Applied Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Applied Geography is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China64
Sustainability of the local stakeholder network in semi-steppe rangelands in southern Iran64
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Shocking events. Institutional reactions to abrupt changes47
The dichotomous world of sanitation management: ‘Matter out of place’ in Urban India47
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Modelling the suitability of multiple launch rocket system in the war in Ukraine45
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Tracking decision-making of backcountry users using GPS tracks and participant surveys41
Territorial impacts of the monoculture-based agri-food industry: Comparative analyses on two continents39
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Spatial heterogeneity analysis and driving forces exploring of floating population in China's central and western regions:A case of henan province, China39
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Intersecting sustainability and governance: The impact of industrial land price distortion on carbon emission efficiency in China38
The dynamic effects of regional public transport connectivity on intercity mobility from a dyadic flow perspective37
The effects of new satellite campuses on land prices——Evidence based on micro land transaction data in China37
Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of sustainable development goals on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau34
Exploring the relationship between city size and carbon emissions: An integrated population-land framework34
Mapping large-scale brand networks: A consumers’ foot traffic-based approach32
How can ecosystem services trade-offs/synergies help select the optimal cultivated land restoration pattern? A study based on multi-scenario simulations31
Mapping access to basic hygiene services in low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional case study of geospatial disparities31
Bridging fragmented knowledge between forecasting and fishing communities: Co-managed decisions on weather delays in Nova Scotia's lobster season openings31
Visual attention and ethnic landscape perception: A case of three cities in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao greater bay area31
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia31
Incorporating spatial heterogeneity to model spontaneous and self-organized urban growth30
Improvement in the quality of living environment with mixed land use of rural settlements: A case study of 18 villages in Hebei, China30
Educational inequality or educational segregation? The determinants of criminal activities in 288 Chinese cities30
Spatial drivers and effects of urban food accessibility: Comparison of conventional and online-to-offline services30
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China30
Intergenerational and gender differences in satisfaction of farmers with rural public space: Insights from traditional village in Northwest China30
Revealing the heterogeneity of social capital in shrinking cities from a social infrastructure perspective: Evidence from Hegang, China29
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas28
Why the Navajo Nation was hit so hard by coronavirus: Understanding the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic28
Commuting behaviors response to living and working built environment: Dissecting interaction effects from varied supply and demand masses27
Exploring the multitemporal surface urban heat island effect and its driving relation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration27
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou27
The role of accessibility for land use and land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon27
Landscape heterogeneity shows contrasting spatial patterns but similar temporal changes since the 1840s27
Livelihood impacts of iron ore mining-induced land change in Sierra Leone: A time series analysis26
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning26
Exploring the evolution of road centrality: A case study of Hong Kong from 1976 to 201826
How will COVID-19 impact Australia's future population? A scenario approach26
Geographical indications in cheese mountain areas: Opportunity or threat to landscape and environmental conservation? The case of Cabrales (Spain)26
Spatial inequalities in education status and its determinants in Pakistan: A district-level modelling in the context of sustainable development Goal-426
Do carbon sequestration and food security in urban and rural landscapes differ in patterns, relationships, and responses?26
Disentangling racial/ethnic and income disparities of food retail Environments: Impacts on adult obesity prevalence25
Peer effects drive non-conformance between built-up land expansion and zoning: Evidence from Zhangzhou city, China25
Spatial data uncertainty for location modeling: Ghost blocks and their implications24
Identifying geomorphological diversity hotspots for conservation purposes: Application to a coastal protected area in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil24
Retail location modeling of supermarket chains in Taipei city23
