Abstract
Remote Sensing, an open access journal (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing) has grown at rapid pace since its first publication five years ago, and has acquired a strong reputation. It is a “pathfinder” being the first open access journal in remote sensing. For those academics who were used to waiting a year or two for their peer-reviewed scientific work to be reviewed, revised, edited, and published, Remote Sensing offers a publication time frame that is unheard of (in most cases, less than four months). However, we do this after multiple peer-reviews, multiple revisions, much editorial scrutiny and decision-making, and professional editing by an editorial office before a paper is published online in our tight time frame, bringing a paradigm shift in scientific publication. As a result, there has been a swift increase in submissions of higher and higher quality manuscripts from the best authors and institutes working on Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), GIScience, and all related geospatial science and technologies from around the world. The purpose of this editorial is to update everyone interested in Remote Sensing on the progress made over the last year, and provide an outline of our vision for the immediate future. [...]
Highlights
Remote Sensing, an open access journal has grown at rapid pace since its first publication five years ago, and has acquired a strong reputation
“pathfinder” being the first open access journal in remote sensing. For those academics who were used to waiting a year or two for their peer-reviewed scientific work to be reviewed, revised, edited, and published, Remote Sensing offers a publication time frame that is unheard of
We do this after multiple peer-reviews, multiple revisions, much editorial scrutiny and decision-making, and professional editing by an editorial office before a paper is published online in our tight time frame, bringing a paradigm shift in scientific publication
Summary
Remote Sensing Open Access Journal: Increasing Impact through Quality Publications. It is a “pathfinder” being the first open access journal in remote sensing For those academics who were used to waiting a year or two for their peer-reviewed scientific work to be reviewed, revised, edited, and published, Remote Sensing offers a publication time frame that is unheard of (in most cases, less than four months). Once the authors submit the manuscript online, the editorial office processes the papers and: (a) sends them to peer-review; or (b) returns them to the author without review (when the quality is poor). The AEs and GEs look at the reviews and send the paper back to the editorial office with a decision: (i) revise, (ii) reject, (iii) accept. Editorial office initial processing; Three to six peer-reviews; Associate Editors’ or Guest Editors’ scrutiny and decision to: (i) revise, (ii) accept, (iii) reject; Editor-in-Chief (EiC) scrutiny and final decision to: (i) revise, (ii) accept, (iii) reject; and Editorial office final processing for accepted papers
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