Journal of Geographical Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Geographical Sciences is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Regional ecosystem services relationships and their potential driving factors in the Yellow River Basin, China122
Intercity connections and a world city network based on international sport events: Empirical studies on the Beijing, London, and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games94
Relocation for improved ecosystem service and human wellbeing? Evidence from Fuping, Hebei, China81
Characterization and projection of spatial and temporal changes in habitat quality of Sanjiangyuan based on land use change63
Population evolution at the prefecture-level city scale in China: Change patterns and spatial correlations59
The impact of economic development on urban livability: Evidence from 40 large and medium-sized cities of China52
Land consolidation and eco-environmental sustainability in Loess Plateau: A study of Baota district, Shaanxi province, China51
Energy dissipation caused by boundary resistance in a typical reach of the lower Yellow River and the implications for riverbed stability51
Comprehensive evaluation and influencing factors of healthy cities in China’s urban agglomerations50
Chemical fertilizer rate, use efficiency and reduction of cereal crops in China, 1998–201847
Glacier service value and influence on human well-being in Qilian Mountains46
Uncovering differences in the spatial structure of intercity interactive networks described by multi-source migration flow: From the multi-hierarchical perspective44
Examining spatio-temporal variations in carbon budget and carbon compensation zoning in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration based on major functional zones43
Glacier area changes in the Nujiang-Salween River Basin over the past 45 years42
Assessment on the sustainability of water resources utilization in Central Asia based on water resources carrying capacity39
Imbalance of inter-provincial forest carbon sequestration rate from 2010 to 2060 in China and its regulation strategy39
Long-term glacier variations and the response to climate fluctuation in Qilian Mountains, China39
Spatial scaling effects of gully erosion in response to driving factors in southern China37
Assessment of hydraulic performance changes of Dongting Lake after the Three Gorges Reservoir impoundment by a novel semi-empirical approach37
Land-use planning in China: Past, present, and future36
Polycentric urban development with state-led administrative division adjustment: A policy insight for urban spatial transformation36
Transnational technology transfer network in China: Spatial dynamics and its determinants33
Effects of water level variations on the water quality of Huayang Lakes, China31
Distribution of prehistoric human land use in the Liaohe River Valley as related to climate change31
Influence mechanism of the flow of high-skilled talents on technological evolution in emerging countries30
Geographical features and development models of estuarine cities30
Dynamics and interactions of water-related ecosystem services in the Yellow River Basin, China29
China’s food security situation and key questions in the new era: A perspective of farmland protection28
Geomorphology of mega-dunes in the eastern Taklimakan Desert27
Climate change impacts on the architectural adaptation in ancient China during the 3rd–6th centuries26
Linkage between riverbed scouring or deposition and the evolution of central bars: Case study in the Yangzhong reach of the Yangtze River25
Adjustment of thalweg longitudinal profiles in response to sediment silting in cascade reservoirs: A case study of the lower Jinsha River25
Evolution of rural multifunction and its natural and socioeconomic factors in coastal China25
Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem services under multiple future scenarios to assess the progress of Sustainable Development Goals implementation24
Adjustment of flood discharge capacity with varying boundary conditions in a braided reach of the Lower Yellow River24
Multi-hierarchical spatial clustering for characteristic towns in China: An Orange-based framework to integrate GIS and Geodetector24
The segmentation of debris-flow fans based on local features and spatial attention mechanism24
Glacier changes in the Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve of China during 2000–201823
Multi-scale analysis of trade-off/synergistic effects of forest ecosystem services in the Funiu Mountain Region, China23
Model construction of urban agglomeration expansion simulation considering urban flow and hierarchical characteristics23
Quantitative relationship between channels and bars in a tidal reach of the lower Yangtze River: Implications for river management22
Urban economic efficiency under the interactive effect of urban hierarchy and connection networks in China22
Spatiotemporal heterogeneities in vegetation phenophase responses to climate extremes in arid mountains of Central Asia22
Measuring glacier changes in the Tianshan Mountains over the past 20 years using Google Earth Engine and machine learning22
Quantum harmonic oscillator model for simulation of intercity population mobility21
Global and regional changes in working-age population exposure to heat extremes under climate change21
Classification and detection of dominant factors in geospatial patterns of traditional settlements in China21
Post-suburbanization in Qingpu New Town: Process and formation mechanism21
Evolution of vegetation phenology and its response to urbanisation in Shaanxi province, China: A fine-scale perspective20
