Paper Info
Title
Volunteered Geographic Information Research In The First Decade: A Narrative Review Of Selected Journal Articles In Giscience
Abstract
More than 10 years have passed since the coining of the term volunteered geographic information (VGI) in 2007. This article presents the results of a review of the literature concerning VGI. A total of 346 articles published in 24 international refereed journals in GIScience between 2007 and 2017 have been reviewed. The review has uncovered varying levels of popularity of VGI research over space and time, and varying interests in various sources of VGI (e.g. OpenStreetMap) and VGI-related terms (e.g. user-generated content) that point to the multi-perspective nature of VGI. Content-wise, using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), this study has extracted 50 specific research topics pertinent to VGI. The 50 topics have been subsequently clustered into 13 intermediate topics and three overarching themes to allow a hierarchical topic review. The overarching VGI research themes include (1) VGI contributions and contributors, (2) main fields applying VGI, and (3) conceptions and envisions. The review of the articles under the three themes has revealed the progress and the points that demand attention regarding the individual topics. This article also discusses the areas that the existing research has not yet adequately explored and proposes an agenda for potential future research endeavors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1080/13658816.2020.1730848
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Volunteered geographic information, review, topic analysis, latent Dirichlet allocation, research agenda
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1365-8816
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yingwei Yan162.83
Chen-Chieh Feng251.43
Wei Huang300.34
Hongchao Fan4177.44
Yi-Chen Wang500.34
alexander zipf622923.84