Applied Geography

Papers
(The TQCC of Applied Geography is 13. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods88
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework80
Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach79
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National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage66
Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China60
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Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach56
Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence54
Revealing the structures of internal migration: A distance and a time-space behaviour perspectives54
Traffic safety in relation to multidimensional street network and land use features: A nonlinear analysis with population heterogeneity52
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia51
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area50
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning50
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models49
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas49
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan44
Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China44
Driving uneven development: The emerging geography of India's electric vehicle transition43
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany41
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon41
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The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images38
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China38
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou37
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others37
Divergent distributions of physicians and healthcare beds in China: Changing patterns, driving forces, and policy implications37
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data37
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce37
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China36
Effects of climate change on paddy expansion and potential adaption strategies for sustainable agriculture development across Northeast China36
Long time-series change characteristics and suitable scale of oasis in arid and semi-arid regions of China35
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure35
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami35
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)35
Exploring urban environmental semantics for air quality prediction using explainable multi-view spatiotemporal graph neural networks35
The impact of embodied land flow in interregional trade on carbon emissions in China34
Identification of priority areas for public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in metropolitan areas: A case study in Hangzhou, China34
‘Buzz-and-Pipeline’ dynamics of urban dual innovation: Evidence from China's biomedical industry34
Access and cost of primary educational services in plateau areas: A case study in Tibet, China34
Blue-space availability, environmental quality and amenity use across contrasting socioeconomic contexts33
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 chains33
Assessing spatial configuration of barrier-free facilities from the perspective of age-friendliness: A case Study of Beijing, China32
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
Daily changes in spatial accessibility to ICU beds and their relationship with the case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the state of Texas, USA32
The impact of relatedness and unrelatedness on breakthrough innovation in China: Examining the role of complementary interregional linkages32
Measuring spatial accessibility and equity to healthcare services using fuzzy inference system32
Modelling the Impacts of land finance on urban expansion: Evidence from Chinese cities32
Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China32
Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data31
Measuring the spatial and size polycentricity: An empirical study of China's urban agglomerations using population distribution data30
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 collecti30
On framing flood risk communications through maps: Effects on the real estate market29
Associations between neighborhood compactness, perceived accessibility to urban amenities, and mental distress of older adults in a high-density city29
Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective29
From fun to function: PPGIS unlocks the power of play in cities29
Social and spatial heterogeneities in COVID-19 impacts on individual's metro use: A big-data driven causality inference28
Effectiveness of nature reserves in China: Human footprint and ecosystem services perspective28
The influence of two and three-dimensional spatial characteristics of industrial parks on the emotional well-being of employees: A case study of Shenzhen28
Developing a taxonomy framework for assessing human capital provision: A case study of Southern Italian municipalities27
Public participation GIS can help assess multiple dimensions of environmental justice in urban green and blue space planning27
Mapping local suitability for STEM work-related experiential opportunities in Georgia27
A Planner's quest for identifying spatial (in)justice in local communities: A case study of urban census tracts in North Carolina, USA27
Gone with the epidemic? The spatial effects of the Covid-19 on global investment network27
Assessing the spatial variability of raising public risk awareness for the intervention performance of COVID-19 voluntary screening: A spatial simulation approach26
Spatially targeting national-scale afforestation for multiple ecosystem services26
Evaluating the relationship between data resolution and the accuracy of identified helicopter landing zones (HLZs)26
Characterising cropland fragmentation in post-Soviet Central Asia, using Landsat remote-sensing time series data26
Anchored in place, driven by risk: How place attachment amplifies the household flood adaptation26
