Applied Geography

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	98
Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach	87
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas	83
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods	77
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning	69
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan	66
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images	65
Causal effects of transit investment on neighborhoods: Evidence from unbuilt alternative alignments	65
Editorial Board	64
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)	61
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others	59
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou	59
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Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce	55
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia	53
Heterogeneous effects of neighborhood renewal on mental well-being: A capability approach to analyzing complex causal pathways	53
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data	53
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon	51
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework	49
Traffic safety in relation to multidimensional street network and land use features: A nonlinear analysis with population heterogeneity	49
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany	49
Driving uneven development: The emerging geography of India's electric vehicle transition	48
Can delivery riders act as informal guardians in crime prevention?	47
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area	46
Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China	46

Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China	46
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China	45
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models	45
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage	45
Using street view images and a geographical detector to understand how street-level built environment is associated with urban poverty: A case study in Guangzhou	44
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure	44
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China	44
Corrigendum to “Plant hardiness zone mapping for the conterminous USA using the Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression Prediction method” [Applied Geography 189 (2026) 103927]	43
Evolving food and beverage landscapes: A multidisciplinary inquiry into technological innovation, policy, and industry structure	42
The impact of relatedness and unrelatedness on breakthrough innovation in China: Examining the role of complementary interregional linkages	42
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami	41
Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective	41
Identification of priority areas for public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in metropolitan areas: A case study in Hangzhou, China	41
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 chains	41
Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data	41
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 collecti	41
Modelling the Impacts of land finance on urban expansion: Evidence from Chinese cities	41
Measuring the spatial and size polycentricity: An empirical study of China's urban agglomerations using population distribution data	40
Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China	38
Blue-space availability, environmental quality and amenity use across contrasting socioeconomic contexts	38
Agricultural development, structural transformation, and industrial diversification of regions: Evidence from rural land contracting law reform in China	38
Exploring urban environmental semantics for air quality prediction using explainable multi-view spatiotemporal graph neural networks	37
Mapping the Margins: A spatial vulnerability index of Women's Peace and security in Nigeria	37
Daily changes in spatial accessibility to ICU beds and their relationship with the case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the state of Texas, USA	36
The effects of pedestrianization on commercial dynamics a quasi-experimental study in Barcelona	35
Long time-series change characteristics and suitable scale of oasis in arid and semi-arid regions of China	35
‘Buzz-and-Pipeline’ dynamics of urban dual innovation: Evidence from China's biomedical industry	35
Access and cost of primary educational services in plateau areas: A case study in Tibet, China	35
The impact of embodied land flow in interregional trade on carbon emissions in China	35
Testing an international and interregional inverse size-volatility hypothesis for invention	34
Urban green space and crime across land use types and socio-racial contexts: Evidence from Washington, D.C.	34
Assessing spatial configuration of barrier-free facilities from the perspective of age-friendliness: A case Study of Beijing, China	34
The influence of two and three-dimensional spatial characteristics of industrial parks on the emotional well-being of employees: A case study of Shenzhen	34
Mapping local suitability for STEM work-related experiential opportunities in Georgia	34
Social and spatial heterogeneities in COVID-19 impacts on individual's metro use: A big-data driven causality inference	34
Associations between neighborhood compactness, perceived accessibility to urban amenities, and mental distress of older adults in a high-density city	33
