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Journal of Geographical Systems

Springer Verlag · Germany · Est. 1996

ISSN1435-5949

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

/ 100

Medium Risk

Score Breakdown

✓ WoS SCIE/SSCI+25

✓ Scopus Q1+25

Total50

Journal Impact Factor

This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗

SJR Score

0.864

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SNIP

1.471

Total Works

645

Total Citations

22,499

2yr Mean Citedness

2.66

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Aims & Scope

The Journal of Geographical Systems (JGS) encourages and promotes high-quality scholarship on new theoretical or empirical results, models and methods in the social sciences with a spatial dimension. Focuses on the interface between modeling, statistical techniques and spatial issues in a wide spectrum of related fields. Strong methodological foundation in spatial analysis, spatial econometrics and statistics. Coverage includes regional science, economic geography, spatial economics, regional and urban economics, GIScience and GeoComputation, big data and machine learning. Aims to publish also review and survey articles that make recent theoretical and methodological developments more readily accessible to the audience of the journal.

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

SJR Rank

Top 25% in field

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1996

Annual Volume~ 27 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications645

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

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Submission Info

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Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/12 · 50%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer Verlag

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1435-5949

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

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Publication & Citation Trend

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Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Earth-Surface ProcessesQ1

Geography, Planning and DevelopmentQ1

Economics and EconometricsQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Geography

Scopus Categories

Earth-Surface ProcessesEconomics and EconometricsGeography, Planning and Development

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Spatial and Panel Data AnalysisRegional Economics and Spatial AnalysisGeographic Information Systems StudiesUrban Transport and AccessibilityLand Use and Ecosystem ServicesData Management and AlgorithmsEconomic and Environmental ValuationData-Driven Disease SurveillanceTransportation Planning and OptimizationHuman Mobility and Location-Based Analysis