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  • Impact of ION ‘NAVIGATION’ journal continues to grow

    Impact of ION ‘NAVIGATION’ journal continues to grow

    This is the sixth consecutive year of growth of the journal’s impact factor

    Logo: IONThe Institute of Navigation announces that its quarterly journal, “NAVIGATION: The Journal of The Institute of Navigation,” has recorded its sixth consecutive year of growth of the publication’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF).

    The JIF, an index that calculates the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in a journal, is considered a bellwether of the relative importance of a journal within its field. A journal with a higher impact factor generally is viewed as being more important than those with a lower impact factor due to its citation rate.

    NAVIGATION’s JIF has now increased to 2.1, representing a consecutive seven-year increase.

    NAVIGATION’s JIF growth reflects the continued focus and leadership of the Journal’s Editor, Richard B. Langley, who is also the editor of GPS World’s Innovation column. Also key to NAVIGATION’s growth is its editorial board, which includes: Penina Axelrad, Daniele Borio, Michael Braasch, Liang Chen, Pau Closas, James Curran, Naser El-Sheimy, Paul Groves, André Hauschild, Christopher Hegarty, Changdon Kee, Jiyun Lee, Sherman Lo, Gary McGraw, Michael Meurer, Thomas Pany, Boris Pervan, Jason Rife, Andrey Soloviev, Todd Walter, Zheng Yao and Zhen Zhu, and the Journal’s managing editor Lisa Beaty.

    NAVIGATION is the leading peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing articles on all areas related to the science and art of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) and is indexed and abstracted in

    • Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (ProQuest)
    • ArticleFirst (OCLC)
    • COMPENDEX (Elsevier)
    • Current Contents: Engineering, Computing & Technology (Clarivate Analytics)
    • Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (ProQuest)
    • Electrical & Electronics Abstracts (IET)
    • Google Scholar (Google)
    • INSPEC (IET)
    • Materials Science & Engineering Database (ProQuest)
    • Natural Science Collection (ProQuest)
    • Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)
    • SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest)
    • SCOPUS (Elsevier)
    • Technology Collection (ProQuest)
    • Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
    • NAVIGATION is published by ION, in partnership with Wiley.

  • Journal of Map & Geography Libraries names TerraPop 2016’s best paper

    terrapopThe Journal of Map & Geography Libraries revealed the winner of the 2016 Best Paper Award: “Terra Populus: Workflows for Integrating and Harmonizing Geospatial Population and Environmental Data,” by Tracy A. Kugler, David C. Van Riper, Steven M. Manson, David A. Haynes II, Joshua Donato and Katie Stinebaugh.

    “The goal of TerraPop is to enable research, learning and policy analysis by providing integrated spatiotemporal data describing people and their environment,” the authors say.

    The paper describes TerraPop‘s collection strategies, details the geospatial workflows involved in preparing data for ingest into the project database and those used to transform data across formats for dissemination, and discusses the system used to capture and manage provenance metadata throughout the project, according to the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries. A key aspect of the project is the development of global current and historical administrative unit boundaries that can be linked to census data.
    
    The Journal of Map and Geography Libraries Best Paper Award is presented annually to the best paper published in the previous year. The evaluation criteria for the award are the papers’ quality of research and writing, interest in the topic by current and future readers and the likely influence of the article on future research, the journal says.