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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images94
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Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach82
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Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models74
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon66
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework64
Can delivery riders act as informal guardians in crime prevention?62
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Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China58
Traffic safety in relation to multidimensional street network and land use features: A nonlinear analysis with population heterogeneity58
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas55
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods52
Effects of climate change on paddy expansion and potential adaption strategies for sustainable agriculture development across Northeast China52
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage50
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China48
Heterogeneous effects of neighborhood renewal on mental well-being: A capability approach to analyzing complex causal pathways48
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce46
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan43
Driving uneven development: The emerging geography of India's electric vehicle transition43
Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence42
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data42
Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China42
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China42
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany42
Divergent distributions of physicians and healthcare beds in China: Changing patterns, driving forces, and policy implications41
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia40
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others40
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area39
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning39
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou38
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)38
Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach38
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure37
Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data37
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 chains36
Access and cost of primary educational services in plateau areas: A case study in Tibet, China36
Blue-space availability, environmental quality and amenity use across contrasting socioeconomic contexts36
Identification of priority areas for public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in metropolitan areas: A case study in Hangzhou, China36
Evolving food and beverage landscapes: A multidisciplinary inquiry into technological innovation, policy, and industry structure36
Daily changes in spatial accessibility to ICU beds and their relationship with the case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the state of Texas, USA35
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 collecti35
Long time-series change characteristics and suitable scale of oasis in arid and semi-arid regions of China34
Using street view images and a geographical detector to understand how street-level built environment is associated with urban poverty: A case study in Guangzhou34
Measuring the spatial and size polycentricity: An empirical study of China's urban agglomerations using population distribution data34
Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China34
The impact of relatedness and unrelatedness on breakthrough innovation in China: Examining the role of complementary interregional linkages34
Modelling the Impacts of land finance on urban expansion: Evidence from Chinese cities33
Assessing spatial configuration of barrier-free facilities from the perspective of age-friendliness: A case Study of Beijing, China33
The impact of embodied land flow in interregional trade on carbon emissions in China33
‘Buzz-and-Pipeline’ dynamics of urban dual innovation: Evidence from China's biomedical industry33
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami33
Exploring urban environmental semantics for air quality prediction using explainable multi-view spatiotemporal graph neural networks32
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On framing flood risk communications through maps: Effects on the real estate market31
Mapping local suitability for STEM work-related experiential opportunities in Georgia31
Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective31
Assessing the spatial variability of raising public risk awareness for the intervention performance of COVID-19 voluntary screening: A spatial simulation approach31
Developing a taxonomy framework for assessing human capital provision: A case study of Southern Italian municipalities30
Gone with the epidemic? The spatial effects of the Covid-19 on global investment network30
Evaluating the relationship between data resolution and the accuracy of identified helicopter landing zones (HLZs)30
Neighborhood externalities modify the nexus between residential land and housing prices: A joint analysis using regression tree models29
The influence of two and three-dimensional spatial characteristics of industrial parks on the emotional well-being of employees: A case study of Shenzhen29
Anchored in place, driven by risk: How place attachment amplifies the household flood adaptation28
Spatially targeting national-scale afforestation for multiple ecosystem services28
Assessing wildfire activity and forest loss in protected areas of the Amazon basin28
Social and spatial heterogeneities in COVID-19 impacts on individual's metro use: A big-data driven causality inference28
Testing an international and interregional inverse size-volatility hypothesis for invention28
From fun to function: PPGIS unlocks the power of play in cities28
Effectiveness of nature reserves in China: Human footprint and ecosystem services perspective28
Associations between neighborhood compactness, perceived accessibility to urban amenities, and mental distress of older adults in a high-density city28
Social and environmental vulnerability to flooding: Investigating cross-scale hypotheses27
A Planner's quest for identifying spatial (in)justice in local communities: A case study of urban census tracts in North Carolina, USA27
Bat bio-assisted sampling (BAS) for monitoring urban heat island27
Refining the scale of the rural-urban landscape: A policy-relevant application to Chile27
