Most cited papers in Historical Geography and Cartography
What are the most cited papers in Historical Geography and Cartography?
The most cited paper in Historical Geography and Cartography is "Geochim. cosmochim. acta" (Surendra Kumar Saxena, Y. Fei, 1988), with 1,769 citations. Next come "Geochim. cosmochim. acta" (1,339) and "GPS theory and practice" (1,113).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 115 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Geochim. cosmochim. acta Surendra Kumar Saxena, Y. Fei · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Oct 1988 | 1,769 |
| 2 | Geochim. cosmochim. acta Alan E. Rubin, JOHN T. WASSON · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Oct 1988 | 1,339 |
| 3 | GPS theory and practice D. J. Allerton · Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics | 1995 | 1,113 |
| 4 | The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog Brian D. Mason, Gary L. Wycoff, William I. Hartkopf et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Dec 2001 | 1,009 |
| 5 | A Report on Harmonic Maps J. Eells, L. Lemaire · Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society | Mar 1978 | 975 |
| 6 | The ALADIN interactive sky atlas F. Bonnarel, P. Fernique, O. Bienaymé et al. · Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series | Apr 2000 | 854 |
| 7 | Mapping City Lights With Nighttime Data from the DMSP Operational Linescan System Christopher D. Elvidge, Kimberly Baugh, E. A. Kihn et al. · Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing | Jun 1997 | 750 |
| 8 | Contributions to the theory of atmospheric refraction Jouko H. Saastamoinen · Bulletin Géodésique | Sep 1972 | 610 |
| 9 | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Bruce G. Terrell | 2002 | 585 |
| 10 | Shoreline Mapping Techniques Laura J. Moore · Journal of Coastal Research | 25 Jan 2000 | 554 |
| 11 | The Riordan group Louis W. Shapiro, Seyoum Getu, Wen-Jin Woan et al. · Discrete Applied Mathematics | Nov 1991 | 497 |
| 12 | Can there be vague objects? Geoffrey Evans · Analysis | Oct 1978 | 482 |
| 13 | Ground referencing GRACE satellite estimates of groundwater storage changes in the California Central Valley, USA Bridget R. Scanlon, Laurent Longuevergne, Di Long · Water Resources Research | 29 Feb 2012 | 472 |
| 14 | Transforming geocentric cartesian coordinates to geodetic coordinates by using differential search algorithm Pınar Çivicioğlu · Computers & Geosciences | 27 Dec 2011 | 471 |
| 15 | THE CATALINA SURVEYS PERIODIC VARIABLE STAR CATALOG Andrew J Drake et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 25 Jun 2014 | 468 |
| 16 | Mazes, maps, and memory. David S. Olton · American Psychologist | 1979 | 460 |
| 17 | Algorithms for geodesics Charles F. F. Karney · Journal of Geodesy | 26 Jun 2012 | 403 |
| 18 | A Map of the Universe J. Richard Gott III, Mario Jurić, David Schlegel et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 6 May 2005 | 380 |
| 19 | Visualization in Modern Cartography: Setting the Agenda Alan M. MacEachren · Modern cartography | 1994 | 375 |
| 20 | Dances with microscopes: antoni van leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) Ali Khattab · Cytopathology | Aug 1995 | 371 |
| 21 | Monitoring the water balance of Lake Victoria, East Africa, from space Sean Claude Swenson, John Wahr · Journal of Hydrology | 12 Mar 2009 | 348 |
| 22 | Foundations of Orientation and Mobility Paula R. Kosior · International Journal of Orientation & Mobility | 2010 | 344 |
| 23 | The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology Victoria Lynn Packard · Reference Reviews | 15 Jan 2018 | 341 |
| 24 | Geochim. cosmochim. acta Mikael Sterner, Donald L. Hall, Robert J. Bodnar · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Oct 1988 | 341 |
| 25 | NeoGeography and the nature of geographic expertise Michael Frank Goodchild · Journal of Location Based Services | 29 May 2009 | 310 |
