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From 2016, IJGI published monthly. IJGI sponsored the ISPRS Annual Meeting and organized the EB meeting there. IJGI received the 1st impact factor of 0.651.
2017
IJGI’s impact factor increased to 1.502.
2018
The Impact Factor for 2017 was 1.723; the rank was 18/30.
The CiteScore for 2017 was 2.10.
2019
A new study area, Spatial Information Science, was covered in IJGI.
The Impact Factor for 2018 was 1.840; the rank was 19/30.
The CiteScore for 2018 was 2.58.
2020
The Jack Dangermond Award 2017–2019 The winners for the 2017–2019 period are: Florent Poux and Roland Billen Voxel-based 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation: Unsupervised Geometric and Relationship Featuring vs Deep Learning Methods https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8050213
IJGI announced the Jack Dangermond Best Paper Award 2019 Winners:Florent Poux and Roland Billen.
The Impact Factor for 2019 was 2.239; the rank was 18/30.
The CiteScore for 2019 was 3.80.
2021
The Impact Factor for 2020 was 2.899; the rank was 19/32.
The CiteScore for 2020 was 4.6.
2022
IJGI received its Impact Factor (2021) of 3.099, ranked 23/48 (Q2) in "Geography, Physical".
IJGI received an updated CiteScore (2021) of 5.0, ranked 97/747 (Q1) in "Geography, Planning and Development".
IJGI received an Impact Factor (2022) of 3.4, and ranks 18/49 (Q2) in "Geography, Physical".
IJGI received an updated CiteScore (2022) of 6.2, and ranks 15/72 (Q1) in "Computers in Earth Sciences".
The Jack Dangermond Award 2022–2025 The Jack Dangermond Award—Best Paper 2022 A Forest of Forests: A Spatially Weighted and Computationally Efficient Formulation of Geographical Random Forests. By Stefanos Georganos and Stamatis Kalogirou https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11090471
2024
IJGI received an updated Impact Factor (2023) of 2.8, ranked 29/62 (Q2) in "Remote Sensing".
The CiteScore (2023) increased to 6.9, ranked 92/821 (Q1) in “Geography, Planning and Development”.
IJGI announced the Best Paper 2023 of the Jack Dangermond Award 2022–2025: Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation for Land Use and Land Cover Types Using Landsat 8 Imagery By Wuttichai Boonpook, Yumin Tan, Attawut Nardkulpat, Kritanai Torsri, Peerapong Torteeka, Patcharin Kamsing, Utane Sawangwit, Jose Pena and Montri Jainaen https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12010014
Editors-in-Chief
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Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
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