Abstract ID: 3.12322 | Accepted as Talk | Talk | TBA | TBA

The Journal of Geographical Sciences (JGS) is a periodical covering the geographical sciences. It publishes articles related to physical processes and the spatial pattern of the Earth’s surface, geographical elements and their interaction, global change and its regional response, characterization and management of natural resources, landscape ecology and environmental construction, remote sensing, geographic information systems and their applications in geographical research, and other related topics. The JGS is co-sponsored by the Geographical Society of China and the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The JGS aims to strengthen the academic exchange of geographic information between China and other countries, and to offer a publication for exchanging academic ideas between geographers around the world. It has been indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) since 2007. The annual journal citation report of JGS has been given since 2009. The JGS has been published monthly since 2015 by Science Press and Springer. In this study, we analyzed the main indicators, i.e., impact factor, total cites, number of full-text downloads, citing journals, and cited journals. These data were obtained from the JCR report, the Web of Science database, and the Springer database during 2009-2024. The main citation indicators of the JGS have continued to improve and its international impact has kept increasing. The impact factor increased from 0.518 in 2009 to 1.923 in 2023. Total cites increased from 157 in 2009 to 6717 in 2023. Despite the improvements made over all of these indicators, the JGS still has room for further improvement, especially with regard to the quality of international submissions, the quantity of submissions from developed countries, and the number of published papers led by international organizations.