# Geographic Information Systems Studies

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/geographic-information-systems-studies-2/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 614,545 |
| Description | This cluster of papers focuses on the collection, analysis, and utilization of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and geospatial crowdsourcing. It explores topics such as participatory GIS, OpenStreetMap, citizen science, spatial data infrastructure, web-based GIS, crowdsourced mapping, geovisualization, and the semantic web. |
| Domain | Social Sciences |
| Field | Social Sciences |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/T10757 |
| Works | 118,600 |

## Topic researchers

Showing 12 of 20.

- [Stephen F. Altschul](https://scholariq.org/researchers/stephen-f-altschul/)
- [David J. Schlegel](https://scholariq.org/researchers/david-j-schlegel/)
- [James E. Gunn](https://scholariq.org/researchers/james-e-gunn/)
- [Michael A. Strauss](https://scholariq.org/researchers/michael-a-strauss/)
- [Alexander S. Szalay](https://scholariq.org/researchers/alexander-s-szalay/)
- [Larry V. Hedges](https://scholariq.org/researchers/larry-v-hedges/)
- [Thomas S. Huang](https://scholariq.org/researchers/thomas-s-huang/)
- [Qiang Yang](https://scholariq.org/researchers/qiang-yang/)
- [Dragomir Anguelov](https://scholariq.org/researchers/dragomir-anguelov/)
- [Jiawei Han](https://scholariq.org/researchers/jiawei-han/)
- [Timothy M. Heckman](https://scholariq.org/researchers/timothy-m-heckman/)
- [Xiaohui Fan](https://scholariq.org/researchers/xiaohui-fan/)

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Source: ScholarIQ — public research metadata, principally OpenAlex. See https://scholariq.org/sources/ for provenance and https://scholariq.org/methodology/ for what these figures mean.