| 26 | A continent revealed: The european geotraverse James M. Jackson · Journal of Structural Geology | Jul 1993 | 305 |
| 27 | Contouring—A guide to the analysis and display of spatial data Christopher Gold · Computers & Geosciences | Nov 1993 | 299 |
| 28 | A Comparison of Nighttime Satellite Imagery and Population Density for the Continental United States Paul C. Sutton, Dar A. Roberts, Chris Elvidge et al. · Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing | 1997 | 294 |
| 29 | The Standard Deviational Ellipse; An Updated Tool for Spatial Description Robert S. Yuill · Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography | Apr 1971 | 287 |
| 30 | Crossing-Free Subgraphs Miklós Ajtai, Vašek Chvátal, Monty Newborn et al. · North-Holland mathematics studies | 1982 | 284 |
| 31 | Knots and links in spatial graphs John H. Conway, C. McA. Gordon · Journal of Graph Theory | Dec 1983 | 280 |
| 32 | The Talairach Daemon a database server for talairach atlas labels Jack L. Lancaster, J.L. Summerlin, Lacy Rainey et al. · NeuroImage | Dec 1997 | 266 |
| 33 | Historical GIS: structuring, mapping and analysing geographies of the past IAN N. GREGORY, Richard G. Healey · Progress in Human Geography | 27 Sep 2007 | 264 |
| 34 | Upward direction, mental rotation, and discrimination of left and right turns in maps Roger N. Shepard, Shelley Hurwitz · Cognition | Dec 1984 | 257 |
| 35 | Thirty Five Years of Computer Cartograms Waldo Tobler · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Mar 2004 | 248 |
| 36 | Least-cost Path in GIS Using an Accumulated Cost Surface and Slopelines David H. Douglas · Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization | Sep 1994 | 243 |
| 37 | A comprehensive system of terrain corrections using a digital computer Martin Francis Kane · Geophysics | Aug 1962 | 239 |
| 38 | Space–time density of trajectories: exploring spatio-temporal patterns in movement data Urška Demšar, Kirsi Virrantaus · International Journal of Geographical Information Systems | 9 Oct 2010 | 227 |
| 39 | Satellite Geodesy—Foundations, Methods, and Applications Patrick Fell · Eos | 24 May 1994 | 218 |
| 40 | The Development of Micrometers in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Randall C. Brooks · Journal for the History of Astronomy | May 1991 | 210 |
| 41 | Geometry between the devil and the deep sea Hans W. L. Freudenthal · Educational Studies in Mathematics | Jun 1971 | 201 |
| 42 | A unified approach to the Clenshaw summation and the recursive computation of very high degree and order normalised associated Legendre functions Simon A. Holmes, Will E. Featherstone · Journal of Geodesy | May 2002 | 194 |
| 43 | Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe Matthew H. Edney · Cartographic Perspectives | Jun 1993 | 193 |
| 44 | Defendens Imperium Romanum: A Classical Problem in Military Strategy Charles ReVelle, Kenneth E. Rosing · American Mathematical Monthly | Aug 2000 | 190 |
| 45 | CARTOGRAPHY WITHOUT PROGRESS': REINTERPRETING THE NATURE AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MAPMAKING Matthew H. Edney · Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization | Sep 1993 | 185 |
| 46 | Map Projections: A Reference Manual Christina Keller · Cartographic Perspectives | Mar 1996 | 179 |
| 47 | Definitions and conventions in ellipsometry Rolf H. Muller · Surface Science | Aug 1969 | 178 |
| 48 | Place Annihilation: Area Bombing and the Fate of Urban Places Kenneth Hewitt · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Jun 1983 | 171 |
| 49 | Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship IAN N. GREGORY, Paul S. Ell | 4 Feb 2008 | 171 |
| 50 | The Rosat All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog Wolfgang H. Voges, Bernd Aschenbach, Thomas Böller et al. | 1997 | 170 |
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