automatically Monitoring Impervious Surfaces Using Spectral Generalization and Time Series Landsat Imagery from 1985 to 2020 in the Yangtze River Delta

    Xiao Zhang;Liangyun Liu;Xidong Chen;Yuan Gao

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • Development status and literature analysis of China’s earth observation remote sensing satellites

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • MAR20: A benchmark for military aircraft recognition in remote sensing images

    (2023)
    29 Citations

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