For links to dowloadable copies many of the team publications, as well as a complete list of publications see this Google Scholar profile.
Select peer-reviewed publications
2023. Johnson, P.A., Scassa, T. Who owns the map? Data sovereignty and government spatial data collection, use, and dissemination. Transactions in GIS. 27(1), 275-289.
2023. Philpot, S., Hipel, K., and Johnson, P.A. Analysing and anticipating conflict using a values-centred online survey. Environmental Values. 32(5), 579-609.
2023. Robinson, P.J., Johnson, The Platformization of Public Participation: Post-pandemic challenges for planners. In: Goodspeed, Robert, Raja Sengupta, Marketta Kyttä and Christopher Pettit, eds. Intelligence for Future Cities: Planning Through Big Data and Urban Analytics. Springer.
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2022. Johnson, P.A. & Scassa, T. Who owns the map? Framing spatial data as a public good. In Brandusescu, A., and Reia, J. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in the city: Building civic engagement and public trust. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal, McGill University.
2022. Johnson, P. A. & Varga, C. Challenges to the access of government open data by private sector companies. In Scassa, T. and Robinson, P.J. (Eds.), The Future of Open Data. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
2022. Philpot, S. Philpot, C., Hipel, K. and Johnson, P.A. Proposal, design, and evaluation of a values-based online survey. EURO Journal on Decision Processes. 10, 100015.
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2021. Khan, Z.T. and Johnson, P.A. Coproducing spatial information: Exploring government approaches and motivations at the local level. JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government. 13(2), 110-132.
2021. Robinson, P.J., and Johnson, P.A. Pandemic-driven Technology Adoption: Public decision-makers need to tread cautiously. International Journal of E-Planning Research. 10(2), 59-65
2021. Acedo, A., Santa, F., and Johnson, P.A. Place and people: Spatializing degrees of bonding and bridging social capital in Lisbon (Portugal). Geojournal. 86, 2905-2925.
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2020. Johnson, P.A., Robinson, P.J., and Philpot, S. Type, tweet, tap, and pass: How smart city technology is creating a transactional citizen. Government Information Quarterly. 37(1). 101414.
2020. Robinson, P.J., and Johnson, P.A. Pandemic-driven Technology Adoption: Public decision-makers need to tread cautiously. International Journal of E-Planning Research.
2020. Acedo, A., Santa, F., and Johnson, P.A. Place and people: Spatializing degrees of bonding and bridging social capital in Lisbon (Portugal). Geojournal.
2020. Ghose, R. and Johnson, P.A. Smart citizens creating smart cities: Locating citizen participation in the smart city. The Canadian Geographer. 64(3), 340-343.
2020. Khan, Z.T., and Johnson, P.A. Citizens and Government Co-Production of Data: Analyzing the Benefits and Challenges to Government Adoption of VGI. The Canadian Geographer. 64(3), 374-387.
2020. Johnson, P.A., Acedo, A., and Robinson, P.J. Canadian Smart Cities: Are we wiring new citizen-local government interactions? The Canadian Geographer. 64(3), 402-415.
2020. Acedo, A., and Johnson, P.A. Home Range and Habitat: Using palatial characteristics to define urban areas from the bottom-up. Transactions in GIS. 24(4), 819-841.
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2019. Harrison, S. and Johnson, P.A. Challenges in the adoption of crisis crowdsourcing in Canadian emergency management. Government Information Quarterly. 36(3), 501-509.
2019. Philpot, S., Hipel, K., and Johnson, P. Analysis of a below-water aggregate mining case study in Ontario, Canada using values-centric online citizen participation. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 63(2), 352-368.
2019. Johnson, P.A. Disintermediating Government: The role of Open Data and Smart Infrastructure. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences 2019.
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2018. Minano, A., Johnson, P., and Wandel, J. How the Geoweb supports climate change adaptation in coastal communities in Nova Scotia. Geojournal. 83(3), 413-425.
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2017. Johnson, P.A., and Greene, S. Who are government open data infomediaries?: A preliminary scan and classification of Canadian open data users and products. Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA). 28(1), 9-18.
2017. Johnson, P. A., Sieber, R., Scassa, T., Stephens, M., & Robinson, P. The Cost (s) of Geospatial Open Data. Transactions in GIS, 21(3), 434-445.
