In the past 15 years, the top ranked International Journal of Geographical Information Science has grown from publishing six issues per year with a target length of 600 pages, to producing 12 issues a year with a target length of 1632 pages. According to its web site, “the aim of this interdisciplinary and international journal is to provide a forum for the exchange of original ideas, techniques, approaches and experiences in the rapidly growing fields of geographical information science (GISc) and geocomputation. It is intended to interest those who design, implement and use systems for monitoring, modeling, planning and policy-making. Published research covers innovative applications of geographic information in natural resources, social systems and the built environment, and developments in computer science, cartography, surveying, geography and engineering in both developed and developing countries.”
Brian G. Lees, the journal’s Editor-in-Chief and Professor of Geography and Head of the School of Physical, Environmental, & Mathematical Sciences at The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, recently contacted major contributors to the journal to say, “I am very pleased to be able to let you know that your article was amongst the Top-Twenty downloaded in 2008.” UCSB Geography was particularly well represented by Mike Goodchild, Keith Clarke, and Phaedon Kyriakidis. Mike had three articles in the top 20, and Keith and Phaedon each had one; Mike was also among the 10 Top Cited Authors, 2000-2008. The articles in question are Goodchild, Michael F., Yuan, May, & Cova, Thomas J.: “Towards a general theory of geographic representation in GIS”; Goodchild, M. F., & Hill, L. L.: “Introduction to digital gazetteer research”; Clarke, Keith C. & Gaydos, Leonard J.: “Loose-coupling a cellular automaton model and GIS: long-term urban growth prediction for San Francisco and Washington/Baltimore”; and Liu, X. H., Kyriakidis, P. C., & Goodchild, M. F.: “Population-density estimation using regression and area-to-point residual kriging.” Good on ya, mates!
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