Assessing the spatial variability of raising public risk awareness for the intervention performance of COVID-19 voluntary screening: A spatial simulation approach	33
From fun to function: PPGIS unlocks the power of play in cities	33
On framing flood risk communications through maps: Effects on the real estate market	33
Developing a taxonomy framework for assessing human capital provision: A case study of Southern Italian municipalities	32
A Planner's quest for identifying spatial (in)justice in local communities: A case study of urban census tracts in North Carolina, USA	32
Refining the scale of the rural-urban landscape: A policy-relevant application to Chile	32
Assessing wildfire activity and forest loss in protected areas of the Amazon basin	31
Spatially targeting national-scale afforestation for multiple ecosystem services	31
Bat bio-assisted sampling (BAS) for monitoring urban heat island	31
Public participation GIS can help assess multiple dimensions of environmental justice in urban green and blue space planning	31
Effectiveness of nature reserves in China: Human footprint and ecosystem services perspective	31
Anchored in place, driven by risk: How place attachment amplifies the household flood adaptation	31
Neighborhood externalities modify the nexus between residential land and housing prices: A joint analysis using regression tree models	30
Characterising cropland fragmentation in post-Soviet Central Asia, using Landsat remote-sensing time series data	30

Social and environmental vulnerability to flooding: Investigating cross-scale hypotheses	30
Place attachment and lived values in Western Australian communities	30
Gone with the epidemic? The spatial effects of the Covid-19 on global investment network	30
Mapping liveability: The “15-min city” concept for car-dependent districts in Auckland, New Zealand	30
Editorial Board	29
Digital grievances: A geospatial analysis of public discourse on doctor-patient conflict in China	29
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Identifying ecological degradation and restoration zone based on ecosystem quality: A case study of Yangtze River Delta	29
Systemic planning vs. individual choice: The optimal matching for urban healthcare facilities and patient population	29
Space-time relationships between COVID-19 vaccinations and human mobility patterns in the United States	29
A multi-level framework for assessing the spatial equity of urban public space towards SDG 11.7.1 - a case study in Beijing	29
Variation in child care access across neighborhood types: A two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) approach	28
Burned area occurrence in agrarian reform settlement projects in the Matopiba region, Brazil	28
Mapping forest ecosystem service supply in two case studies in Latvia	28
Depopulation and healthcare service decline: Spatial evidence of a vicious cycle in South Korea	28
Investigating urbanization dynamics and road infrastructure development in the African context: A case study of Moroccan territory	28
Unveiling latent frontiers of urban and rural sustainability: a semi-automatic overview with LDA topic model	27
Trade-offs of landscape connectivity between regional and interregional ecological security patterns in a junction area of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	27
Sensing noise exposure and its inequality based on noise complaint data through vision-language hybrid method	27
Investigating the spatial clustering of drowning events in the United Kingdom: A geospatial cross-sectional study	27
Flooding and inequality: A multilevel analysis of exposure to floods and poverty in French cities	27
Exploring nonlinear effects of built environment on jogging behavior using random forest	27
Exploring the nonlinear effect of population shrinkage on carbon emission intensity in Chinese counties using an interpretable XGBoost model	27
Maxent modeling for predicting the potential distribution of human-elephant conflict risk in Sri Lanka	27
Trends and attributions of the long-term thermal comfort across the urban–rural gradient in major Chinese cities	27
Dynamic evaluation of cropland degradation risk by combining multi-temporal remote sensing and geographical data in the Black Soil Region of Jilin Province, China	27
What are the environmental preferences of runners? Evidence from Guangzhou	27
Distinguishing the effects of land use policies on ecosystem services and their trade-offs based on multi-scenario simulations	27
A GIS-based assessment of pedestrian accessibility to urban parks in the city of Constanța, Romania	27
Decoding the dynamics and disparities of urban carbon intensity under the influence of land use and demographics from both global and local perspectives	27
Editorial Board	26
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Land use change analysis and modeling of its future trajectories in Morogoro Region, Tanzania: Implication for conservation	26
High spatial resolution data obtained by GNSS and RPAS to assess islets flood-prone scenarios for 2100	26
How do the characteristics of local officials affect land urbanization bubble? A case study of Hangzhou, China	26
Hidden gateways to digital space—the spatial distribution of Wi-Fi networks in the context of demographic structure in rural areas	26
