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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Relocation for improved ecosystem service and human wellbeing? Evidence from Fuping, Hebei, China115
Characterization and projection of spatial and temporal changes in habitat quality of Sanjiangyuan based on land use change85
Intercity connections and a world city network based on international sport events: Empirical studies on the Beijing, London, and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games73
Energy dissipation caused by boundary resistance in a typical reach of the lower Yellow River and the implications for riverbed stability58
Population evolution at the prefecture-level city scale in China: Change patterns and spatial correlations55
Chemical fertilizer rate, use efficiency and reduction of cereal crops in China, 1998–201851
Comprehensive evaluation and influencing factors of healthy cities in China’s urban agglomerations50
Land consolidation and eco-environmental sustainability in Loess Plateau: A study of Baota district, Shaanxi province, China49
The impact of economic development on urban livability: Evidence from 40 large and medium-sized cities of China47
Regional ecosystem services relationships and their potential driving factors in the Yellow River Basin, China45
Glacier service value and influence on human well-being in Qilian Mountains44
Uncovering differences in the spatial structure of intercity interactive networks described by multi-source migration flow: From the multi-hierarchical perspective43
Imbalance of inter-provincial forest carbon sequestration rate from 2010 to 2060 in China and its regulation strategy42
Spatial scaling effects of gully erosion in response to driving factors in southern China40
Polycentric urban development with state-led administrative division adjustment: A policy insight for urban spatial transformation40
Long-term glacier variations and the response to climate fluctuation in Qilian Mountains, China40
Land-use planning in China: Past, present, and future38
Glacier area changes in the Nujiang-Salween River Basin over the past 45 years38
Influence mechanism of the flow of high-skilled talents on technological evolution in emerging countries38
Transnational technology transfer network in China: Spatial dynamics and its determinants37
Effects of water level variations on the water quality of Huayang Lakes, China35
Assessment on the sustainability of water resources utilization in Central Asia based on water resources carrying capacity35
China’s food security situation and key questions in the new era: A perspective of farmland protection34
Assessment of hydraulic performance changes of Dongting Lake after the Three Gorges Reservoir impoundment by a novel semi-empirical approach34
Examining spatio-temporal variations in carbon budget and carbon compensation zoning in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration based on major functional zones33
Dynamics and interactions of water-related ecosystem services in the Yellow River Basin, China32
Model construction of urban agglomeration expansion simulation considering urban flow and hierarchical characteristics30
Geographical features and development models of estuarine cities30
Evolution of rural multifunction and its natural and socioeconomic factors in coastal China30
Measuring glacier changes in the Tianshan Mountains over the past 20 years using Google Earth Engine and machine learning27
The segmentation of debris-flow fans based on local features and spatial attention mechanism27
Urban economic efficiency under the interactive effect of urban hierarchy and connection networks in China27
Linkage between riverbed scouring or deposition and the evolution of central bars: Case study in the Yangzhong reach of the Yangtze River27
Geomorphology of mega-dunes in the eastern Taklimakan Desert26
Climate change impacts on the architectural adaptation in ancient China during the 3rd–6th centuries26
Impact of changes in precipitation pattern on food supply in a monsoon interlacing area and its mechanism: A case study of Yunnan Province25
Adjustment of thalweg longitudinal profiles in response to sediment silting in cascade reservoirs: A case study of the lower Jinsha River24
Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem services under multiple future scenarios to assess the progress of Sustainable Development Goals implementation23
Multi-scale analysis of trade-off/synergistic effects of forest ecosystem services in the Funiu Mountain Region, China23
Quantitative relationship between channels and bars in a tidal reach of the lower Yangtze River: Implications for river management23
Multi-hierarchical spatial clustering for characteristic towns in China: An Orange-based framework to integrate GIS and Geodetector23
Adjustment of flood discharge capacity with varying boundary conditions in a braided reach of the Lower Yellow River23
Glacier changes in the Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve of China during 2000–201823
Have China’s drylands become wetting in the past 50 years?22
Flow resistance adjustments of channel and bars in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in response to the operation of the Three Gorges Dam22
Quantum harmonic oscillator model for simulation of intercity population mobility22
Post-suburbanization in Qingpu New Town: Process and formation mechanism22
