Journal History
| 2011 | IJGI is a joint publication by ISPRS and MDPI. The journal plans to collaborate closely with working groups and commissions of ISPRS. |
| 2012 | The inaugural issue was released. IJGI was published as a monthly journal. |
| 2013 | Prior to 19 November 2013, 52 papers (1091 pages) were published. The number nearly trebled in 2013. |
| 2015 | IJGI was covered by Web of Science. |
| 2016 | 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. |
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The CiteScore for 2017 was 2.10. |
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| 2019 |
A new study area, Spatial Information Science, was covered in IJGI. |
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The Impact Factor for 2018 was 1.840; the rank was 19/30. |
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The CiteScore for 2018 was 2.58. |
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| 2020 |
The Jack Dangermond Award 2017–2019 |
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IJGI announced the Jack Dangermond Best Paper Award 2019 Winners:Florent Poux and Roland Billen. |
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The Impact Factor for 2019 was 2.239; the rank was 18/30. |
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The CiteScore for 2019 was 3.80. |
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| 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". The year 2022 marks the 10th Anniversary of IJGI. |
| 2023 |
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 |
Editors-in-Chief
| 2011– | Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz |
