Aims and scope

The aim of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is to provide a forum for the exchange of original ideas, approaches, methods and experiences in the field of GIScience.

International Journal of Geographical Information Science covers the following topics:

    Innovations and novel applications of GIScience in natural resources, social systems and the built environment
    Relevant developments in computer science, cartography, surveying, geography, and engineering
    Fundamental and computational issues of geographic information
    The design, implementation and use of geographical information for monitoring, prediction and decision making
    Novel geospatial approaches to address one or more of the UN SDGs

The journal publishes original articles, reviews, foresight papers, technical communications, editorials and book reviews.

International Journal of Geographical Information Science operates a double-anonymized peer review policy. It does not consider manuscripts with copies deposited in preprint servers that disclose the authors' identities before acceptance for publication. Authors can choose to publish gold open access within this journal.

Special Issue on Emerging Opportunities and Challenges of Human Dynamics Research
Submission Date: 2024-11-30

Special Issue Editor(s)

Shih-Lung Shaw, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
sshaw@utk.edu

Daniel Sui, Virginia Tech
dsui20@vt.edu

Xinyue Ye, Texas A&M University
xinyue.ye@tamu.edu

Human dynamics research, augmented by the increasingly data-rich environment of the mobile and big data era, has brought up new opportunities and challenges. It is critical for both geographic information systems (GIS) and geographic information science (GIScience) to properly consider, represent, and model human dynamics, which is defined as all kinds of human activities and interactions in the ever-evolving hybrid physical-virtual world. The new level integration and synthesis are essential for developing theoretical and conceptual aspects of GIScience and fulfilling the application needs of GIS. A special issue on “Human Dynamics in the Mobile and Big Data Era” was published by IJGIS in 2016 which has received many citations. There will be the 10th Symposium on Human Dynamics Research organized as part of the AAG Meeting in Hawaii in April 2024.  We welcome your participation in the Symposium at 2024 AAG Meeting, but this call for papers is open to all researchers regardless of your participation in the Symposium. This special issue is intended to reflect the latest progress of human dynamics research in GIScience and discusses future directions and prospects of making GIScience and GIS more relevant to the key challenges and changes we are facing such as climate change, sustainability, artificial intelligence, quantum turn, and metaverse. We welcome contributions that cover conceptual/theoretical, technological/methodological, as well as educational/social aspects of new human dynamics research in GIScience.

The scope of this special issue includes, but not limited to, topics such as:

    Human-robot/machine Interactions and the role of generative AI in reshaping human dynamics
    Ethical considerations and privacy concerns in human dynamics research
    Integrating urban digital twins and human dynamics research
    Human dynamics beyond activities in physical space
    Reconceptualization of humans as wave functions and the study of human dynamics from the perspective of emerging quantum social science
    Open science and human dynamics research
    Reproducibility and replicability issues in human dynamics research