Quantifying embodied cultivated land-use change and its socioeconomic driving forces in China26
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Bat bio-assisted sampling (BAS) for monitoring urban heat island26
Refining the scale of the rural-urban landscape: A policy-relevant application to Chile25
Place attachment and lived values in Western Australian communities25
Neighborhood externalities modify the nexus between residential land and housing prices: A joint analysis using regression tree models25
Assessing wildfire activity and forest loss in protected areas of the Amazon basin25
Decadal beach-dune profile monitoring along a 230-km high-energy sandy coast: Aquitaine, southwest France25
Testing an international and interregional inverse size-volatility hypothesis for invention25
Decoding the dynamics and disparities of urban carbon intensity under the influence of land use and demographics from both global and local perspectives24
What are the environmental preferences of runners? Evidence from Guangzhou24
Systemic planning vs. individual choice: The optimal matching for urban healthcare facilities and patient population24
Mapping liveability: The “15-min city” concept for car-dependent districts in Auckland, New Zealand24
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Maxent modeling for predicting the potential distribution of human-elephant conflict risk in Sri Lanka24
Social and environmental vulnerability to flooding: Investigating cross-scale hypotheses24
Burned area occurrence in agrarian reform settlement projects in the Matopiba region, Brazil24
Identifying ecological degradation and restoration zone based on ecosystem quality: A case study of Yangtze River Delta24
Exploring the nonlinear effect of population shrinkage on carbon emission intensity in Chinese counties using an interpretable XGBoost model24
Space-time relationships between COVID-19 vaccinations and human mobility patterns in the United States23
Variation in child care access across neighborhood types: A two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) approach23
Investigating the spatial clustering of drowning events in the United Kingdom: A geospatial cross-sectional study23
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Sensing noise exposure and its inequality based on noise complaint data through vision-language hybrid method23
A multi-level framework for assessing the spatial equity of urban public space towards SDG 11.7.1 - a case study in Beijing23
Trade-offs of landscape connectivity between regional and interregional ecological security patterns in a junction area of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region23
A GIS-based assessment of pedestrian accessibility to urban parks in the city of Constanța, Romania23
Mapping forest ecosystem service supply in two case studies in Latvia23
Unravelling urban typologies in Latin American cities: Integrating socioeconomic factors and urban configurations across scales22
High spatial resolution data obtained by GNSS and RPAS to assess islets flood-prone scenarios for 210022
Exploring nonlinear effects of built environment on jogging behavior using random forest22
Dynamic evaluation of cropland degradation risk by combining multi-temporal remote sensing and geographical data in the Black Soil Region of Jilin Province, China22
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Trends and attributions of the long-term thermal comfort across the urban–rural gradient in major Chinese cities22
Mapping Emotional Attachment as a Measure of Sense of Place to Identify Coastal Restoration Priority Areas22
Window Expeditions: A playful approach to crowdsourcing natural language descriptions of everyday lived landscapes22
Flooding and inequality: A multilevel analysis of exposure to floods and poverty in French cities22
Distinguishing the effects of land use policies on ecosystem services and their trade-offs based on multi-scenario simulations22
Association between built environment factors and collective walking behavior in peri-urban area: Evidence from Chengdu21
Grain-cropping suitability for evaluating the agricultural land use change in Brazil21
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 ima21
Top-down versus bottom-up: Spatial pattern and human mobility of newly developing industrial towns in Chinese “city-NIT” network21
Built environment and airbnb spatial distribution in Hong Kong: A case study considering the spatial heterogeneity and multiscale effects21
Hidden gateways to digital space—the spatial distribution of Wi-Fi networks in the context of demographic structure in rural areas21
Colonize the desert vs. retreat to the mountains: The evolution of city-water relationships in the Tarim river basin over the past 2000 years20
Spatio-temporal agglomeration and morphological causes of Shanghai catering clusters20
Exploring the factors influencing visits to urban parks: A case study of Beijing's central urban area20
Land use change analysis and modeling of its future trajectories in Morogoro Region, Tanzania: Implication for conservation20
Riding through the heat: Assessing heat health risk of cycling based on diurnal temperature and shared-bike big data20
Understanding the role of regional cooperation in mitigating ecological footprint: An empirical analysis of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area20
Understanding the migration of highly and less-educated labourers in post-reform China20
Methodological framework for territorial planning of urban areas: Analysis of socio-economic vulnerability and risk associated with flash flood hazards20
Artificial neural networks applied to landslide susceptibility: The effect of sampling areas on model capacity for generalization and extrapolation20
Exploring factors influencing the agglomeration of implicit consumption space: A comparison with explicit consumption space20
How do the characteristics of local officials affect land urbanization bubble? A case study of Hangzhou, China20
The evolution of public participation GIS (PPGIS) barriers in spatial planning practice19
