The Landscape of GIScience Publications 1997–2007: An Empirical Investigation with Latent Semantic Analysis

Abstract

This article reports on an empirical study of the trends and patterns of research activities in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) during the years 1997-2007. The GIScience research priorities identified by the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) were used as guidelines to examine the 985 research articles published in six well-recognized academic journals. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) was employed to investigate the association among the different GIScience research themes. The spatial and temporal patterns of the association between the publications and the different GIScience themes were examined to show the development of GIScience research during the study period. Furthermore, correlation analyses between the publications were conducted following the LSA results to reveal GIScience research networks, including the networks of the published articles and those formed by the research places. In this article, we applied an approach that was developed within information science to depict what GIS research activities were conducted when and where and how they connect to each other through sharing common research themes. The related findings pave the way for future efforts to describe the paradigm of GIScience as well as the pattern of GIScience research.t gis_1228 689..708

Geographic information science as a multidisciplinary and multiparadigmatic field

“…They are increasingly ensued by (c) a multiparadigmatic approach, which we will discuss in detail in Section "widening upa multidisciplinary and multiparadigmatic perspective." Like in other fields, scientists increasingly try to build their arguments on literature analyses or on other lists that can be derived from the topic areas of key GIScience conferences, such as the bi-annual GIScience conference series or the COSIT conferences (Fisher 2001;Caron et al 2008;Parr and Lu 2010;Kemp, Kuhn, and Brox 2012;Blaschke and Eisank 2012). Raper (2009, 74) comprehensively studied the field of GIScience, mainly examining its history and the main issues it addresses.…”

Πολιτικές ανάπτυξης ψηφιακών γεωγραφικών συλλογών σε open access περιβάλλον

“…Public library of New York, the Library of the American Geographical Society at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard Library, Stanford University Library, Library of Congress κ.ά.). Ο Berry (2004, σ.444, όπως αναφέρουν οι Parr & Lu, 2010) σημειώνει πως η έντονη αύξηση και χρήση των ΓΠΣ αποτέλεσε ένα από τα αξιοσημείωτα χαρακτηριστικά του ακαδημαϊκού χώρου τη τελευταία δεκαετία του 20ου αι., γεγονός που προκαλεί τη διερεύνηση των τάσεων και των μορφών των ερευνητικών δραστηριοτήτων που σχετίζονται με αυτά. Το ίδιο γεγονός παρατηρήθηκε και στην επιστήμη της βιβλιοθηκονομίας καθώς η εφαρμογή από το 1992 του προγράμματος ARL GIS Literacy Project βρήκε ανταπόκριση στις βιβλιοθήκες και η ολοκλήρωσή του συνδυάστηκε με τον εμπλουτισμό της βιβλιογραφίας σχετικά με τα ΓΠΣ (Michalec & Welsh, 2007).…”