Colonize the desert vs. retreat to the mountains: The evolution of city-water relationships in the Tarim river basin over the past 2000 years	26
The impact of skill-biased technological change on urban-rural income inequality: Evidence from China	25
Window Expeditions: A playful approach to crowdsourcing natural language descriptions of everyday lived landscapes	25
Do China's energy poor left-behind regions benefit from solar photovoltaics?	25
Association between built environment factors and collective walking behavior in peri-urban area: Evidence from Chengdu	25
Understanding the role of regional cooperation in mitigating ecological footprint: An empirical analysis of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area	25
Grain-cropping suitability for evaluating the agricultural land use change in Brazil	25
Spatio-temporal agglomeration and morphological causes of Shanghai catering clusters	25
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 ima	25
The evolution of public participation GIS (PPGIS) barriers in spatial planning practice	25
Carbon emissions and government interventions in urban agglomerations of China: An integrated GWR and neural network approach	25
Built environment and airbnb spatial distribution in Hong Kong: A case study considering the spatial heterogeneity and multiscale effects	24
Exploring the factors influencing visits to urban parks: A case study of Beijing's central urban area	24
Top-down versus bottom-up: Spatial pattern and human mobility of newly developing industrial towns in Chinese “city-NIT” network	24
Revealing disparities and driving factors in leisure activity segregation of residents and tourists: A data-driven analysis of smart phone data	24
Riding through the heat: Assessing heat health risk of cycling based on diurnal temperature and shared-bike big data	24
Unveiling global energy inequality through the mismatch between embodied energy and value-added transfer	24
Unravelling urban typologies in Latin American cities: Integrating socioeconomic factors and urban configurations across scales	24
Deciphering the causes of getting lost in complex urban space: A multi-scale examination of spatial environmental indicators using multi-source data	24
Assessing spatial linkage of multiple ecosystem services in the Loess Plateau based on landscape types	23
Landscape of multiculturalism in Australia: Tracking ethnic diversity and its relation with neighbourhood features in 2001–2021	23
Methodological framework for territorial planning of urban areas: Analysis of socio-economic vulnerability and risk associated with flash flood hazards	23
Editorial Board	23
Exploring factors influencing the agglomeration of implicit consumption space: A comparison with explicit consumption space	23
Does place-based policy increase new firm births? Evidence from special economic zones in China	22
Where drinks and danger meet: Analyzing the spatial link between Bars and crime in Detroit	22
Have rural settlement changes harmed ecosystem carbon in China?	22
Contrasting inequalities in collective residence-based and pedestrian-based urban greenery exposure with multi-sourced urban big data and deep learning	22
From trajectories to network: Delineating the spatial pattern of recreational walking in Guangzhou	22
Spatial dynamics in the urban-rural-natural interface within a social-ecological hotspot	22
Unplanned urban built-up growth creates problem in human adaptability: Evidence from a growing up city in eastern Himalayan foothills	22
Enhancing intercity transportation will improve the equitable distribution of high-quality health care in China	22
Socio-economic vulnerability assessment of shifting cultivators (Jhumias) amidst the changing climate in Mizoram, northeast India	22
Spatiotemporal differentiation of carbon budget and balance zoning: Insights from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River Urban Agglomeration, China	21
Introducing rational agent access model to enhance scene-to-hospital accessibility of emergency medical services	21
A framework for the optimal deployment of police drones based on street-level crime risk	21
Do railways improve territorial cohesion of the Tibetan Plateau? A case study of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway	21
Achieving win–win outcomes between urban growth and urban greening: The role of environmental governance	21
Heatwave exposure inequality: An urban-rural comparison of environmental justice	21
New trends in South-South migration: The economic impact of COVID-19 and immigration enforcement	21
Influence of urban park landscape attributes on office workers’ self-rated health: A moderated mediation model	21
Mobilities and the flexible boundaries of the neighbourhood. A test with crime data in Barcelona	21
Exploring local perspectives on flood risk: A participatory GIS approach for bridging the gap between modelled and perceived flood risk zones	21
Exploring the classification of China's ecosystem service networks and their driving factors based on current status and evolutionary trends	21

Towards a socially resilient city: Healthcare accessibility and rural migrants’ identity integration in urban China	21
The health-trash nexus in challenging environments: A spatial mixed methods analysis of Accra, Ghana	21
Role of computing power infrastructure in shaping the geographic landscape AI enterprise in China	21
Accessibility in São Paulo: An individual road to equity?	21
