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Remote Sensing Letters
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Remote Sensing Letters

2150-704X

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/trsl20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 444 46 50 11
Computer Science 521 37 41 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 127
Documents by Best Scientists*: 125
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 61
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.369
Impact Factor: 1.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Remote Sensing Letters?

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Remote sensing, Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Computer vision and Synthetic aperture radar. The journal explores issues in Remote sensing which can be linked to other research areas like Meteorology, Satellite, Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer and Vegetation. The study on Satellite presented in the journal intersects with the topics under Climatology.

Presentations on Artificial intelligence include those discussing Hyperspectral imaging, Image (mathematics), Pixel, Convolutional neural network and Feature (computer vision). The journal investigates Hyperspectral imaging research which frequently intersects with Hyperspectral image classification. Remote Sensing Letters connects research in Pattern recognition with the related topic of Deep learning.

  • Remote sensing (42.27%)
  • Artificial intelligence (27.14%)
  • Pattern recognition (16.01%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Derivation of a tasselled cap transformation based on Landsat 8 at-satellite reflectance (276 citations)
  • Spectral–spatial classification of hyperspectral images using deep convolutional neural networks (266 citations)
  • Assessing object-based classification: advantages and limitations (261 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Remote Sensing Letters:

The most cited publications explore disciplines such as Remote sensing, Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Satellite and Land cover. The published papers are focused mainly on Remote sensing, particularly Remote sensing (archaeology). In addition to Artificial intelligence research, the journal articles aim to explore topics under Data mining and Computer vision.

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

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Statistics
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Remote sensing, Detector, Surface (mathematics), Meteorology and Tropical cyclone. Some problems in Remote sensing that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Amazon basin and Gravity (chemistry).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Paradigm of surface wind fields generated using Scatsat-1 and low-level adjusted INSAT-3D winds during tropical cyclone Amphan (0 citations)
  • Using high-resolution satellite imagery to assess the impact of Sargassum inundation on coastal areas (0 citations)
  • A regional attention-based detector for SAR ship detection (0 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 Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Robert Wang (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ning Li (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Nicholas C. Coops (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wenzhong Shi (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Raj Kumar (10 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 Remote Sensing Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (185 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wuhan University (71 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • China University of Mining and Technology (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • National University of Defense Technology (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Indian Space Research Organisation (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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 2022 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.67% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 16.67% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.67% of all publications and 50.00% 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

  • Enhancing remote sensing image retrieval using a triplet deep metric learning network

    Rui Cao;Qian Zhang;Jiasong Zhu;Qing Li

    (2020)
    81 Citations
  • Evaluating the 2018 extreme flood hazard events in Kerala, India

    Preet Lal;Aniket Prakash;Amit Kumar;Prashant K. Srivastava

    (2020)
    69 Citations
  • Prediction of InSAR time-series deformation using deep convolutional neural networks

    Peifeng Ma;Fan Zhang;Hui Lin

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Remote Sensing Letters contribution to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals - UN 2030 agenda

    Costas A. Varotsos;Arthur P. Cracknell

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • A lossless lightweight CNN design for SAR target recognition

    Fan Zhang;Yingbing Liu;Yongsheng Zhou;Qiang Yin

    (2020)
    32 Citations
  • Hyperspectral remote sensing image classification using three-dimensional-squeeze-and-excitation-DenseNet (3D-SE-DenseNet)

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Simple weakly supervised deep learning pipeline for detecting individual red-attacked trees in VHR remote sensing images

    Rui Qiao;Ali Ghodsi;Honggan Wu;Yuanfei Chang

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Brightness gradient-corrected hyperspectral image mosaics for fractional vegetation cover mapping in northern California

    Clemens Jänicke;Akpona Okujeni;Sam Cooper;Matthew Clark

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • A cascaded three-look network for aircraft detection in SAR images

    Linbin Zhang;Chuyin Li;Lingjun Zhao;Boli Xiong

    (2020)
    22 Citations

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