2026 RELEASE

Impact Factor

Celebrating another milestone for IJGI and its growing contribution to the field.

2025
Impact Factor

3.2

JCR

We are pleased to share that IJGI has received an Impact Factor of 3.2 for the year 2025.

The journal team sincerely thanks our authors, academic editors, and reviewers for their continued support, dedication, and valuable contributions to the success of the journal.

Key Metrics

16,720

Citations

Times Cited in 2025

26/71

Rank (Q2)

Geography, Physical

0.66

JCI

Journal Citation Indicator

Source: Journal Citation Reports™ (Clarivate, 2026)

For more journal statistics, please see here.

IJGI Travel Award
The IJGI Travel Award was launched in 2017, and it is presented every year to encourage junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in the field of geographic information, which helps to grow their profile. The application process is open from March to October every year and winners are announced by the end of December.
The Prize:
  • CHF 800;
  • A certificate;
  • A voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)—valid for one year.
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Topics Webinar | GeoAI - Prospects and Challenges, 30 June 2026
This webinar series represents a collection of online presentations that brings together scholars from around the world with expertise in the field of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) and its diverse range of applications. The talks provided an opportunity to share knowledge, exchange research ideas and discuss the emerging opportunities and challenges that GeoAI presents across different geospatial fields and application domains.

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IJGI | 2026 Journal Visit to Wuhan University
In May 2026, IJGI editor team visited the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz, along with the Editorial Board Members Prof. Dr. Qingyun Du, Dr. Binbin Lu, and Prof. Dr. Zhipeng Gui at Wuhan University, and held the IJGI annual Editorial Board meeting.

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Latest Research

SSPRCD: Scene Graph-Based Street-Scene Spatial Positional Relation Change Detection with Graph Differencing and Structural Quantification
Xian Guo et al.
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When Centroids Mislead: Quantifying the Consequences of Sub-Optimally Aggregating Gridded Raster Data to Polygons
Paul J. Markakis et al.
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Call for Papers

Innovative Mobility Services for Smart Cities

edited by Agnese Pinto, Filippo Gramegna, Saverio Ieva, Floriano Scioscia and Michele Ruta

submission deadline 30 November 2026

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Urban Digital Twins Empowered by AI and Dataspaces

edited by Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Sisi Zlatanova and Mila Koeva

submission deadline 23 December 2026

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Upcoming Conferences

3D GeoInfo | Smart Data and Smart Cities | LADM & 3D LA

Date: 28 September–2 October 2026
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

2026 Pacific Islands GIS and Remote Sensing User Conference

Date: 30 November–4 December 2026
Location: Suva, Fiji

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