Applied Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Applied Geography is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Peripheral development through extractive industries?: Gateways, local content policy, and the oil and gas sector in Neuquén and Río Negro, Argentina83
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Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China74
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework70
Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China62
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models57
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage54
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany49
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images48
Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach48
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Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others47
Divergent distributions of physicians and healthcare beds in China: Changing patterns, driving forces, and policy implications47
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon46
Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach45
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)44
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China41
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia41
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods40
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou39
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas38
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data38
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area37
Revealing the structures of internal migration: A distance and a time-space behaviour perspectives37
Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence37
Effects of climate change on paddy expansion and potential adaption strategies for sustainable agriculture development across Northeast China36
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China35
Exploring urban environmental semantics for air quality prediction using explainable multi-view spatiotemporal graph neural networks35
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan35
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning35
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce35
Long time-series change characteristics and suitable scale of oasis in arid and semi-arid regions of China34
The impact of relatedness and unrelatedness on breakthrough innovation in China: Examining the role of complementary interregional linkages34
Daily changes in spatial accessibility to ICU beds and their relationship with the case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the state of Texas, USA33
Fenced off: Measuring growing restrictions on resource access for smallholders in the Argentine Chaco33
Access and cost of primary educational services in plateau areas: A case study in Tibet, China33
Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China32
Modelling the Impacts of land finance on urban expansion: Evidence from Chinese cities32
Identification of priority areas for public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in metropolitan areas: A case study in Hangzhou, 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 Guangzhou31
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 chains31
Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective31
The impact of embodied land flow in interregional trade on carbon emissions in China31
Measuring spatial accessibility and equity to healthcare services using fuzzy inference system31
Blue-space availability, environmental quality and amenity use across contrasting socioeconomic contexts31
‘Buzz-and-Pipeline’ dynamics of urban dual innovation: Evidence from China's biomedical industry31
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 collecti31
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure30
Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data29
On framing flood risk communications through maps: Effects on the real estate market29
Assessing spatial configuration of barrier-free facilities from the perspective of age-friendliness: A case Study of Beijing, China29
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami29
Measuring the spatial and size polycentricity: An empirical study of China's urban agglomerations using population distribution data29
From fun to function: PPGIS unlocks the power of play in cities28
Evaluating the relationship between data resolution and the accuracy of identified helicopter landing zones (HLZs)28
Bat bio-assisted sampling (BAS) for monitoring urban heat island28
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Mapping local suitability for STEM work-related experiential opportunities in Georgia27
Assessing the spatial variability of raising public risk awareness for the intervention performance of COVID-19 voluntary screening: A spatial simulation approach27
Testing an international and interregional inverse size-volatility hypothesis for invention27
Neighborhood externalities modify the nexus between residential land and housing prices: A joint analysis using regression tree models27
Identifying ecological degradation and restoration zone based on ecosystem quality: A case study of Yangtze River Delta26
Quantifying embodied cultivated land-use change and its socioeconomic driving forces in China26
Characterising cropland fragmentation in post-Soviet Central Asia, using Landsat remote-sensing time series data26
Gone with the epidemic? The spatial effects of the Covid-19 on global investment network26
Place attachment and lived values in Western Australian communities26
Refining the scale of the rural-urban landscape: A policy-relevant application to Chile26
Spatially targeting national-scale afforestation for multiple ecosystem services26
Decadal beach-dune profile monitoring along a 230-km high-energy sandy coast: Aquitaine, southwest France26
Developing a taxonomy framework for assessing human capital provision: A case study of Southern Italian municipalities26
Assessing wildfire activity and forest loss in protected areas of the Amazon basin25
Social and spatial heterogeneities in COVID-19 impacts on individual's metro use: A big-data driven causality inference25
Social and environmental vulnerability to flooding: Investigating cross-scale hypotheses25
A Planner's quest for identifying spatial (in)justice in local communities: A case study of urban census tracts in North Carolina, USA25
