@article{ref1,
title="Why geographic data science is not a science",
journal="Geography compass",
year="2020",
author="Scheider, Simon and Nyamsuren, Enkhbold and Kruiger, Han and Xu, Haiqi",
volume="14",
number="11",
pages="e12537-e12537",
abstract="&quot;Data Science&quot; has taken many disciplines by storm. And for a good reason: New forms and unseen quantities of data enter nearly every scientific field, substantially  changing the ways how scientists do science, and potentially allowing them to answer  old questions or to pose them in novel ways. The recent success of Data Science is  also reflected in corresponding study programs and curricula and the emergence of  specialized branches, such as Geographic Data Science (GDS). Some researchers,  therefore, claim that Data Science and GDS should be treated as autonomous  scientific disciplines, while others fear that it sells nothing but old wine in new  bottles. In an attempt to sober the discussion, we investigate GDS and Data Science  from the perspective of meta-science. We provide arguments why today's GDS and Data  Science should be seen as an interdisciplinary community of practice of data-driven  scientists, rather than a scientific discipline. We also discuss what is missing for  GDS and Data Science to become genuine scientific disciplines.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1749-8198",
doi="10.1111/gec3.12537",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12537"
}