Journal of Geographical Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Geographical Sciences is 3. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Quantitative measurement of the effects of administrative division adjustments on regional development73
Evolutionary process and development implications of traditional trade routes in the Himalayan region73
A strategy of the rural governance for territorial spatial planning in China52
Dead shrub patches as ecosystem engineers in degraded drylands52
Land use change and its influencing factors along railways in Africa: A case study of the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway49
Energy dissipation caused by boundary resistance in a typical reach of the lower Yellow River and the implications for riverbed stability46
Spatiotemporal pattern of the dynamics in area, production, and yield of Aus rice in Bangladesh and its response to droughts from 1980 to 201838
The recent evolution of dune landforms and its environmental indications in the mid-latitude desert area (Hexi Corridor)37
Exploring zonal heterogeneities of primary school students’ commute-mode choices through a geographically weighted regression model36
Incorporation of intra-city human mobility into urban growth simulation: A case study in Beijing35
Evaluating flash flood simulation capability with respect to rainfall temporal variability in a small mountainous catchment35
Assessment of the socioeconomic development levels of six economic corridors in the Belt and Road region33
Spatial pattern of knowledge innovation function among Chinese cities and its influencing factors33
Moving towards synergistic reductions on PM2.5 and CO2 and its mechanism: A case study of Yangtze River Economic Belt, China33
The impact of economic development on urban livability: Evidence from 40 large and medium-sized cities of China31
Spatial distribution and influencing factors of Surface Nibble Degree index in the severe gully erosion region of China’s Loess Plateau31
Farmland use behavior and its influencing factors from the perspective of population migration29
Evaluation method and empirical application of human activity suitability of land resources in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau28
Temperature trends in some major countries from the 1980s to 201928
Measuring Chinese cities’ economic development with mobile application usage28
Substrate damage and recovery after giant clam shell mining at remote coral reefs in the southern South China Sea27
Growing impacts of low-flow events on vegetation dynamics in hydrologically connected wetlands downstream Yangtze River Basin after the operation of the Three Gorges Dam27
Tourism development potential and obstacle factors of cultural heritage: Evidence from traditional music in Xiangxi27
Characterization and projection of spatial and temporal changes in habitat quality of Sanjiangyuan based on land use change26
Land consolidation and eco-environmental sustainability in Loess Plateau: A study of Baota district, Shaanxi province, China26
Changes over flood season in turbidity maximum zone in a mountainous macrotidal estuary from 1986 to 202026
Patterns, processes, and differentiation mechanisms of China’s transition from old to new economic drivers23
Spatio-temporal variations in ecological spaces and their ecological carrying status in China’s mega-urban agglomerations22
The validity and international comparability of China’s floating population concepts and data21
Natural and human-induced decline and spatio-temporal differentiation of terrestrial water storage over the Lancang-Mekong River Basin20
Urbanization under globalization: How does the Belt and Road Initiative affect urbanization levels in participating countries20
Assessment of recharge capacity potential of groundwater using comparative multi-criteria decision analysis approaches20
Intercity connections and a world city network based on international sport events: Empirical studies on the Beijing, London, and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games19
Touristic urbanization and greening of coastal dune fields: A long-term assessment of a temperate sandy barrier of Argentina19
Structure and governance model of rural social space quality: A case study of Longxi County in the Loess Hilly Area of China19
Intergenerational differences and influencing factors of farmers’ terrace abandonment behavior: Based on a questionnaire survey of 2382 rural households in China19
Geomorphology-oriented theoretical framework and construction method for value-added DEM19
Policy transfer and scale reconstruction of China’s overseas industrial parks: A case study of the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park18
Differential evolution of territorial space and effects on ecological environment quality in China’s border regions18
Carbon sink response of terrestrial vegetation ecosystems in the Yangtze River Delta and its driving mechanism18
Intensified risk to ecosystem productivity under climate change in the arid/humid transition zone in northern China18
Considering time-lag effects can improve the accuracy of NPP simulation using a light use efficiency model18
Distribution patterns of SOC/TN content and their relationship with topography, vegetation and climatic factors in China’s north-south transitional zone18
Divergent responses of Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) to recent warming along elevational gradients in the central Qilian Mountains, Northwest China18
Observing the compact trend of urban expansion patterns in global 33 megacities during 2000–202018
Evolution characteristics and driving factors of rural regional functions in the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China17