Recreation specialization: Resource selection functions as a predictive tool for protected area recreation management23
An analysis of Amud Anan - A unique volunteered geographic information platform for nature-based recreation in Israel23
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Assessing the influence of variation in forage availability on spatial patterns of beehive migration using a hybrid modelling approach – B-Agent23
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework23
Time-series nighttime imagery for measuring the growth of Urban agglomeration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area22
Geopolitical risks of strategic decoupling and recoupling in the mobile phone production shift from China to Vietnam: Evidence from the Sino-US trade war and COVID-19 pandemic22
Effects of cluster plot design parameters on landscape fragmentation estimates: A case study using data from the Swedish national forest inventory22
Do polycentric structures reduce surface urban heat island intensity?21
Spatial analysis of social capital and community heterogeneity at the United States county level21
Sustainable livelihood security in the Poyang Lake Ecological Economic Zone: Identifying spatial-temporal pattern and constraints21
Associations between urban greenspace and depressive symptoms in Mexico's cities using different greenspace metrics21
Mapping the geodemographics of racial, economic, health, and COVID-19 deaths inequalities in the conterminous US21
Human–elephant conflict and land cover change in Sri Lanka21
Peripheral development through extractive industries?: Gateways, local content policy, and the oil and gas sector in Neuquén and Río Negro, Argentina21
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods20
Accessibility and satisfaction with daily commute: Does subjective perception in accordance with objective measurement?20
Unveiling the spatially varied nonlinear effects of urban built environment on housing prices using an interpretable ensemble learning model20
The proposal of a 15-minute city composite index through integrating GPS trajectory data-inferred urban function attraction based on the Bayesian framework20
Accounting for ecosystem service flows in water security assessment: A case study of the Yiluo River Watershed, China20
The emergence of Industry 4.0 technologies across Chinese cities: The roles of technological relatedness/cross-relatedness and industrial policy20
Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China20
Towards ecological civilization: Spatiotemporal heterogeneity and drivers of ecological quality transitions in China (2001–2020)20
Analyzing urban traffic crash patterns through spatio-temporal data: A city-level study using a sparse non-negative matrix factorization model with spatial constraints approach20
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)20
Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence19
Bringing economic complexity to the intra-urban scale: The role of services in the urban economy of Belo Horizonte, Brazil19
How does cultural distance affect tourism destination choice? Evidence from the correlation between regional culture and tourism flow19
Measuring the accessibility deprivation of concentrated resettlement communities in China: An integrated approach of space syntax and multi-criteria decision analysis19
The spatially and temporally varying association between mental illness and substance use mortality and unemployment: A Bayesian analysis in the contiguous United States, 2001–201419
Assessing ecotourism in a mountainous landscape using GIS – MCDA approaches19
Impact of urban environmental matrices on bird diversity: Mediating effects and ecological thresholds19
Does spatiotemporal heterogeneity matter? Air transport and the rise of high-tech industry in China19
Effects of new transit lines on commuting: Evidence from restricted-use Census Bureau microdata19
Residential differentiation characteristics based on “socio-spatial” coupling: A case study of Zhengzhou19
Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach19
Shared shorelines, shared meanings?: Examining place meaning in Puget Sound18
Spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms of land-use conflicts affecting high-quality development in China18
Spatial distribution of Airbnb and its influencing factors: A case study of Suzhou, China18
From Western centralism to decentralization: Trends, breakthroughs and limitations in the world city network based on the winter olympic games18
Learning income levels and inequality from spatial and sociodemographic data in Germany18
Do “banking deserts” even exist? Examining access to brick-and-mortar financial institutions in the continental United States18
Modelling of recreational trails in mountainous areas: An analysis of sensitivity to slope data resolution18
Divergent distributions of physicians and healthcare beds in China: Changing patterns, driving forces, and policy implications18
Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach17
New spaces of inequality with the rise of remote work: Autonomy, technostress, and life disruption17
Rapid viewshed analyses: A case study with visibilities limited by trees and buildings17
Detecting home countries of social media users with machine-learned ranking approach: A case study in Hong Kong17