Effectiveness of nature reserves in China: Human footprint and ecosystem services perspective25
Public participation GIS can help assess multiple dimensions of environmental justice in urban green and blue space planning25
Associations between neighborhood compactness, perceived accessibility to urban amenities, and mental distress of older adults in a high-density city25
The influence of two and three-dimensional spatial characteristics of industrial parks on the emotional well-being of employees: A case study of Shenzhen25
Investigating the spatial clustering of drowning events in the United Kingdom: A geospatial cross-sectional study24
Anchored in place, driven by risk: How place attachment amplifies the household flood adaptation24
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Mapping liveability: The “15-min city” concept for car-dependent districts in Auckland, New Zealand24
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What are the environmental preferences of runners? Evidence from Guangzhou23
Space-time relationships between COVID-19 vaccinations and human mobility patterns in the United States23
Systemic planning vs. individual choice: The optimal matching for urban healthcare facilities and patient population23
A GIS-based assessment of pedestrian accessibility to urban parks in the city of Constanța, Romania23
Mapping Emotional Attachment as a Measure of Sense of Place to Identify Coastal Restoration Priority Areas23
Burned area occurrence in agrarian reform settlement projects in the Matopiba region, Brazil23
Decoding the dynamics and disparities of urban carbon intensity under the influence of land use and demographics from both global and local perspectives23
Mapping forest ecosystem service supply in two case studies in Latvia23
Variation in child care access across neighborhood types: A two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) approach23
A multi-level framework for assessing the spatial equity of urban public space towards SDG 11.7.1 - a case study in Beijing22
Exploring nonlinear effects of built environment on jogging behavior using random forest22
Trade-offs of landscape connectivity between regional and interregional ecological security patterns in a junction area of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region22
Maxent modeling for predicting the potential distribution of human-elephant conflict risk in Sri Lanka22
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
Sensing noise exposure and its inequality based on noise complaint data through vision-language hybrid method22
Trends and attributions of the long-term thermal comfort across the urban–rural gradient in major Chinese cities21
High spatial resolution data obtained by GNSS and RPAS to assess islets flood-prone scenarios for 210021
The main factors influencing COVID-19 spread and deaths in Mexico: A comparison between phases I and II21
Towards a collaborative governance regime for disaster risk reduction: Exploring scalar narratives of institutional change in Nepal.21
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Built environment and airbnb spatial distribution in Hong Kong: A case study considering the spatial heterogeneity and multiscale effects21
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
Unravelling urban typologies in Latin American cities: Integrating socioeconomic factors and urban configurations across scales21
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Dynamic evaluation of cropland degradation risk by combining multi-temporal remote sensing and geographical data in the Black Soil Region of Jilin Province, China21
Colonize the desert vs. retreat to the mountains: The evolution of city-water relationships in the Tarim river basin over the past 2000 years21
What's ‘SUP’ with paddlers? Integrating spatial, social, and ecological data to understand behavior among paddlesport users at a popular lake destination20
How do the characteristics of local officials affect land urbanization bubble? A case study of Hangzhou, China20
Exploring the factors influencing visits to urban parks: A case study of Beijing's central urban area20
Grain-cropping suitability for evaluating the agricultural land use change in Brazil20
Hidden gateways to digital space—the spatial distribution of Wi-Fi networks in the context of demographic structure in rural areas20
Does the shock of natural hazard-associated disasters affect the authority of regional governments?20
Window Expeditions: A playful approach to crowdsourcing natural language descriptions of everyday lived landscapes20
Exploring factors influencing the agglomeration of implicit consumption space: A comparison with explicit consumption space20
Spatio-temporal agglomeration and morphological causes of Shanghai catering clusters19
Methodological framework for territorial planning of urban areas: Analysis of socio-economic vulnerability and risk associated with flash flood hazards19
Understanding the role of regional cooperation in mitigating ecological footprint: An empirical analysis of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area19
Carbon emissions and government interventions in urban agglomerations of China: An integrated GWR and neural network approach19
Land use change analysis and modeling of its future trajectories in Morogoro Region, Tanzania: Implication for conservation19
Top-down versus bottom-up: Spatial pattern and human mobility of newly developing industrial towns in Chinese “city-NIT” network19
Understanding the migration of highly and less-educated labourers in post-reform China19
Association between built environment factors and collective walking behavior in peri-urban area: Evidence from Chengdu19
Revealing disparities and driving factors in leisure activity segregation of residents and tourists: A data-driven analysis of smart phone data19
The evolution of public participation GIS (PPGIS) barriers in spatial planning practice19
Artificial neural networks applied to landslide susceptibility: The effect of sampling areas on model capacity for generalization and extrapolation19
The health-trash nexus in challenging environments: A spatial mixed methods analysis of Accra, Ghana18
Does place-based policy increase new firm births? Evidence from special economic zones in China18
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From trajectories to network: Delineating the spatial pattern of recreational walking in Guangzhou18
Have rural settlement changes harmed ecosystem carbon in China?18
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Exploring local perspectives on flood risk: A participatory GIS approach for bridging the gap between modelled and perceived flood risk zones18
Pandemic response in rural Peru: Multi-scale institutional analysis of the COVID-19 crisis18
Spatial dynamics in the urban-rural-natural interface within a social-ecological hotspot18
Mobilities and the flexible boundaries of the neighbourhood. A test with crime data in Barcelona18
Accessibility of urban park benefits with different spatial coverage: Spatial and social inequity18
Where drinks and danger meet: Analyzing the spatial link between Bars and crime in Detroit18
A framework for the optimal deployment of police drones based on street-level crime risk18
Geospatial modelling of housing rents from TOD using MGWR and implications on integrated transportation-land use planning17
Introducing rational agent access model to enhance scene-to-hospital accessibility of emergency medical services17
Socio-economic vulnerability assessment of shifting cultivators (Jhumias) amidst the changing climate in Mizoram, northeast India17
Landscape of multiculturalism in Australia: Tracking ethnic diversity and its relation with neighbourhood features in 2001–202117
Enhancing intercity transportation will improve the equitable distribution of high-quality health care in China17
Spatiotemporal differentiation of carbon budget and balance zoning: Insights from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River Urban Agglomeration, China17
Exploring the classification of China's ecosystem service networks and their driving factors based on current status and evolutionary trends17
New trends in South-South migration: The economic impact of COVID-19 and immigration enforcement17
Unplanned urban built-up growth creates problem in human adaptability: Evidence from a growing up city in eastern Himalayan foothills17
Accessibility in São Paulo: An individual road to equity?17
The role of Industry-University-Research collaboration in regional technological diversification: An empirical study on the pharmaceutical industry in China17
The impact of urbanization on urban flood risk of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand16
Heatwave exposure inequality: An urban-rural comparison of environmental justice16
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
The geography of perceived safety of the neighbourhood: An intersectional intercategorical analysis16
Modelling locational choices of older adults in China, 2010–201516
Do railways improve territorial cohesion of the Tibetan Plateau? A case study of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway16
Towards a socially resilient city: Healthcare accessibility and rural migrants’ identity integration in urban China16
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Effects of cluster plot design parameters on landscape fragmentation estimates: A case study using data from the Swedish national forest inventory16
Spatial and social heterogeneities of residents’ online shopping behaviors within a large Chinese city: The case of Weifang16
Governing regional inequality through regional cooperation? A case study of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay area16
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Why the Navajo Nation was hit so hard by coronavirus: Understanding the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic16
Measuring the housing precarity of migrant private tenants and assessing its impact on their life satisfaction - evidence from Guangzhou, China16
The rich-poor divide: Unravelling the spatial complexities and determinants of wealth inequality in India15
Estimating geographic access to healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Degree of Urbanisation15
Social ties and talent migration: Considering the intentions of migrants to permanently settle in Chinese cities15
Wildfire, evacuation, and cardiovascular events: A spatial exposure approach15
Geographical indications in cheese mountain areas: Opportunity or threat to landscape and environmental conservation? The case of Cabrales (Spain)15
From Western centralism to decentralization: Trends, breakthroughs and limitations in the world city network based on the winter olympic games15
Exploring the relationship between city size and carbon emissions: An integrated population-land framework15
How does cultural distance affect tourism destination choice? Evidence from the correlation between regional culture and tourism flow15
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Nonlinear interactive associations between built environments and adults’ mental health in China using a longitudinal design15
Mapping access to basic hygiene services in low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional case study of geospatial disparities15
Coastal cities in the Southern US floodplains: An evaluation of environmental equity of flood hazards and social vulnerabilities15
Determining the ecological compensation standards based on willingness to accept (WTA) for intensive agricultural production areas: A case in China15
Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of sustainable development goals on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau15
Assessing the diversity and evenness of ecosystem services as perceived by residents using participatory mapping15
Getting to Denmark: The dialectic of governance & development in the European periphery15
Mapping the geodemographics of racial, economic, health, and COVID-19 deaths inequalities in the conterminous US15
Assessing the influence of variation in forage availability on spatial patterns of beehive migration using a hybrid modelling approach – B-Agent15
Do carbon sequestration and food security in urban and rural landscapes differ in patterns, relationships, and responses?15
Risk assessment of unlined oil pits leaking into groundwater in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A modified GIS-DRASTIC approach14
Geospatial evaluation of COVID-19 mortality: Influence of socio-economic status and underlying health conditions in contiguous USA14
Does community-based tenure prevent land grabbing? The oil palm case in Mexico14
Measuring spatial mismatch in education capitalization via the housing market: An empirical study based on geographically weighted regression and Geodetector14
