Applied Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Applied Geography is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Bridging fragmented knowledge between forecasting and fishing communities: Co-managed decisions on weather delays in Nova Scotia's lobster season openings81
Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach73
Peripheral development through extractive industries?: Gateways, local content policy, and the oil and gas sector in Neuquén and Río Negro, Argentina69
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods68
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Socioeconomic inequalities in food outlet access through an online food delivery service in England: A cross-sectional descriptive analysis57
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage52
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)51
Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China51
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany46
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework46
Divergent distributions of physicians and healthcare beds in China: Changing patterns, driving forces, and policy implications45
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models45
Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence43
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area42
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data41
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou41
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia40
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China40
Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China39
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others38
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An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas36
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China36
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning36
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan35
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images35
Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach34
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon34
Effects of climate change on paddy expansion and potential adaption strategies for sustainable agriculture development across Northeast China34
Revealing the structures of internal migration: A distance and a time-space behaviour perspectives34
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce33
Exploring urban environmental semantics for air quality prediction using explainable multi-view spatiotemporal graph neural networks33
Fenced off: Measuring growing restrictions on resource access for smallholders in the Argentine Chaco32
Assessing spatial configuration of barrier-free facilities from the perspective of age-friendliness: A case Study of Beijing, China32
Access and cost of primary educational services in plateau areas: A case study in Tibet, China32
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami32
Using street view images and a geographical detector to understand how street-level built environment is associated with urban poverty: A case study in Guangzhou32
Long time-series change characteristics and suitable scale of oasis in arid and semi-arid regions of China31
The impact of relatedness and unrelatedness on breakthrough innovation in China: Examining the role of complementary interregional linkages31
Modelling the Impacts of land finance on urban expansion: Evidence from Chinese cities31
Daily changes in spatial accessibility to ICU beds and their relationship with the case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the state of Texas, USA31
Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data31
Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics, seasonality, and time-of-day trends of PM2.5 pollution with a low-cost sensor network: Insights from classic and spatially explicit Markov chains30
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure30
Measuring spatial accessibility and equity to healthcare services using fuzzy inference system30
‘Buzz-and-Pipeline’ dynamics of urban dual innovation: Evidence from China's biomedical industry29
Blue-space availability, environmental quality and amenity use across contrasting socioeconomic contexts28
Spatial characterization of dust emission prone arid regions using feature extraction and predictive algorithms28
The impact of embodied land flow in interregional trade on carbon emissions in China28
Effectiveness variation of different census outreach activities: An empirical analysis from the state of Illinois using machine learning and user interface technologies for participatory data collecti28
Identification of priority areas for public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in metropolitan areas: A case study in Hangzhou, China27
Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective27
Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China27
Measuring the spatial and size polycentricity: An empirical study of China's urban agglomerations using population distribution data27
Assessing wildfire activity and forest loss in protected areas of the Amazon basin26
A Planner's quest for identifying spatial (in)justice in local communities: A case study of urban census tracts in North Carolina, USA26
On framing flood risk communications through maps: Effects on the real estate market26
From fun to function: PPGIS unlocks the power of play in cities26
Characterising cropland fragmentation in post-Soviet Central Asia, using Landsat remote-sensing time series data26
Bat bio-assisted sampling (BAS) for monitoring urban heat island26
Refining the scale of the rural-urban landscape: A policy-relevant application to Chile26
Evaluating the relationship between data resolution and the accuracy of identified helicopter landing zones (HLZs)25
Assessing the spatial variability of raising public risk awareness for the intervention performance of COVID-19 voluntary screening: A spatial simulation approach25
Associations between neighborhood compactness, perceived accessibility to urban amenities, and mental distress of older adults in a high-density city25
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Neighborhood externalities modify the nexus between residential land and housing prices: A joint analysis using regression tree models25
Mapping local suitability for STEM work-related experiential opportunities in Georgia25
Anchored in place, driven by risk: How place attachment amplifies the household flood adaptation25
Spatially targeting national-scale afforestation for multiple ecosystem services25
