Most cited papers in Geographic Information Systems Studies
What are the most cited papers in Geographic Information Systems Studies?
The most cited paper in Geographic Information Systems Studies is "Status of land cover classification accuracy assessment" (Giles M. Foody, 2002), with 4,605 citations. Next come "Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography" (4,543) and "OpenStreetMap: User-Generated Street Maps" (3,226).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 582 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Status of land cover classification accuracy assessment Giles M. Foody · Remote Sensing of Environment | Apr 2002 | 4,605 |
| 2 | Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography Michael Frank Goodchild · GeoJournal | 19 Nov 2007 | 4,543 |
| 3 | OpenStreetMap: User-Generated Street Maps Muki Haklay, Patrick Weber · IEEE Pervasive Computing | Oct 2008 | 3,226 |
| 4 | The design and analysis of spatial data structures Hanan Samet · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | Aug 1989 | 2,381 |
| 5 | GIS‐based multicriteria decision analysis: a survey of the literature Jacek Malczewski · International Journal of Geographical Information Systems | 23 Jun 2006 | 2,282 |
| 6 | Kriging: a method of interpolation for geographical information systems Margaret A. Oliver, R. Webster · International Journal of Geographical Information Systems | Jul 1990 | 2,211 |
| 7 | Global land cover mapping at 30 m resolution: A POK-based operational approach Jun Chen, Jun Chen, Jin Chen et al. · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | 18 Oct 2014 | 2,112 |
| 8 | Death to Kappa: birth of quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement for accuracy assessment Robert Gilmore Pontius, Marco Millones · International Journal of Remote Sensing | 10 Aug 2011 | 2,055 |
| 9 | Mining interesting locations and travel sequences from GPS trajectories Yu Zheng, Lizhu Zhang, Xing Xie et al. | 20 Apr 2009 | 1,944 |
| 10 | On the shape of a set of points in the plane Herbert Edelsbrunner, David G. Kirkpatrick, Raimund Seidel · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Jul 1983 | 1,886 |
| 11 | Selecting and interpreting measures of thematic classification accuracy Stephen V. Stehman · Remote Sensing of Environment | Oct 1997 | 1,742 |
| 12 | GIS-based land-use suitability analysis: a critical overview Jacek Malczewski · Progress in Planning | 15 Nov 2003 | 1,715 |
| 13 | Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis – Towards a new paradigm Thomas Blaschke, Geoffrey J. Hay, Maggi Kelly et al. · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | 10 Dec 2013 | 1,663 |
| 14 | How Good is Volunteered Geographical Information? A Comparative Study of OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey Datasets Muki Haklay · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design | 22 Jul 2010 | 1,663 |
| 15 | Point-set topological spatial relations Max J. Egenhofer, Robert Franzosa · International Journal of Geographical Information Systems | 1991 | 1,661 |
| 16 | A global, self‐consistent, hierarchical, high‐resolution shoreline database Pål Wessel, Walter H. F. Smith · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 10 Apr 1996 | 1,647 |
| 17 | Multidimensional access methods Volker Gaede, Oliver Günther · ACM Computing Surveys | Jun 1998 | 1,593 |
| 18 | Two algorithms for constructing a Delaunay triangulation D. T. Lee, Bruce J. Schachter · International Journal of Parallel Programming | Jun 1980 | 1,593 |
| 19 | Human geography without scale Sallie A. Marston, John Paul Jones, Keith Woodward · Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | Dec 2005 | 1,569 |
| 20 | OSMnx: New methods for acquiring, constructing, analyzing, and visualizing complex street networks Geoff Boeing · Computers Environment and Urban Systems | 7 Jul 2017 | 1,565 |
| 21 | YAGO2: A spatially and temporally enhanced knowledge base from Wikipedia Johannes Hoffart, Fabian M. Suchanek, Klaus Berberich et al. · Artificial Intelligence | 18 Jun 2012 | 1,259 |
| 22 | 1. The power of databases: The RRUFF project Barbara Lafuente, R. T. Downs, Heng‐Li Yang et al. | 11 Nov 2015 | 1,233 |
| 23 | Public Participation Geographic Information Systems: A Literature Review and Framework Renee E. Sieber · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Sep 2006 | 1,216 |
| 24 | Differences in spatial knowledge acquired from maps and navigation Perry W. Thorndyke, Barbara Hayes‐Roth · Cognitive Psychology | Oct 1982 | 1,176 |
