Introduction: Forum on Reproducibility and Replicability in Geography

Abstract

This introduction provides a brief review of the motivation, background, and context of the Forum. It explains the roles of the six papers in the Forum and the importance of reproducibility and replicability across the broad sweep of contemporary geographic research.

做为介绍，我们回顾了该论坛的动机、6 背景和缘由，解释了论坛中篇文章的作用，以及当代地理学研究的可重复性和可再现性的重要性。

Esta introducción suministra una sucinta revisión de los antecedentes, motivación y contexto del Foro. Se explican los roles de los seis trabajos del Foro, y la importancia de la reproducibilidad y la replicabilidad a través de la vasta mirada a la investigación geográfica contemporánea.

Key Words:

• geographic research
• replicability
• reproducibility

关键词:

• 地理学研究
• 可重复性
• 可再现性

Palabras clave:

• investigación geográfica
• replicabilidad
• reproducibilidad

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Michael F. Goodchild

MICHAEL F. GOODCHILD is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. E-mail: [email protected]. His research interests include geographic information systems and GIScience, spatial data science, and uncertainty in geographic information.

A. Stewart Fotheringham

A. STEWART FOTHERINGHAM is Professor of Computational Spatial Science and Director of the Spatial Analysis Research Center (SPARC) in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287. E-mail: [email protected]. His research interests include spatial analysis, local statistical modeling, spatial interaction modeling, and GIScience.

Peter Kedron

PETER KEDRON is Assistant Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and a core faculty member of the Spatial Analysis Research Center at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287. E-mail: [email protected]. His research focuses on understanding how different processes create persistently uneven spatial patterns, developing new methods of spatial analysis, and using those methods to address economic, social, and environmental problems.

Wenwen Li

WENWEN LI is Associate Professor in GIScience in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85282. E-mail: [email protected]. Her research interests include cyberinfrastructure, geospatial big data, and machine learning and their applications in data-intensive environmental and social sciences.