Exploring the historical evolution of tourism-environment interaction in protected area: A case study of Mt. Bogda20
Have China’s drylands become wetting in the past 50 years?20
Flow resistance adjustments of channel and bars in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in response to the operation of the Three Gorges Dam19
Zoning framework and policy implications of sustainable development by coupling multilevel in Beijing, China19
Evaluation, simulation, and optimization of land use spatial patterns for high-quality development: A case study of Zhengzhou city, China19
Evidence of Middle Pleistocene hominin migration in the Qinling Mountains (central China) from the Miaokou Paleolithic site19
Green roofs for a greener future: Quantifying carbon sequestration and oxygen production potential in Chinese cities19
Influencing factors of manufacturing agglomeration in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region based on enterprise big data18
Quantitative assessment of fire occurrence Dead Fuel Index threshold and spatio-temporal variation in different grassland types of China-Mongolia border area18
Geographical big data and data mining: A new opportunity for “water-energy-food” nexus analysis18
Comparative analysis of different machine learning algorithms for urban footprint extraction in diverse urban contexts using high-resolution remote sensing imagery18
The study of artificial intelligence for predicting land use changes in an arid ecosystem18
How geographic accessibility and rural governance mitigate the impact of multiple risks on rural households’ well-being: Evidence from the Dabie Mountains in China18
Global submarine cable network and digital divide18
City size and employment dynamics in China: Evidence from recruitment website data17
Land cover change and its response to water level around Tonle Sap Lake in 1988–202017
Divergent effects of climate change on cropland ecosystem water use efficiency at different elevations in southwestern China17
Dynamics of the eco-environmental quality in response to land use changes in rapidly urbanizing areas: A case study of Wuhan, China from 2000 to 201817
Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the normalized difference vegetation index of desertified areas in northern China17
Regulation factors driving vegetation changes in China during the past 20 years17
Spatial heterogeneity of the economic growth pattern and influencing factors in formerly destitute areas of China17
Morphological evolution of the channel-shoal system in the South Channel of the Changjiang Estuary during 1958–2018: Causes and future trends17
Climate change and human activities on runoff in northern Shaanxi: Based on Budyko framework analysis16
Nonlinear relationship between urban form and transport CO2 emissions: Evidence from Chinese cities based on machine learning16
Evaluation system and influencing paths for the integration of culture and tourism in traditional villages16
The effects of Taobao villages’ spatiotemporal agglomeration on urbanization: A case study of Quanzhou, Fujian16
Relationship between potential waterway depth improvement and evolution of the Jingjiang Reach of the Yangtze River in China16
Spatiotemporal evolution of national development zones and their impact on urban land growth in China16
An influencing mechanism for ecological asset gains and losses and its optimization and promotion pathways in China16
Spatiotemporal variations of eco-environment in the Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone based on remote sensing ecological index and granular computing16
Housing tenure and type choices of urban migrants in China15
Chronology of the urban evolution of Ancient Loulan City15
Characteristics of the iron mineralogy of farmland and red soils in eastern Guangdong and their pedogenetic implications15
Lake surface water-heat flux variation and its correlations with meteorological factors on multiscale in the Yamzhog Yumco, south Tibet15
Understanding the multidimensional poverty in South Asia15
Tourism development potential and obstacle factors of cultural heritage: Evidence from traditional music in Xiangxi14
Land use change and its influencing factors along railways in Africa: A case study of the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway14
Touristic urbanization and greening of coastal dune fields: A long-term assessment of a temperate sandy barrier of Argentina14
A geographical perspective on the Xia culture: Evidence from ancient phenology and paleoclimate simulation14
Extraction and spatiotemporal evolution analysis of tidal flats in the Bohai Rim during 1984–2019 based on remote sensing14
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
Literature review of accessibility measures and models used in land use and transportation planning in last 5 years14
Moving towards synergistic reductions on PM2.5 and CO2 and its mechanism: A case study of Yangtze River Economic Belt, China13
Divergent responses of Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) to recent warming along elevational gradients in the central Qilian Mountains, Northwest China13
On integrated urban and rural development13
Provincial anthropogenic emission inventory of carbonyl sulfide (COS) in China from 2015 to 202113
Spatiotemporal distribution of sea-island prehistoric dune sites, Holocene sea levels, and aeolian sand activities in Fujian Province, China13
Regional differences and formation mechanisms of watershed territorial space patterns evolution: A case study of the critical areas in the Pearl River Basin13
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 Bronze13