The role of Industry-University-Research collaboration in regional technological diversification: An empirical study on the pharmaceutical industry in China	21
Geospatial modelling of housing rents from TOD using MGWR and implications on integrated transportation-land use planning	20
Editorial Board	20
From Western centralism to decentralization: Trends, breakthroughs and limitations in the world city network based on the winter olympic games	20
Measuring the housing precarity of migrant private tenants and assessing its impact on their life satisfaction - evidence from Guangzhou, China	20
Is Germany experiencing urban or suburban growth? Contrasting long-standing and novel urban gradient classifications	20
Effects of cluster plot design parameters on landscape fragmentation estimates: A case study using data from the Swedish national forest inventory	20
The geography of perceived safety of the neighbourhood: An intersectional intercategorical analysis	20
Governing regional inequality through regional cooperation? A case study of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay area	20
What are the differences between ecosystem services and residents’ perceptions? Insights from perception gap, heterogeneity, and cross-level driving mechanisms	20
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Geographical indications in cheese mountain areas: Opportunity or threat to landscape and environmental conservation? The case of Cabrales (Spain)	20
Spatial and social heterogeneities of residents’ online shopping behaviors within a large Chinese city: The case of Weifang	19
The impact of urbanization on urban flood risk of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand	19
Exploring the relationship between city size and carbon emissions: An integrated population-land framework	19
How migrant composition affects attitudes of urban locals in urban China: A two-scale study	19
Assessing the influence of variation in forage availability on spatial patterns of beehive migration using a hybrid modelling approach – B-Agent	19
Determining the ecological compensation standards based on willingness to accept (WTA) for intensive agricultural production areas: A case in China	19
Modelling locational choices of older adults in China, 2010–2015	19
Do carbon sequestration and food security in urban and rural landscapes differ in patterns, relationships, and responses?	19
Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of sustainable development goals on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau	19
Estimating geographic access to healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Degree of Urbanisation	19
Effective allocation of government attention: A regional analysis of urban carbon reduction and SDGs collaborative governance in China	19
How does cultural distance affect tourism destination choice? Evidence from the correlation between regional culture and tourism flow	19
The rich-poor divide: Unravelling the spatial complexities and determinants of wealth inequality in India	19
Integrating future land use uncertainty and spatial scales into ecosystem service degradation risk assessment for urban ecological management	19
Spatial inequities in urban resource access, neighborhood social capital, and late-life depression: Insights from Hong Kong's aging population	19
Summer electricity consumption and its drivers in urban areas	19
Nonlinear interactive associations between built environments and adults’ mental health in China using a longitudinal design	19
Social ties and talent migration: Considering the intentions of migrants to permanently settle in Chinese cities	19
Identification of factors influencing cooperation between border towns in different border traffic regimes	19
Geographical match of objective and subjective measures of well-being at an intra-city scale	18
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 data	18
The uneven burden of COVID-19 in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil – Risk analysis from a bottom-up perspective	18
Does community-based tenure prevent land grabbing? The oil palm case in Mexico	18
Characterizing performance resilience of transportation networks against hurricane events	18
Construction of ecological security pattern adapting to future land use change in Pearl River Delta, China	18
Who, where, when: Observer behavior influences spatial and temporal patterns of iNaturalist participation	18
Heterogeneous impacts of urban network centrality on economic growth: A county-level analysis in China	18
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Wildfire, evacuation, and cardiovascular events: A spatial exposure approach	17
Mapping urban emotion from geotagged social media data: Age, gender and spatial heterogeneity	17
Measuring spatial mismatch in education capitalization via the housing market: An empirical study based on geographically weighted regression and Geodetector	17
Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts: Contextualizing multiple and multiscalar industrial branching mechanisms for the emergence of biotechnology industries in Guangzhou, China	17
Evaluation of traditional rain-fed agricultural terraces for soil erosion control through UAV observation in the middle mountain of Nepal	17
Disamenity effects of displaced villagers’ resettlement community on housing price in China and implication for socio-spatial segregation	17