Global and regional changes in working-age population exposure to heat extremes under climate change21
Evolution of vegetation phenology and its response to urbanisation in Shaanxi province, China: A fine-scale perspective21
Exploring the historical evolution of tourism-environment interaction in protected area: A case study of Mt. Bogda21
Classification and detection of dominant factors in geospatial patterns of traditional settlements in China20
Evaluation, simulation, and optimization of land use spatial patterns for high-quality development: A case study of Zhengzhou city, China19
Quantitative assessment of fire occurrence Dead Fuel Index threshold and spatio-temporal variation in different grassland types of China-Mongolia border area19
Comparative analysis of different machine learning algorithms for urban footprint extraction in diverse urban contexts using high-resolution remote sensing imagery19
Evidence of Middle Pleistocene hominin migration in the Qinling Mountains (central China) from the Miaokou Paleolithic site19
Spatial heterogeneity of the economic growth pattern and influencing factors in formerly destitute areas of China19
Land cover change and its response to water level around Tonle Sap Lake in 1988–202019
Zoning framework and policy implications of sustainable development by coupling multilevel in Beijing, China19
Spatio-temporal analysis of cropland change in the Guanzhong area, China, from 1650 to 201619
Geographical big data and data mining: A new opportunity for “water-energy-food” nexus analysis18
How geographic accessibility and rural governance mitigate the impact of multiple risks on rural households’ well-being: Evidence from the Dabie Mountains in China18
The study of artificial intelligence for predicting land use changes in an arid ecosystem18
City size and employment dynamics in China: Evidence from recruitment website data18
Vertical distribution changes in land cover between 1990 and 2015 within the Koshi River Basin, Central Himalayas18
Influencing factors of manufacturing agglomeration in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region based on enterprise big data18
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 201818
Regulation factors driving vegetation changes in China during the past 20 years18
Global submarine cable network and digital divide17
Housing tenure and type choices of urban migrants in China17
Climate change and human activities on runoff in northern Shaanxi: Based on Budyko framework analysis17
Spatiotemporal variations of eco-environment in the Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone based on remote sensing ecological index and granular computing17
Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the normalized difference vegetation index of desertified areas in northern China17
Nonlinear relationship between urban form and transport CO2 emissions: Evidence from Chinese cities based on machine learning17
Lake surface water-heat flux variation and its correlations with meteorological factors on multiscale in the Yamzhog Yumco, south Tibet17
Spatiotemporal evolution of national development zones and their impact on urban land growth in China17
Chronology of the urban evolution of Ancient Loulan City17
Morphological evolution of the channel-shoal system in the South Channel of the Changjiang Estuary during 1958–2018: Causes and future trends17
An influencing mechanism for ecological asset gains and losses and its optimization and promotion pathways in China17
Divergent effects of climate change on cropland ecosystem water use efficiency at different elevations in southwestern China17
The effects of Taobao villages’ spatiotemporal agglomeration on urbanization: A case study of Quanzhou, Fujian16
Recent signal and impact of wet-to-dry climatic shift in Xinjiang, China16
Relationship between potential waterway depth improvement and evolution of the Jingjiang Reach of the Yangtze River in China16
Understanding the multidimensional poverty in South Asia16
Land use change and its influencing factors along railways in Africa: A case study of the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway15
Tourism development potential and obstacle factors of cultural heritage: Evidence from traditional music in Xiangxi15
Extraction and spatiotemporal evolution analysis of tidal flats in the Bohai Rim during 1984–2019 based on remote sensing15
How does the coupling coordination relationship between high-quality urbanization and land use evolve in China? New evidence based on exploratory spatiotemporal analyses15
Evaluation system and influencing paths for the integration of culture and tourism in traditional villages15
Temperature trends in some major countries from the 1980s to 201914
Touristic urbanization and greening of coastal dune fields: A long-term assessment of a temperate sandy barrier of Argentina14
Divergent responses of Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) to recent warming along elevational gradients in the central Qilian Mountains, Northwest China14
On integrated urban and rural development14
Literature review of accessibility measures and models used in land use and transportation planning in last 5 years14
Traffic accessibility and the coupling degree of ecosystem services supply and demand in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, China14
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
Moving towards synergistic reductions on PM2.5 and CO2 and its mechanism: A case study of Yangtze River Economic Belt, China14