Traffic accessibility and the coupling degree of ecosystem services supply and demand in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, China13
Evolution and obstacle factors of high-quality industrial development in the π-shaped Curve Area of the Yellow River basin in China13
Dynamic evolution trend of comprehensive transportation green efficiency in China: From a spatio-temporal interaction perspective13
Evolution characteristics of ecosystem functional stability and ecosystem functional zoning on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau13
How does the coupling coordination relationship between high-quality urbanization and land use evolve in China? New evidence based on exploratory spatiotemporal analyses13
Temperature trends in some major countries from the 1980s to 201913
Bank and point bar morphodynamics in the Lower Jingjiang Reach of the Yangtze River in response to the Three Gorges Project13
Assessing Common Era impacts of Asian dust on tropical cyclone changes in the Northwestern Pacific13
The spatial pattern and governance of Zhongyuan Urban-Rural System in its development trajectory13
Relational characteristics and dynamics between high-tech firms in the Pearl River Delta and the empowerment for technological innovation by Hong Kong12
Residents’ urbanized landscape preferences in rural areas reveal the importance of naturalness-livability contrast12
Temporal and spatial laws and simulations of erosion and deposition in the Lower Yellow River since the operation of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir12
The meliorization process of urban green spaces: Integrating landsense creation for sustainable development12
Developing socio-hydrology: Research progress, opportunities and challenges12
Geopolitics of the energy transition12
The location choice of Chinese investment in the United States: Industrial agglomeration, ethnic networks and firm heterogeneity12
Multi-scale coupling analysis of urbanization and ecosystem services supply-demand budget in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China12
A 1000-year history of cropland cover change along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in China12
Climate-driven changes in drought metrics across the Yellow River Basin based on Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 612
Nonlinear effects of the urban built environment on urban vitality: A case study of Hangzhou, China12
Progress on spatial prediction methods for soil particle-size fractions12
How does land consolidation affect rural development transformation?12
Thalweg migration under the collaborative changes in the hydro-sediment regime and erosion base level in the Xiaobeiganliu reach of the Middle Yellow River12
Lithic miniaturization in South China since the terminal Pleistocene: A multivariate analysis of lithic reduction from Fodongdi, Fulin and Xiqiaoshan12
Glacier wastage and its vulnerability in the Qilian Mountains12
Evaluation of cropland suitability and key potential areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau11
Unearthing the impact of urban sprawl on transport carbon dioxide emissions: Fresh evidence from 274 Chinese cities11
The long-term environmental evolution of an urban lake in the highly developed Yangtze River Delta11
Optimizing field management to promote the ecologicalization of agriculture in loess hilly-gully region, China11
Impact and zoning of production-living-ecological spaces changes on carbon balance: Evidence from Shandong province, China11
Tracing the agro-pastoral ecotone transition in northern China from the human-Earth system perspective11
Differential depression of the glacier equilibrium-line altitudes in the Yarlung Zangbo Downstream Basin in the Last Glacial Maximum compared to the pre-industrial era11
Development vs. conservation in limited urban sprawl: An integrated framework for resolving the urban boundary dilemma in China11
The optimal explanatory power of soil erosion and water yield in karst mountainous areas11
Drivers of water pollutant discharge in urban agglomerations and their scale effects11
Estimation of maize yield incorporating the synergistic effect of climatic and land use change in Jilin, China11
Combinatorial knowledge dynamics, innovative performance, and transition studies11
Dynamic features and driving mechanism of coal consumption for Guangdong province in China11
Factors influencing the recessive morphology of farmland use under labor changes based on production input willingness and behavior of farmers11
Effects of land use patterns on slope soil water in the semiarid Loess Plateau, China11
A review of China’s overseas economic and trade cooperation zones along the Belt and Road: Progress and prospects10
Rainfall effects on wind erosion processes on the simulated Gobi surface using indoor experiments10
Hedging effect alleviates the impact of land use on mainstream hydrological regimes: Evidence from Jinsha River, China10
Mapping cropping patterns in the North China Plain over the past 300 years and an analysis of the drivers of change10
Impact of cascade reservoirs on the delayed response behaviour of sedimentation in the Three Gorges Reservoir10
Divergent nitrogen isotope trends in Chinese lake sediments since the mid-Qing Dynasty: Influencing factors and implications10
Territorial spatial zoning based on suitability evaluation and its impact on ecosystem services in Ezhou city10
Effective soil particle size distributions and critical size of enrichment/depletion in splash erosion for loessial soil10
Performance evaluation of resource-based city transformation: A case study of energy-enriched areas in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia10
