Alan M. MacEachren

Alan M. MacEachren

Penn State University

H-index: 68

North America-United States

About Alan M. MacEachren

Alan M. MacEachren, With an exceptional h-index of 68 and a recent h-index of 35 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Penn State University, specializes in the field of GIScience, visual analytics, cartography, spatial cognition, geovisualization.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Understanding Reader Takeaways in Thematic Maps Under Varying Text, Detail, and Spatial Autocorrelation

GeoLinter: A Linting Framework for Choropleth Maps

Comparison of font size and background color strategies for tag weights on tag maps

Differentiating geographic movement described in text documents

Erforschung von Bewegungsbeschreibungen durch geovisuelle Analytik

Exploring descriptions of movement through geovisual analytics

User-centered design and evaluation of a geovisualization application leveraging aggregated quantified-self data

Utility and usability of intrinsic tag maps

Alan M. MacEachren Information

University

Position

Professor of Geography and Information Sciences & Technology

Citations(all)

23804

Citations(since 2020)

4844

Cited By

20629

hIndex(all)

68

hIndex(since 2020)

35

i10Index(all)

187

i10Index(since 2020)

83

Email

University Profile Page

Penn State University

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Alan M. MacEachren Skills & Research Interests

GIScience

visual analytics

cartography

spatial cognition

geovisualization

Top articles of Alan M. MacEachren

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Understanding Reader Takeaways in Thematic Maps Under Varying Text, Detail, and Spatial Autocorrelation

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08260

Arlen Fan

Fan Lei

Michelle Mancenido

Alan MacEachren

Ross Maciejewski

2024/3/13

GeoLinter: A Linting Framework for Choropleth Maps

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Fan Lei

Arlen Fan

Alan M MacEachren

Ross Maciejewski

2023/10/6

Comparison of font size and background color strategies for tag weights on tag maps

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Nai Yang

Guojia Wu

Alan M MacEachren

Xujing Pang

Hao Fang

2023/3/4

Differentiating geographic movement described in text documents

Transactions in GIS

Scott Pezanowski

Alan M MacEachren

Prasenjit Mitra

2022/4

Erforschung von Bewegungsbeschreibungen durch geovisuelle Analytik

KN-Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information

Scott Pezanowski

Prasenjit Mitra

Alan M MacEachren

2022/3

Exploring descriptions of movement through geovisual analytics

KN-Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information

Scott Pezanowski

Prasenjit Mitra

Alan M MacEachren

2022/3

User-centered design and evaluation of a geovisualization application leveraging aggregated quantified-self data

Cartographic Perspectives

Jonathan K Nelson

Alan M MacEachren

2020/11/29

Utility and usability of intrinsic tag maps

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Nai Yang

Alan M MacEachren

Emily Domanico

2020/7/3

The geography of sentiment towards the Women’s March of 2017

Plos one

Diane H Felmlee

Justine I Blanford

Stephen A Matthews

Alan M MacEachren

2020/6/4

Advancing the theory and practice of system evaluation: a case study in geovisual analytics of social media

International Journal of Cartography

Alexander Savelyev

Alan M MacEachren

2020/5/3

Geographical feature classification from text using (active) convolutional neural networks

Liping Yang

Alan M MacEachren

Prasenjit Mitra

2020/12/14

Characterizing traveling fans: a workflow for event-oriented travel pattern analysis using Twitter data

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Yanan Xin

Alan M MacEachren

2020/12/1

See List of Professors in Alan M. MacEachren University(Penn State University)

Co-Authors

H-index: 64
Prasenjit Mitra

Prasenjit Mitra

Penn State University

H-index: 49
Menno-Jan Kraak

Menno-Jan Kraak

Universiteit Twente

H-index: 44
Mark Gahegan

Mark Gahegan

University of Auckland

H-index: 35
Alexander Klippel

Alexander Klippel

Penn State University

H-index: 34
Diansheng Guo

Diansheng Guo

University of South Carolina

H-index: 34
Cynthia A Brewer

Cynthia A Brewer

Penn State University

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