ISPRS-Archives ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2020-47-2020 ANALYSIS OF THE STATUS AND TREND OF GIS RESEARCH IN THE PAST TEN YEARS FROM 2010 TO 2019 Hu K. 1 Dai Z. 1 Zheng J. 2 3 Wu H. 2 3 Key Laboratory of Advanced Process Control for Light Industry, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China The State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China 24 08 2020 XLIII-B4-2020 47 53 Copyright: © 2020 K. Hu et al. 2020 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2020-47-2020.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2020-47-2020.pdf

To understand the trends in a specific field is always an important issue for researchers in the field. In geographical information science (GIS) field, understanding the trends is also an open question for many researchers. In this paper, we conducted a scientometric analysis based on the selected GIS represented journals, provided by the work (Biljecki 2016). We use the data-driven method stemming from scientometric theories to help readers to obtain a direct impression of the field. Several interesting facts are found. The in-domain and out-domain institution and journals are compared. Structural analysis shows that classical research trend in GIS fields include Landsat, VGI, social sensing, change detection, spatial econometrics, and laser scanning.