Mobilities and the flexible boundaries of the neighbourhood. A test with crime data in Barcelona19
Carbon emissions and government interventions in urban agglomerations of China: An integrated GWR and neural network approach19
Heatwave exposure inequality: An urban-rural comparison of environmental justice19
Revealing disparities and driving factors in leisure activity segregation of residents and tourists: A data-driven analysis of smart phone data19
Landscape of multiculturalism in Australia: Tracking ethnic diversity and its relation with neighbourhood features in 2001–202119
Introducing rational agent access model to enhance scene-to-hospital accessibility of emergency medical services19
Spatiotemporal differentiation of carbon budget and balance zoning: Insights from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River Urban Agglomeration, China19
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From trajectories to network: Delineating the spatial pattern of recreational walking in Guangzhou19
Contrasting inequalities in collective residence-based and pedestrian-based urban greenery exposure with multi-sourced urban big data and deep learning19
Where drinks and danger meet: Analyzing the spatial link between Bars and crime in Detroit19
Does place-based policy increase new firm births? Evidence from special economic zones in China18
New trends in South-South migration: The economic impact of COVID-19 and immigration enforcement18
Achieving win–win outcomes between urban growth and urban greening: The role of environmental governance18
The role of Industry-University-Research collaboration in regional technological diversification: An empirical study on the pharmaceutical industry in China18
Exploring the classification of China's ecosystem service networks and their driving factors based on current status and evolutionary trends18
Geospatial modelling of housing rents from TOD using MGWR and implications on integrated transportation-land use planning18
Towards a socially resilient city: Healthcare accessibility and rural migrants’ identity integration in urban China18
Exploring local perspectives on flood risk: A participatory GIS approach for bridging the gap between modelled and perceived flood risk zones18
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The health-trash nexus in challenging environments: A spatial mixed methods analysis of Accra, Ghana18
Unplanned urban built-up growth creates problem in human adaptability: Evidence from a growing up city in eastern Himalayan foothills18
Accessibility in São Paulo: An individual road to equity?18
Have rural settlement changes harmed ecosystem carbon in China?18
Spatial dynamics in the urban-rural-natural interface within a social-ecological hotspot18
Enhancing intercity transportation will improve the equitable distribution of high-quality health care in China17
A framework for the optimal deployment of police drones based on street-level crime risk17
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Coastal cities in the Southern US floodplains: An evaluation of environmental equity of flood hazards and social vulnerabilities17
Do carbon sequestration and food security in urban and rural landscapes differ in patterns, relationships, and responses?17
The geography of perceived safety of the neighbourhood: An intersectional intercategorical analysis17
Socio-economic vulnerability assessment of shifting cultivators (Jhumias) amidst the changing climate in Mizoram, northeast India17
Effects of cluster plot design parameters on landscape fragmentation estimates: A case study using data from the Swedish national forest inventory17
Estimating geographic access to healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Degree of Urbanisation17
Determining the ecological compensation standards based on willingness to accept (WTA) for intensive agricultural production areas: A case in China17
Do railways improve territorial cohesion of the Tibetan Plateau? A case study of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway17
Governing regional inequality through regional cooperation? A case study of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay area17
Nonlinear interactive associations between built environments and adults’ mental health in China using a longitudinal design17
Geographical indications in cheese mountain areas: Opportunity or threat to landscape and environmental conservation? The case of Cabrales (Spain)17
Exploring the relationship between city size and carbon emissions: An integrated population-land framework17
Measuring the housing precarity of migrant private tenants and assessing its impact on their life satisfaction - evidence from Guangzhou, China16
How does cultural distance affect tourism destination choice? Evidence from the correlation between regional culture and tourism flow16
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Social ties and talent migration: Considering the intentions of migrants to permanently settle in Chinese cities16
Does community-based tenure prevent land grabbing? The oil palm case in Mexico16
Spatial and social heterogeneities of residents’ online shopping behaviors within a large Chinese city: The case of Weifang16
The spatially and temporally varying association between mental illness and substance use mortality and unemployment: A Bayesian analysis in the contiguous United States, 2001–201416
Disamenity effects of displaced villagers’ resettlement community on housing price in China and implication for socio-spatial segregation16
Assessing the influence of variation in forage availability on spatial patterns of beehive migration using a hybrid modelling approach – B-Agent16
Local institutions and pandemics: City autonomy and the Black Death16
Modelling locational choices of older adults in China, 2010–201516
Measuring spatial mismatch in education capitalization via the housing market: An empirical study based on geographically weighted regression and Geodetector16
The rich-poor divide: Unravelling the spatial complexities and determinants of wealth inequality in India16