Decadal beach-dune profile monitoring along a 230-km high-energy sandy coast: Aquitaine, southwest France24
Effectiveness of nature reserves in China: Human footprint and ecosystem services perspective24
Social and spatial heterogeneities in COVID-19 impacts on individual's metro use: A big-data driven causality inference24
Developing a taxonomy framework for assessing human capital provision: A case study of Southern Italian municipalities24
Quantifying embodied cultivated land-use change and its socioeconomic driving forces in China24
Social and environmental vulnerability to flooding: Investigating cross-scale hypotheses23
Public participation GIS can help assess multiple dimensions of environmental justice in urban green and blue space planning23
Place attachment and lived values in Western Australian communities23
Identifying ecological degradation and restoration zone based on ecosystem quality: A case study of Yangtze River Delta23
Mapping liveability: The “15-min city” concept for car-dependent districts in Auckland, New Zealand23
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Gone with the epidemic? The spatial effects of the Covid-19 on global investment network22
Space-time relationships between COVID-19 vaccinations and human mobility patterns in the United States22
The influence of two and three-dimensional spatial characteristics of industrial parks on the emotional well-being of employees: A case study of Shenzhen22
Mapping forest ecosystem service supply in two case studies in Latvia22
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Investigating the spatial clustering of drowning events in the United Kingdom: A geospatial cross-sectional study21
Systemic planning vs. individual choice: The optimal matching for urban healthcare facilities and patient population21
Maxent modeling for predicting the potential distribution of human-elephant conflict risk in Sri Lanka21
Exploring nonlinear effects of built environment on jogging behavior using random forest21
Burned area occurrence in agrarian reform settlement projects in the Matopiba region, Brazil21
Sensing noise exposure and its inequality based on noise complaint data through vision-language hybrid method21
Flooding and inequality: A multilevel analysis of exposure to floods and poverty in French cities21
Dynamic evaluation of cropland degradation risk by combining multi-temporal remote sensing and geographical data in the Black Soil Region of Jilin Province, China21
What are the environmental preferences of runners? Evidence from Guangzhou21
A GIS-based assessment of pedestrian accessibility to urban parks in the city of Constanța, Romania21
Trade-offs of landscape connectivity between regional and interregional ecological security patterns in a junction area of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region21
Towards a collaborative governance regime for disaster risk reduction: Exploring scalar narratives of institutional change in Nepal.20
A multi-level framework for assessing the spatial equity of urban public space towards SDG 11.7.1 - a case study in Beijing20
Mapping Emotional Attachment as a Measure of Sense of Place to Identify Coastal Restoration Priority Areas20
Methodological framework for territorial planning of urban areas: Analysis of socio-economic vulnerability and risk associated with flash flood hazards20
Carbon emissions and government interventions in urban agglomerations of China: An integrated GWR and neural network approach20
Land use change analysis and modeling of its future trajectories in Morogoro Region, Tanzania: Implication for conservation20
Distinguishing the effects of land use policies on ecosystem services and their trade-offs based on multi-scenario simulations20
Understanding the spatiotemporal pattern of the urban heat island footprint in the context of urbanization, a case study in Beijing, China20
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Exploring the factors influencing visits to urban parks: A case study of Beijing's central urban area20
Exploring factors influencing the agglomeration of implicit consumption space: A comparison with explicit consumption space20
High spatial resolution data obtained by GNSS and RPAS to assess islets flood-prone scenarios for 210020
Trends and attributions of the long-term thermal comfort across the urban–rural gradient in major Chinese cities20
Variation in child care access across neighborhood types: A two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) approach20
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Revealing disparities and driving factors in leisure activity segregation of residents and tourists: A data-driven analysis of smart phone data20
Top-down versus bottom-up: Spatial pattern and human mobility of newly developing industrial towns in Chinese “city-NIT” network19
How do the characteristics of local officials affect land urbanization bubble? A case study of Hangzhou, China19
The main factors influencing COVID-19 spread and deaths in Mexico: A comparison between phases I and II19
Window Expeditions: A playful approach to crowdsourcing natural language descriptions of everyday lived landscapes19
Grain-cropping suitability for evaluating the agricultural land use change in Brazil19
What's ‘SUP’ with paddlers? Integrating spatial, social, and ecological data to understand behavior among paddlesport users at a popular lake destination19
The evolution of public participation GIS (PPGIS) barriers in spatial planning practice19
Hidden gateways to digital space—the spatial distribution of Wi-Fi networks in the context of demographic structure in rural areas19
Does the shock of natural hazard-associated disasters affect the authority of regional governments?19
Colonize the desert vs. retreat to the mountains: The evolution of city-water relationships in the Tarim river basin over the past 2000 years19
Artificial neural networks applied to landslide susceptibility: The effect of sampling areas on model capacity for generalization and extrapolation19
Understanding the role of regional cooperation in mitigating ecological footprint: An empirical analysis of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area18
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The relationship between older adult migration and destination characteristics in Georgia18
Understanding the migration of highly and less-educated labourers in post-reform China18
Unravelling urban typologies in Latin American cities: Integrating socioeconomic factors and urban configurations across scales18
Built environment and airbnb spatial distribution in Hong Kong: A case study considering the spatial heterogeneity and multiscale effects18
