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title: "Google Earth Engine: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 45 archived papers mentioned Google Earth Engine in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (6)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 45 archived papers mentioned Google Earth Engine in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (6). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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---

# Google Earth Engine

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/3.md)

Night-time lights, land cover, satellite imagery and maps.

- data category: Satellite and geospatial data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Google Earth Engine

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Satellite and geospatial data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/satellite-and-geospatial-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 45 archived papers mentioned Google Earth Engine in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (6).
- Google Earth Engine was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Information Systems (1).
- Most of them appeared in Telematics and Informatics Reports (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Google Earth Engine was mentioned in 47 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (26), AI (17) and statistics (1).
- 12 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing (3), University College Dublin (3) and Wuhan University (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Land Use Policy (13), Neural Computing and Applications (3) and Expert Systems with Applications (3).
- The most-cited of them is “Big data applications: overview, challenges and future” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024), with 89 citations.
- Papers use Google Earth Engine most often with Landsat (22), Sentinel / Copernicus (13) and MODIS (11); it has 8 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 9 | 11 | 25 | 45 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 23 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 13 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 3 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing | 3 |
| 2 | [University College Dublin](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-dublin.md) | 3 |
| 3 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Australian National University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/australian-national-university.md) | 2 |
| 5 | US Forest Service | 2 |
| 6 | Universidad de Antioquia | 2 |
| 7 | University of Bern | 2 |
| 8 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 2 |
| 9 | Adelaide University | 1 |
| 10 | Adolfo Ibáñez University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 9 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 3 | Italy | 6 |
| 4 | United States | 5 |
| 5 | Spain | 4 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 4 |
| 7 | Australia | 3 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 3 |
| 9 | Colombia | 3 |
| 10 | Ireland | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 5 |
| 2 | land use change | 4 |
| 3 | [big data](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/big-data.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [urbanization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/urbanization.md) | 3 |
| 5 | Africa | 2 |
| 6 | Google Earth Engine | 2 |
| 7 | adaptive management | 2 |
| 8 | agricultural resilience | 2 |
| 9 | [climate change](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [climate change adaptation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/climate-change-adaptation.md) | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89 | 3.5 | [Big data applications: overview, challenges and future](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10938-5) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-09-16 | Afzal Badshah, Ali Daud, Riad Alharbey et al. |
| 2 | 81 | 2.2 | [Small scale agriculture continues to drive deforestation and degradation in fragmented forests in the Congo Basin (2015–2020)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106922) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2023-10-06 | Aurélie Shapiro, Rémi d’Annunzio, Baudouin Desclée et al. |
| 3 | 34 | 2.2 | [A guide to similarity measures and their data science applications](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-025-01227-1) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2025-07-26 | Avivit Levy, Braha Riva Shalom, Michal Chalamish |
| 4 | 18 | 1.0 | [Geo-FuB: A method for constructing an Operator-Function knowledge base for geospatial code generation with large language models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2025.113624) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2025-04-24 | Shuyang Hou, Anqi Zhao, Jianyuan Liang et al. |
| 5 | 17 | 0.8 | [Big data and urban form: a systematic review](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-025-01084-y) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2025-01-28 | Vladan Djokić, Aleksandra Djordjević, Aleksandra Milovanović |

## Used together with

Papers use Google Earth Engine most often with Landsat (22), Sentinel / Copernicus (13) and MODIS (11); it has 8 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use Google Earth Engine together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Landsat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/landsat.md) | Dataset | 22 | 119.1 |
| [Sentinel / Copernicus](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sentinel-copernicus.md) | Dataset | 13 | 47.9 |
| [MODIS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/modis.md) | Dataset | 11 | 27.5 |
| [Night-time lights (VIIRS, DMSP)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/night-time-lights-viirs-dmsp.md) | Dataset | 5 | 14.9 |
| [CMIP climate projections](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cmip-climate-projections.md) | Dataset | 4 | 49.0 |
| [ERA5 reanalysis](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/era5-reanalysis.md) | Dataset | 4 | 38.0 |
| [NOAA](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/noaa.md) | Dataset | 4 | 17.6 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 4 | 0.9 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning Google Earth Engine in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-09 | [GeoEdgeJoin: Efficient multimodal raster-vector joins for intelligent geospatial cloud–edge–IoT systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teler.2026.100367) | [Telematics and Informatics Reports](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics-reports.md) | Isam Mashhour Al Jawarneh, Luca Foschini, Paolo Bellavista | University of Sharjah; University of Bologna |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Google Earth Engine. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-earth-engine

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-google-earth-engine,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Google Earth Engine},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/google-earth-engine}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).