Place attachment and lived values in Western Australian communities27
Decadal beach-dune profile monitoring along a 230-km high-energy sandy coast: Aquitaine, southwest France27
Mapping liveability: The “15-min city” concept for car-dependent districts in Auckland, New Zealand27
Characterising cropland fragmentation in post-Soviet Central Asia, using Landsat remote-sensing time series data26
Maxent modeling for predicting the potential distribution of human-elephant conflict risk in Sri Lanka26
Identifying ecological degradation and restoration zone based on ecosystem quality: A case study of Yangtze River Delta26
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Space-time relationships between COVID-19 vaccinations and human mobility patterns in the United States26
Public participation GIS can help assess multiple dimensions of environmental justice in urban green and blue space planning26
Decoding the dynamics and disparities of urban carbon intensity under the influence of land use and demographics from both global and local perspectives26
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Systemic planning vs. individual choice: The optimal matching for urban healthcare facilities and patient population25
Variation in child care access across neighborhood types: A two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) approach25
What are the environmental preferences of runners? Evidence from Guangzhou24
Flooding and inequality: A multilevel analysis of exposure to floods and poverty in French cities24
Investigating the spatial clustering of drowning events in the United Kingdom: A geospatial cross-sectional study24
Mapping Emotional Attachment as a Measure of Sense of Place to Identify Coastal Restoration Priority Areas24
Burned area occurrence in agrarian reform settlement projects in the Matopiba region, Brazil24
A multi-level framework for assessing the spatial equity of urban public space towards SDG 11.7.1 - a case study in Beijing24
Exploring the nonlinear effect of population shrinkage on carbon emission intensity in Chinese counties using an interpretable XGBoost model24
Mapping forest ecosystem service supply in two case studies in Latvia24
Trade-offs of landscape connectivity between regional and interregional ecological security patterns in a junction area of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region23
Sensing noise exposure and its inequality based on noise complaint data through vision-language hybrid method23
Distinguishing the effects of land use policies on ecosystem services and their trade-offs based on multi-scenario simulations23
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A GIS-based assessment of pedestrian accessibility to urban parks in the city of Constanța, Romania23
Exploring nonlinear effects of built environment on jogging behavior using random forest23
High spatial resolution data obtained by GNSS and RPAS to assess islets flood-prone scenarios for 210023
Dynamic evaluation of cropland degradation risk by combining multi-temporal remote sensing and geographical data in the Black Soil Region of Jilin Province, China23
Trends and attributions of the long-term thermal comfort across the urban–rural gradient in major Chinese cities23
Window Expeditions: A playful approach to crowdsourcing natural language descriptions of everyday lived landscapes22
Revealing disparities and driving factors in leisure activity segregation of residents and tourists: A data-driven analysis of smart phone data22
Unveiling global energy inequality through the mismatch between embodied energy and value-added transfer22
Riding through the heat: Assessing heat health risk of cycling based on diurnal temperature and shared-bike big data22
Exploring the factors influencing visits to urban parks: A case study of Beijing's central urban area22
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Built environment and airbnb spatial distribution in Hong Kong: A case study considering the spatial heterogeneity and multiscale effects22
Top-down versus bottom-up: Spatial pattern and human mobility of newly developing industrial towns in Chinese “city-NIT” network22
Association between built environment factors and collective walking behavior in peri-urban area: Evidence from Chengdu22
Colonize the desert vs. retreat to the mountains: The evolution of city-water relationships in the Tarim river basin over the past 2000 years22
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 ima22
Grain-cropping suitability for evaluating the agricultural land use change in Brazil22
Carbon emissions and government interventions in urban agglomerations of China: An integrated GWR and neural network approach22
Deciphering the causes of getting lost in complex urban space: A multi-scale examination of spatial environmental indicators using multi-source data22
How do the characteristics of local officials affect land urbanization bubble? A case study of Hangzhou, China22
Unravelling urban typologies in Latin American cities: Integrating socioeconomic factors and urban configurations across scales21
The evolution of public participation GIS (PPGIS) barriers in spatial planning practice21
Methodological framework for territorial planning of urban areas: Analysis of socio-economic vulnerability and risk associated with flash flood hazards21
Understanding the role of regional cooperation in mitigating ecological footprint: An empirical analysis of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area21
Land use change analysis and modeling of its future trajectories in Morogoro Region, Tanzania: Implication for conservation21
Exploring factors influencing the agglomeration of implicit consumption space: A comparison with explicit consumption space21
Spatio-temporal agglomeration and morphological causes of Shanghai catering clusters21
Achieving win–win outcomes between urban growth and urban greening: The role of environmental governance20
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Exploring local perspectives on flood risk: A participatory GIS approach for bridging the gap between modelled and perceived flood risk zones20
Landscape of multiculturalism in Australia: Tracking ethnic diversity and its relation with neighbourhood features in 2001–202120
The role of Industry-University-Research collaboration in regional technological diversification: An empirical study on the pharmaceutical industry in China20
Is Germany experiencing urban or suburban growth? Contrasting long-standing and novel urban gradient classifications20
Mobilities and the flexible boundaries of the neighbourhood. A test with crime data in Barcelona20