Evaluating changes in ecological land and effect of protecting important ecological spaces in China17
Spatial and temporal coordinated development research on ecosystem services and human well-being in the typical pastoral area of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau17
Evaluation and structural analysis of the functions of the Tibetan Plateau National Park Cluster16
Population evolution at the prefecture-level city scale in China: Change patterns and spatial correlations16
Spatial and temporal changes of glaciers and glacial lakes in the Northern Tianshan Mountains over the past 30 years16
How does the coupling coordination relationship between high-quality urbanization and land use evolve in China? New evidence based on exploratory spatiotemporal analyses16
Development of periglacial landforms and soil formation in the Ilgaz Mountains and effect of climate (Western Black Sea Region-Türkiye)16
Traffic accessibility and the coupling degree of ecosystem services supply and demand in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, China15
Scientific attributes and expression methods of geographical boundary15
Extraction and spatiotemporal evolution analysis of tidal flats in the Bohai Rim during 1984–2019 based on remote sensing15
Is the special economic zone an effective policy tool for promoting polycentricity? Evidence from China15
Contributions of climate change to cereal yields in Tibet, 1993–201715
Simulation and prediction of multi-scenario evolution of ecological space based on FLUS model: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China15
How do GPM and TRMM precipitation products perform in alpine regions?15
China’s transition to a low-carbon economy and climate resilience: The impact of sustainable modernization indicators15
Understanding land for high-quality development15
On integrated urban and rural development15
Process and mechanism of rural transformation in the loess hilly-gully region: A case study of Majiabian village in Suide county15
The coupling relationship between urbanization and ecological resilience in the Pearl River Delta14
Embodied land in China’s provinces from the perspective of regional trade14
Literature review of accessibility measures and models used in land use and transportation planning in last 5 years14
Spatio-temporal variation prediction on Cd content in the rice grains from Northern Zhejiang Plain during 2014–2019 based on high-precision soil geochemical data14
Different trajectories of livelihood transformations in response to the trans-Eurasian exchange in agricultural, pastoral, and agro-pastoral regions of north China during the late Neolithic and Bronze14
Coordinated development of land multi-function space: An analytical framework for matching the supply of resources and environment with the use of land space for ecological protection, agricultural pr13
Evaluating urban development and socio-economic disparity in India through nighttime light data13
The spatial pattern and governance of Zhongyuan Urban-Rural System in its development trajectory12
Characterizing the behavior of surge-type glaciers in the Puruogangri Ice Field, Tibetan Plateau12
Spatio-temporal characteristics and influencing factors of Pseudo Human Settlements in Northeast China based on the Baidu Index12
Evolution and obstacle factors of high-quality industrial development in the π-shaped Curve Area of the Yellow River basin in China12
Regional ecosystem services relationships and their potential driving factors in the Yellow River Basin, China12
The effects of human activities on windbreak and sand fixation services in Inner Mongolia grasslands from 2000 to 202012
Contribution of China’s carbon budget on global radiative forcing12
Chemical fertilizer rate, use efficiency and reduction of cereal crops in China, 1998–201812
Developing socio-hydrology: Research progress, opportunities and challenges11
Paleoclimatic proxies from global closed basins and the possible beginning of Anthropocene11
Polycentric urban development with state-led administrative division adjustment: A policy insight for urban spatial transformation11
Rocky desertification poverty in Southwest China: Progress, challenges and enlightenment to rural revitalization11
Exploring spatial relationships between stream channel features, water depths and flow velocities during flash floods using HEC-GeoRAS and Geographic Information Systems11
Spatial distribution characteristics and differentiated management strategies of China Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems11
Spatiotemporal variations of water use efficiency and its driving factors in Inner Mongolia from 2001 to 202011
Rural-urban governance toward Sustainable Development Goals11
Geographical features and development models of estuarine cities11
Structure and evolution of the submarine cable network of Chinese mainland11
China’s food security situation and key questions in the new era: A perspective of farmland protection10
Features of the long-term transformation of the Krasnodar reservoir, near the mouth of the Kuban River, Russia10
Bank and point bar morphodynamics in the Lower Jingjiang Reach of the Yangtze River in response to the Three Gorges Project10
Disciplinary structure and development strategy of physical geography in China10
Regeneration patterns and drivers of different underutilized lands in the rust belt city of developing country: An empirical case study for Northeast China10
The driving effect of informal economies on urbanization in China10
Ecological function transitions of land use in the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone from the perspective of production-living-ecological space10
Evolution characteristics of ecosystem functional stability and ecosystem functional zoning on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau10
