AI RESEARCH
Evolving Thematic Map Design in Academic Cartography: A Thirty-Year Study Based on Multilingual Journals
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.22539v1 Announce Type: new Thematic maps play a central role in academic communication, yet their large-scale design evolution has rarely been examined empirically. This study presents a longitudinal and multilingual analysis of thematic map design practices in academic cartography from 1990 to 2020. We compile a corpus of 45,732 research articles from sixteen authoritative Chinese- and English-language journals and extract 23,928 maps using computer vision and large-model-based document parsing to build a structured dataset.