Corrigendum to “Do neighborhood food environments matter for eating through online-to-offline food delivery services?”[Appl. Geogr. 138 (2021) 102620]17
Impacts of cross-regional population migration and agglomeration on carbon emissions in China17
Urban population characteristics and their correlation with historic discriminatory housing practices17
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images17
Towards a more compact urban form: A spatial-temporal study on the multi-dimensional compactness index of urban form in China17
Spatial proximity in ‘local’ Alternative Food Networks: a case study of AMAP in France17
Economic benefits of urban streetscapes: Analyzing the interrelationships between visual street environments and single-family property values in Seoul, Korea17
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan16
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage16
A cross-boundary travel tale: Unraveling Hong Kong residents’ mobility pattern in Shenzhen by using metro smart card data16
Exploring China's food security evolution from a local perspective16
Understanding the dynamic changes in wetland cultural ecosystem services: Integrating annual social media data into the SolVES16
Mega-urbanization, territorial fragmentation and social inequality in the Global South: The case of Mexico city and its city-region16
Revealing the structures of internal migration: A distance and a time-space behaviour perspectives16
Capturing open space fragmentation in high–density cities: Towards sustainable open space planning16
Measurement and synergistic evolution analysis of economic resilience and green economic efficiency: Evidence from five major urban agglomerations, China16
A spatial multi-criteria decision analysis framework to reveal vulnerabilities of areas to incidences of street robberies16
The ‘just’ management of urban air pollution? A geospatial analysis of low emission zones in Brussels and London16
Intercity patient mobility can improve healthcare accessibility and equality in metropolitan areas: A case study of Shenzhen metropolitan area, China15
Spatial and social heterogeneities of residents’ online shopping behaviors within a large Chinese city: The case of Weifang15
Assessing the diversity and evenness of ecosystem services as perceived by residents using participatory mapping15
The activity space-based segregation of migrants in suburban Shanghai15
Determining the ecological compensation standards based on willingness to accept (WTA) for intensive agricultural production areas: A case in China15
Optimizing the ecosystem service flow of grain provision across metacoupling systems will improve transmission efficiency15
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China15
Interurban mobility: Eurythmic relations among metropolitan cities monitored by mobile phone data15
Does the environment matter? Depopulation in the Sudetes (case study of the Kłodzko region, SW Poland)15
Geographical inequalities in access to water and sanitation among Brazilian maritime islands’ inhabitants15
Carbon footprint of household meat consumption in China: A life-cycle-based perspective15
Burned area detection using Sentinel-1 SAR data: A case study of Kangaroo Island, South Australia15
Human activities and natural geographical environment and their interactive effects on sudden geologic hazard: A perspective of macro-scale and spatial statistical analysis15
Modelling locational choices of older adults in China, 2010–201514
Quantifying and mapping landscape value using online texts: A deep learning approach14
Geographic and demographic variation in worry about extreme heat and COVID-19 risk in summer 202014
Spaces of collaboration? Geography and functionality of coworking spaces in China14
Unveiling the effect of land transfer and land acquisition on farmland abandonment: Proximity/distance to the city matters14
Effects of urban park design features on summer air temperature and humidity in compact-city milieu14
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area14
Visible green space predicts emotion: Evidence from social media and street view data14
Developing a 15-minute city: Evaluating urban quality using configurational analysis. The case study of Terni and Matera, Italy14
Alerting people prioritising territories over technologies. A design framework for local decision makers in France14
Socioeconomic inequalities in food outlet access through an online food delivery service in England: A cross-sectional descriptive analysis14
From policy synergy to equitable greenspace: Unveiling the multifaceted effects of regional cooperation upon urban greenspace exposure inequality in China's megacity-regions14
Revealing the heterogeneous effects of new urbanization on urban-rural inequality using geographically weighted quantile regression14
Intoxication in the city: Investigating spatial patterns and determinants of drugs and alcohol-related illegal activities in India's geostrategic corridor13
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon13
Coastal cities in the Southern US floodplains: An evaluation of environmental equity of flood hazards and social vulnerabilities13
Identification and structural characteristics of urban agglomerations in China based on Baidu migration data13