Evolution of the historical polder landscape in the ancient Danyang wetland, lower Yangtze River, China, during the last 3000 years10
Urbanization of county in China: Spatial patterns and influencing factors10
The spatial pattern of population-land-industry coupling coordinated development and its influencing factor detection in rural China10
Spatial differentiation and influence mechanism of the connection-distribution performance of urban high-speed railway hub in the Yangtze River Economic Belt10
Impact of land use intensity changes on ecosystem services in the Yellow River Basin, China10
Spatio-temporal analysis of human wellbeing and its coupling relationship with ecosystem services in Shandong province, China10
Trend changes of flow regime metrics in the water conservation zone of the Yellow River caused by observation uncertainty10
Physicochemical indicators of hydro-ecological conditions in a nebkha sedimentary profile in the arid Shule River Basin, northwestern China10
Progress and major themes of research on urban shrinkage and its eco-environmental impacts10
Socio-economic roots of human settlement layout in the marginal zone of the Changtang Plateau uninhabited area: A comparative study of three typical counties10
Spatio-temporal characteristics and influencing factors of Pseudo Human Settlements in Northeast China based on the Baidu Index9
Rapid dynamics of paraglacial vegetation under temperate deglaciating environments in Mt. Gongga, southeastern Tibetan Plateau9
Evaluation and structural analysis of the functions of the Tibetan Plateau National Park Cluster9
Patterns, processes, and differentiation mechanisms of China’s transition from old to new economic drivers9
Development of periglacial landforms and soil formation in the Ilgaz Mountains and effect of climate (Western Black Sea Region-Türkiye)9
Substrate damage and recovery after giant clam shell mining at remote coral reefs in the southern South China Sea9
Farmland use behavior and its influencing factors from the perspective of population migration9
Geomorphology-oriented theoretical framework and construction method for value-added DEM9
Urbanization under globalization: How does the Belt and Road Initiative affect urbanization levels in participating countries9
Evolutionary process and development implications of traditional trade routes in the Himalayan region9
Exploring zonal heterogeneities of primary school students’ commute-mode choices through a geographically weighted regression model9
Carbon sink response of terrestrial vegetation ecosystems in the Yangtze River Delta and its driving mechanism9
Simulation and prediction of multi-scenario evolution of ecological space based on FLUS model: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China9
Evaluating the impacts of converting grain to vegetable fields on nitrate transport in the deep vadose zone of the North China Plain8
Morphological differentiation characteristics and classification criteria of lunar surface relief amplitude8
The effects of human activities on windbreak and sand fixation services in Inner Mongolia grasslands from 2000 to 20208
Divergent contributions of spring and autumn photosynthetic phenology to seasonal carbon uptake of subtropical vegetation in China8
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
The coupling relationship between urbanization and ecological resilience in the Pearl River Delta8
Spatio-temporal changes of prehistoric human activities and subsistence in relation to trans-Eurasian exchange in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor8
An empirical study of the registered population transformation in China’s megacities8
Feasibility analysis of a double-cropping system for the efficient use of farmland on China’s Loess Plateau8
Understanding land for high-quality development8
Spatiotemporal differentiation and attribution of land surface temperature in China in 2001–20208
Spatio-temporal correlation between human activity intensity and land surface temperature on the north slope of Tianshan Mountains8
Ecological transitions in Xinjiang, China: Unraveling the impact of climate change on vegetation dynamics (1990–2020)8
Modelling the impacts of cropland displacement on potential cereal production with four levels of China’s administrative boundaries8
Spatiotemporal characteristics of Neolithic tomb orientations in Central China informed by machine learning8
Spatio-temporal changes and driving forces of ecological environment quality in northern China from 2000 to 20228
Spatiotemporal variations of water use efficiency and its driving factors in Inner Mongolia from 2001 to 20208
How do GPM and TRMM precipitation products perform in alpine regions?8
Spatial distribution characteristics and differentiated management strategies of China Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems8
Divergent responses of vegetation productivity to soil moisture and vapor pressure deficit across China: Spatiotemporal patterns and climatic attribution8
Simulation of urban expansion using geographical similarity transition rules and neighbourhood sizes8
Distribution of topographical changes triggered by prolonged heavy rainfall in the Chinese Loess Plateau: A case study of the Gutun catchment in Yan’an7
Ecological security evaluation and early warning of ski tourism destinations7
Urban construction land demand prediction and spatial pattern simulation under carbon peak and neutrality goals: A case study of Guangzhou, China7
Can the integration between urban and rural areas be realized? A new theoretical analytical framework7
