Journal of Geographical Systems
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Aims & Scope
The Journal of Geographical Systems (JGS) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal that aims to encourage and promote high-quality scholarship on new theoretical or empirical results, models and methods in the social sciences. It solicits original papers with a spatial dimension that can be of interest to social scientists. Coverage includes regional science, economic geography, spatial economics, regional and urban economics, GIScience and GeoComputation, big data and machine learning. Spatial analysis, spatial econometrics and statistics are strongly represented. One of the distinctive features of the journal is its concern for the interface between modeling, statistical techniques and spatial issues in a wide spectrum of related fields. An important goal of the journal is to encourage a spatial perspective in the social sciences that emphasizes geographical space as a relevant dimension to our understanding of socio-economic phenomena. Contributions should be of high-quality, be technically well-crafted, make a substantial contribution to the subject and contain a spatial dimension. The journal also aims to publish, review and survey articles that make recent theoretical and methodological developments more readily accessible to the audience of the journal. All papers of this journal have undergone rigorous double-blind peer-review, based on initial editor screening and with at least two peer reviewers. Officially cited as J Geogr Syst
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GEOGRAPHY
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Academic Intelligence Overview & Context
ImpaQ AnalysisJournal of Geographical Systems (acronym: jgsy, ISSN: 1435-5930) is a peer-reviewed international scholarly journal in the field of GEOGRAPHY, published by Springer Nature in Germany. The periodical holds a Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of 2.80, ranking in quartile Q2 of Web of Science (SCIE), a Scopus SJR indicator of 0.803 (Q1), an H-index of 67.
The journal enforces rigorous peer evaluation with a publication frequency of 4 issues per year, an annual output of approximately 23 scientific articles. In terms of accessibility and author fees, it operates under the Hybrid model with an estimated APC of $3,106 USD. It serves as a benchmark publication platform for academics, researchers, and doctoral candidates seeking global research visibility.
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