Socio-economic vulnerability assessment of shifting cultivators (Jhumias) amidst the changing climate in Mizoram, northeast India20
New trends in South-South migration: The economic impact of COVID-19 and immigration enforcement20
Does place-based policy increase new firm births? Evidence from special economic zones in China20
Hidden gateways to digital space—the spatial distribution of Wi-Fi networks in the context of demographic structure in rural areas20
Where drinks and danger meet: Analyzing the spatial link between Bars and crime in Detroit20
The health-trash nexus in challenging environments: A spatial mixed methods analysis of Accra, Ghana20
Enhancing intercity transportation will improve the equitable distribution of high-quality health care in China20
Do railways improve territorial cohesion of the Tibetan Plateau? A case study of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway19
Introducing rational agent access model to enhance scene-to-hospital accessibility of emergency medical services19
Unplanned urban built-up growth creates problem in human adaptability: Evidence from a growing up city in eastern Himalayan foothills19
What are the differences between ecosystem services and residents’ perceptions? Insights from perception gap, heterogeneity, and cross-level driving mechanisms19
Exploring the classification of China's ecosystem service networks and their driving factors based on current status and evolutionary trends19
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The spatially and temporally varying association between mental illness and substance use mortality and unemployment: A Bayesian analysis in the contiguous United States, 2001–201419
From trajectories to network: Delineating the spatial pattern of recreational walking in Guangzhou19
Spatiotemporal differentiation of carbon budget and balance zoning: Insights from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River Urban Agglomeration, China19
Accessibility in São Paulo: An individual road to equity?19
Governing regional inequality through regional cooperation? A case study of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay area19
Geospatial modelling of housing rents from TOD using MGWR and implications on integrated transportation-land use planning19
Effects of cluster plot design parameters on landscape fragmentation estimates: A case study using data from the Swedish national forest inventory19
Influence of urban park landscape attributes on office workers’ self-rated health: A moderated mediation model19
Spatial dynamics in the urban-rural-natural interface within a social-ecological hotspot19
Contrasting inequalities in collective residence-based and pedestrian-based urban greenery exposure with multi-sourced urban big data and deep learning19
A framework for the optimal deployment of police drones based on street-level crime risk19
Have rural settlement changes harmed ecosystem carbon in China?19
Towards a socially resilient city: Healthcare accessibility and rural migrants’ identity integration in urban China19
Heatwave exposure inequality: An urban-rural comparison of environmental justice19
Coastal cities in the Southern US floodplains: An evaluation of environmental equity of flood hazards and social vulnerabilities19
Social ties and talent migration: Considering the intentions of migrants to permanently settle in Chinese cities18
Geographical indications in cheese mountain areas: Opportunity or threat to landscape and environmental conservation? The case of Cabrales (Spain)18
Integrating future land use uncertainty and spatial scales into ecosystem service degradation risk assessment for urban ecological management18
Nonlinear interactive associations between built environments and adults’ mental health in China using a longitudinal design18
Identification of factors influencing cooperation between border towns in different border traffic regimes18
The geography of perceived safety of the neighbourhood: An intersectional intercategorical analysis18
Spatial and social heterogeneities of residents’ online shopping behaviors within a large Chinese city: The case of Weifang18
Do carbon sequestration and food security in urban and rural landscapes differ in patterns, relationships, and responses?18
Determining the ecological compensation standards based on willingness to accept (WTA) for intensive agricultural production areas: A case in China18
From Western centralism to decentralization: Trends, breakthroughs and limitations in the world city network based on the winter olympic games18
Assessing the diversity and evenness of ecosystem services as perceived by residents using participatory mapping18
Measuring the housing precarity of migrant private tenants and assessing its impact on their life satisfaction - evidence from Guangzhou, China18
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Exploring the relationship between city size and carbon emissions: An integrated population-land framework18
Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of sustainable development goals on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau18
Assessing the influence of variation in forage availability on spatial patterns of beehive migration using a hybrid modelling approach – B-Agent17
The impact of urbanization on urban flood risk of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand17
How does cultural distance affect tourism destination choice? Evidence from the correlation between regional culture and tourism flow17
Modelling locational choices of older adults in China, 2010–201517
Mapping urban emotion from geotagged social media data: Age, gender and spatial heterogeneity17
Estimating geographic access to healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Degree of Urbanisation17
The rich-poor divide: Unravelling the spatial complexities and determinants of wealth inequality in India17
Wildfire, evacuation, and cardiovascular events: A spatial exposure approach16
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The uneven burden of COVID-19 in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil – Risk analysis from a bottom-up perspective16
Disamenity effects of displaced villagers’ resettlement community on housing price in China and implication for socio-spatial segregation16
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 data16
Characterizing performance resilience of transportation networks against hurricane events16
Risk assessment of unlined oil pits leaking into groundwater in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A modified GIS-DRASTIC approach16
Measuring cluster interactions through in-between areas in epidemic spatiotemporal dynamics16
Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts: Contextualizing multiple and multiscalar industrial branching mechanisms for the emergence of biotechnology industries in Guangzhou, China16
Identification of spatial and functional interactions in Beijing based on trajectory data16
Geographical match of objective and subjective measures of well-being at an intra-city scale16
Summer electricity consumption and its drivers in urban areas16
Spatiotemporal dynamics of non-floodplain ponded waterbodies in the upper Yangtze River Basin, China: A hydrological connectivity perspective16
How migrant composition affects attitudes of urban locals in urban China: A two-scale study16
Does community-based tenure prevent land grabbing? The oil palm case in Mexico16
Spatial and moderating effects of greenspace on the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence16
Corrigendum to “Strong increase in coverage but accelerated fragmentation in China's urban forests under rapid urbanization” [Applied Geography 185 (2025) 103793]15
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity and influencing factors in the synergistic enhancement of urban ecological resilience: Evidence from the Yellow River Basin of China15
Livelihood changes of migrants due to hydropower construction: A case study from Southwestern China15
Geospatial evaluation of COVID-19 mortality: Influence of socio-economic status and underlying health conditions in contiguous USA15
Spatial nonstationarity and the role of environmental metal exposures on COVID-19 mortality in New Mexico15
Core-periphery disparity in community vitality in Chongqing, China: Nonlinear explanation based on mobile phone data and multi-scale factors15
Effects of urban environmental factors on heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) response time15
Measuring spatial mismatch in education capitalization via the housing market: An empirical study based on geographically weighted regression and Geodetector15
Evaluation of traditional rain-fed agricultural terraces for soil erosion control through UAV observation in the middle mountain of Nepal15
Land tenure and land use dynamics in the context of pastoral and non-pastoral land use coexistence in Mvomero district, Tanzania15
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Domesticating sustainability transitions: Spatial and temporal variation of industrial eco-efficiency in China15
Remapping California's wildland urban interface: A property-level time-space framework, 2000–202015
Who, where, when: Observer behavior influences spatial and temporal patterns of iNaturalist participation15
Construction of ecological security pattern adapting to future land use change in Pearl River Delta, China15
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The geographical aspect of place branding: Interactions between place brands in the spatial hierarchy15
Impacts of land use metrics on urban stream health: Buffalo Creek, North Carolina, USA14
From center to outlying areas: Navigating built-up land dynamics along urban-rural gradients in Global South megaregions14
Modeling and prediction of fire occurrences along an elevational gradient in Western Himalayas14
Understanding the spatially heterogeneous relationships between urban green amenities and residential dynamics: Evidence from Wuhan, China14
The impact of the smoking ban on individual hospitality venues14
Dasymetry Dash Flood (DDF). A method for population mapping and flood exposure assessment in touristic cities14
Visitation-based classification of urban parks through mobile phone big data in Tokyo14
Spatial configuration and the Messina Strait question: A discussion on Reggio-Calabria and Messina road-networks linkage14
Understanding the structural imbalance in non-grain land Utilization: Insights from China's arable land policy14
Regional entrepreneurial spirit and global value chains participation in Chinese cities: the moderating role of digital transformation signals14
The impact of the built environment on human mobility patterns during Covid-19: A study of New York City's Open Streets Program14
Mapping spatio-temporal patterns of soundscapes in a mountain landscape14
Urban land-population-economy simulation model: Transitioning from 2D to multidimensional dynamics with cyclic feedback14
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Dark kitchens and streetscapes: Exploring the location choices of ‘dark kitchens’ using street view imagery14
Who you are versus where you are: Revealing the importance of determinants of within-city income inequality in China through an interpretable machine learning approach14
Urban terrain, mountain landscape, and housing price: A heterogeneous investigation of the amenity effects in a mountainous city (Guiyang) from the vertical dimension14
Assessing the conservation effectiveness of national nature reserves in China14
How transport shapes the landscape of large-format food retail trade? Retail geography in Poland – An interactive measure14
Regional fiscal disparities in Chinese cities: Revenue-expenditure perspective14
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Identifying disproportionate impacts in Arkansas: New considerations for environmental justice mapping and implications for leaders14
Dynamic changes of the complex coupling relationships between ecosystem services and socio-ecological factors and the impact of human activities: Insights from network analysis14
Can innovation-driven productivity mitigate infrastructure spatial inequality? Evidence from 282 prefecture-level cities in China14
Built environments, communities, and housing price: A data-model integration approach13
The impact of non-grain conversion of cultivated land on the relationship between agricultural carbon supply and demand13
Bridging the gap between an applied map and scientific needs: Visualization of the uncertainty of plant hardiness zone maps, with emphasis on climate change impact13
The effects of green apartment living, neighborhood greenspace exposures and greenspace exposures in activity space on residents’ walking behaviors and mental health in China13
The non-linear dynamics of South Australian regional housing markets: A machine learning approach13
Does cross-border commuting between EU-countries reduce inequality?13
Spatially explicit vulnerability analysis of contaminant sources in a karstic watershed in southeastern Mexico13
Identifying ecological strategic points based on multi-functional ecological networks: A case study of Changzhi City, China13
Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance: A research agenda13
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