Top 20 Remote Sensing Journal Impact Factor & Average Ranking (2012-2019)
Abbreviated Journal Title | AVG Rank (2012-2019) | 2012 IF | 2013 IF | 2014 IF | 2015 IF | 2016 IF | 2017 IF | 2018 IF | 2019 IF |
RS Environ | 1.3 | 5.1 | 4.77 | 6.39 | 5.88 | 6.27 | 6.46 | 8.22 | 9.09 |
ISPRS J Photogramm | 2.8 | 3.31 | 2.9 | 3.13 | 4.19 | 6.39 | 5.99 | 6.94 | 7.32 |
IEEE T Geosci RS | 3.2 | 3.47 | 2.93 | 3.51 | 3.36 | 4.94 | 4.66 | 5.63 | 5.86 |
IEEE Geosci RS Magazine | 3.5 | 2.68 | 4.93 | 9.66 | 13 | ||||
Int J Appl Earth Obs | 4.7 | 2.18 | 2.54 | 3.47 | 3.8 | 3.93 | 4 | 4.85 | 4.65 |
RS | 5.7 | 2.1 | 2.62 | 3.18 | 3.04 | 3.24 | 3.41 | 4.12 | 4.51 |
RS Ecology and Conservation | 6 | 5 | |||||||
IEEE J-STARS | 7.5 | 2.87 | 2.83 | 3.03 | 2.15 | 2.91 | 2.77 | 3.39 | 3.83 |
GIScience & RS | 8.2 | 1.43 | 1.48 | 1.77 | 2.48 | 3.05 | 2.85 | 3.59 | 5.97 |
IEEE Geosci RS Lett | 8.7 | 1.82 | 1.81 | 2.1 | 2.23 | 2.76 | 2.89 | 3.53 | 3.83 |
Int J Digital Earth | 9.1 | 1.22 | 2.06 | 3.29 | 2.76 | 2.29 | 2.75 | 3.99 | 3.1 |
Sensors | 9.8 | 1.95 | 2.05 | 2.25 | 2.03 | 2.68 | 2.48 | 3.03 | 3.28 |
Photogramm Eng RS | 12.3 | 1.8 | 2.07 | 1.61 | 1.29 | 2.49 | 3.15 | 1.37 | 1.27 |
Int J RS | 13.1 | 1.14 | 1.36 | 1.65 | 1.64 | 1.72 | 1.78 | 2.49 | 2.98 |
Can J RS | 13.1 | 0.99 | 1.1 | 1.73 | 1.98 | 1.84 | 2 | 2.55 | 2.13 |
RS Lett | 14 | 1.62 | 1.43 | 1.57 | 1.49 | 1.53 | 1.52 | 2.02 | 2.3 |
Geocarto Int | 14.6 | 0.58 | 0.9 | 1.37 | 1.38 | 1.65 | 1.76 | 2.37 | 3.79 |
European J RS | 16.3 | 0.33 | 0.93 | 1.36 | 1.17 | 1.53 | 1.12 | 1.9 | 2.81 |
J Appl RS | 17.5 | 0.88 | 0.89 | 1.18 | 0.94 | 1.11 | 0.98 | 1.34 | 1.36 |
J Photogramm RS Geoinformation Sci | 18.3 | 0.74 | 0.43 | 0.73 | 0.55 | 0.85 | 1.09 | 1.26 | 1.4 |
Top 20 Prolific Authors in Remote Sens Environ (2012-2020)*
AUTHOR NAME | # of RSE Papers |
Coops, N.C. | 47 |
Roberts, D.A. | 37 |
Wulder, M.A. | 37 |
Hu, C. | 33 |
Næsset, E. | 33 |
Woodcock, C.E. | 33 |
Gobakken, T. | 31 |
McRoberts, R.E. | 30 |
Verhoef, W. | 30 |
Hostert, P. | 29 |
Liang, S. | 28 |
Roy, D.P. | 28 |
Zhu, Z. | 28 |
Stehman, S.V. | 27 |
Walker, J.P. | 26 |
van der Tol, C. | 24 |
Kerr, Y. | 23 |
Schaaf, C.B. | 23 |
Schaepman, M.E. | 23 |
Wang, Z. | 23 |
*Statistics based on the Scopus database accessed in June 2020.
