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Focus and Scope
JOSIS encourages submissions from topics including, but not limited to spatial and spatiotemporal information systems; computational geometry, geocomputation, spatial algorithms; geovisualization, cartography, and geographical user interfaces; computing with spatiotemporal information under uncertainty; spatial cognition and qualitative spatial reasoning; spatial data models and structures; conceptual models of space and geoontology; distributed and parallel spatial computing, web-based GIS, and interoperability; context- and location-aware computing; and applications to GIS, spatial databases, location-based services, geosensor networks, and geosensor web.
The journal publishes full-length original research articles, as well as survey-style review papers. In addition, the journal publishes shorter articles in three sections: short technical papers, letters to the editors, and book reviews.
The journal is published online and all articles are free to access for any person.
Section Policies
Research Articles
JOSIS publishes original, high-quality articles in spatial information science, spanning the theoretical foundations of spatial and geographical information science, through computation with geospatial information, to technologies for geographical information use.
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Review Articles
JOSIS publishes original, high quality review papers which survey and synthesize the research literature from a particular topic.
| Open Submissions |
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Technical Articles
JOSIS publishes shorter technical articles, covering specific techniques or tools of interest to the community.
| Open Submissions |
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Letters to the Editors
The journal publishes letters to the editors.
| Open Submissions |
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 Peer Reviewed |
Book Reviews
The journal publishes reviews of books in the field of spatial information science.
| Open Submissions |
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Community Activities
JOSIS encourages the submission articles reporting on community activities, such as workshop and conferences, that are of general interest to the spatial information science community. Articles about community activities do not require formal peer review, but will be reviewed and discussed by the editors. Please contact one of the JOSIS Editors-in-Chief before preparing your article if you would like to submit a community activity article.
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
JOSIS aims to publish the highest quality papers in the field of geographic information science, within the shortest possible time in review. The journal aims to provide the most rapid reviews possible, without compromising quality. Currently, our average time from submission to first review is 57 days, and we aim for no paper to require more than 3 months for a first review.
Submissions to JOSIS are single-blind peer reviewed by three anonymous reviewers. In addition, the editors may take into account comments on submissions in review made through the discussion module of the JOSIS web site, especially in cases where reviews are delayed.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
JOSIS promotional material
JOSIS is a community run initiative, and relies on members of the GIScience community to spread the word! As a result, we encourage you to show your support for JOSIS by talking about JOSIS or taking promotional material to your next conference or workshop. We have the following materials for download:
- One-sided full color letter flyer (with printers marks for professional printing)
- One-sided full color letter flyer (without printers marks for printing on standard printer)
- Two-sided full color postcard flyer (with printers marks for professional printing)
- Single presentation slide [pdf]
Donations to JOSIS
JOSIS is non-fee, non-commercial, free to authors and to readers. However, even today, publishing is not free, and running JOSIS does incur some unavoidable costs (typically about $500 per year in costs for web hosting, domain name, and DOI registration). These costs are met entirely by volunteer donations. We gratefully accept donations of any size. Donations can be made via PayPal using any major credit card. Thank you.