Measuring cluster interactions through in-between areas in epidemic spatiotemporal dynamics	17
Livelihood changes of migrants due to hydropower construction: A case study from Southwestern China	17
Plant hardiness zone mapping for the conterminous USA using the Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression Prediction method	17
Spatiotemporal dynamics of non-floodplain ponded waterbodies in the upper Yangtze River Basin, China: A hydrological connectivity perspective	17
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Spatial and moderating effects of greenspace on the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence	17
Land tenure and land use dynamics in the context of pastoral and non-pastoral land use coexistence in Mvomero district, Tanzania	17
Identification of spatial and functional interactions in Beijing based on trajectory data	17
Editorial Board	16
Corrigendum to “Strong increase in coverage but accelerated fragmentation in China's urban forests under rapid urbanization” [Applied Geography 185 (2025) 103793]	16
Who you are versus where you are: Revealing the importance of determinants of within-city income inequality in China through an interpretable machine learning approach	16
The role of AI in promoting urban sustainable development: Evidence from China's new generation of national AI innovative development pilot zones	16
Dynamic changes of the complex coupling relationships between ecosystem services and socio-ecological factors and the impact of human activities: Insights from network analysis	16
Remapping California's wildland urban interface: A property-level time-space framework, 2000–2020	16
Identification of conservation priority areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by integrating ecosystem features and service to enhance conservation benefits	16
Spatial nonstationarity and the role of environmental metal exposures on COVID-19 mortality in New Mexico	16
From center to outlying areas: Navigating built-up land dynamics along urban-rural gradients in Global South megaregions	16
How transport shapes the landscape of large-format food retail trade? Retail geography in Poland – An interactive measure	16
Modeling and prediction of fire occurrences along an elevational gradient in Western Himalayas	16
Intensive population exposure in urban waterlogging-prone areas: From the perspective of spatial continuum of the urban environmental system	16
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity and influencing factors in the synergistic enhancement of urban ecological resilience: Evidence from the Yellow River Basin of China	16
Can innovation-driven productivity mitigate infrastructure spatial inequality? Evidence from 282 prefecture-level cities in China	16
Dark kitchens and streetscapes: Exploring the location choices of ‘dark kitchens’ using street view imagery	16
Effects of urban environmental factors on heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) response time	16
Regional entrepreneurial spirit and global value chains participation in Chinese cities: the moderating role of digital transformation signals	16
Does stadium construction drive surrounding urban development? Evidence from spatiotemporal impacts of large-scale stadiums in China	16
Understanding the structural imbalance in non-grain land Utilization: Insights from China's arable land policy	15
Domesticating sustainability transitions: Spatial and temporal variation of industrial eco-efficiency in China	15
Spatial configuration and the Messina Strait question: A discussion on Reggio-Calabria and Messina road-networks linkage	15
The effects of green apartment living, neighborhood greenspace exposures and greenspace exposures in activity space on residents’ walking behaviors and mental health in China	15
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Urban terrain, mountain landscape, and housing price: A heterogeneous investigation of the amenity effects in a mountainous city (Guiyang) from the vertical dimension	15
Visitation-based classification of urban parks through mobile phone big data in Tokyo	15
The impact of the smoking ban on individual hospitality venues	15
Identifying ecological strategic points based on multi-functional ecological networks: A case study of Changzhi City, China	15
Assessing the conservation effectiveness of national nature reserves in China	15
Core-periphery disparity in community vitality in Chongqing, China: Nonlinear explanation based on mobile phone data and multi-scale factors	15
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Do perceived and calculated ecosystem services affect residents’ human well-being differently? ——A comparison study in the Guanting Reservoir basin, China	15
The non-linear dynamics of South Australian regional housing markets: A machine learning approach	14
Bayesian modeling approach for detecting local determinants of the spatial distribution of immigrant communities in large cities: The case of Barcelona	14
Building an interactive web mapping tool to support distributed energy resource planning using public participation GIS	14
Agroecosystem services and disservices in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China: Spatial heterogeneity, trade-off relationships, and driving mechanisms	14
The spatial evolution of E - sports firms and the location choice of new firms: A case study of Guangzhou, China	14