2017. Johnson, P.A., Models of direct editing of government spatial data: Challenges and constraints to the acceptance of contributed data. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 44(2), 128-138.
2017. Johnson, P.A., and Sieber, R.E. The Geoweb for community-based organizations: Tool development, implementation, and sustainability in an era of Google Maps. The Journal of Community Informatics 13(1).
2017. Johnson, P.A., Ricker, B.A., and Harrison, S. Volunteered Drone Imagery: Challenges and constraints to the development of an open shared imagery repository. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences 2017.
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2016. Harrison, S. and Johnson, P.A. Crowdsourcing the disaster management cycle. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. 8(4).
2016. Sieber, R. E., Robinson, P.J., Johnson, P.A., & Corbett, J.C. Doing Public Participation on the Geoweb. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 106(5), 1030-1046.
2016. Chan, M., Johnson, P.A., and Shookner, M. Assessing the use of government open data and the role of data infomediaries. JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government 8(1), 1-27.
2016. Johnson, P.A. Reflecting on the success of open data: How municipal government evaluates their open data programs. International Journal of E-Planning Research 5(3), 1-12.
2016. Robinson, P.J. and Johnson, P.A. Civic Hackathons: New Terrain for Citizen-Local Government Interaction? Urban Planning 1(2), 65-74.
2016. Lu, Q. and Johnson, P.A. The use of volunteered geographic information in the public sector: A case study of 311 requests in Edmonton, Canada. Urban Planning 1(2), 18-31.
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2015. Johnson, P. A., Corbett, J., Gore, C., Robinson, P., Allen, P., & Sieber, R.E. A Web of Expectations: Evolving Relationships in Community Participatory Geoweb Projects. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 14(3).
2015. Sieber, R.E. & Johnson, P. A. Civic open data at a crossroads: Dominant models and current challenges. Government Information Quarterly. 32(3), 308-315.
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2014. Johnson, P. A. & Robinson, P.J. Civic Hackathons: Innovation, Procurement, or Civic Engagement? Review of Policy Research 31(4), 349-357
2014. Pons-Pons, M., Johnson, P. A., Rosas-Casals, M., & Jover, E. A georeferenced Agent Based Model to analyze the climate change impacts on ski tourism at a regional scale. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 28(12), 2474-2494.
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2013. Ricker, B.A., Johnson, P.A., & Sieber, R.E. Tourism and environmental change in Barbados: gathering citizen perspectives with volunteered geographic information (VGI). The Journal of Sustainable Tourism 21(2), 212-228.
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2012. Pons-Pons, M., Johnson, P. A., Rosas-Casals, M., Sureda, B. & Jover, E. Modeling climate change effects on winter ski tourism in Andorra. Climate Research 54(3), 197-207.
2012.Johnson, P. A. & Sieber, R. E. Increasing access to and use of geospatial data by municipal government and citizens: The process of ‘Geomatization’ in rural Quebec. Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) 24(2), 53-60.
2012. Beaudreau, P., Johnson, P. A. & Sieber, R. E. Strategic choices in developing a Geospatial Web 2.0 application for rural economic development. Journal of Rural and Community Development. 7(3), 95-105.
2012. Johnson, P. A., & Sieber, R. E. Motivations driving government adoption of the Geoweb. GeoJournal. 77(5), 667-680.
2012.Johnson, P. A., Sieber, R.E., Ariwi, J., & Magnien, N., Mining the Web: User-generated content as a data source for tourism research. Current Issues in Tourism. 15(3), 293-299.
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2011. Johnson, P. A., Belblidia, N., & Campbell, S. Creating open-access data for community development: Identifying vacant land parcels in Detroit, Michigan. Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA). 23(2), 33-37.
2011. Johnson, P. A., & Sieber, R. E. An agent-based approach to providing tourism planning support. Environment and Planning B. 38(3), 486-504.
2011.Johnson, P. A., & Sieber, R. E. Negotiating constraints to the adoption of agent-based modeling for tourism planning in Nova Scotia. Environment and Planning B. 38(2), 307-321.
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2010. Johnson, P. A. Realizing rural community-based tourism development: prospects for social economy enterprises. Journal of Rural and Community Development. 5(1), 150-162.
2010. Johnson, P. A., & Sieber, R. E. An individual-based model of tourism dynamics. Tourism Analysis. 15(5), 517-530.