Economic sustainability of China’s growth from the perspective of its resource and environmental supply system: National scale modeling and policy analysis13
Evolution and obstacle factors of high-quality industrial development in the π-shaped Curve Area of the Yellow River basin in China13
A strategy of the rural governance for territorial spatial planning in China13
Progress on spatial prediction methods for soil particle-size fractions13
Spatiotemporal distribution of sea-island prehistoric dune sites, Holocene sea levels, and aeolian sand activities in Fujian Province, China13
Relational characteristics and dynamics between high-tech firms in the Pearl River Delta and the empowerment for technological innovation by Hong Kong13
Assessing Common Era impacts of Asian dust on tropical cyclone changes in the Northwestern Pacific13
Evolution characteristics of ecosystem functional stability and ecosystem functional zoning on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau13
Glacier wastage and its vulnerability in the Qilian Mountains12
Nonlinear effects of the urban built environment on urban vitality: A case study of Hangzhou, China12
The spatial pattern and governance of Zhongyuan Urban-Rural System in its development trajectory12
How does land consolidation affect rural development transformation?12
Residents’ urbanized landscape preferences in rural areas reveal the importance of naturalness-livability contrast12
Regional differences and formation mechanisms of watershed territorial space patterns evolution: A case study of the critical areas in the Pearl River Basin12
Climate-driven changes in drought metrics across the Yellow River Basin based on Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 612
Geopolitics of the energy transition12
The meliorization process of urban green spaces: Integrating landsense creation for sustainable development12
The location choice of Chinese investment in the United States: Industrial agglomeration, ethnic networks and firm heterogeneity12
Provincial anthropogenic emission inventory of carbonyl sulfide (COS) in China from 2015 to 202112
Dynamic evolution trend of comprehensive transportation green efficiency in China: From a spatio-temporal interaction perspective12
Developing socio-hydrology: Research progress, opportunities and challenges12
Bank and point bar morphodynamics in the Lower Jingjiang Reach of the Yangtze River in response to the Three Gorges Project12
Factors influencing the recessive morphology of farmland use under labor changes based on production input willingness and behavior of farmers11
The optimal explanatory power of soil erosion and water yield in karst mountainous areas11
Evaluation of cropland suitability and key potential areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau11
Temporal and spatial laws and simulations of erosion and deposition in the Lower Yellow River since the operation of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir11
A 1000-year history of cropland cover change along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in China11
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
Optimizing field management to promote the ecologicalization of agriculture in loess hilly-gully region, China11
Estimation of maize yield incorporating the synergistic effect of climatic and land use change in Jilin, China11
Lithic miniaturization in South China since the terminal Pleistocene: A multivariate analysis of lithic reduction from Fodongdi, Fulin and Xiqiaoshan11
Tracing the agro-pastoral ecotone transition in northern China from the human-Earth system perspective11
Dynamic features and driving mechanism of coal consumption for Guangdong province in China11
Unearthing the impact of urban sprawl on transport carbon dioxide emissions: Fresh evidence from 274 Chinese cities11
Combinatorial knowledge dynamics, innovative performance, and transition studies11
Multi-scale coupling analysis of urbanization and ecosystem services supply-demand budget in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China11
Thalweg migration under the collaborative changes in the hydro-sediment regime and erosion base level in the Xiaobeiganliu reach of the Middle Yellow River11
Impact and zoning of production-living-ecological spaces changes on carbon balance: Evidence from Shandong province, China11
Drivers of water pollutant discharge in urban agglomerations and their scale effects10
Divergent nitrogen isotope trends in Chinese lake sediments since the mid-Qing Dynasty: Influencing factors and implications10
Progress and major themes of research on urban shrinkage and its eco-environmental impacts10
Territorial spatial zoning based on suitability evaluation and its impact on ecosystem services in Ezhou city10
A review of China’s overseas economic and trade cooperation zones along the Belt and Road: Progress and prospects10
Spatio-temporal analysis of human wellbeing and its coupling relationship with ecosystem services in Shandong province, China10
Rainfall effects on wind erosion processes on the simulated Gobi surface using indoor experiments10
Vulnerability of glacier change in the Tianshan Mountains region of China10
Socio-economic roots of human settlement layout in the marginal zone of the Changtang Plateau uninhabited area: A comparative study of three typical counties10
Impact of land use intensity changes on ecosystem services in the Yellow River Basin, China10
