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Journal of Geographical Systems

Spatial Theory, Models, Methods, and Data

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The Journal of Geographical Systems (JGS) encourages and promotes high-quality scholarship on new theoretical or empirical results, models and methods in the social sciences with a spatial dimension.

  • Focuses on the interface between modeling, statistical techniques and spatial issues in a wide spectrum of related fields.
  • Strong methodological foundation in spatial analysis, spatial econometrics and statistics.
  • Coverage includes regional science, economic geography, spatial economics, regional and urban economics, GIScience and GeoComputation, big data and machine learning.
  • Aims to publish also review and survey articles that make recent theoretical and methodological developments more readily accessible to the audience of the journal.

Editors-in-Chief
  • Manfred M. Fischer,
  • Antonio Paez
Associate Editor
  • Petra Staufer-Steinnocher
Impact factor
2.9 (2022)
5 year impact factor
2.5 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
15 days
Downloads
164,385 (2023)

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Journal updates

  • 25th Anniversary Collection

    In 2023, the Journal of Geographical Systems celebrates its 25th anniversary with a virtual anniversary issue. Visit the collection of 25 of the most influential papers published in the journal, selected by the journal editors in cooperation with members of the editorial board, and (re)discover all these papers that can be viewed as milestones of the journal. All selected papers are free to access throughout the year of 2023. Click here to explore the collection.

  • Annual JGS Best Paper Award & Editors’ Choice Articles

    In 2020 we started two initiatives to acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding quality of research published in the journal.
    First, the Annual JGS Best Paper Award, and second, the Editors’ Choice of their favourite paper of each issue. The members of the editorial board of the journal and/or the editors may nominate candidates for the JGS Best Paper award. Following the nominations, the decision about the award rests with the editors-in-chief of the journal.
    All papers awarded the Annual JGS Best Paper Award can be found in one collection over here and all Editors’ Choice papers are collected here.

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1435-5949
Print ISSN
1435-5930
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