According to the newly released 2023 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Big Earth Data (BEDJ) has achieved an impressive impact factor (IF) of 4.2, marking its highest IF since its inception. This achievement places BEDJ the 57th among 249 journals in Computer Science, Information Systems (Q1), 34th out of 253 journals in Geosciences, Multidisciplinary (Q1), and 16th out of 62 in Remote Sensing journals (Q2).

In parallel, based on the newly released 2023 Scopus CiteScore, the new CiteScore for Big Earth Data is an impressive 7.4, securing its 13th position in Computers in Earth Sciences (Q1) and 182nd  in Computer Science Applications (Q1).

Big Earth Data (BEDJ) is an interdisciplinary open-access academic journal jointly published by the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, the Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Taylor & Francis Group. Guo Huadong currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

BEDJ aims to provide an efficient and high-quality platform for promoting the exchange, processing, and analysis of Earth-related big data, thus revolutionizing the cognition of the Earth’s systems. It focuses on the full spectrum of big data handling, including theoretical frameworks, methods, algorithms, and technologies used for the collection, management, analysis, and visualization of Earth-related big data.

The journal publishes multiple types of scholarly content, including original research articles, review articles, data articles, and technical notes.

BEDJ is now indexed in ESCI, Scopus, EI, Inspec, and CSCD.

Source: Official website of the ISDE