Association between built environment factors and collective walking behavior in peri-urban area: Evidence from Chengdu18
Spatio-temporal agglomeration and morphological causes of Shanghai catering clusters18
Investigating the diurnal effects of on-street population and streetscape physical environment on street theft crime: A machine learning and negative binomial regression approach using street view ima18
The health-trash nexus in challenging environments: A spatial mixed methods analysis of Accra, Ghana18
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Does place-based policy increase new firm births? Evidence from special economic zones in China17
Enhancing intercity transportation will improve the equitable distribution of high-quality health care in China17
Mobilities and the flexible boundaries of the neighbourhood. A test with crime data in Barcelona17
Unplanned urban built-up growth creates problem in human adaptability: Evidence from a growing up city in eastern Himalayan foothills17
Spatial dynamics in the urban-rural-natural interface within a social-ecological hotspot17
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Have rural settlement changes harmed ecosystem carbon in China?17
Accessibility in São Paulo: An individual road to equity?17
A framework for the optimal deployment of police drones based on street-level crime risk17
Heatwave exposure inequality: An urban-rural comparison of environmental justice16
Accessibility of urban park benefits with different spatial coverage: Spatial and social inequity16
Socio-economic vulnerability assessment of shifting cultivators (Jhumias) amidst the changing climate in Mizoram, northeast India16
Landscape of multiculturalism in Australia: Tracking ethnic diversity and its relation with neighbourhood features in 2001–202116
From trajectories to network: Delineating the spatial pattern of recreational walking in Guangzhou16
Exploring local perspectives on flood risk: A participatory GIS approach for bridging the gap between modelled and perceived flood risk zones16
Where drinks and danger meet: Analyzing the spatial link between Bars and crime in Detroit16
Pandemic response in rural Peru: Multi-scale institutional analysis of the COVID-19 crisis16
New trends in South-South migration: The economic impact of COVID-19 and immigration enforcement16
Governing regional inequality through regional cooperation? A case study of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay area16
Geospatial modelling of housing rents from TOD using MGWR and implications on integrated transportation-land use planning16
The role of Industry-University-Research collaboration in regional technological diversification: An empirical study on the pharmaceutical industry in China16
Mapping access to basic hygiene services in low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional case study of geospatial disparities15
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Assessing the diversity and evenness of ecosystem services as perceived by residents using participatory mapping15
Do railways improve territorial cohesion of the Tibetan Plateau? A case study of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway15
The spatially and temporally varying association between mental illness and substance use mortality and unemployment: A Bayesian analysis in the contiguous United States, 2001–201415
Spatial and social heterogeneities of residents’ online shopping behaviors within a large Chinese city: The case of Weifang15
Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of sustainable development goals on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau15
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Towards a socially resilient city: Healthcare accessibility and rural migrants’ identity integration in urban China15
Exploring the classification of China's ecosystem service networks and their driving factors based on current status and evolutionary trends15
Geographical indications in cheese mountain areas: Opportunity or threat to landscape and environmental conservation? The case of Cabrales (Spain)15
Spatiotemporal differentiation of carbon budget and balance zoning: Insights from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River Urban Agglomeration, China15
Effects of cluster plot design parameters on landscape fragmentation estimates: A case study using data from the Swedish national forest inventory14
Assessing the influence of variation in forage availability on spatial patterns of beehive migration using a hybrid modelling approach – B-Agent14
How does cultural distance affect tourism destination choice? Evidence from the correlation between regional culture and tourism flow14
Coastal cities in the Southern US floodplains: An evaluation of environmental equity of flood hazards and social vulnerabilities14
From Western centralism to decentralization: Trends, breakthroughs and limitations in the world city network based on the winter olympic games14
Nonlinear interactive associations between built environments and adults’ mental health in China using a longitudinal design14
The impact of urbanization on urban flood risk of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand14
Measuring the housing precarity of migrant private tenants and assessing its impact on their life satisfaction - evidence from Guangzhou, China14
Why the Navajo Nation was hit so hard by coronavirus: Understanding the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic14
The rich-poor divide: Unravelling the spatial complexities and determinants of wealth inequality in India14
The activity space-based segregation of migrants in suburban Shanghai14
Do carbon sequestration and food security in urban and rural landscapes differ in patterns, relationships, and responses?14
Geographical match of objective and subjective measures of well-being at an intra-city scale14
Mapping the geodemographics of racial, economic, health, and COVID-19 deaths inequalities in the conterminous US14
The geography of perceived safety of the neighbourhood: An intersectional intercategorical analysis14
Social ties and talent migration: Considering the intentions of migrants to permanently settle in Chinese cities14
Who, where, when: Observer behavior influences spatial and temporal patterns of iNaturalist participation14
Estimating geographic access to healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Degree of Urbanisation14
Exploring the relationship between city size and carbon emissions: An integrated population-land framework14
Determining the ecological compensation standards based on willingness to accept (WTA) for intensive agricultural production areas: A case in China14
