Journal of Geographical Systems

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Geographical Systems (JGS) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal that aims to encourage and promote high-quality scholarship on new theoretical or empirical results, models and methods in the social sciences.

It solicits original papers with a spatial dimension that can be of interest to social scientists.

Coverage includes regional science, economic geography, spatial economics, regional and urban economics, GIScience and GeoComputation, big data and machine learning.

Spatial analysis, spatial econometrics and statistics are strongly represented.

One of the distinctive features of the journal is its concern for the interface between modeling, statistical techniques and spatial issues in a wide spectrum of related fields.

An important goal of the journal is to encourage a spatial perspective in the social sciences that emphasizes geographical space as a relevant dimension to our understanding of socio-economic phenomena.

Contributions should be of high-quality, be technically well-crafted, make a substantial contribution to the subject and contain a spatial dimension.

The journal also aims to publish, review and survey articles that make recent theoretical and methodological developments more readily accessible to the audience of the journal.

All papers of this journal have undergone rigorous double-blind peer-review, based on initial editor screening and with at least two peer reviewers.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.9
2024	2.80

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6062

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	280

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.864

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	64

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Multicollinearity and correlation among local regression coefficients in geographically weighted regression

  Citation: 610

  Authors: David, Michael

• Dynamic spatial panels: models, methods, and inferences

  Citation: 454

  Authors: J. Paul

• Understanding intra-urban trip patterns from taxi trajectory data

  Citation: 286

  Authors: Yu, Chaogui, Song, Yu, Yuan

• Developing a bivariate spatial association measure: An integration of Pearson's r and Moran's I

  Citation: 254

  Authors: Sang-Il

• Measuring segregation: an activity space approach

  Citation: 246

  Authors: David W. S., Shih-Lung

• Geographically weighted regression and multicollinearity: dispelling the myth

  Citation: 235

  Authors: A. Stewart, Taylor M.

• Space-time accessibility measures: A geocomputational algorithm with a focus on the feasible opportunity set and possible activity duration

  Citation: 219

  Authors: Hyun-Mi, Mei-Po

• On vector autoregressive modeling in space and time

  Citation: 216

  Authors: Valter

• Latent lifestyle preferences and household location decisions

  Citation: 216

  Authors: Joan L., Jieping

• A linear regression solution to the spatial autocorrelation problem

  Citation: 207

  Authors: Daniel A.

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