TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the GIS Knowledge Domain Using CiteSpace
AU - Wei, Fangwu
AU - Grubesic, Tony H.
AU - Bishop, Bradley Wade
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/7/3
Y1 - 2015/7/3
N2 - Since the 1980s, geographic information systems (GIS) have developed rapidly and have been applied widely in the social, natural, and space sciences. In line with this explosive development and use, thousands of articles have been published on GIS, detailing both technical development and application-oriented research. Given this flood of material over the past thirty years, the purpose of this article is to apply a suite of scientometric and bibliometric approaches to help discover and benchmark the most important and highly cited papers in this burgeoning field. Not only do these techniques facilitate the connection of research themes and authors in the GIS community, but the approaches help highlight how research interests and foci evolve over time, greatly contributing to our understanding of the GIS knowledge domain. Although the scale and scope of this analysis are somewhat limited, the outlined method is highly generalizable and its results show that several key publications have helped forge the field and facilitate new trends in the literature.
AB - Since the 1980s, geographic information systems (GIS) have developed rapidly and have been applied widely in the social, natural, and space sciences. In line with this explosive development and use, thousands of articles have been published on GIS, detailing both technical development and application-oriented research. Given this flood of material over the past thirty years, the purpose of this article is to apply a suite of scientometric and bibliometric approaches to help discover and benchmark the most important and highly cited papers in this burgeoning field. Not only do these techniques facilitate the connection of research themes and authors in the GIS community, but the approaches help highlight how research interests and foci evolve over time, greatly contributing to our understanding of the GIS knowledge domain. Although the scale and scope of this analysis are somewhat limited, the outlined method is highly generalizable and its results show that several key publications have helped forge the field and facilitate new trends in the literature.
KW - GIS
KW - geographic information systems
KW - knowledge domain
KW - scientometric analysis
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U2 - 10.1080/00330124.2014.983588
DO - 10.1080/00330124.2014.983588
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84931573264
SN - 0033-0124
VL - 67
SP - 374
EP - 384
JO - Professional Geographer
JF - Professional Geographer
IS - 3
ER -