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Journal of Remote Sensing

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
ISSN: 26941589

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SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
6.8
SJR
2.144
CiteScore
11.9
Years of issue
2024-2025
journal names
Journal of Remote Sensing
J REMOTE SENS-PRC
Publications
192
Citations
2 504
h-index
28
Publications
192
Citations
2 365
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 countries
China (164 publications)
USA (49 publications)
France (9 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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Remote Sensing
308 citations, 12.3%
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
201 citations, 8.03%
Remote Sensing of Environment
139 citations, 5.55%
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
104 citations, 4.15%
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
67 citations, 2.68%
Journal of Remote Sensing
60 citations, 2.4%
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
51 citations, 2.04%
Earth System Science Data
48 citations, 1.92%
Forests
44 citations, 1.76%
Ecological Indicators
34 citations, 1.36%
Land
32 citations, 1.28%
Scientific data
30 citations, 1.2%
International Journal of Digital Earth
29 citations, 1.16%
Science of the Total Environment
26 citations, 1.04%
International Journal of Remote Sensing
25 citations, 1%
GIScience and Remote Sensing
24 citations, 0.96%
Sensors
23 citations, 0.92%
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
19 citations, 0.76%
Sustainability
19 citations, 0.76%
Scientific Reports
18 citations, 0.72%
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
17 citations, 0.68%
Ecological Informatics
17 citations, 0.68%
Geophysical Research Letters
17 citations, 0.68%
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
16 citations, 0.64%
Sustainable Cities and Society
15 citations, 0.6%
Science of Remote Sensing
15 citations, 0.6%
Global Change Biology
14 citations, 0.56%
Journal of Environmental Management
14 citations, 0.56%
Marine Pollution Bulletin
12 citations, 0.48%
Optics Express
11 citations, 0.44%
Nature Communications
10 citations, 0.4%
Agronomy
10 citations, 0.4%
Environmental Research Letters
10 citations, 0.4%
Geo-Spatial Information Science
10 citations, 0.4%
Agriculture (Switzerland)
9 citations, 0.36%
Expert Systems with Applications
9 citations, 0.36%
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
9 citations, 0.36%
Atmosphere
9 citations, 0.36%
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment
9 citations, 0.36%
Journal of Hydrology
9 citations, 0.36%
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
9 citations, 0.36%
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
9 citations, 0.36%
Big Earth Data
9 citations, 0.36%
Smart Agricultural Technology
9 citations, 0.36%
Frontiers in Marine Science
8 citations, 0.32%
Environmental Impact Assessment Review
8 citations, 0.32%
Water (Switzerland)
8 citations, 0.32%
Atmospheric Research
7 citations, 0.28%
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
7 citations, 0.28%
Geocarto International
7 citations, 0.28%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
7 citations, 0.28%
IEEE Access
6 citations, 0.24%
Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing
5 citations, 0.2%
Land Use Policy
5 citations, 0.2%
Forest Ecology and Management
5 citations, 0.2%
Forest Ecosystems
5 citations, 0.2%
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
5 citations, 0.2%
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
5 citations, 0.2%
Landscape Ecology
5 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
4 citations, 0.16%
Geoscientific Model Development
4 citations, 0.16%
Reviews of Geophysics
4 citations, 0.16%
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
4 citations, 0.16%
Catena
4 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
4 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Forestry Research
4 citations, 0.16%
Water Research
4 citations, 0.16%
Plants
4 citations, 0.16%
Science Bulletin
4 citations, 0.16%
Land Degradation and Development
4 citations, 0.16%
Frontiers in Environmental Science
4 citations, 0.16%
Applied Geography
4 citations, 0.16%
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
4 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
4 citations, 0.16%
Geography and Sustainability
4 citations, 0.16%
Industrial Crops and Products
3 citations, 0.12%
Frontiers in Plant Science
3 citations, 0.12%
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
3 citations, 0.12%
Information Fusion
3 citations, 0.12%
Nature Geoscience
3 citations, 0.12%
Environmental Research
3 citations, 0.12%
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
3 citations, 0.12%
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
3 citations, 0.12%
Science China Earth Sciences
3 citations, 0.12%
Applied Optics
3 citations, 0.12%
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
3 citations, 0.12%
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
3 citations, 0.12%
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
3 citations, 0.12%
Earth Science Informatics
3 citations, 0.12%
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
3 citations, 0.12%
Aquaculture
3 citations, 0.12%
Cities
3 citations, 0.12%
Earth and Space Science
3 citations, 0.12%
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
3 citations, 0.12%
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
3 citations, 0.12%
Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
3 citations, 0.12%
Biogeosciences
3 citations, 0.12%
Frontiers in Earth Science
3 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Hazardous Materials
3 citations, 0.12%
Advances in Space Research
3 citations, 0.12%
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Citing publishers

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Elsevier
712 citations, 28.43%
MDPI
529 citations, 21.13%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
437 citations, 17.45%
Springer Nature
219 citations, 8.75%
Taylor & Francis
139 citations, 5.55%
Wiley
75 citations, 3%
Copernicus
70 citations, 2.8%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
63 citations, 2.52%
American Geophysical Union
34 citations, 1.36%
Frontiers Media S.A.
