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- Nelhans, Gustaf, 1973
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Citations within the GI literature– Theoretical works or good examples?
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Ingår i: 10th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: ‘The European Information Society: Leading the way with geo-information’. 8th - 11th May, 2007, Aalborg University, Denmark.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to discuss the role of the term ’Geographic Information Science’ in citations within the GI literature. Citation data from 12.144 articles in Geographic information systems and science were collected from the Science Citation Index (SCI). These data were analyzed by means of visual data mining based on citation patterns in the collected data. The study shows that there exists a bias in the patterns of citations in GI literature, where the top three GIS papers outnumber the top three GIScience papers by an almost 3 to 1 ratio, a total of 225 versus 78 citations. Furthermore, it is shown that not more than two papers containing the term GIScience make it into the top 200 cited GIS papers in terms of acquired citations from the collection of 12.144 papers. It is suggested that researchers in GIS rather turn to good examples of research than to normative theories of research when they refer to work by others. Furthermore, the term GIScience, which has been put forward as a concept linked to the core of GIS research, is shown to have low visibility in the data analyzed. In conclusion a set of questions regarding the role of GIScience in the research community are posed.
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