Local institutions and pandemics: City autonomy and the Black Death14
How migrant composition affects attitudes of urban locals in urban China: A two-scale study14
Who, where, when: Observer behavior influences spatial and temporal patterns of iNaturalist participation14
Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts: Contextualizing multiple and multiscalar industrial branching mechanisms for the emergence of biotechnology industries in Guangzhou, China14
Geographical match of objective and subjective measures of well-being at an intra-city scale14
Livelihood changes of migrants due to hydropower construction: A case study from Southwestern China14
Summer electricity consumption and its drivers in urban areas14
The uneven burden of COVID-19 in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil – Risk analysis from a bottom-up perspective14
Measuring cluster interactions through in-between areas in epidemic spatiotemporal dynamics14
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 data14
Disamenity effects of displaced villagers’ resettlement community on housing price in China and implication for socio-spatial segregation14
Evaluation of traditional rain-fed agricultural terraces for soil erosion control through UAV observation in the middle mountain of Nepal14
Spatial and moderating effects of greenspace on the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence14
From center to outlying areas: Navigating built-up land dynamics along urban-rural gradients in Global South megaregions13
Impacts of land use metrics on urban stream health: Buffalo Creek, North Carolina, USA13
Identification of spatial and functional interactions in Beijing based on trajectory data13
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Spatial nonstationarity and the role of environmental metal exposures on COVID-19 mortality in New Mexico13
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity and influencing factors in the synergistic enhancement of urban ecological resilience: Evidence from the Yellow River Basin of China13
Modeling and prediction of fire occurrences along an elevational gradient in Western Himalayas13
Spatial configuration and the Messina Strait question: A discussion on Reggio-Calabria and Messina road-networks linkage13
Regional entrepreneurial spirit and global value chains participation in Chinese cities: the moderating role of digital transformation signals13
Construction of ecological security pattern adapting to future land use change in Pearl River Delta, China13
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Dynamic changes of the complex coupling relationships between ecosystem services and socio-ecological factors and the impact of human activities: Insights from network analysis13
Can innovation-driven productivity mitigate infrastructure spatial inequality? Evidence from 282 prefecture-level cities in China13
Abrupt changes, institutional reactions, and adaptive behaviors: An exploratory study of COVID-19 and related events' impacts on Hong Kong's metro riders13
Promissory shock, broken future: COVID-19 and state-led speculations in biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in South Korea13
Core-periphery disparity in community vitality in Chongqing, China: Nonlinear explanation based on mobile phone data and multi-scale factors13
Domesticating sustainability transitions: Spatial and temporal variation of industrial eco-efficiency in China13
The geographical aspect of place branding: Interactions between place brands in the spatial hierarchy13
How transport shapes the landscape of large-format food retail trade? Retail geography in Poland – An interactive measure13
GIS-Fuzzy DEMATEL MCDA model in the evaluation of the areas for ecotourism development: A case study of “Uzundere”, Erzurum-Turkey13
Understanding the structural imbalance in non-grain land Utilization: Insights from China's arable land policy12
Spatially explicit vulnerability analysis of contaminant sources in a karstic watershed in southeastern Mexico12
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The non-linear dynamics of South Australian regional housing markets: A machine learning approach12
The impact of the smoking ban on individual hospitality venues12
Border regions across the globe: Analyzing border typologies, economic and political disparities, and development dynamics12
Localized effects of neighborhood park exposure on mental illness mortality in the Pacific Northwest United States12
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Remapping California's wildland urban interface: A property-level time-space framework, 2000–202012
Urban terrain, mountain landscape, and housing price: A heterogeneous investigation of the amenity effects in a mountainous city (Guiyang) from the vertical dimension12
Understanding the spatially heterogeneous relationships between urban green amenities and residential dynamics: Evidence from Wuhan, China12
Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance: A research agenda12
Dasymetry Dash Flood (DDF). A method for population mapping and flood exposure assessment in touristic cities12
The impact of the built environment on human mobility patterns during Covid-19: A study of New York City's Open Streets Program12
Identifying disproportionate impacts in Arkansas: New considerations for environmental justice mapping and implications for leaders12
Assessing the conservation effectiveness of national nature reserves in China12
Effects of urban environmental factors on heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) response time12
Future matters: Unpacking villagers’ willingness to withdraw from rural homesteads in China12
Does cross-border commuting between EU-countries reduce inequality?12
Continuity under change: Towards a spatiotemporal understanding of market-oriented urban and peri-urban agriculture – Insights from Kenya12
A quantitative assessment of spatial patterns of socio-demographic change in coastal Maine: one process or many?12
Visitation-based classification of urban parks through mobile phone big data in Tokyo12
Spatial inequalities in global population exposure to extreme heats and heatwaves11
Understanding multi-scale educational and hukou segregation in urban China: A multilevel modeling approach11
Effectiveness in protected areas at resisting development pressures in China11
Examining the impact of multidimensional accessibility on regional poverty in Laos11
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