From time to time each one of us is working on a different kind of operational issues with regards to GIS Science, trying to disseminate them through national and international GIS conferences. We lose valuable time and effort (and money of course) and we come into a project or work assessment that diminishes the overall level of the conference. Is there any kind of assessment of repetitive annual, or biennial international conferences that estimates its overall impact, as exists with the peer-reviewed journals with impact factor? How do you personally estimate the impact of such a conference with certain characteristics?
Dear Al-Ani, thank you for your contribution. I also thing that there isn't such an operating tool or related impact factor, of course, not only in GIS-related conferences, but also in other scientific disciplines. Exactly this issue could open an important framework for discussion at the scientific community, so as to develop a methodology (factors, number of participants, countries of participants, peer-reviewing, impact assessment of a conference, developing workshops, satellite activities, citation of papers, sponsors, etc.) in order to approach a more integrated level of the quality of a GIS-related conference at national and international scale. I believe that this could give a better reasoning on the money spent for registration and participation to conferences that are fluctuating between 250 and 1500 US dollars.
Abraham - Good question. There is no official and quantitative ranking of GIS conference (and it is generally not something common in sciences) but there is a recent expert-based ranking of GISciences conferences and journals that was made by the AGILE association and can be found at http://www.agile-online.org/index.php/initiatives/finished-initiatives/giscience-publication-rating.
The only potential problem is that what experts ranks high is the quality of the conference according to how strong the science is, which may not be what you are looking for (vs ways to disseminate your results to the proper audience). But it is worth looking at.
Thank you very much Rodolphe, very important contribution by a recognised association lke AGILE. Thank you indeed!
Hello,
There is no official ranking for the quality of annual or semi-annual international GIS conferences. I think we have to agree that we can find researchers who participate in conferences and who have better results but have not yet published. this is related to the problems of scientific research in the world and also to the accessibility of data by these young researchers.
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