Michael F. Goodchild

32.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
261 papers, 19.9k citations indexed

About

Michael F. Goodchild is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Signal Processing and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael F. Goodchild has authored 261 papers receiving a total of 19.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 94 papers in Signal Processing and 47 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Michael F. Goodchild's work include Geographic Information Systems Studies (157 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (94 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (31 papers). Michael F. Goodchild is often cited by papers focused on Geographic Information Systems Studies (157 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (94 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (31 papers). Michael F. Goodchild collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Michael F. Goodchild's co-authors include Linna Li, Daniel Z. Sui, Donald G. Janelle, Sarah Elwood, Jingxiong Zhang, Gary J. Hunter, B. O. Parks, Louis T. Steyaert, Luc Anselin and Thomas J. Cova and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Michael F. Goodchild

251 papers receiving 18.0k citations

Hit Papers

Citizens as sensors: the ... 1992 2026 2003 2014 2007 2013 2011 2010 1992 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography
    2007 2.9k citations Michael F. Goodchild profile →
  2. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
    2013 692 citations Michael F. Goodchild et al. profile →
  3. Researching Volunteered Geographic Information: Spatial Data, Geographic Research, and New Social Practice
    2011 625 citations Michael F. Goodchild et al. profile →
  4. Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster response: a research frontier
    2010 599 citations Michael F. Goodchild et al. profile →
  5. Geographical information science
    1992 573 citations Michael F. Goodchild International Journal of Geographical Information Systems profile →
  6. Assuring the quality of volunteered geographic information
    2012 525 citations Michael F. Goodchild et al. profile →
  7. Citizens as Voluntary Sensors: Spatial Data Infrastructure in the World of Web 2.0
    2007 453 citations Michael F. Goodchild profile →
  8. Geospatial Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Principles, Techniques and Software Tools
    2007 401 citations Michael F. Goodchild, Paul Longley et al. profile →
  9. Spatial, temporal, and socioeconomic patterns in the use of Twitter and Flickr
    2013 318 citations Michael F. Goodchild et al. profile →
  10. Data-driven geography
    2014 233 citations Michael F. Goodchild et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael F. Goodchild United States 70 7.8k 4.4k 4.2k 4.1k 2.0k 261 19.9k
Waldo Tobler United States 33 1.4k 0.2× 1.9k 0.4× 2.3k 0.6× 836 0.2× 1.2k 0.6× 100 10.4k
Mei‐Po Kwan Hong Kong 74 1.8k 0.2× 9.8k 2.2× 3.4k 0.8× 622 0.2× 3.6k 1.8× 439 20.2k
Muki Haklay United Kingdom 42 2.8k 0.4× 2.0k 0.5× 1.3k 0.3× 1.5k 0.4× 895 0.4× 154 8.4k
Michael Batty United Kingdom 74 1.3k 0.2× 7.1k 1.6× 8.4k 2.0× 534 0.1× 1.6k 0.8× 381 20.5k
Paul Longley United Kingdom 42 918 0.1× 1.4k 0.3× 2.3k 0.6× 490 0.1× 1.0k 0.5× 175 10.6k
Thomas L. Saaty United States 84 647 0.1× 2.2k 0.5× 6.3k 1.5× 696 0.2× 3.5k 1.7× 300 61.4k
Alan M. MacEachren United States 50 3.8k 0.5× 900 0.2× 878 0.2× 1.7k 0.4× 721 0.4× 186 8.3k
Yu Liu China 49 623 0.1× 6.2k 1.4× 2.4k 0.6× 757 0.2× 767 0.4× 370 12.2k
Luc Anselin United States 64 872 0.1× 5.1k 1.2× 6.9k 1.7× 519 0.1× 5.7k 2.8× 187 39.1k
Gennady Andrienko Germany 49 2.4k 0.3× 2.2k 0.5× 676 0.2× 3.0k 0.7× 563 0.3× 224 8.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Huang, Xiao, et al.. (2026). The role of open-source LLMs in shaping the future of GeoAI. Annals of GIS. 1–10.
2.
Ye, Xinyue & Michael F. Goodchild. (2025). Toward Ethical GeoDesign in the Urban Digital Twin Era. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 45(4). 721–725.
3.
Goodchild, Michael F., Gary Langham, Richard P. Appelbaum, et al.. (2025). Locational Data and the Public Interest. 6(2). 129–154. 1 indexed citations
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Shaw, Shih‐Lung, et al.. (2024). Human Dynamics Research in GIScience: challenges and opportunities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 31–31. 3 indexed citations
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Nelson, Trisalyn, Michael F. Goodchild, & Dawn J. Wright. (2022). Accelerating ethics, empathy, and equity in geographic information science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(19). e2119967119–e2119967119. 26 indexed citations
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Goodchild, Michael F.. (2018). Reimagining the history of GIS. Annals of GIS. 24(1). 1–8. 98 indexed citations
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Goodchild, Michael F.. (2016). GIS in the Era of Big Data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations
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Longley, Paul, et al.. (2011). Geographic information systems & science. John Wiley eBooks. 48 indexed citations
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Cao, Guofeng, Phaedon Kyriakidis, & Michael F. Goodchild. (2011). A multinomial logistic mixed model for the prediction of categorical spatial data. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 25(12). 2071–2086. 16 indexed citations
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Liang, Lü, Bing Xu, Yanlei Chen, et al.. (2010). Combining Spatial-Temporal and Phylogenetic Analysis Approaches for Improved Understanding on Global H5N1 Transmission. PLoS ONE. 5(10). e13575–e13575. 74 indexed citations
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Guo, Qinghua, et al.. (2008). Positioning localities based on spatial assertions. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 23(11). 1471–1501. 34 indexed citations
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Kyriakidis, Phaedon, et al.. (2008). Population‐density estimation using regression and area‐to‐point residual kriging. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 22(4). 431–447. 91 indexed citations
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Craglia, Massimo, Michael F. Goodchild, Alessandro Annoni, et al.. (2008). Next-Generation Digital Earth: A position paper from the Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 3(3). 146–167. 154 indexed citations
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Goodchild, Michael F.. (2007). The morris hansen lecture 2006 statistical perspectives on Spatial Social Science. Journal of Official Statistics. 23(3). 269–283. 3 indexed citations
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Goodchild, Michael F. & Robert Haining. (2005). SIG y análisis espacial de datos: perspectivas convergentes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations
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Batty, Michael, et al.. (2005). GIS, spatial analysis, and modeling. 187 indexed citations
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Shi, Wenzhong, Peter Fisher, & Michael F. Goodchild. (2004). Recent developments in modeling uncertainties in geo-spatial data and analysis. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 70(8). 919–920. 6 indexed citations
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Goodchild, Michael F. & James D. Proctor. (1997). Scale in a digital geographic world. 1(1). 5–23. 57 indexed citations
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Goodchild, Michael F., B. O. Parks, & Louis T. Steyaert. (1993). Environmental Modeling with GIS. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 294 indexed citations
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Goodchild, Michael F.. (1993). An Overview of GIS/GPS Integration. 79–83.

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