Evolution and future trends in global research on geographic information system (GIS): a bibliometric analysis
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In this article, the global research status and future trends of GIS are examined using bibliometric analysis. This study is based on an analysis of the most cited articles on GIS research topics, scientific production, collaboration between countries and authors, and GIS research from the Scopus database from 1969 to 2023. A total of 6398 articles were published in 3983 different journals, most of them original articles (4040, 63.1%) and conference proceedings (1701, 26.6%). The United States is the most productive country with 1847 articles and 29% of the total literature, followed by China with 596 articles and 9.3% of the total literature. Chinese Academy of Sciences was found to publish the highest number of documents with 72 articles and to cover 1.1% of the total literature followed by United States Geological Survey with 42 articles and to cover 0.6% of the total literature. Most used six keywords were “Remote sensing”, “Spatial analysis”, ‘‘Mapping’’, ‘‘Groundwater’’, ‘’AHP’’ and ‘‘Big data’’ (n = 255, 164, 130, 121, 98, and 97 times, respectively. The top two authors who contributed most were Goodchild, M.F. (22 articles), Ehlers, M. (14 articles). The top-cited publication was ‘‘Extracting topographic structure from digital elevation data for geographic information system analysis’’ with 1964 citations.
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