Gentrifying rural community development: A case study of Bama Panyang River Basin in Guangxi, China7
Spatial non-stationary characteristics between grass yield and its influencing factors in the Ningxia temperate grasslands based on a mixed geographically weighted regression model7
Profoundly entwined ecosystem services, land-use change and human well-being into sustainability management in Yushu, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau7
Path dependence or path creation of mature resource-based cities: A new firm entry perspective7
The main process and driving mechanism of rural revitalization in China7
The response of key ecosystem services to land use and climate change in Chongqing: Time, space, and altitude7
The interannual periodicity of precipitation and its links to the large-scale circulations over the Third Pole7
Simulation of land-cover change in Jing-Jin-Ji region under different scenarios of SSP-RCP7
Study of loess ecological slope protection optimization measures and prediction of the erosion control effect7
Experience and future research trends of wetland protection and restoration in China7
Investigating the critical influencing factors of snowmelt runoff and development of a mid-long term snowmelt runoff forecasting7
Dynamics of the global semiconductor trade and its dependencies7
Spatio-temporal characteristics of farmland occupation of construction land expansion and its spatial relationship with grain yield in China for 2000–20207
Method for UAV-based 3D topography reconstruction of tidal creeks7
Spatial distribution changes and habitat conservation of medicinal plant diversity in the Yinshan Mountains (China) under climate change7
Fusion of historical survey data and remote sensing to analyze the spatiotemporal variation of altitudinal belts in the Kunlun Mountains during 2000–20207
Spatio-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of farmland fragmentation in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain7
How is the precipitation distributed vertically in arid mountain region of Northwest China?7
Regional revitalizing divergences and reasons for targeted policy-driven rural development in China: An assessment based on provincial-level data7
Effect of Three Gorges Dam on Poyang Lake water level at daily scale based on machine learning7
Spatial pattern evolution and driving factors of urban green technology innovation in China7
Spatially explicit changes of forestland in Taiwan Province from 1910 to 20107
Human settlements in the Ordos Plateau since the Neolithic Age7
Methodology, progress and challenges of geoscience knowledge graph in International Big Science Program of Deep-Time Digital Earth6
Understanding the spatial heterogeneity of grazing pressure in the Three-River-Source Region on the Tibetan Plateau6
Chinese investment promoted economic growth while reducing inequality in African countries6
Spatial and temporal changes of glaciers and glacial lakes in the Northern Tianshan Mountains over the past 30 years6
Long-term passive restoration of severely degraded drylands — divergent impacts on soil and vegetation: An Israeli case study6
Wetland and habitat dynamics in the evolving landscape of the Middle Yangtze River Basin6
Does adaptability matter?6
Network and mechanism of China’s new energy vehicle industry from the perspective of value chain6
Increasing probability of concurrent drought between the water intake and receiving regions of the Hanjiang to Weihe River Water Diversion Project, China6
Rivers increasingly warmer: Prediction of changes in the thermal regime of rivers in Poland6
Increasing threat from landfalling tropical cyclones over China due to their characteristic changes (1949–2022)6
Ecological risk assessment and ecological security pattern optimization in the middle reaches of the Yellow River based on ERI+MCR model6
Observing the compact trend of urban expansion patterns in global 33 megacities during 2000–20206
Spatiotemporal pattern of the dynamics in area, production, and yield of Aus rice in Bangladesh and its response to droughts from 1980 to 20186
Hydrological processes in the Aksu River source region during the intense ablation period based on water chemistry and isotopes6
Ecological changes and the tradeoff and synergy of ecosystem services in western China6
Simulation of frozen ground distribution in northeast China based on a surface frost number model6
Extent and spatial distribution of terrace abandonment in China6
Urban land development intensity: New evidence behind economic transition in the Yangtze River Delta, China6
Late Pleistocene vegetation succession, climate change and hominin adaptation in Sandinggai site, central South China6
Spatio-temporal patterns of temperature extremes and their response to atmospheric circulation factors in China from 1961 to 20206
Natural and human-induced decline and spatio-temporal differentiation of terrestrial water storage over the Lancang-Mekong River Basin6
Vegetation-related dry deposition of global PM2.5 from satellite observations6
The effects of climate change and phenological variation on agricultural production and its risk pattern in the black soil area of northeast China6
A review of the balance of regional development in China from the perspective of development geography6
Evaluating the hydrological effects of the Three Gorges Reservoir based on a large-scale coupled hydrological-hydrodynamic-dam operation model6
Time-scale effects in human-nature interactions, regionally and globally6
Experimental study of population density using an optimized random forest model6
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