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The coverage of mobile users (MUs) in a target area is relevant to the accuracy of sensing data. Furthermore, the historical reputation of MUs can reflect their previous behavior. Therefore, this study proposes a coverage and reputation joint constraint incentive mechanism algorithm (CRJC-IMA) based on Stackelberg game theory for MCS. First, the location information and the historical reputation of mobile users are used to select the optimal users, and the information quality requirement will be satisfied consequently. Second, a two-stage Stackelberg game is applied to analyze the sensing level of the mobile users and obtain the optimal incentive mechanism of the server center (SC). The existence of the Nash equilibrium is analyzed and verified on the basis of the optimal response strategy of mobile users. In addition, mobile users will adjust the priority of the tasks in time series to enable the total utility of all their tasks to reach a maximum. Finally, the EM algorithm is used to evaluate the data quality of the task, and the historical reputation of each user will be updated accordingly. Simulation experiments show that the coverage of the CRJC-IMA is higher than that of the CTSIA. The utility of mobile users and SC is higher than that in STD algorithms. 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