From Western centralism to decentralization: Trends, breakthroughs and limitations in the world city network based on the winter olympic games16
Wildfire, evacuation, and cardiovascular events: A spatial exposure approach16
Assessing the diversity and evenness of ecosystem services as perceived by residents using participatory mapping16
How migrant composition affects attitudes of urban locals in urban China: A two-scale study16
Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of sustainable development goals on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau16
Livelihood changes of migrants due to hydropower construction: A case study from Southwestern China16
The impact of urbanization on urban flood risk of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand16
Measuring cluster interactions through in-between areas in epidemic spatiotemporal dynamics15
Identification of spatial and functional interactions in Beijing based on trajectory data15
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 data15
Who, where, when: Observer behavior influences spatial and temporal patterns of iNaturalist participation15
Spatial and moderating effects of greenspace on the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence15
Dynamic changes of the complex coupling relationships between ecosystem services and socio-ecological factors and the impact of human activities: Insights from network analysis15
The uneven burden of COVID-19 in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil – Risk analysis from a bottom-up perspective15
Summer electricity consumption and its drivers in urban areas15
Geographical match of objective and subjective measures of well-being at an intra-city scale15
Geospatial evaluation of COVID-19 mortality: Influence of socio-economic status and underlying health conditions in contiguous USA15
Domesticating sustainability transitions: Spatial and temporal variation of industrial eco-efficiency in China15
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity and influencing factors in the synergistic enhancement of urban ecological resilience: Evidence from the Yellow River Basin of China15
Evaluation of traditional rain-fed agricultural terraces for soil erosion control through UAV observation in the middle mountain of Nepal15
Risk assessment of unlined oil pits leaking into groundwater in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A modified GIS-DRASTIC approach15
Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts: Contextualizing multiple and multiscalar industrial branching mechanisms for the emergence of biotechnology industries in Guangzhou, China15
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Construction of ecological security pattern adapting to future land use change in Pearl River Delta, China15
Remapping California's wildland urban interface: A property-level time-space framework, 2000–202015
Promissory shock, broken future: COVID-19 and state-led speculations in biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in South Korea14
Corrigendum to “Strong increase in coverage but accelerated fragmentation in China's urban forests under rapid urbanization” [Applied Geography 185 (2025) 103793]14
Spatial configuration and the Messina Strait question: A discussion on Reggio-Calabria and Messina road-networks linkage14
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
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
Regional entrepreneurial spirit and global value chains participation in Chinese cities: the moderating role of digital transformation signals14
The geographical aspect of place branding: Interactions between place brands in the spatial hierarchy14
GIS-Fuzzy DEMATEL MCDA model in the evaluation of the areas for ecotourism development: A case study of “Uzundere”, Erzurum-Turkey14
Spatial nonstationarity and the role of environmental metal exposures on COVID-19 mortality in New Mexico14
Urban terrain, mountain landscape, and housing price: A heterogeneous investigation of the amenity effects in a mountainous city (Guiyang) from the vertical dimension14
Understanding the structural imbalance in non-grain land Utilization: Insights from China's arable land policy14
Can innovation-driven productivity mitigate infrastructure spatial inequality? Evidence from 282 prefecture-level cities in China14
How transport shapes the landscape of large-format food retail trade? Retail geography in Poland – An interactive measure14
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Mapping spatio-temporal patterns of soundscapes in a mountain landscape13
Core-periphery disparity in community vitality in Chongqing, China: Nonlinear explanation based on mobile phone data and multi-scale factors13
Urban land-population-economy simulation model: Transitioning from 2D to multidimensional dynamics with cyclic feedback13
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Identifying disproportionate impacts in Arkansas: New considerations for environmental justice mapping and implications for leaders13
Effects of urban environmental factors on heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) response time13
Modeling and prediction of fire occurrences along an elevational gradient in Western Himalayas13
The impact of the built environment on human mobility patterns during Covid-19: A study of New York City's Open Streets Program13
Identifying ecological strategic points based on multi-functional ecological networks: A case study of Changzhi City, China13
Estimating the environmental Kuznets curve and its influencing factors of CO2 emissions: Insights from development stages and rebound effects13
Visitation-based classification of urban parks through mobile phone big data in Tokyo13
Assessing the conservation effectiveness of national nature reserves in China13
Dasymetry Dash Flood (DDF). A method for population mapping and flood exposure assessment in touristic cities13
Examining the association between urban green space and viral transmission of COVID-19 during the early outbreak13
Does cross-border commuting between EU-countries reduce inequality?13
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