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data13
Exploring the nexus between perceived ecosystem services and well-being of rural residents in a mountainous area, China13
Effects of climate change on paddy expansion and potential adaption strategies for sustainable agriculture development across Northeast China13
The mechanism of revoking counties or county-level cities to municipal districts and its effect on urban expansion in Chinese cities13
Estimating geographic access to healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Degree of Urbanisation13
An innovative approach to assess the impact of urban flooding: Modeling transportation system failure due to urban flooding13
Social ties and talent migration: Considering the intentions of migrants to permanently settle in Chinese cities13
River channel avulsion in the Taquari River megafan of the Brazilian Pantanal: Remote sensing and modeling reveal recent and future changes13
Trapped in dilemma: Inverted N-shaped EKC evidence of economic growth and ecological land in a spatial spillover perspective13
Do development zones increase urban land use intensity? Empirical analysis from 235 cities in China13
The impact of urbanization on urban flood risk of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand13
The rich-poor divide: Unravelling the spatial complexities and determinants of wealth inequality in India13
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce13
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models13
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others13
Greening of India: Forests or Croplands?13
Incorporating barriers restoration and stepping stones establishment to enhance the connectivity of watershed ecological security patterns13
Hot spots and burning times: A spatiotemporal analysis of calls for service to establish police demand12
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity and influencing factors in the synergistic enhancement of urban ecological resilience: Evidence from the Yellow River Basin of China12
Revealing ecological restoration process and disturbances of mineral concentration areas based on multiscale and multisource data12
Understanding the spatiality of the rural poor's livelihoods in Northeast China: Geographical context, location and urban hierarchy12
Spatial matching and correlation between recreation service supply and demand in the Ili River Valley, China12
Impact of environment in built-up areas on depressive mood: Evidence from China12
Crisis, institutional change and peripheral industrialization: Municipal-central state relations and changing dependencies in three old industrial towns of Hungary12
Construction of ecological security pattern adapting to future land use change in Pearl River Delta, China12
Does multi-goal policy affect agricultural land efficiency? A quasi-natural experiment based on the natural resource conservation and intensification pilot scheme12
Using street view images and a geographical detector to understand how street-level built environment is associated with urban poverty: A case study in Guangzhou12
Livelihood changes of migrants due to hydropower construction: A case study from Southwestern China12
Meal delivery and the local restaurant industry12
Mapping and measuring neighbourhood social media groups. The case of facebook12
Protecting and constructing ecological corridors for biodiversity conservation: A framework that integrates landscape similarity assessment12
What lies beyond the built environment? Exploring “walkability” across the Detroit region12
Linking ecosystem services trade-offs, human preferences and future scenario simulations to ecological security patterns: A novel methodology for reconciling conflicting ecological functions12
Measuring residential segregation of non-European migrants using the individualised neighbourhood method: How does Czechia fit to the European landscape?11
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Fenced off: Measuring growing restrictions on resource access for smallholders in the Argentine Chaco11
Do social and ecological indicators have the same effect on the subjective well-being of residents?11
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure11
Access and cost of primary educational services in plateau areas: A case study in Tibet, China11
Examining the impact of COVID-19 vaccination rates on differential access to critical care11
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Beyond distance: Measuring spatial accessibility to healthy food for older adults in Hong Kong using a 3D least-effort method11
Diffusion of the Internet-of-Things (IoT): A framework based on smart retail technology11
The conversion of rubber to oil palm and other landcover types in Southeast Asia11
Unveiling dynamics: A comprehensive analysis of spatial integration in the Mexican food market11
Do spatiotemporal units matter for exploring the microgeographies of epidemics?11
Measuring the spatial and size polycentricity: An empirical study of China's urban agglomerations using population distribution data11
The shadow of the Pithead: Understanding social and political attitudes in former coal mining communities in the UK11
The utility of street view imagery in environmental audits for runnability11
