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In this article, the global research status and future trends of cadastre were evaluated by using bibliometric analysis. This study is based on the analysis of research topics, scientific production, collaboration among countries and authors, and most cited papers on cadastre research which obtained from database of Scopus during the time period from 1958 to 2018. A total of 4220 papers were published in 128 different journals and most of them were original articles (2906, 68.8%) followed by conference paper (966, 22.9%). It found that Germany was the most productive country with 218 papers and 5.2% of total literature followed by United States and Australia. University of Melbourne was found to publish the highest number of documents with 85 papers and to cover 4.2% of the total literature followed by Delft University of Technology. Most used five keywords were ‘‘cadastre’’, ‘‘GIS’’, ‘‘surveying’’, ‘‘mapping’’ and ‘‘land use’’ (n = 945, 791, 300, 296 and 294 times, respectively). The top two authors who contributed most were Williamson, I.P. (69 articles), Van Oosterom P. (40 articles). The top-cited publication was “Analysis of land-cover transitions based on seventeenth and eighteenth century cadastral maps and aerial photographs” written by Cousins, in Landscape Ecology in 2001.
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Polat, Z.A. Evolution and future trends in global research on cadastre: a bibliometric analysis. GeoJournal 84, 1121–1134 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-019-09973-5
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