Modelling the impacts of cropland displacement on potential cereal production with four levels of China’s administrative boundaries10
Quantitative assessment of the spatial distribution of 239+240Pu inventory derived from global fallout in soils from Asia and Europe10
Dynamic evolution trend of comprehensive transportation green efficiency in China: From a spatio-temporal interaction perspective10
Glacier wastage and its vulnerability in the Qilian Mountains10
Long-term glacier variations and the response to climate fluctuation in Qilian Mountains, China10
A large-scale village classification model for tailored rural revitalization: A case study of Hubei province, China10
Feasibility analysis of a double-cropping system for the efficient use of farmland on China’s Loess Plateau10
Geochemical features and their implication of provenances of riparian dunes in the northern China deserts9
Uphill cropland and stability assessment of gained cropland in China over the preceding 30 years9
Spatio-temporal correlation between human activity intensity and land surface temperature on the north slope of Tianshan Mountains9
Imbalance of inter-provincial forest carbon sequestration rate from 2010 to 2060 in China and its regulation strategy9
Quantify the impacts of climate variability and anthropogenic activities on runoff: With an improved double mass curve method9
Spatio-temporal pattern and attribution analysis of the mass elevation effect in the Tianshan Mountains in China9
Perception of pleasure in the urban running environment with street view images and running routes9
Development of center pivot irrigation farmlands from 2009 to 2018 in the Mu Us dune field, China: Implication for land use planning9
Progress on spatial prediction methods for soil particle-size fractions9
Transnational technology transfer network in China: Spatial dynamics and its determinants9
Warm season temperature reconstruction in North China based on the tree-ring blue intensity of Picea meyeri9
Critical threshold of periodic point bar scour and sediment body transport path in tidal reaches: A case study of Fujiangsha reach, Yangtze River9
Distribution and land use characteristics of alluvial fans in the Lhasa River Basin, Tibet9
Effects of water level variations on the water quality of Huayang Lakes, China9
Spatiotemporal differentiation and attribution of land surface temperature in China in 2001–20209
Divergent contributions of spring and autumn photosynthetic phenology to seasonal carbon uptake of subtropical vegetation in China9
Decoupled driving forces of variabilities of transpiration in Chinese subtropical vegetation based on remote sensing data9
OSL chronology reveals Late Pleistocene floods and their impact on landform evolution in the lower reaches of the Keriya River in the Taklimakan Desert9
Dynamics and interactions of water-related ecosystem services in the Yellow River Basin, China8
Transfer learning framework for streamflow prediction in large-scale transboundary catchments: Sensitivity analysis and applicability in data-scarce basins8
Dynamic changes and transitions of agricultural landscape patterns in mountainous areas: A case study from the hinterland of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area8
Spatial expansion effects on urban ecosystem services supply-demand mismatching in Guanzhong Plain Urban Agglomeration of China8
The poverty evolution of typical countries along the Belt and Road and implications from China’s poverty reduction experiences8
Tree-ring-based drought variability in northern China over the past three centuries8
Spatiotemporal patterns of human and wild boar conflicts in rural China and its implications for social-ecological systems coevolution8
Land-use planning in China: Past, present, and future8
Geopolitics of the energy transition8
Spatial scaling effects of gully erosion in response to driving factors in southern China8
Monthly calibration and optimization of Ångström-Prescott equation coefficients for comprehensive agricultural divisions in China8
Advancing flood susceptibility modeling using stacking ensemble machine learning: A multi-model approach8
Economic sustainability of China’s growth from the perspective of its resource and environmental supply system: National scale modeling and policy analysis8
Influence of river-lake isolation on the water level variations of Caizi Lake, lower reach of the Yangtze River8
The spatial patterns and determinants of internal migration of older adults in China from 1995 to 20158
North-south vegetation transition in the eastern Qinling-Daba Mountains8
How to promote the green development of urbanization in the Tibetan Plateau?8
Assessment of hydraulic performance changes of Dongting Lake after the Three Gorges Reservoir impoundment by a novel semi-empirical approach8
Anthropogenic origin of a change in the fire-climate relationship in northern China after ∼2000 yr BP: Evidence from a 15,500-year black carbon record from Dali Lake8
Evaluation of the carbon sequestration of Zhalong Wetland under climate change7
Distribution of topographical changes triggered by prolonged heavy rainfall in the Chinese Loess Plateau: A case study of the Gutun catchment in Yan’an7
Climate-driven changes in drought metrics across the Yellow River Basin based on Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 67
Assessment on the sustainability of water resources utilization in Central Asia based on water resources carrying capacity7
Glacier area changes in the Nujiang-Salween River Basin over the past 45 years7
Spatiotemporal distribution of sea-island prehistoric dune sites, Holocene sea levels, and aeolian sand activities in Fujian Province, China7
Relational characteristics and dynamics between high-tech firms in the Pearl River Delta and the empowerment for technological innovation by Hong Kong7