Financialization, platform economy and urban rental housing: Evidence from Chengdu, China11
Disamenity effects of displaced villagers’ resettlement community on housing price in China and implication for socio-spatial segregation11
Early climate change indicators in the Arctic: A geographical perspective11
Local institutions and pandemics: City autonomy and the Black Death10
‘Generation Share’ versus ‘Generation Rent’: Analysing the spatial preferences of shared rental housing10
Supply and demand dynamics of hydrologic ecosystem services in the rapidly urbanizing Taihu Lake Basin of China10
Corrigendum to “Regional effects of producer services on manufacturing productivity in China” [Appl. Geogr. 97 (2018) 263–274]10
Carbon emission characteristics of urban trip based on multi-layer network modeling10
Assessing the fluctuations in job accessibility under travel time uncertainty10
Unveiling the daily rhythm of urban space: Exploring the influence of built environment on spatiotemporal mobility patterns10
Summer electricity consumption and its drivers in urban areas10
Measuring spatial accessibility and equity to healthcare services using fuzzy inference system10
Discovering the spatial heterogeneous constraints of distance on migration from counties to Shenzhen in China10
Assessing the socio-demographic representativeness of mobile phone application data10
A land without people? The GIScience approach to estimating the population of Ottoman Palestine towards the end of the 19th-century10
Reverse estimation of urban mobility patterns during pandemics using agent-based modeling10
How does urbanisation affect the evolution of territorial space composite function?10
Does micro-geographical proximity matter for knowledge spillovers? Evidence from the quasi-natural experiment of university relocation in China10
Spatial characterization of dust emission prone arid regions using feature extraction and predictive algorithms10
Does foreign aid play a role in promoting economic development? Evidence from US aid10
Measuring access to health facilities in Ghana: Implications for implementation of health interventions and the Sustainable Development Goal 310
Geospatial evaluation of COVID-19 mortality: Influence of socio-economic status and underlying health conditions in contiguous USA10
Evaluating flows of recreational ecosystem services using mobile phone data: A demonstration in the megacity of Beijing10
Daily changes in spatial accessibility to ICU beds and their relationship with the case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the state of Texas, USA10
Spatial and moderating effects of greenspace on the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence9
Relationship between urban size and configuration: Scaling evidence from a hierarchical system in Mexico9
Seeing the forest and the trees: Holistic view of social distancing on the spread of COVID-19 in China9
Regional integration in the Horn of Africa through the lens of inter-city connectivity9
Risk assessment of unlined oil pits leaking into groundwater in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A modified GIS-DRASTIC approach9
Income inequality and the geography of residential burglaries: A spatial model applied to Campinas, Brazil9
Interpretable spatial machine learning for understanding spatial heterogeneity in factors affecting street theft crime9
Impact of land cover changes on carbon stock trends in Kenya for spatial implementation of REDD+ policy9
Land cover changes on a barrier island: Yearly changes, storm effects, and recovery periods9
Geographical match of objective and subjective measures of well-being at an intra-city scale9
Identification of spatial and functional interactions in Beijing based on trajectory data9
Nighttime light satellite images reveal uneven socioeconomic development along China's land border9
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The uneven burden of COVID-19 in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil – Risk analysis from a bottom-up perspective9
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 collecti9
Reconstructing and identifying historic land use in northeastern United States using anthropogenic landforms and deep learning9
Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts: Contextualizing multiple and multiscalar industrial branching mechanisms for the emergence of biotechnology industries in Guangzhou, China9
XAI in geographic analysis of innovation: Evaluating proximity factors in the innovation networks of Chinese technology companies through web-based data9
The impact of embodied land flow in interregional trade on carbon emissions in China9
Analysis of factors affecting the occurrence of vacant houses according to vacant house classification: Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan9
Assessment of harbour inoperability and adaptation cost due to sea level rise. Application to the port of Tangier-Med (Morocco)9
‘Buzz-and-Pipeline’ dynamics of urban dual innovation: Evidence from China's biomedical industry9
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 chains9
Mapping the online songbird trade in Indonesia9
Patterns of low birth weight in greater Mexico City: A Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis9
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