ABSTRACT
American Cartographer
has quite recently refocused to recognise the importance of first Geographical Information Systems (GISystems) and then Geographical Information Science (GIScience).
Geoprocessing
was short-lived, and appeared sporadically for only a few issues. In that time, however, it did manage to include some landmark papers, which are well cited elsewhere. The real burgeoning of journals in the field occurred in the mid 1990s with the introduction of three direct competitors. Since then a number of other journals have started or are about to start, including two electronic journals (identifiable in Table 1.1 from their Web addresses). Some journals have been renamed to reflect the importance of GIScience, just as the
International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
was renamed the
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
for its second decade of publication (Fisher, 1997). A number of journals have been publishing on topics related to GIScience for much longer; Table 1.2 lists a sample of these journals, and in some, such as
Computers & Geosciences
and
Environment & Planning B
, a substantial proportion of the papers are now of interest to the GIScience community. The remote sensing journals publish a particularly large volume of literature, much of which is related to that area of GIScience.