| 25 | ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps Mark Harrower, Cynthia A. Brewer · The Cartographic Journal | Jun 2003 | 1,133 |
| 26 | Discovering regions of different functions in a city using human mobility and POIs Jing Yuan, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie | 12 Aug 2012 | 1,116 |
| 27 | How Maps WorkRepresentation, Visualization, and Design Alan M. MacEachren · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) | 1995 | 1,105 |
| 28 | GeoLife: A Collaborative Social Networking Service among User, Location and Trajectory. Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Wei‐Ying Ma | Jun 2010 | 1,104 |
| 29 | You are where you tweet Zhiyuan Cheng, James Caverlee, Kyumin Lee | 26 Oct 2010 | 1,089 |
| 30 | Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information: Overview and Typology of Participation Muki Haklay | 29 Jun 2012 | 1,084 |
| 31 | Integrating multi-criteria evaluation with geographical information systems Stephen Carver · International Journal of Geographical Information Systems | 1991 | 1,082 |
| 32 | The walking interview: Methodology, mobility and place James Evans, Phil Jones · Applied Geography | 28 Oct 2010 | 1,073 |
| 33 | Making better use of accuracy data in land change studies: Estimating accuracy and area and quantifying uncertainty using stratified estimation Pontus Olofsson, Giles M. Foody, Stephen V. Stehman et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 29 Nov 2012 | 1,045 |
| 34 | Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability Mary Hegarty · Intelligence | 9 Sep 2002 | 1,042 |
| 35 | Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective Yi‐Fu Tuan | 1979 | 1,028 |
| 36 | A Report on Harmonic Maps J. Eells, L. Lemaire · Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society | Mar 1978 | 975 |
| 37 | Geographical information science Michael Frank Goodchild · International Journal of Geographical Information Systems | 1992 | 964 |
| 38 | Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster response: a research frontier Michael Frank Goodchild, J. Alan Glennon · International Journal of Digital Earth | 15 Apr 2010 | 911 |
| 39 | Spring: Integrating remote sensing and gis by object-oriented data modelling Gilberto Câmara, Ricardo Cartaxo Modesto de Souza, Ubirajara Moura De Freitas et al. · Computers & Graphics | May 1996 | 902 |
| 40 | The map equation Martin Rosvall, D. Axelsson, Carl T. Bergstrom · The European Physical Journal Special Topics | Nov 2009 | 894 |
| 41 | Distance browsing in spatial databases Gı́sli R. Hjaltason, Hanan Samet · ACM Transactions on Database Systems | Jun 1999 | 882 |
| 42 | Researching Volunteered Geographic Information: Spatial Data, Geographic Research, and New Social Practice Sarah A. Elwood, Michael Frank Goodchild, Daniel Z. Sui · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | 9 Aug 2011 | 869 |
| 43 | A Framework for Generating Network-Based Moving Objects Thomas Brinkhoff · GeoInformatica | Jun 2002 | 868 |
| 44 | Mobile Landscapes: Using Location Data from Cell Phones for Urban Analysis Carlo Ratti, Dennis Frenchman, Riccardo Maria Pulselli et al. · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design | 25 Aug 2006 | 868 |
| 45 | A new generation of the United States National Land Cover Database: Requirements, research priorities, design, and implementation strategies Limin Yang, Suming Jin, Patrick Danielson et al. · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | 12 Sep 2018 | 858 |
| 46 | GRASS GIS: A multi-purpose open source GIS Markus Neteler, Malcolm J. Bowman, Martin Landa et al. · Environmental Modelling & Software | 21 Dec 2011 | 843 |
| 47 | Eliciting Expert Knowledge in Conservation Science Tara G. Martin, Mark A. Burgman, Fiona M. Fidler et al. · Conservation Biology | 26 Jan 2012 | 841 |
| 48 | Key issues and research priorities for public participation GIS (PPGIS): A synthesis based on empirical research Greg Brown, Marketta Kyttä · Applied Geography | 6 Dec 2013 | 819 |
| 49 | Social Sensing: A New Approach to Understanding Our Socioeconomic Environments Yu Liu, Xi Liu, Song Gao et al. · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | 27 Apr 2015 | 816 |
| 50 | An optimal and progressive algorithm for skyline queries Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Greg Fu et al. | 9 Jun 2003 | 815 |
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