{
  "name": "Geospatial and Remote Sensing Academic Journals Comparison",
  "description": "Comparative dataset of leading international peer-reviewed journals in geomatics, remote sensing, and spatial information science. Compiled from DOAJ, OpenAlex, Scopus, and official publisher portals in November 2026.",
  "page": "https://casrai.org/guides/geo-spatial-information-science",
  "publisher": "CASRAI",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "dateModified": "2026-11-15T17:41:52Z",
  "temporalCoverage": null,
  "spatialCoverage": null,
  "columns": [
    {
      "name": "Journal Title",
      "unit": "",
      "description": "Full formal title of the academic journal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Publisher",
      "unit": "",
      "description": "Publishing house or co-publishing academic partnership"
    },
    {
      "name": "Publishing Model",
      "unit": "",
      "description": "Primary open access publishing model (Gold OA or Hybrid OA)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Standard APC (USD)",
      "unit": "USD",
      "description": "Author publication charge for open access dissemination in US dollars"
    },
    {
      "name": "Journal Impact Factor",
      "unit": "",
      "description": "Clarivate Web of Science Journal Impact Factor (JIF)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Scopus CiteScore",
      "unit": "",
      "description": "Elsevier Scopus CiteScore citation metric"
    },
    {
      "name": "Core Thematic Focus",
      "unit": "",
      "description": "Primary research and technological domain emphasized in journal scope"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "Journal Title": "Geo-spatial Information Science",
      "Publisher": "Taylor & Francis / Wuhan University",
      "Publishing Model": "Gold OA",
      "Standard APC (USD)": 2195,
      "Journal Impact Factor": 5.4,
      "Scopus CiteScore": 10.2,
      "Core Thematic Focus": "Surveying, photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, and GNSS geomatics"
    },
    {
      "Journal Title": "International Journal of Digital Earth",
      "Publisher": "Taylor & Francis / ISDE",
      "Publishing Model": "Gold OA",
      "Standard APC (USD)": 2490,
      "Journal Impact Factor": 5.1,
      "Scopus CiteScore": 9.8,
      "Core Thematic Focus": "Digital Earth frameworks, virtual globes, and earth observation architectures"
    },
    {
      "Journal Title": "ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing",
      "Publisher": "Elsevier / ISPRS",
      "Publishing Model": "Hybrid OA",
      "Standard APC (USD)": 4450,
      "Journal Impact Factor": 10.6,
      "Scopus CiteScore": 21.4,
      "Core Thematic Focus": "Photogrammetric computer vision, image processing, and sensor observation"
    },
    {
      "Journal Title": "Computers & Geosciences",
      "Publisher": "Elsevier",
      "Publishing Model": "Hybrid OA",
      "Standard APC (USD)": 3650,
      "Journal Impact Factor": 4.2,
      "Scopus CiteScore": 8.5,
      "Core Thematic Focus": "Computational algorithms, software systems, and geoscientific programming"
    },
    {
      "Journal Title": "Transactions in GIS",
      "Publisher": "Wiley",
      "Publishing Model": "Hybrid OA",
      "Standard APC (USD)": 3550,
      "Journal Impact Factor": 2.4,
      "Scopus CiteScore": 5.2,
      "Core Thematic Focus": "Spatial database structures, GIS theory, spatial analysis, and spatial modeling"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "DOAJ Journal Profile: Geo-spatial Information Science",
      "url": "https://doaj.org/toc/1993-5153",
      "accessed": "2026-11-15"
    },
    {
      "title": "Taylor & Francis Online Journal Catalog",
      "url": "https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tgsi20",
      "accessed": "2026-11-15"
    },
    {
      "title": "OpenAlex Scholarly Sources Index",
      "url": "https://openalex.org/sources",
      "accessed": "2026-11-15"
    }
  ]
}