Journal profile · GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICALREMOTE SENSING&nb-REMOTE SENSING
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
ISSN 2220-9964 · MDPI (Basel, Switzerland) · SWITZERLAND · Founded 2012
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information: CAS Zone 3 · Earth Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.22; JCR Q2 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 11 weeks (community reports); 505 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is published by MDPI (Basel, Switzerland) and is in Zone 3 of Earth Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Geographic Information Systems Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis, together about 29.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Transportation. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The scope of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is geoinformation (science) and its related applications. The major areas that cover the scope of the journal are: Spatial data modeling (3D and multi-dimensional modeling, data structures and algorithms, uncertainty modeling, ontologies, etc.); Spatial data management (spatial databases, cloud data management, blockchain, etc.); Spatial analysis and decision making (geocomputation, geosimulation, spatial statistics, etc.); Geospatial artificial intelligence (machine learning, deep learning, big data, data mining, cognition, etc.); Cartography (geovisualization, visual analytics, augmented and virtual reality, digital globes, etc.); Spatial data infrastructures (data integration, standards, metadata, policies, etc.); Geospatial web (semantic web, Internet of Things, sensor networks, web services, cloud computing, interoperability, etc.); Citizen science, crowd sourcing and volunteered geographic information (open data, social media, etc.); Location-based services and trajectory analysis (mobility, real-time GIS, indoor/outdoor modeling and mapping, etc.); Urban informatics, smart cities and communities (urban digital twins, BIM/CIM/AEC, etc.); Advanced geospatial applications (climate change, ecology, SDGs, disaster management, health, mobility, etc.). Submissions must fall under one or several of the mentioned areas. Papers that are primarily devoted to remote sensing, photogrammetry, GNSS, geodesy, or geosciences/earth sciences (such as geology, lithology, geomorphology, hydrology, climatology, meteorology, etc.) are out of the scope of this journal. Papers on applications in those disciplines might be acceptable but only when they have a strong relation with, and components in, geoinformation science.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICALREMOTE SENSING&nb-REMOTE SENSING
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Geographic Information Systems StudiesSocial Sciences11.6%
- Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesEnvironmental Science9.2%
- Human Mobility and Location-Based AnalysisSocial Sciences9%
- Urban Transport and AccessibilitySocial Sciences7.8%
- Data Management and AlgorithmsComputer Science7.3%
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR ApplicationsEnvironmental Science6.3%
- 3D Surveying and Cultural HeritageEarth and Planetary Sciences4.6%
- 3D Modeling in Geospatial ApplicationsEngineering4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Earth Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Earth Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Geography, Physical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Remote Sensing | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Earth Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Earth Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Geography, Physical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Remote Sensing | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Earth Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Earth Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Geography, Physical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Remote Sensing | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · Geography, Physical
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceINSPECDBLPGeoRefPublisher website
Other: Astrophysics Data System
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 3.22LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 6.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.71LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.03LetPub ·
- h-index
- 25LetPub ·
- h-index
- 110OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3,329OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.86OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.93%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 513LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 6,188 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 428 | 428 | 181 |
| 2025 | 505 | 505 | 1,724 |
| 2024 | 465 | 465 | 3,485 |
| 2023 | 510 | 510 | 5,737 |
| 2022 | 610 | 610 | 9,243 |
| 2021 | 858 | 858 | 17,834 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 11 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 34.9 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 2.9 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | CHF 1,700 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | CHF 1,900 | — | — | |
| LetPub | CHF 1,700 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted20
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Commitment to open data sharing. Model summary
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement
Citation policy requiring clear citation and permission. Model summary
IJGI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in IJGI will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Published by MDPI on behalf of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Licensee MDPI, …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication fees
Open access licensing for all articles. Model summary
If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review
Feature papers are invited submissions of advanced research. Model summary
All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers
IJGI accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates independently o…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- MDPI (Basel, Switzerland)
- Country or region
- SWITZERLAND
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 2012
- ISSN
- 2220-9964
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 15 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
What CAS zone is ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is in Zone 3 of Earth Sciences, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Geography, Physical / Computer Science, Information Systems / Remote Sensing. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Earth Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.22; CiteScore 6.7, h-index 110.
How long does peer review take at ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information?
Authors report an average review time of about 11 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What JCR quartile is ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2; by category, Geography, Physical Q2. JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Earth Sciences.
What are the manuscript requirements of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Reference style: Author–date; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, INSPEC, DBLP and GeoRef; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information open access, and what is the APC?
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .