First, the number of articles per year, if and partition.
1, number of articles published in recent five years
The number of articles published in this magazine in recent five years (data from WOS) is shown in the following figure. This journal is quarterly in 2009, monthly from 20 10 to 20 18, and even bimonthly from 20 19. As can be seen from the figure, before 20 17, the number of published articles increased slowly, with an average of about 300 articles per year. 20 18, the number of published articles increased by about 700. On the basis of 20 19, the article 1000 is added. Generally speaking, the number of articles published shows a slow growth trend, and it is expected that there will be hundreds more in 2020.
2. If in the last five years,
Remote sensing was established in 2009. The first IF in 20 12 years is 2. 10 1, and the IF in 20 13 years is 2.623. In the past two years, IF has hovered at two points. In 20 14-20 17, IF fluctuated within 3-3.5 points, and in 20 18, the impact factor entered 4 points, and it is estimated that it hovered around 4 points for several years.
3.JCR partition
According to the journal citation report published on 20 19, the journal is located in JCRQ 1 area. In the periodical citation report in June 2020, the periodical ranking should rise to the sixth place.
4. China Academy of Sciences.
According to the basic edition of China Academy of Sciences (13 key discipline), the publication is the periodical of the second district of engineering technology.
According to the upgraded version of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (18 major disciplines), the minor disciplines are adjusted from 3 to 2.
Two. IF forecast 20 19
Remote sensing published 3344 articles (articles and reviews) in 2065,438+07,2065,438+08. As of March 65,438+04, 2020, 2065,438+04873 was cited, so the real-time IF of this journal is-2065,438.
In addition, the real-time IF-20 19 of remote sensing has surpassed Journalofodesy (the real-time IF-20 19 is 4.289), so remote sensing can replace Journalofodesy in the field of remote sensing in JCR released in June 2020.
Three. National and institutional statistics
1, national statistics
According to the papers published in remote sensing journals 20 17 and 20 18, the author's country information is counted, as shown in the following figure. It can be found that the number of articles published in China is 1462, accounting for 43.720%, followed by 8 12 in the United States, 320, 228, 206 and 195 in Germany, Italy, France and Spain respectively. Among them, the United States, Germany, Italy and other countries are at the forefront in remote sensing. It can be seen that remote sensing has basically been recognized by the international mainstream remote sensing team.
2. Institutional statistics
According to the papers published on 20 17 and 20 18, the author units are counted, as shown below. It can be found that in the two years of 20 17 and 20 18, China Academy of Sciences (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) published 494 articles, Wuhan University and Beijing Normal University published 280 articles respectively, 1 12 articles, among which China Academy of Sciences and Wuhan University were among the top in the field of remote sensing in China.
Fourth, the review cycle statistics
Judging from the recently published papers, the magazine has only been censored twice. 20 papers were randomly selected from the 4th and 5th issues in 2020, and the time of the first and second trials was counted. It is worth noting that secondary papers are not submitted to reviewers.
1, first instance statistics
The statistics of the first instance are shown in the figure below. The shortest time and the longest time are 13 and 7 1 day, respectively, with an average of about 35 days, which is basically twice that of official website data (with an average of 19 days).
According to the first trial period, the "probability distribution map of the first trial period" is further fitted, and the results are shown in the following figure. As can be seen from the figure, only nearly 44% of the papers received the first-instance results within 30 days.
2. Statistics of second instance
The time for the second test is shown in the figure below. In the shortest case, the employment notice will be received on the day of submitting the revised draft; In the longest case, it takes 2 1 day. Generally speaking, the average time of the second interview is close to 5 days, so you can get the employment notice in a short time through the papers of the first trial.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) submits detailed information in the material.
1, current situation
Compared with MDPI's Sensor magazine, Remote Sensing has a much better reputation. In recent years, with the rise of impact factors, the number of contributors has risen sharply, but it has directly brought two results:
(1) The amount of manuscripts is too large, and many papers with no outstanding advantages are "seconds" as soon as they are submitted and fall to the point of "deskreject". In fact, "second refusal" does not mean that innovation is not enough. The most likely reason is that the paper lacks the most direct proof of "visual influence" on method innovation.
(2) Journals and the days of publishing articles are gradually drifting away (unless you are a Daniel or a journal editor), and a large number of manuscript sources make journals have more capital to pay attention to the "quality" of papers (only compared with early papers in remote sensing vertically, but not compared with top papers in RSE, TGRS and other fields horizontally). Being able to submit your own papers, I believe many papers are different. Under the condition that the substantive innovation of the paper is certain, how to make the paper attract others is actually a technical problem rather than a technical problem.
Many people must have had this experience: the substantive innovation of papers accepted by journals has not increased, but with the help of reviewers or editorial boards, the organizational structure and wording of papers have become more reasonable and attractive, and the author's methods have become more convincing. There is no denying that the quality of papers hired by "peer review" has indeed improved, so "quality" is only a relative thing.
Step 2: Solution
The fundamental way to solve the above two problems is to master the writing skills of the paper to highlight the advantages brought by the innovation of the paper. After all, the assistant editor is not an all-around player, and it is impossible to read every assigned article. Only when the paper passes the level of assistant editor can it smoothly enter the peer review link and further talk about "review results" and "revision".
For the quality of the paper, we should try our best to support the advantages brought by innovation with visual effects, and at the same time, we should emphasize the integrity of the experiment to highlight our own characteristics and be different. In addition, the journal official website's "Instructions for Submission" clearly stated that attention should be paid to the workload of papers: the research papers should be no less than 18 pages and the abstracts should be no less than 20 pages.
3. Other details
A paper can only have one correspondent, and all authors' email domain names must be research institutions. The submitted papers must find professional problems with highly consistent themes.