OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cartography and Geographic Information Science is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A variation on the Chamberlin trimetric map projection	87
Algorithmic uncertainties in geolocating social media data for disaster management	35
Environmental justice implications of flood risk in the contiguous United States – a spatiotemporal assessment of flood exposure change from 2001 to 2019	24
Evaluating the performance of gaze interaction for map target selection	20
Image-based approximation of derivatives of traditional differential metrics of angular distortion in map projections	20
Sensing the pulse of the pandemic: unveiling the geographical and demographic disparities of public sentiment toward COVID-19 through social media	19
A comparison of performance using extrinsic and intrinsic bivariate cartographic visualizations with respect to cognitive style in experienced map users	19
Mapping 3-D classroom seats based on partial object point cloud completion	16
Geography education improves spatial ability: evidence from fMRI and behavioral experiments	15
Measuring and mapping long-term changes in migration flows using population-scale family tree data	15
A learning-based approach to automatically evaluate the quality of sequential color schemes for maps	13
Terrain representation using orientation	12
An area preserving method for improved categorical raster resampling	12
Design Techniques for COVID-19 Story Maps: A Quantitative Content Analysis	12
A systematic review of application development in augmented reality navigation research	11
MultiLineStringNet: a deep neural network for linear feature set recognition	11
Impact of travel time uncertainties on modeling of spatial accessibility: a comparison of street data sources	11
Advancing indoor risk mapping for virus transmission of infectious diseases through geographic scenario simulation	10
Cognitive mapping of indoor environments: constructing an indoor navigation network from crowdsourced indoor route descriptions	10
An exploratory assessment of the effectiveness of geomasking methods on privacy protection and analytical accuracy for individual-level geospatial data	10
Urban infrastructure audit: an effective protocol to digitize signalized intersections by mining street view images	10
A deep learning approach for polyline and building simplification based on graph autoencoder with flexible constraints	9
Isoline extraction based on a global hexagonal grid	9
Polyline simplification based on the artificial neural network with constraints of generalization knowledge	9
Human-centered avalanche susceptibility mapping (H-CASM): shifting the cartographic emphasis of backcountry avalanche susceptibility maps	9

Machine learning in cartography	8
Keeping walls straight: data model and training set size matter for deep learning in building generalization	8
DeepMapScaler: a workflow of deep neural networks for the generation of generalised maps	8
A conceptual framework for developing dashboards for big mobility data	8
Visual programming-based Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for open-source GIS education 3.0	7
Global-TRANSIT: modeling global historic sailing using a least-cost surface analysis	7
A chorem-based approach to visualizing COVID-19-related data	7
A large language model-based agent for wayfinding: simulation of spatial perception and memory	7
MapGPT: an autonomous framework for mapping by integrating large language model and cartographic tools	7
Urban thermal map design considerations: color, shading, and resolution	7
Natural language processing meets spatial time series analysis and geovisualization: identifying and visualizing spatio-topical sentiment trends on Twitter	7
Inferring implicit 3D representations from human figures on pictorial maps	7
Exploring the impact of spatial autocorrelation on optimistic bias in cross-validation and assessing the effectiveness of spatial cross-validation	6
Bringing ethics to cartography and geographic information science: AutoCarto 2022	6
A reinterpreted-texture strategy for rendering point symbols based on graphics processing unit	6
Replicable and extensible spatial data acquisition	6
SNoMaN: a visual analytic tool for spatial social network mapping and analysis	6
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”	6
The effect of map label language on the visual search of cartographic point symbols	6
Using a negative spatial auto-correlation index to evaluate and improve intrinsic tag map’s multi-scale visualization capabilities	5
Automatic translation of human route descriptions into schematic maps for indoor navigation	5
A systematic approach for assessing the importance of visual differences in reproduced maps	5
Multiple representations in geospatial databases, the brain’s spatial cells, and deep learning algorithms	5
Risk perception evaluation of epidemic maps using event-related potentials	5