Human settlements in the Ordos Plateau since the Neolithic Age7
Regional variation of urban air quality in China and its dominant factors7
Identification of regional pattern of climate change risk in China under different global warming targets7
Attribution of trends in meteorological drought during 1960–2016 over the Loess Plateau, China7
Glacier service value and influence on human well-being in Qilian Mountains7
How territorial function determines CO2 emissions in China: An approach of spatial dimension7
Influence mechanism of the flow of high-skilled talents on technological evolution in emerging countries7
Impact of changes in precipitation pattern on food supply in a monsoon interlacing area and its mechanism: A case study of Yunnan Province7
Global poverty dynamics and resilience building for sustainable poverty reduction7
Examining spatio-temporal variations in carbon budget and carbon compensation zoning in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration based on major functional zones7
Ecological transitions in Xinjiang, China: Unraveling the impact of climate change on vegetation dynamics (1990–2020)7
Analyzing space-time evolution of rural transition in a rapidly urbanizing region: A case study of Suzhou, China7
Spatio-temporal evolution and influencing factors of geopolitical relations among Arctic countries based on news big data7
Spatio-temporal characteristics of farmland occupation of construction land expansion and its spatial relationship with grain yield in China for 2000–20206
Multi-hierarchical spatial clustering for characteristic towns in China: An Orange-based framework to integrate GIS and Geodetector6
Dynamics of soil loss and sediment export as affected by land use/cover change in Koshi River Basin, Nepal6
Linkage between riverbed scouring or deposition and the evolution of central bars: Case study in the Yangzhong reach of the Yangtze River6
The drivers and spatial distribution of economic efficiency in China’s cities6
Investigating the critical influencing factors of snowmelt runoff and development of a mid-long term snowmelt runoff forecasting6
Spatial pattern evolution and driving factors of urban green technology innovation in China6
A 1000-year history of cropland cover change along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in China6
Flood assessment and early warning of the reoccurrence of river blockage at the Baige landslide6
Spatial non-stationary characteristics between grass yield and its influencing factors in the Ningxia temperate grasslands based on a mixed geographically weighted regression model6
Simulation of urban expansion using geographical similarity transition rules and neighbourhood sizes6
Residents’ urbanized landscape preferences in rural areas reveal the importance of naturalness-livability contrast6
Analysis on geo-effects of China’s overseas industrial parks: A case study of Cambodia Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone6
Model construction of urban agglomeration expansion simulation considering urban flow and hierarchical characteristics6
The location choice of Chinese investment in the United States: Industrial agglomeration, ethnic networks and firm heterogeneity6
How does land consolidation affect rural development transformation?6
The evolutionary trajectory of the rural settlements in Southern Jiangsu in the past 20 years: From the perspective of urbanization and land use6
The pattern, evolution, and mechanism of venture capital flows in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China6
Interdecadal variation of drought patterns and associated influencing factors in the north-south transitional zone of China6
Profoundly entwined ecosystem services, land-use change and human well-being into sustainability management in Yushu, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau6
Measuring glacier changes in the Tianshan Mountains over the past 20 years using Google Earth Engine and machine learning6
Spatial identification and evaluation of rural vitality from a function-element-flow perspective: Evidence of Lin’an district in Hangzhou, China5
Sustainable poverty alleviation and green development in China’s underdeveloped areas5
Adjustment of flood discharge capacity with varying boundary conditions in a braided reach of the Lower Yellow River5
Visual method of analyzing COVID-19 case information using spatio-temporal objects with multi-granularity5
Quantitative relationship between channels and bars in a tidal reach of the lower Yangtze River: Implications for river management5
Construction of ecological security patterns and ecological restoration zones in the city of Ningbo, China5
Differences and dynamics of multidimensional poverty in rural China from multiple perspectives analysis5
Machine learning-based identification for the main influencing factors of alluvial fan development in the Lhasa River Basin, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau5
Clustering stream profiles to understand the geomorphological features and evolution of the Yangtze River by using DEMs5
Temporal and spatial laws and simulations of erosion and deposition in the Lower Yellow River since the operation of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir5
Development characteristics and construction prospects for a multi-integrated economic zone in the South China Sea Region5
The meliorization process of urban green spaces: Integrating landsense creation for sustainable development5
Spatial variation and driving mechanism of soil organic carbon components in the alluvial/sedimentary zone of the Yellow River5
Application of geographically weighted regression model in the estimation of surface air temperature lapse rate5
