GIS Publishing Trends in Archaeology: How GIS Has Been Used from 1994 to 2021

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Geographic information system(s), GIS, have been used in the past to visually represent a dataset, perform basic computation analysis, or compile data. In recent decades this trend has shifted to incorporate a theoretical framework for thinking spatially about data across temporal scales. This was brought up recently by Locke and Pouncett (2017) who asked, “Is GIS the answer?” A two-phase survey was created to determine the frequency and use of GIS across the discipline. The first phase involved the search tool in Scopus to conduct three types of keyword searches for the term “GIS” within each journal going back to 1982: (1) “Title only,”( 2) “Title, Abstract, and Keywords only,” and (3) “All fields.” The second phase consisted of stratified random sampling of articles within a few key disciplinary journals, with an emphasis on impactful, long-lasting journals with historically elevated statuses as important publishing venues, including American Antiquity, Journal of Archaeological Sciences, and Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. We created an annual sampling frame for each journal from 2021 to 1994 and randomly selected one issue from each year via a random number generator capped at the total number of issues published in that year.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35841.0