Top 20 Prolific Affiliation in Remote Sens Environ (2012-2020)*
AFFILIATION | # of RSE Papers |
Chinese Academy of Sciences | 313 |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 265 |
University of Maryland | 214 |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 181 |
CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 170 |
California Institute of Technology | 162 |
Beijing Normal University | 115 |
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science | 114 |
Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère | 94 |
USDA Forest Service | 93 |
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 88 |
Boston University | 84 |
United States Geological Survey | 81 |
University of Twente | 81 |
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation – ITC | 79 |
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | 79 |
Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III | 77 |
CNES Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales | 76 |
Ministry of Education China | 75 |
USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center | 74 |
*Statistics based on the Scopus database accessed in June 2020.
Top 100 US News National Universities Average Ranking (2014-2021)
US NEWS 2014–2021 | AVG RANK | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
Princeton | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Harvard | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Yale | 3.1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Columbia | 3.8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Chicago | 4.2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 |
Stanford | 5.2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
MIT | 5.3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Penn | 7.8 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 9 |
Duke | 8.7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 12 |
Johns Hopkins | 10.5 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
Caltech | 10.6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 9 |
Northwestern | 11 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
Dartmouth | 11.5 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 13 |
Brown | 14.2 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
Vanderbilt | 15.2 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 14 |
Cornell | 15.7 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
Rice | 16.6 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 16 |
Washington Univ | 16.7 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 16 |
Notre Dame | 17.1 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 15 | 19 |
Emory | 20.8 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 21 |
UC Berkeley | 20.8 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
Georgetown | 21.3 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 24 | 23 |
UCLA | 21.6 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 20 |
USC | 22.8 | 23 | 25 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 24 |
Carnegie Mellon | 24.5 | 23 | 25 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 26 |
Virginia | 25 | 23 | 23 | 26 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 28 | 26 |
Wake Forest | 26.6 | 23 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 28 |
Michigan | 27.1 | 28 | 29 | 29 | 27 | 28 | 27 | 25 | 24 |
Tufts | 28 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 29 | 27 | 29 | 30 |
North Carolina | 29.6 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 28 |
NYU | 31.3 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 36 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 30 |
Rochester | 32.5 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 32 | 34 | 33 | 29 | 34 |
Boston College | 33.1 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 38 | 37 | 35 |
Georgia Tech | 34.3 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 29 | 35 |