How to identify transitional geospace in mountainous areas?5
Planning hierarchical hospital service areas for maternal care using a network optimization approach: A case study in Hubei, China5
Spatiotemporal differentiation and development process of tidal creek network morphological characteristics in the Yellow River Delta5
Spatial identification and scenario simulation of the ecological transition zones under the climate change in China5
Method for UAV-based 3D topography reconstruction of tidal creeks5
Spatiotemporal variation and hotspots of climate change in the Yangtze River Watershed during 1958–20175
Impacts of seismic activity and climatic change on Chinese history in the recent millennium5
Spatiotemporal variations in remote sensing phenology of vegetation and its responses to temperature change of boreal forest in tundra-taiga transitional zone in the Eastern Siberia5
Mechanism and effects of the increase in winter temperatures in the Arctic region on cold winters in Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China for the period 1961–20185
An empirical study of the registered population transformation in China’s megacities5
Glacier changes in the Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve of China during 2000–20185
Geomorphology-oriented digital terrain analysis: Progress and perspectives5
Three-dimensional delineation of soil pollutants at contaminated sites: Progress and prospects4
The segmentation of debris-flow fans based on local features and spatial attention mechanism4
Does urban technological innovation and cooperation promote its green development? Evidence from cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, China4
Spatiotemporal evolution and driving factors of global production networks: An analysis based on the input-output technique4
Calculation of instream ecological water requirements under runoff variation conditions: Taking Xitiaoxi River in Taihu Lake Basin as an example4
Evolution of rural multifunction and its natural and socioeconomic factors in coastal China4
Urban expansion and intra-urban land evolution as well as their natural environmental constraints in arid/semiarid regions of China from 2000–20184
Impacts of traffic accessibility on ecosystem services: An integrated spatial approach4
Morphological differentiation characteristics and classification criteria of lunar surface relief amplitude4
Dynamics of the global semiconductor trade and its dependencies4
Spatio-temporal pattern and influencing factors of border tourism efficiency in China4
Effect of shipping activity on warming trends in the Canadian Arctic4
Collaboration for radical and incremental innovation: The roles of intra-region and intra-group knowledge spillover4
The impact of COVID-19 on China’s regional economies and industries4
Path dependence or path creation of mature resource-based cities: A new firm entry perspective4
Erosions on the southern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from in-situ cosmogenic nuclides 10Be and 26Al in fluvial sediments4
Separating the effects of two dimensions on ecosystem services: Environmental variables and net trade-offs4
Multi-scale coupling analysis of urbanization and ecosystem services supply-demand budget in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China4
Spatiotemporal evolution of population exposure to multi-scenario rainstorms in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration4
Urban economic efficiency under the interactive effect of urban hierarchy and connection networks in China4
Research progress and prospect on development geography4
Multi-scale analysis of trade-off/synergistic effects of forest ecosystem services in the Funiu Mountain Region, China4
An optimized baseflow separation method for assessment of seasonal and spatial variability of baseflow and the driving factors4
Spatiotemporal evolution of surface urban heat islands: Concerns regarding summer heat wave periods4
Impact of the Grain-for-Green Programme and climate change on the soil erosion decline in the Yangtze River, China4
Climate change and multi-dimensional sustainable urbanization4
Characteristics and progress of land use/cover change research during 1990–20183
Latitudinal differentiation and patterns of temperate and subtropical plants in the Qinling-Daba Mountains3
Human sedentism and use of animal resources on the prehistoric Tibetan Plateau3
Post-suburbanization in Qingpu New Town: Process and formation mechanism3
Study of loess ecological slope protection optimization measures and prediction of the erosion control effect3
The optimal explanatory power of soil erosion and water yield in karst mountainous areas3
Space reconstruction process and internal driving mechanisms of Taobao villages in metropolitan fringe areas: A case study of Lirendong village in Guangzhou, China3
Disciplinary structure and development strategy of information geography in China3
Can the integration between urban and rural areas be realized? A new theoretical analytical framework3
Combinatorial knowledge dynamics, innovative performance, and transition studies3
Monitoring periodically national land use changes and analyzing their spatiotemporal patterns in China during 2015–20203
Exploring the response of ecosystem services to landscape change: A case study from eastern Qinghai province3
The historical logics and geographical patterns of rural-urban governance in China3
Baseline determination, pollution source and ecological risk of heavy metals in surface sediments of the Amu Darya Basin, Central Asia3
Theorizing Belt and Road construction mode from institutional and cultural perspectives3
Influence of the variation in rural population on farmland preservation in the rapid urbanization area of China3
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