Physicochemical indicators of hydro-ecological conditions in a nebkha sedimentary profile in the arid Shule River Basin, northwestern China10
Impact of cascade reservoirs on the delayed response behaviour of sedimentation in the Three Gorges Reservoir10
Effects of land use patterns on slope soil water in the semiarid Loess Plateau, China10
Spatial differentiation and influence mechanism of the connection-distribution performance of urban high-speed railway hub in the Yangtze River Economic Belt10
The spatial pattern of population-land-industry coupling coordinated development and its influencing factor detection in rural China10
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
Mapping cropping patterns in the North China Plain over the past 300 years and an analysis of the drivers of change10
Evaluation and structural analysis of the functions of the Tibetan Plateau National Park Cluster9
Urbanization of county in China: Spatial patterns and influencing factors9
Spatio-temporal characteristics and influencing factors of Pseudo Human Settlements in Northeast China based on the Baidu Index9
Evolutionary process and development implications of traditional trade routes in the Himalayan region9
Simulation and prediction of multi-scenario evolution of ecological space based on FLUS model: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China9
Understanding land for high-quality development9
Hedging effect alleviates the impact of land use on mainstream hydrological regimes: Evidence from Jinsha River, China9
Substrate damage and recovery after giant clam shell mining at remote coral reefs in the southern South China Sea9
Development of periglacial landforms and soil formation in the Ilgaz Mountains and effect of climate (Western Black Sea Region-Türkiye)9
Farmland use behavior and its influencing factors from the perspective of population migration9
Exploring zonal heterogeneities of primary school students’ commute-mode choices through a geographically weighted regression model9
Effective soil particle size distributions and critical size of enrichment/depletion in splash erosion for loessial soil9
Trend changes of flow regime metrics in the water conservation zone of the Yellow River caused by observation uncertainty9
Patterns, processes, and differentiation mechanisms of China’s transition from old to new economic drivers9
The effects of human activities on windbreak and sand fixation services in Inner Mongolia grasslands from 2000 to 20209
The coupling relationship between urbanization and ecological resilience in the Pearl River Delta8
Modelling the impacts of cropland displacement on potential cereal production with four levels of China’s administrative boundaries8
Urbanization under globalization: How does the Belt and Road Initiative affect urbanization levels in participating countries8
Divergent contributions of spring and autumn photosynthetic phenology to seasonal carbon uptake of subtropical vegetation in China8
Ecological transitions in Xinjiang, China: Unraveling the impact of climate change on vegetation dynamics (1990–2020)8
How do GPM and TRMM precipitation products perform in alpine regions?8
Carbon sink response of terrestrial vegetation ecosystems in the Yangtze River Delta and its driving mechanism8
Spatiotemporal differentiation and attribution of land surface temperature in China in 2001–20208
Spatio-temporal changes and driving forces of ecological environment quality in northern China from 2000 to 20228
Spatio-temporal characteristics of farmland occupation of construction land expansion and its spatial relationship with grain yield in China for 2000–20208
Divergent responses of vegetation productivity to soil moisture and vapor pressure deficit across China: Spatiotemporal patterns and climatic attribution8
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
Geomorphology-oriented theoretical framework and construction method for value-added DEM8
Feasibility analysis of a double-cropping system for the efficient use of farmland on China’s Loess Plateau8
Spatial distribution characteristics and differentiated management strategies of China Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems8
Evaluating the impacts of converting grain to vegetable fields on nitrate transport in the deep vadose zone of the North China Plain8
Spatio-temporal correlation between human activity intensity and land surface temperature on the north slope of Tianshan Mountains8
Global poverty dynamics and resilience building for sustainable poverty reduction8
Spatiotemporal variations of water use efficiency and its driving factors in Inner Mongolia from 2001 to 20208
Climate change and multi-dimensional sustainable urbanization7
Morphological differentiation characteristics and classification criteria of lunar surface relief amplitude7
Spatial non-stationary characteristics between grass yield and its influencing factors in the Ningxia temperate grasslands based on a mixed geographically weighted regression model7
Spatially explicit changes of forestland in Taiwan Province from 1910 to 20107
Study of loess ecological slope protection optimization measures and prediction of the erosion control effect7
Spatio-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of farmland fragmentation in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain7
Spatial pattern evolution and driving factors of urban green technology innovation in China7
