Rankings

Top 20 Remote Sensing Journal Impact Factor Ranking (2012-2021)

Abbreviated Journal Title 2021  Rank 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
IEEE Geosci RS Magazine 1 2.68 4.93 9.66 13 8.23 13.93
RS Environ 2 5.1 4.77 6.39 5.88 6.27 6.46 8.22 9.09 10.16 13.85
ISPRS J Photogramm 3 3.31 2.9 3.13 4.19 6.39 5.99 6.94 7.32 8.98 11.77
IEEE T Geosci RS 4 3.47 2.93 3.51 3.36 4.94 4.66 5.63 5.86 5.6 8.12
Int J Appl Earth Obs 5 2.18 2.54 3.47 3.8 3.93 4 4.85 4.65 5.933 7.67
GIScience & RS 6 1.43 1.48 1.77 2.48 3.05 2.85 3.59 5.97 6.24 6.4
Egypt J RS Space Sci 7 5.18 6.39
RS Ecol Conserv 8 5 5.48 5.78
RS 9 2.1 2.62 3.18 3.04 3.24 3.41 4.12 4.51 4.85 5.35
IEEE Geosci RS Lett 10 1.82 1.81 2.1 2.23 2.76 2.89 3.53 3.83 3.966 5.34
IEEE J-STARS 11 2.87 2.83 3.03 2.15 2.91 2.77 3.39 3.83 3.78 4.72
Int J Digital Earth 12 1.22 2.06 3.29 2.76 2.29 2.75 3.99 3.1 3.54 4.61
Sensors 13 1.95 2.05 2.25 2.03 2.68 2.48 3.03 3.28 3.57 3.85
Int J RS 14 1.14 1.36 1.65 1.64 1.72 1.78 2.49 2.98 3.15 3.53
Geocarto Int 15 0.58 0.9 1.37 1.38 1.65 1.76 2.37 3.79 4.89 3.45
European J RS 16 0.33 0.93 1.36 1.17 1.53 1.12 1.9 2.81 3.65 3.17
J Photogramm RS Geoinfo Sci 17 0.74 0.43 0.73 0.55 0.85 1.09 1.26 1.4 1.86 2.6
RS Lett 18 1.62 1.43 1.57 1.49 1.53 1.52 2.02 2.3 2.58 2.37
Can J RS 19 0.99 1.1 1.73 1.98 1.84 2 2.55 2.13 2 2.24
J Appl RS 20 0.88 0.89 1.18 0.94 1.11 0.98 1.34 1.36 1.53 1.57

 

Top 100 US News National Universities Average Ranking (2015-2022)

