AGILE is supporting ifgi's effort to build a rating scheme for publication outlets in Geographic Information Science. The initiative targets a simple, transparent, community-driven and maintainable guide to quality levels of peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. The outlets rated need to have a declared focus on Geographic Information Science (including all its naming varieties as well as spatial analysis).

A Delphi survey has now started at http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/delphi/, to

1. identify journals and refereed conference proceedings with a declared focus on GIScience (by any name)
2. rate these outlets into three categories (A, B, and C)
3. collect information about other publication outlets in which GIScience research is published, but which have their focus outside GIScience.

Any GIScience- or Geoinformatics-related researcher who has a doctorate and has published in at least five different journals with broad international readership can participate. A second Delphi survey in 2013 will map outlets in other fields to our rating. A process for revision and maintenance of the ratings and mappings will also be established. The overall goal is to produce a GIScience journal and conference rating that is solidly founded on community input, endorsed by AGILE and other organizations, and related to publication outlets outside our field.