Towards a Frontier of Spatial Scientometric Studies

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of spatial scientometrics, highlighting recent advances in integrating spatial analysis, geovisualization, and Semantic Web technologies to enhance the measurement and analysis of science with spatial components.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive overview of the field and introduces recent frontier research integrating advanced spatial analysis, geovisualization, and Semantic Web technologies.

Findings

Analysis of publications from Scopus database

Identification of recent frontier research in spatial analysis and geovisualization

Integration of Semantic Web technologies in spatial scientometrics

Abstract

The research field of spatial scientometrics is dedicated to measuring and analyzing science with spatial components (e.g., location, place, mapping). Because of the dynamic nature of this field, researchers from multidisciplinary domains constantly contribute qualitative, quantitative and computational approaches and technologies into scientometric analysis. This article aims to giving a brief overview about this field by analyzing the publications in (spatial) scientometrics collected from the Scopus database and introduces recent frontier researches which integrate advanced spatial analysis and geovisualization with Semantic Web technologies.