The 29th International Conference on GeoInformatics (GeoInformatics 2022), co-organized by the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS) and China University of Geosciences, Beijing, will be held in Beijing, China, August 15–18, 2022. We invite you and/or your students to participate in the Student Paper Competition. The competition is a long-standing tradition of the CPGIS for promoting academic development of young scholars in

geographic information sciences. Geoinformatics 2022 particularly encourages topics related to how geographic information sciences and technologies respond to urban-rural development.

Awards

The awards will include one First-Place Award ($600), one Second-Place Award ($300), and two Third-Place Awards ($150 each). More awards would become available depending on budget. The awards will be presented at a public event of the conference.

Requirements

As a tradition in the past, the flagship journal of CPGIS, Annals of GIS (published by Taylor & Francis, a world-leading academic publisher) will continue to hold the privilege to be the first to consider publishing the awarded papers. Your participation in the competition indicates that you agree to give Annals of GIS this privilege. All the awarded papers will go through the peer-review process of the journal. Awarded papers published in Annals of GIS will also be eligible for competing for the journal’s annual best paper awards. Note: Annals of GIS is now included in the Emerging Science Citation Index.

Different from other full papers submitted to the conference, it is recommended that papers submitted to the competition follow the formatting requirements of Annals of GIS. To be eligible for the competition, the first author of the paper must meet ALL of the following conditions:

(1)  The author is currently an enrolled graduate or undergraduate student, or graduated within a year by the time of submission;
(2)  The author is a current member of CPGIS (please go to https://www.cpgis.org/Membership/Default.aspx to check your membership status or follow the procedure of membership registration);
(3)  The author undertakes the majority of the research and the drafting of the manuscript;
(4)  The paper has not been published or is under consideration of publishing elsewhere;
(5)  The paper has not been submitted for applications for other awards.

Selected participants will be invited for presenting at the oral competition session of the conference (online). If the submission is not selected for the oral competition session, the participant can choose to give presentations at other conference sessions.

The Student Paper Competition Committee will invite scholars in relevant fields to review all submissions. The committee will make award decisions based on the quality of the paper and the presentation at the conference.

Submission

To enroll in the student paper competition, please submit your full paper (Word document) to Xiang Chen (xiang.chen@uconn.edu). Please mention CPGIS Student Paper Competition in the Email subject.

Important Dates

Submission of full paper to the competition: March 20, 2022    Extended to April 10, 2022

Notice of acceptance for the oral competition session: April 30, 2022

Thanks for your interest. We look forward to your participation.

Best regards,

CPGIS Student Paper Competition Committee:

Xiang Chen (Chair), Bo Zhao, Le Wang, Lu Liang, Qinghua Guo, Xiaobai Yao, Xiaolin Zhu, Xining Yang, Xinyue Ye, Xiao Huang