Geospatial evaluation of COVID-19 mortality: Influence of socio-economic status and underlying health conditions in contiguous USA14
Modelling locational choices of older adults in China, 2010–201514
Comparing the impacts of built environment across different objective life neighborhoods on the out-of-home leisure activities of employed people using massive mobile phone data13
Getting to Denmark: The dialectic of governance & development in the European periphery13
Identification of spatial and functional interactions in Beijing based on trajectory data13
Evaluation of traditional rain-fed agricultural terraces for soil erosion control through UAV observation in the middle mountain of Nepal13
Risk assessment of unlined oil pits leaking into groundwater in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A modified GIS-DRASTIC approach13
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Wildfire, evacuation, and cardiovascular events: A spatial exposure approach13
Spatial and moderating effects of greenspace on the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence13
Summer electricity consumption and its drivers in urban areas13
Construction of ecological security pattern adapting to future land use change in Pearl River Delta, China13
How migrant composition affects attitudes of urban locals in urban China: A two-scale study13
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity and influencing factors in the synergistic enhancement of urban ecological resilience: Evidence from the Yellow River Basin of China13
The uneven burden of COVID-19 in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil – Risk analysis from a bottom-up perspective13
Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts: Contextualizing multiple and multiscalar industrial branching mechanisms for the emergence of biotechnology industries in Guangzhou, China13
Livelihood changes of migrants due to hydropower construction: A case study from Southwestern China13
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Spatial nonstationarity and the role of environmental metal exposures on COVID-19 mortality in New Mexico12
Urban terrain, mountain landscape, and housing price: A heterogeneous investigation of the amenity effects in a mountainous city (Guiyang) from the vertical dimension12
Visitation-based classification of urban parks through mobile phone big data in Tokyo12
Core-periphery disparity in community vitality in Chongqing, China: Nonlinear explanation based on mobile phone data and multi-scale factors12
Local institutions and pandemics: City autonomy and the Black Death12
Remapping California's wildland urban interface: A property-level time-space framework, 2000–202012
Modeling and prediction of fire occurrences along an elevational gradient in Western Himalayas12
Promissory shock, broken future: COVID-19 and state-led speculations in biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in South Korea12
From center to outlying areas: Navigating built-up land dynamics along urban-rural gradients in Global South megaregions12
The geographical aspect of place branding: Interactions between place brands in the spatial hierarchy12
Does community-based tenure prevent land grabbing? The oil palm case in Mexico12
Domesticating sustainability transitions: Spatial and temporal variation of industrial eco-efficiency in China12
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Abrupt changes, institutional reactions, and adaptive behaviors: An exploratory study of COVID-19 and related events' impacts on Hong Kong's metro riders12
Spatial configuration and the Messina Strait question: A discussion on Reggio-Calabria and Messina road-networks linkage12
Impacts of land use metrics on urban stream health: Buffalo Creek, North Carolina, USA12
Disamenity effects of displaced villagers’ resettlement community on housing price in China and implication for socio-spatial segregation12
How transport shapes the landscape of large-format food retail trade? Retail geography in Poland – An interactive measure12
Localized effects of neighborhood park exposure on mental illness mortality in the Pacific Northwest United States11
Future matters: Unpacking villagers’ willingness to withdraw from rural homesteads in China11
Effects of urban environmental factors on heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) response time11
The effects of green apartment living, neighborhood greenspace exposures and greenspace exposures in activity space on residents’ walking behaviors and mental health in China11
A quantitative assessment of spatial patterns of socio-demographic change in coastal Maine: one process or many?11
Border regions across the globe: Analyzing border typologies, economic and political disparities, and development dynamics11
Spatially explicit vulnerability analysis of contaminant sources in a karstic watershed in southeastern Mexico11
Does cross-border commuting between EU-countries reduce inequality?11
Identifying disproportionate impacts in Arkansas: New considerations for environmental justice mapping and implications for leaders11
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Assessing the conservation effectiveness of national nature reserves in China11
The impact of the smoking ban on individual hospitality venues11
Understanding the spatially heterogeneous relationships between urban green amenities and residential dynamics: Evidence from Wuhan, China11
Evaluation of ecosystem services budget based on ecosystem services flow: A case study of Hangzhou Bay area11
Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance: A research agenda11
Dasymetry Dash Flood (DDF). A method for population mapping and flood exposure assessment in touristic cities11
Building an interactive web mapping tool to support distributed energy resource planning using public participation GIS11
Land-cover changes and drivers of palm swamp degradation in southeastern Brazil from 1984 to 201811
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Regional fiscal disparities in Chinese cities: Revenue-expenditure perspective11
Identifying ecological strategic points based on multi-functional ecological networks: A case study of Changzhi City, China11
Examining the association between urban green space and viral transmission of COVID-19 during the early outbreak11
Estimating the environmental Kuznets curve and its influencing factors of CO2 emissions: Insights from development stages and rebound effects11
Built environments, communities, and housing price: A data-model integration approach11
The impact of the built environment on human mobility patterns during Covid-19: A study of New York City's Open Streets Program11
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