remote sensing Article A Bibliometric Profile of the Remote Sensing Open Access Journal Published by MDPI between 2009 and 2018 YuYing Zhang 1, Prasad S. Thenkabail 2,* and Peng Wang 3 1 Faculty of Education, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +1-928-556-7221 Received: 13 November 2018; Accepted: 28 December 2018; Published: 7 January 2019 Abstract: Remote Sensing Open Access Journal (RS OAJ) is an international leading journal in the field of remote sensing science and technology. It was first published in the year 2009 and is currently celebrating tenth year of publications. In this research, a bibliometric analysis of RS OAJ was conducted based on 5588 articles published during the 10-year (2009–2018) time-period. The bibliometric analysis includes a comprehensive set of indicators such as dynamics and trends of publications, journal impact factor, total cites, eigenfactor score, normalized eigenfactor, CiteScore, h-index, h-classic publications, most productive countries (or territories) and institutions, co-authorship collaboration about countries (territories), research themes, citation impact of co-occurrences keywords, intellectual structure, and knowledge commutation. We found that publications of RS OAJ presented an exponential growth in the past ten years. From 2010 to 2017 (for which complete years data were available), the h-index of RS OAJ is 67. From 2009–2018, RS OAJ includes publications from 129 countries (or territories) and 3826 institutions.