OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cartography and Geographic Information Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Deep fake geography? When geospatial data encounter Artificial Intelligence	67
What is the difference between augmented reality and 2D navigation electronic maps in pedestrian wayfinding?	41
Spatial knowledge acquisition with virtual semantic landmarks in mixed reality-based indoor navigation	29
Embodied gesture interaction for immersive maps	24
The role of user context in the design of mobile map applications	17
Polyline simplification based on the artificial neural network with constraints of generalization knowledge	15
Adapting mobile map application designs to map use context: a review and call for action on potential future research themes	15
Elevation models for reproducible evaluation of terrain representation	15
Sentiment mapping: point pattern analysis of sentiment classified Twitter data	14
Integration of heterogeneous terrain data into Discrete Global Grid Systems	12
Proxemic maps for immersive visualization	11
Choose your own route – supporting pedestrian navigation without restricting the user to a predefined route	10
An area preserving method for improved categorical raster resampling	10
How does the design of landmarks on a mobile map influence wayfinding experts’ spatial learning during a real-world navigation task?	10
An approach for multi-scale urban building data integration and enrichment through geometric matching and semantic web	10
Virtual reality for geospatial education: immersive technologies enhance sense of embodiment	10
Population downscaling using high-resolution, temporally-rich U.S. property data	10
A personalized activity-based spatiotemporal risk mapping approach to the COVID-19 pandemic	9
A systematic review of application development in augmented reality navigation research	9
Adaptive transfer of color from images to maps and visualizations	9
Urban infrastructure audit: an effective protocol to digitize signalized intersections by mining street view images	9
How does spatial cognitive style affect indoor fire evacuation wayfinding in mobile virtual reality?	8
Evaluating schematic route maps in wayfinding tasks for in-car navigation	8
Dimensions of uncertainty: a spatiotemporal review of five COVID-19 datasets	8
Evaluating the effectiveness of different cartographic design variants for influencing route choice	8

Artificial intelligence studies in cartography: a review and synthesis of methods, applications, and ethics	8
An exploratory assessment of the effectiveness of geomasking methods on privacy protection and analytical accuracy for individual-level geospatial data	8
Toward green cartography & visualization: a semantically-enriched method of generating energy-aware color schemes for digital maps	8
A point selection method in map generalization using graph convolutional network model	8
Mapping trajectories and flows: facilitating a human-centered approach to movement data analytics	7
Informative cartographic communication: a framework to evaluate the effects of map types on users’ interpretation of COVID-19 geovisualizations	7
Label-based generalization of bathymetry data for hydrographic sounding selection	7
Identifying map users with eye movement data from map-based spatial tasks: user privacy concerns	7
The effect of map label language on the visual search of cartographic point symbols	7
Constructing and analyzing spatial-social networks from location-based social media data	6
Design Techniques for COVID-19 Story Maps: A Quantitative Content Analysis	6
How do voice-assisted digital maps influence human wayfinding in pedestrian navigation?	6
A user-centric optimization of emergency map symbols to facilitate common operational picture	6
Comparison of font size and background color strategies for tag weights on tag maps	6
An area merging method in map generalization considering typical characteristics of structured geographic objects	6
Swipe versus multiple view: a comprehensive analysis using eye-tracking to evaluate user interaction with web maps	5
Variations in the spatial distribution of crime events in an urban environment during the COVID-19 lockdown	5
A deep learning approach for polyline and building simplification based on graph autoencoder with flexible constraints	5
Beyond mapping: extend the role of cartographers to user interface designers in the Metaverse using virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality	5
A geospatial image based eye movement dataset for cartography and GIS	5
Spatial multi-criteria evaluation in 3D context: suitability analysis of urban vertical development	5
Point, polygon, or marker? In search of the best geographic entity for mapping cultural ecosystem services using the online public participation geographic information systems tool, “My Green Place”	5
Where have the cartographers gone? The status of cartography instruction within U.S. geography departments and programs	4
Textures for coding bathymetric data quality sectors on electronic navigational chart displays: design and evaluation	4
Research on map emotional semantics using deep learning approach	4
Trust in maps: what we know and what we need to know	4
Geographically masking addresses to study COVID-19 clusters	4
MSLF: multi-scale legibility function to estimate the legible scale of individual line features	4
Aggregating land-use polygons considering line features as separating map elements	4
A methodology for balancing the preservation of area, shape, and topological properties in polygon-to-raster conversion	4
Semantic conflation in GIScience: a systematic review	4
The promise of excess mobility analysis: measuring episodic-mobility with geotagged social media data	4
Developing reliably distinguishable color schemes for legends of natural resource taxonomy-based maps	3
MixMap : a user-driven approach to place-based semantic similarity	3
Interactive visual analytics of moving passenger flocks using massive smart card data	3
Why we can read maps	3
A chorem-based approach to visualizing COVID-19-related data	3
A learning-based approach to automatically evaluate the quality of sequential color schemes for maps	3
Measuring and mapping long-term changes in migration flows using population-scale family tree data	3
Characteristics of augmented map research from a cartographic perspective	3
Using gamification to increase map data production during humanitarian volunteered geographic information (VGI) campaigns	3
Learning from vector data: enhancing vector-based shape encoding and shape classification for map generalization purposes	3
A geographical and content-based approach to prioritize relevant and reliable tweets for emergency management	3
A feasibility study of applying generative deep learning models for map labeling	3
Machine learning in cartography	3
A conceptual framework for developing dashboards for big mobility data	3
Topological relationship model for geographical flows	3
Elastic beam algorithm for generating circular cartograms	3
Do people prefer a landmark route over a shortest route?	3
Detection of discrepancies between nautical charts and new survey data using GIS techniques	3

An extended spatiotemporal exposure index for urban racial segregation	3
Impact of travel time uncertainties on modeling of spatial accessibility: a comparison of street data sources	3
A systematic parallel strategy for generating contours from large-scale DEM data using collaborative CPUs and GPUs	3
DeepMapScaler: a workflow of deep neural networks for the generation of generalised maps	2
A parallel strategy to accelerate neighborhood operation for raster data coordinating CPU and GPU	2
Geo-indistinguishable masking: enhancing privacy protection in spatial point mapping	2
Cognition and perception of map projections: a literature review	2
Detecting common features from point patterns for similarity measurement using matrix decomposition	2
MultiLineStringNet: a deep neural network for linear feature set recognition	2
An indoor service area determination approach for pedestrian navigation path planning	2
A fast grid generation algorithm for local irregular parts of hexagonal discrete global grid systems	2
Using machine learning and data enrichment in the selection of roads for small-scale maps	2
Geography education improves spatial ability: evidence from fMRI and behavioral experiments	2
Keeping walls straight: data model and training set size matter for deep learning in building generalization	2
Detecting dynamic visual attention in augmented reality aided navigation environment based on a multi-feature integration fully convolutional network	2
An iterative framework with active learning to match segments in road networks	2
Urban thermal map design considerations: color, shading, and resolution	2
Hiking-time formulas: a review	2
Environmental justice implications of flood risk in the contiguous United States – a spatiotemporal assessment of flood exposure change from 2001 to 2019	2