University 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Average  Rank
Princeton 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Harvard 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Yale 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 5 3.375
Columbia 4 4 5 5 3 3 3 2 3.625
Chicago 4 4 3 3 3 6 6 6 4.375
MIT 7 7 7 5 3 3 4 2 4.75
Stanford 4 4 5 5 7 6 6 6 5.375
Penn 8 9 8 8 8 6 8 8 7.875
Duke 8 8 8 9 8 10 12 9 9
Johns Hopkins 12 10 10 11 10 10 9 9 10.125
Caltech 10 10 12 10 12 12 9 9 10.5
Northwestern 13 12 12 11 10 9 9 9 10.625
Dartmouth 11 12 11 11 12 12 13 13 11.875
Brown 16 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14.25
Vanderbilt 16 15 15 14 14 17 14 14 14.875
Cornell 15 15 15 14 16 17 18 17 15.875
Rice 19 18 15 14 16 17 16 17 16.5
Washington Univ 14 15 19 18 19 19 16 14 16.75
Notre Dame 16 18 15 18 18 15 19 19 17.25
Emory 21 21 20 21 22 21 21 20 20.875
UC Berkeley 20 20 20 21 22 22 22 21 21
UCLA 23 23 24 21 19 20 20 20 21.25
Georgetown 21 21 20 20 22 24 23 23 21.75
USC 25 23 23 21 22 22 24 27 23.375
Carnegie Mellon 25 23 24 25 25 25 26 25 24.75
Virginia 23 26 24 25 25 28 26 25 25.25
Michigan 29 29 27 28 27 25 24 23 26.5
Wake Forest 27 27 27 27 27 27 28 28 27.25
Tufts 27 27 27 29 27 29 30 28 28
North Carolina 30 30 30 30 30 29 28 28 29.375
NYU 32 32 36 30 30 29 30 28 30.875
Rochester 33 33 32 34 33 29 34 34 32.75
Boston College 31 30 31 32 38 37 35 36 33.75
UC Santa Barbara 40 37 37 37 30 34 30 28 34.125
Georgia Tech 36 36 34 34 35 29 35 38 34.625
William & Mary 33 34 32 32 38 40 39 38 35.75
Brandeis 35 34 34 34 35 40 42 42 37
UC Irvine 42 39 39 42 33 36 35 36 37.75
UC San Diego 37 39 44 42 41 37 35 34 38.625
Florida 48 47 50 42 35 34 30 28 39.25
Case Western 38 37 37 37 42 40 42 42 39.375
UC Davis 38 41 44 46 38 39 39 38 40.375
Boston Univ 42 41 39 37 42 40 42 42 40.625
Tulane 54 41 39 40 44 40 41 42 42.625
Northeastern 42 47 39 40 44 40 49 49 43.75
UW Madison 47 41 44 46 49 46 42 42 44.625
Illinois 42 41 44 52 46 48 47 47 45.875
RPI 42 41 39 42 49 50 53 55 46.375
Lehigh 40 47 44 46 53 50 49 49 47.25
UT Austin 53 52 56 56 49 48 42 38 49.25
Pepperdine 54 52 50 46 46 50 49 49 49.5
U of Miami 48 51 44 46 53 57 49 55 50.375
Georgia 62 61 56 54 46 50 47 48 53
Ohio St 54 52 54 54 56 54 53 49 53.25
Penn State 48 47 50 52 59 57 63 63 54.875
Washington 48 52 54 56 59 62 58 59 56
Purdue 62 61 60 56 56 57 53 49 56.75
Syracuse 58 61 60 61 53 54 58 59 58
Maryland 62 57 60 61 63 64 58 59 60.5
Connecticut* 58 57 60 56 63 64 63 63 60.5
George Washington 54 57 56 56 63 70 66 63 60.625
SMU 58 61 56 61 63 64 66 68 62.125
WPI 68 57 60 61 59 64 66 63 62.25
Pitt 62 66 68 68 70 57 58 59 63.5
Fordham 58 66 60 61 70 74 66 68 65.375
Rutgers 70 72 70 69 56 62 63 63 65.625
Clemson 62 61 66 67 66 70 74 75 67.625
Texas A&M 68 70 74 69 66 70 66 68 68.875
Brigham Young 62 66 68 61 63 77 80 79 69.5
Minnesota 71 69 71 69 76 70 66 68 70
UMass Amherst 76 75 74 75 70 64 66 68 71
Yeshiva 48 52 66 94 80 97 76 68 72.625
Virginia Tech 71 70 74 69 76 74 74 75 72.875
American 71 72 71 69 78 77 76 79 74.125
Baylor 71 72 71 75 78 79 76 75 74.625
Stevens Inst Tech 76 75 71 69 70 74 80 83 74.75
Florida St 95 96 92 81 70 57 58 55 75.5
Indiana 76 75 86 90 89 79 76 68 79.875
Michigan St 85 75 82 81 85 84 80 83 81.875
Col School of Mines 88 75 82 75 80 84 88 83 81.875
Iowa 71 82 82 78 89 84 88 83 82.125
TCU 76 82 82 78 80 97 80 83 82.25
Clark 76 75 74 81 66 91 103 103 83.625
NC State 95 89 92 81 80 84 80 79 85
Binghamton 88 89 86 87 80 79 88 83 85
Delaware 76 75 79 81 89 91 97 93 85.125
UC Santa Cruz 85 82 79 81 70 84 97 103 85.125
Marquette 76 86 86 90 89 84 88 83 85.25
Miami Oh 76 82 79 78 89 91 103 103 87.625
Denver 88 86 86 87 96 97 80 93 89.125
San Diego 95 89 86 90 85 91 88 93 89.625
Stony Brook 88 89 96 97 80 91 88 93 90.25
Univ at Buffalo 103 99 99 97 89 79 88 93 93.375
Colorado 88 96 96 94 106 97 103 103 97.875
St. Louis 99 103 103 103 102 104 103 99 102
UC Riverside 113 121 118 124 85 91 88 83 102.875
Auburn 103 102 99 103 115 107 97 99 103.125
Tennessee 106 89 92 97 96 121 118 117 104.5
Arizona St 129 99 99 103 89 104 112 103 104.75
Clarkson 121 99 96 94 102 97 133 103 105.625