William & Mary | 35 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 32 | 32 | 38 | 40 | 39 |
Brandeis | 35.7 | 32 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 40 | 42 |
UC Santa Barbara | 35.7 | 41 | 40 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 30 | 34 | 30 |
Case Western | 38.7 | 37 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 42 | 40 | 42 |
UC San Diego | 39.2 | 39 | 37 | 39 | 44 | 42 | 41 | 37 | 35 |
UC Irvine | 39.3 | 49 | 42 | 39 | 39 | 42 | 33 | 36 | 35 |
UC Davis | 40.5 | 39 | 38 | 41 | 44 | 46 | 38 | 39 | 39 |
Boston Univ | 40.5 | 41 | 42 | 41 | 39 | 37 | 42 | 40 | 42 |
Florida | 41.8 | 49 | 48 | 47 | 50 | 42 | 35 | 34 | 30 |
Northeastern | 43.7 | 49 | 42 | 47 | 39 | 40 | 44 | 40 | 49 |
Tulane | 43.8 | 52 | 54 | 41 | 39 | 40 | 44 | 40 | 41 |
UW Madison | 44.5 | 41 | 47 | 41 | 44 | 46 | 49 | 46 | 42 |
RPI | 44.6 | 41 | 42 | 41 | 39 | 42 | 49 | 50 | 53 |
Illinois | 45.1 | 41 | 42 | 41 | 44 | 52 | 46 | 48 | 47 |
Lehigh | 46.2 | 41 | 40 | 47 | 44 | 46 | 53 | 50 | 49 |
U of Miami | 49.3 | 47 | 48 | 51 | 44 | 46 | 53 | 57 | 49 |
Pepperdine | 50.5 | 57 | 54 | 52 | 50 | 46 | 46 | 50 | 49 |
UT Austin | 51 | 52 | 53 | 52 | 56 | 56 | 49 | 48 | 42 |
Penn State | 51.6 | 37 | 48 | 47 | 50 | 52 | 59 | 57 | 63 |
Ohio St | 53.6 | 52 | 54 | 52 | 54 | 54 | 56 | 54 | 53 |
Georgia | 54.5 | 60 | 62 | 61 | 56 | 54 | 46 | 50 | 47 |
Washington | 55.1 | 52 | 48 | 52 | 54 | 56 | 59 | 62 | 58 |
Syracuse | 58.3 | 62 | 58 | 61 | 60 | 61 | 53 | 54 | 58 |
Purdue | 59.1 | 68 | 62 | 61 | 60 | 56 | 56 | 57 | 53 |
George Washington | 59.2 | 52 | 54 | 57 | 56 | 56 | 63 | 70 | 66 |
Connecticut | 59.7 | 57 | 58 | 57 | 60 | 56 | 63 | 64 | 63 |
Maryland | 60.8 | 62 | 62 | 57 | 60 | 61 | 63 | 64 | 58 |
SMU | 61.1 | 60 | 58 | 61 | 56 | 61 | 63 | 64 | 66 |
WPI | 62.1 | 62 | 68 | 57 | 60 | 61 | 59 | 64 | 66 |
Pitt | 63.8 | 62 | 62 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 70 | 57 | 58 |
Fordham | 64 | 57 | 58 | 66 | 60 | 61 | 70 | 74 | 66 |
Clemson | 66 | 62 | 62 | 61 | 66 | 67 | 66 | 70 | 74 |
Rutgers | 66.3 | 69 | 70 | 72 | 70 | 69 | 56 | 62 | 63 |
Brigham Young | 67.3 | 62 | 62 | 66 | 68 | 61 | 63 | 77 | 80 |
Texas A&M | 69 | 69 | 68 | 70 | 74 | 69 | 66 | 70 | 66 |
Yeshiva | 70 | 47 | 48 | 52 | 66 | 94 | 80 | 97 | 76 |
Minnesota | 70.1 | 69 | 71 | 69 | 71 | 69 | 76 | 70 | 66 |
Virginia Tech | 72.1 | 69 | 71 | 70 | 74 | 69 | 76 | 74 | 74 |
American | 73.6 | 75 | 71 | 72 | 71 | 69 | 78 | 77 | 76 |
UMass Amherst | 73.8 | 91 | 76 | 75 | 74 | 75 | 70 | 64 | 66 |
Stevens Inst Tech | 74.6 | 82 | 76 | 75 | 71 | 69 | 70 | 74 | 80 |
Baylor | 74.6 | 75 | 71 | 72 | 71 | 75 | 78 | 79 | 76 |
Florida St | 80 | 91 | 95 | 96 | 92 | 81 | 70 | 57 | 58 |
Clark | 80.1 | 75 | 76 | 75 | 74 | 81 | 66 | 91 | 103 |
Michigan St | 80.6 | 73 | 85 | 75 | 82 | 81 | 85 | 84 | 80 |
Indiana | 80.7 | 75 | 76 | 75 | 86 | 90 | 89 | 79 | 76 |
Iowa | 80.8 | 73 | 71 | 82 | 82 | 78 | 89 | 84 | 88 |
TCU | 82.1 | 82 | 76 | 82 | 82 | 78 | 80 | 97 | 80 |
Delaware | 82.8 | 75 | 76 | 75 | 79 | 81 | 89 | 91 | 97 |
Col School of Mines | 82.8 | 91 | 88 | 75 | 82 | 75 | 80 | 84 | 88 |
UC Santa Cruz | 83 | 86 | 85 | 82 | 79 | 81 | 70 | 84 | 97 |
Miami Oh | 84.1 | 75 | 76 | 82 | 79 | 78 | 89 | 91 | 103 |
Marquette | 84.2 | 75 | 76 | 86 | 86 | 90 | 89 | 84 | 88 |
Binghamton | 86.7 | 97 | 88 | 89 | 86 | 87 | 80 | 79 | 88 |
NC State | 87.7 | 101 | 95 | 89 | 92 | 81 | 80 | 84 | 80 |
Denver | 88.8 | 91 | 88 | 86 | 86 | 87 | 96 | 97 | 80 |
Stony Brook | 88.8 | 82 | 88 | 89 | 96 | 97 | 80 | 91 | 88 |
San Diego | 89.3 | 91 | 95 | 89 | 86 | 90 | 85 | 91 | 88 |
Colorado | 93.5 | 86 | 88 | 89 | 92 | 90 | 96 | 104 | 103 |
Univ at Buffalo | 95.3 | 109 | 103 | 99 | 99 | 97 | 89 | 79 | 88 |
Vermont | 97.5 | 82 | 85 | 89 | 92 | 97 | 96 | 121 | 118 |
St. Louis | 99 | 101 | 99 | 96 | 96 | 94 | 106 | 97 | 103 |
Tulsa | 100.3 | 86 | 88 | 86 | 86 | 87 | 106 | 121 | 143 |