Simulation of urban expansion using geographical similarity transition rules and neighbourhood sizes7
Effect of Three Gorges Dam on Poyang Lake water level at daily scale based on machine learning7
Path dependence or path creation of mature resource-based cities: A new firm entry perspective7
Method for UAV-based 3D topography reconstruction of tidal creeks7
Investigating the critical influencing factors of snowmelt runoff and development of a mid-long term snowmelt runoff forecasting7
Regional revitalizing divergences and reasons for targeted policy-driven rural development in China: An assessment based on provincial-level data7
Urban construction land demand prediction and spatial pattern simulation under carbon peak and neutrality goals: A case study of Guangzhou, China7
Gentrifying rural community development: A case study of Bama Panyang River Basin in Guangxi, China7
Distribution of topographical changes triggered by prolonged heavy rainfall in the Chinese Loess Plateau: A case study of the Gutun catchment in Yan’an7
Human settlements in the Ordos Plateau since the Neolithic Age7
An empirical study of the registered population transformation in China’s megacities7
Dynamics of the global semiconductor trade and its dependencies7
Profoundly entwined ecosystem services, land-use change and human well-being into sustainability management in Yushu, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau7
Spatial distribution changes and habitat conservation of medicinal plant diversity in the Yinshan Mountains (China) under climate change7
The response of key ecosystem services to land use and climate change in Chongqing: Time, space, and altitude7
A review of the ecohydrology discipline: Progress, challenges, and future directions in China6
The effects of climate change and phenological variation on agricultural production and its risk pattern in the black soil area of northeast China6
Long-term passive restoration of severely degraded drylands — divergent impacts on soil and vegetation: An Israeli case study6
Time-scale effects in human-nature interactions, regionally and globally6
Extent and spatial distribution of terrace abandonment in China6
Evaluating the hydrological effects of the Three Gorges Reservoir based on a large-scale coupled hydrological-hydrodynamic-dam operation model6
How is the precipitation distributed vertically in arid mountain region of Northwest China?6
Simulation of land-cover change in Jing-Jin-Ji region under different scenarios of SSP-RCP6
Network and mechanism of China’s new energy vehicle industry from the perspective of value chain6
Experimental study of population density using an optimized random forest model6
Wetland and habitat dynamics in the evolving landscape of the Middle Yangtze River Basin6
Does adaptability matter?6
Spatio-temporal patterns of temperature extremes and their response to atmospheric circulation factors in China from 1961 to 20206
Three-dimensional modelling of soil organic carbon density and carbon sequestration potential estimation in a dryland farming region of China6
Understanding the spatial heterogeneity of grazing pressure in the Three-River-Source Region on the Tibetan Plateau6
Rivers increasingly warmer: Prediction of changes in the thermal regime of rivers in Poland6
Simulation of frozen ground distribution in northeast China based on a surface frost number model6
The interannual periodicity of precipitation and its links to the large-scale circulations over the Third Pole6
Can the integration between urban and rural areas be realized? A new theoretical analytical framework6
Evolution characteristics and driving factors of rural regional functions in the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China6
Spatiotemporal pattern of the dynamics in area, production, and yield of Aus rice in Bangladesh and its response to droughts from 1980 to 20186
A review of the balance of regional development in China from the perspective of development geography6
Coupled effect of climate change and human activities on the restoration/degradation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau grassland6
Vegetation-related dry deposition of global PM2.5 from satellite observations6
Chinese investment promoted economic growth while reducing inequality in African countries6
Methodology, progress and challenges of geoscience knowledge graph in International Big Science Program of Deep-Time Digital Earth6
Increasing threat from landfalling tropical cyclones over China due to their characteristic changes (1949–2022)6
Urban land development intensity: New evidence behind economic transition in the Yangtze River Delta, China6
Fusion of historical survey data and remote sensing to analyze the spatiotemporal variation of altitudinal belts in the Kunlun Mountains during 2000–20206
Experience and future research trends of wetland protection and restoration in China6
Increasing probability of concurrent drought between the water intake and receiving regions of the Hanjiang to Weihe River Water Diversion Project, China6
Hydrological processes in the Aksu River source region during the intense ablation period based on water chemistry and isotopes6
Ecological risk assessment and ecological security pattern optimization in the middle reaches of the Yellow River based on ERI+MCR model6
Ecological changes and the tradeoff and synergy of ecosystem services in western China6
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