GIS and Remote Sensing Journal List with Impact Factors

The following list provides impact factors for relevant GIS and Remote Sensing scientific journals.

2013 Impact Factor ,  (5-year Impact Factor for 2013 ,  5-year Impact Factor for 2011) 

Journal Name

** Remote Sensing

4.77 (6.07, 5.28) Remote Sensing of Environment
2.90 (4.20, 3.44) ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
2.93 (3.39, 3.30) IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2.54 (2.81, 2.33) Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
2.83 (2.96, 1.68) IEEE Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2.62 (2.73, -) Remote Sensing
2.07 (2.11, 1.73) Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
1.81 (1.91, 1.85) IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
1.36 (1.72, 1.62) International Journal of Remote Sensing
1.43 (1.56, 0.70) Remote Sensing Letters
1.09 (1.46, 1.08) Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
1.48 (1.40, 1.02) GIScience & Remote Sensing
1.38 (1.31, 1.49) The Photogrammetric Record
0.89 (1.03, -) Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
0.53 (-, -) Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

** GIS

1.48 (1.95, 1.85) International Journal of Geographical Information Science
? (?) The Geographical Journal
? (?, 2.12) Geoforum
1.12 (1.41, -) Journal of Geographical Sciences
0.73 (0.79, 0.49) Chinese Geographical Science 
1.0  (?, ?) Transactions in GIS
1.56 (1.95, 1.71) Computers & Geosciences
0.41 (1.03, -) Journal of Spatial Science
2.06 (2.24, 1.43) International Journal of Digital Earth
1.29 (1.18, 1.08) GeoInformatica
Journal of Geographical Systems
Geocarto International
Journal of Geographic Information System
Geo-spatial Information Science
GeoJournal
Geographical Research
Geography Compass
GeoJournal
International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research
Paper discussing impact factor of GIS Journals:
** C. Caron, S. Roche, D. Goyer, A. Jaton (2008). GIScience Journals Ranking and Evaluation: An International Delphi Study, Transactions in GIS, 12(3), pp. 293-321. [pdf]

** Broader Relevance

3.53 (4.02, 4.54) Public Library of Science One (PLOS One)
3.89 (4.26, 4.06) Progress in Physical Geography
7.24 (7.25, 6.63) Global Ecology and Biogeography
4.54 (4.28, 3.17 ) Environmental Modelling & Software
3.19 (3.85, 3.16) Journal of Environmental Management
1.68 (2.07, 1.95) Canadian Journal of Forest Research
1.68 (2.15, 2.11) European Journal of Forest Research
2.67 (3.10, 2.74) Forest Ecology and Management
1.87 (2.13, 1.99) Forestry
1.52 (1.81, 1.43) Forest Science
4.46 (4.41, 3.76) Geophysical Research Letters
8.22 (8.60, 8.04) Global Change Biology
3.58 (4.04, 3.83) Landscape Ecology
31.48 (34.46, 32.45) Science
11.67 (13.93, 11.92) Nature Geoscience
3.89 (4.44, 3.34) Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
2.60 (3.18, 3.10 ) Landscape and Urban Planning
1.74 (2.16, 1.89) Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
2.08 (2.52, 2.48) Neural Networks
4.37 (4.31, 3.37) IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
4.21(5.78, 5.54) Ecography
2.36 (2.54, 2.71) Ecological Modelling

What i have done in past 1 year for my PhD studying ??

The times flies too fast. Week by week past like a blink of an eyes..What i have done in these previous time? Does it adequate enough to graduate on time, within the time frame? There are a lot of obstacle facing by me in my PhD journey such as below:

1. Far from my supervisor ( i m living at the northern part of Malaysia,Perlis, while my sv at Northern part of Malaysia,Shah Alam), It would take 7 hours travel hours to meet with my sv.

2. I m a wife  and have one child. I have to take care of my husband, wait until my lovely daughter to fell asleep, then i can continue my work. But i have a whole day 8.00am till 5.00 to focus on my phd while my little daughter sent to the nursery.

3.Cost of travelling, collect data and meet an expert. I have to travel to KL, if i want to meet some expert in my courses.

4.Sometime, my daughter fell sick, fever, chicken pox, and many more, it would craving my time to be sacrifice...

5.My husband would sometime become one of the obstruction as well ,he would ask me to watch movie with him, everyday, so i had decided to move all my work station at another room. phewww..

But, overall. i think that i can manage well all those problem with strong determination that i will get my PhD no matter what happen.

Luckily, i have done this part :

1.Data collection have done.

2. Acquired a grants that will support my PhD.

3.Defense research proposal

4.Start doing the writing..writing and reading..

Hopefully god would ease my way, on getting my PhD on time :)

Tree tagging

With all the DR's 

Royal Belum Forest Reserve data collection