29 citations, 1.16%
IOP Publishing
21 citations, 0.84%
Optica Publishing Group
15 citations, 0.6%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
11 citations, 0.44%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
9 citations, 0.36%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
9 citations, 0.36%
Science in China Press
7 citations, 0.28%
SAGE
6 citations, 0.24%
Oxford University Press
5 citations, 0.2%
AIP Publishing
5 citations, 0.2%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
4 citations, 0.16%
IGI Global
4 citations, 0.16%
Cambridge University Press
3 citations, 0.12%
PeerJ
3 citations, 0.12%
IntechOpen
3 citations, 0.12%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2 citations, 0.08%
Northeast Forestry University
2 citations, 0.08%
CSIRO Publishing
2 citations, 0.08%
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2 citations, 0.08%
Walter de Gruyter
1 citation, 0.04%
Emerald
1 citation, 0.04%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
1 citation, 0.04%
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
1 citation, 0.04%
Pleiades Publishing
1 citation, 0.04%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
1 citation, 0.04%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
1 citation, 0.04%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
1 citation, 0.04%
American Meteorological Society
1 citation, 0.04%
Harwood Academic Publishers
1 citation, 0.04%
Tyumen State University
1 citation, 0.04%
Hindawi Limited
1 citation, 0.04%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
1 citation, 0.04%
RTU MIREA
1 citation, 0.04%
Scientific Societies
1 citation, 0.04%
PAGEPress Publications
1 citation, 0.04%
Scientific Research Publishing
1 citation, 0.04%
Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
1 citation, 0.04%
Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1 citation, 0.04%
World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)
1 citation, 0.04%
Russian Geographical Society
1 citation, 0.04%
Research Square Platform LLC
1 citation, 0.04%
The University of Jordan
1 citation, 0.04%
Federal State Budgetary Institution - All-Russian Research Geological Oil Institute
1 citation, 0.04%
Meteorological Society of Japan
1 citation, 0.04%
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Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
25 publications, 13.02%
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
21 publications, 10.94%
Beijing Normal University
20 publications, 10.42%
Sun Yat-sen University
14 publications, 7.29%
Peking University
13 publications, 6.77%
Wuhan University
9 publications, 4.69%
Xiamen University
9 publications, 4.69%
Tsinghua University
8 publications, 4.17%
Nanjing University
8 publications, 4.17%
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
7 publications, 3.65%
Beijing Forestry University
5 publications, 2.6%
China Agricultural University
5 publications, 2.6%
University of Copenhagen
5 publications, 2.6%
University of Hong Kong
5 publications, 2.6%
University of Massachusetts Boston
5 publications, 2.6%
University of Oklahoma
5 publications, 2.6%
Tongji University
4 publications, 2.08%
University of Twente
4 publications, 2.08%
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
4 publications, 2.08%
Southwest University
4 publications, 2.08%
Southern University of Science and Technology
4 publications, 2.08%
Southwest Jiaotong University
4 publications, 2.08%
Boston University
4 publications, 2.08%
University of Maryland, College Park
4 publications, 2.08%
Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4 publications, 2.08%
University of Connecticut
4 publications, 2.08%
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
4 publications, 2.08%
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4 publications, 2.08%
Zhejiang University
3 publications, 1.56%
Fujian Normal University
3 publications, 1.56%
China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
3 publications, 1.56%
East China Normal University
3 publications, 1.56%
National University of Singapore
3 publications, 1.56%
Chengdu University of Information Technology
3 publications, 1.56%
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
3 publications, 1.56%
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
3 publications, 1.56%
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
3 publications, 1.56%
Lanzhou University
3 publications, 1.56%
Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3 publications, 1.56%
Tarim University
3 publications, 1.56%
Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3 publications, 1.56%
Emory University
3 publications, 1.56%
University of Toronto
3 publications, 1.56%
Mississippi State University
3 publications, 1.56%
University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
3 publications, 1.56%
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3 publications, 1.56%
United States Geological Survey
3 publications, 1.56%
Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
3 publications, 1.56%
Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3 publications, 1.56%
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3 publications, 1.56%
Agricultural Research Service
3 publications, 1.56%
Beijing Institute of Technology
2 publications, 1.04%
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2 publications, 1.04%
Fudan University
2 publications, 1.04%
Northwestern Polytechnical University
2 publications, 1.04%
University of Bordeaux
2 publications, 1.04%
China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
2 publications, 1.04%
Ocean University of China
2 publications, 1.04%
South China Normal University
2 publications, 1.04%
Shenzhen University
2 publications, 1.04%
Autonomous University of Barcelona
2 publications, 1.04%
Hohai University
2 publications, 1.04%
Michigan State University
2 publications, 1.04%
Chang'an University
2 publications, 1.04%
Anhui University
2 publications, 1.04%
Ningbo University
2 publications, 1.04%
Pennsylvania State University
2 publications, 1.04%
University of Western Australia
2 publications, 1.04%
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2 publications, 1.04%
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
2 publications, 1.04%
Henan Polytechnic University
2 publications, 1.04%
Henan University
2 publications, 1.04%
University of South Florida
2 publications, 1.04%
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
2 publications, 1.04%
University of Science and Technology of China
2 publications, 1.04%
Nanning Normal University
2 publications, 1.04%
Guilin University of Technology
2 publications, 1.04%
Avignon University
2 publications, 1.04%
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2 publications, 1.04%
Goddard Space Flight Center
2 publications, 1.04%
Université Paris-Saclay
2 publications, 1.04%
École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux-Aquitaine
2 publications, 1.04%
University of Iowa
2 publications, 1.04%
South Dakota State University
2 publications, 1.04%
University of Virginia
2 publications, 1.04%
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 1.04%
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 1.04%
Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 1.04%
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 1.04%
Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 1.04%
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 0.52%
University of Tübingen
1 publication, 0.52%
Beihang University
1 publication, 0.52%
Dalian University of Technology
1 publication, 0.52%
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
1 publication, 0.52%
China University of Mining and Technology
1 publication, 0.52%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
1 publication, 0.52%
Ghent University
1 publication, 0.52%
Lund University
1 publication, 0.52%
Fuzhou University
1 publication, 0.52%
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China, 164, 85.42%
China
164 publications, 85.42%
USA, 49, 25.52%
USA
49 publications, 25.52%
France, 9, 4.69%
France
9 publications, 4.69%
Australia, 7, 3.65%
Australia
7 publications, 3.65%
Netherlands, 6, 3.13%
Netherlands
6 publications, 3.13%
United Kingdom, 5, 2.6%
United Kingdom
5 publications, 2.6%
Denmark, 5, 2.6%
Denmark
5 publications, 2.6%
Germany, 4, 2.08%
Germany
4 publications, 2.08%
Spain, 3, 1.56%
Spain
3 publications, 1.56%
Italy, 3, 1.56%
Italy
3 publications, 1.56%
Canada, 3, 1.56%
Canada
3 publications, 1.56%
Singapore, 3, 1.56%
Singapore
3 publications, 1.56%
Austria, 2, 1.04%
Austria
2 publications, 1.04%
Belgium, 2, 1.04%
Belgium
2 publications, 1.04%
Thailand, 2, 1.04%
Thailand
2 publications, 1.04%
Switzerland, 2, 1.04%
Switzerland
2 publications, 1.04%
Brazil, 1, 0.52%
Brazil
1 publication, 0.52%
Norway, 1, 0.52%
Norway
1 publication, 0.52%
Republic of Korea, 1, 0.52%
Republic of Korea
1 publication, 0.52%
Saudi Arabia, 1, 0.52%
Saudi Arabia
1 publication, 0.52%
Finland, 1, 0.52%
Finland
1 publication, 0.52%
Sweden, 1, 0.52%
Sweden
1 publication, 0.52%
Japan, 1, 0.52%
Japan
1 publication, 0.52%
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