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Remote Sensing
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Remote Sensing

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 21 1451 3575 82
Computer Science 37 631 1805 69

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 4317
Documents by Best Scientists*: 8225
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 82
SCIMAGO H-index: 217
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.019
Impact Factor: 4.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Remote Sensing?

The journal generally zeroes in on subjects such as Remote sensing, Artificial intelligence, Satellite, Remote sensing (archaeology) and Meteorology. The research on Remote sensing featured in Remote Sensing combines topics in other fields like Pixel and Vegetation. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index is a major topic of Vegetation research presented in the journal.

While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Artificial intelligence, it also covered topics in Machine learning, Computer vision and Pattern recognition.

  • Remote sensing (41.21%)
  • Artificial intelligence (14.38%)
  • Satellite (10.24%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Transferring Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for the Scene Classification of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery (706 citations)
  • A Non-Stationary 1981–2012 AVHRR NDVI3g Time Series (582 citations)
  • Global Data Sets of Vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI)3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)3g Derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the Period 1981 to 2011 (539 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Remote Sensing:

The journal articles investigate areas of study like Remote sensing, Artificial intelligence, Vegetation, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Land cover. The Remote sensing research presented in the published articles focuses mostly on Satellite and, on occasion, topics in Meteorology. The published articles focus on Artificial intelligence but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Machine learning, Computer vision and Pattern recognition.

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

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Ecology
  • Remote sensing

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in Remote Sensing are Remote sensing, Artificial intelligence, Remote sensing (archaeology), Satellite and Pattern recognition. Lidar, Hyperspectral imaging and Multispectral image are all areas of Remote sensing tackled in Remote Sensing. In the journal, Machine learning and Computer vision are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Artificial intelligence research.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Increasing the effectiveness of active learning: Introducing artificial data generation in active learning for land use/land cover classification (34 citations)
  • Machine learning classification of mediterranean forest habitats in google earth engine based on seasonal sentinel-2 time-series and input image composition optimisation (18 citations)
  • Cascade object detection and remote sensing object detection method based on trainable activation function (17 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 Remote Sensing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Shunlin Liang (54 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Juha Hyyppä (53 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Claudia Kuenzer (50 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Adriano Camps (45 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Mehrez Zribi (44 papers) published 6 papers 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 Remote Sensing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Goddard Space Flight Center (196 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (145 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Wuhan University (81 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Langley Research Center (77 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • European Space Agency (76 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 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, 94.20% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.30% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.38% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.89% of all publications and 60.43% 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 Spatial-Temporal Attention-Based Method and a New Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

    Hao Chen;Zhenwei Shi

    (2020)
    1566 Citations
  • Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine

    Carlos M. Souza;Julia Z. Shimbo;Marcos R. Rosa;Leandro L. Parente

    (2020)
    1450 Citations
  • Applications of Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture: A Review

    Rajendra P. Sishodia;Ram L. Ray;Sudhir K. Singh

    (2020)
    1242 Citations
  • Recent Advances of Hyperspectral Imaging Technology and Applications in Agriculture

    Bing Lu;Phuong D. Dao;Jiangui Liu;Yuhong He

    (2020)
    1070 Citations
  • Copernicus global land cover layers-collection 2

    Marcel Buchhorn;Myroslava Lesiv;Nandin Erdene Tsendbazar;Martin Herold

    (2020)
    798 Citations
  • Sentinel-2 Data for Land Cover/Use Mapping: A Review

    Darius Phiri;Matamyo Simwanda;Serajis Salekin;Vincent R. Nyirenda

    (2020)
    783 Citations
  • Google Earth Engine Open-Source Code for Land Surface Temperature Estimation from the Landsat Series

    Sofia L. Ermida;Patrícia Soares;Vasco Mantas;Frank M. Göttsche

    (2020)
    639 Citations
  • Change Detection Based on Artificial Intelligence: State-of-the-Art and Challenges

    Wenzhong Shi;Min Zhang;Min Zhang;Rui Zhang;Shanxiong Chen;Shanxiong Chen

    (2020)
    549 Citations
  • The Current Configuration of the OSTIA System for Operational Production of Foundation Sea Surface Temperature and Ice Concentration Analyses

    Simon Good;Emma Fiedler;Chongyuan Mao;Matthew J. Martin

    (2020)
    512 Citations
  • Annual Time Series of Global VIIRS Nighttime Lights Derived from Monthly Averages: 2012 to 2019

    Christopher D. Elvidge;Mikhail N. Zhizhin;Tilottama Ghosh;Feng-Chi Hsu

    (2021)
    363 Citations

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