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The Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science (JIMIS) was established in 2016. It is an international peer-reviewed journal published in French and English.

Ten years after, it has significantly narrowed its scope to focus on Geographical Information Sciences and has been renamed the Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies in Geographical Information Sciences.

Geographic information sciences is an interdisciplinary field of research whose scientific focus is geographic information and its entire processing chain, which is defined by a set of 10 keywords relating to the data itself and its structuring (Acquire, Archive, Access, Aggregate, Display) or to the processes/users handling this geographic data (Analyse, Apply, Support decision-making, Integrate, Abstract).

Geographic information sciences encompass a wide range of disciplines: geography, computer science, archaeology, mathematics, history, ecology, cognitive science, epistemology, and any discipline that places geographic information at the heart of its methodological concerns. Through these key terms, the scope of geographic information sciences thus includes a wide and varied range of scientific fields: spatial analysis and modelling, geomatics, cartographic representation, participatory geographical sciences, image processing, digital humanities, AI applied to spatial data, etc. A list of the journal’s priority themes can be found on the SAGEO website: https://sageo2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4.

JIMIS gives priority to articles that develop original methods at various stages of geographical information processing, from sensors through to spatial decision support. The journal highlights the techniques, methods and theories of the geographical information sciences, without distinction or preference between their areas of application.

Two types of articles are therefore published in JIMIS: as they are submitted, or in special issues addressing an interdisciplinary, thematic or methodological question relating to the geoinformation sciences. These special issues are curated by guest editors.

JIMIS is completely in the spirit of the diamond model’s open access: free for submitting authors, free for consultation and downloading. The journal relies on online scientific archives, especially HAL, to promote open science and facilitate access to online knowledge.

The JIMIS journal is managed by the Éditions Universitaires d’Avignon (EUA) from Avignon University and is supported by the CNRS Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023-2024.

JIMIS is referenced in: Sudoc, Mir@bel, Sherpa Romeo, ROAD, OpenAlex, BibCNRS.