Top Recent High Impact Articles
May 2026
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Luo, Peng, Yang Li, Yongze Song, Ziqi Li, and Liqiu Meng. "Measuring univariate effects in the interaction of geographical patterns." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2026). pdf
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Wei, Jingxian, Wenze Yue, Mengmeng Li, Yong Liu, and Yongze Song. "Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions." Cities (2025). pdf
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Luo, Peng, Yongze Song, Di Zhu, Junyi Cheng, and Liqiu Meng. "A generalized heterogeneity model for spatial interpolation." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2023). pdf
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Ren, Kai, Yongze Song, and Qiang Yu. "Second-dimension outliers for spatial prediction." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2026). pdf
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Hu, Jiao, Yongze Song, and Tingbin Zhang. "A local indicator of stratified power." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2025). pdf
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Liu, Haiyang, Yongze Song, and Wen Yi. "Degree of spatial interpretability." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2026). pdf
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Wang, Xi, Liang Zhou, David Lopez-Carr, Yongze Song, Hong Gao, Tao Che, Zhifeng Liu, and Wei Wei. "Urban grey-green scales: A new perspective for assessing dynamic spatial trade-offs." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (2025). pdf
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Cao, Xiaoyan, Jiali Ju, Chuanhao Wu, Pat J. -F. Yeh, Min Shi, Ashraf Dewan, Yongze Song, Xueyuan Zhang, Tian Yao, Yufei Jiao, Qiongfang Li, Shanshui Yuan, Xiaolei Fu, and Bill X. Hu. "Assessing the response of terrestrial water storage to climate warming in China by coupling CMIP6 multi-model ensembles, hydrological model, and machine learning algorithms." Climatic Change (2026). pdf
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Zhang, Zehua, Yongze Song, and Peng Wu. "Robust geographical detector." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (2022). pdf
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Zheng, Kang, Minmin Yu, Zhifei Liu, Shuai Bao, Ziwu Pan, Yongze Song, Lianqi Zhu, and Zunyi Xie. "Frequency and Prompt Learning Cooperation Enhanced Mamba for Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2026). pdf
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Song, Yongze, Margaret Kalacska, Mateo Gasparovic, Jing Yao, and Nasser Najibi. "Advances in geocomputation and geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) for mapping." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (2023). pdf
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Lv, Wenbo, Yangyang Lei, Fangmei Liu, Jianwu Yan, Yongze Song, and Wufan Zhao. "gdverse: An R Package for Spatial Stratified Heterogeneity Family." Transactions in GIS (2025). pdf
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Zhang, Zehua, Ziqi Li, and Yongze Song. "On ignoring the heterogeneity in spatial autocorrelation: consequences and solutions." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2024). pdf
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Wei, Wei, Dang Lu, Yongze Song, Mohsen Sherif, Ashraf Dewan, Ting Liu, Liang Zhou, Junju Zhou, and Xiangyu Wang. "Spatiotemporal characteristics of drought events in Asia from a three-dimensional perspective." Climate Dynamics (2025). pdf
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Luo, Peng, Yongze Song, Xin Huang, Hongliang Ma, Jin Liu, Yao Yao, and Liqiu Meng. "Identifying determinants of spatio-temporal disparities in soil moisture of the Northern Hemisphere using a geographically optimal zones-based heterogeneity model." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2022). pdf
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Chen, Lai, Zeqiang Chen, Yongze Song, Chao Yang, Sijia He, Zhiqing Li, Wenfeng Guo, and Nengcheng Chen. "Spatiotemporal adaptive multiscale transformer for prediction." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2026). pdf
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Ding, Yuan, Dongming Chen, Sisi Zlatanova, Mingguang Wu, Kai Cao, Yongze Song, and Yingbao Yang. "Simplifying complex landmark models with holes for 3D maps: a topological perception-based approach." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2026). pdf
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Lyu, Wenbo, Yangyang Lei, Wen Yi, Yongze Song, Xiao Li, Shaoqing Dai, Yiming Qin, and Wufan Zhao. "Causal discovery in urban data with temporal empirical dynamic modeling: The R package tEDM." Computers Environment and Urban Systems (2026). pdf
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Wang, Xiaojun, Yilong Wu, Tingyu Shi, Rongyu Zhang, Yanxi Chen, and Yongze Song. "Explainable second-dimension spatial association between park sentiment and built-social environments." Cities (2026). pdf
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Luo, Peng, Yilong Wu, and Yongze Song. "Focal-Feature Regression Kriging." Geographical Analysis (2026). pdf
π Highly Cited Papers (Top 1% by citations)
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Ming, Yujia, Yong Liu, Yingpeng Li, and Yongze Song. "Unraveling nonlinear and spatial non-stationary effects of urban form on surface urban heat islands using explainable spatial machine learning." Computers Environment and Urban Systems 114 (2024). pdf
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Zhang, Zehua, Yongze Song, Lalinda Karunaratne, and Peng Wu. "Robust interaction detector: A case of road life expectancy analysis." Spatial Statistics 59 (2024). pdf
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Song, Yimeng, Bin Chen, Hung Chak Ho, Mei-Po Kwan, Dong Liu, Fei Wang, Jionghua Wang, Jixuan Cai, Xijing Li, Yong Xu, Qingqing He, Hongzhi Wang, Qiyan Xu, and Yongze Song. "Observed inequality in urban greenspace exposure in China." Environment International 156 (2021). pdf
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Wang, Mengying, Tao Zhou, Yongze Song, Xiang Li, Hao Ma, Yonghua Hu, Yoriko Heianza, and Lu Qi. "Joint exposure to various ambient air pollutants and incident heart failure: a prospective analysis in UK Biobank." European Heart Journal 42, no. 16 (2021). pdf
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Song, Yongze, Jinfeng Wang, Yong Ge, and Chengdong Xu. "An optimal parameters-based geographical detector model enhances geographic characteristics of explanatory variables for spatial heterogeneity analysis: cases with different types of spatial data." Giscience & Remote Sensing 57, no. 5 (2020). pdf
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Ge, Yong, Wen-Bin Zhang, Xilin Wu, Corrine W. Ruktanonchai, Haiyan Liu, Jianghao Wang, Yongze Song, Mengxiao Liu, Wei Yan, Juan Yang, Eimear Cleary, Sarchil H. Qader, Fatumah Atuhaire, Nick W. Ruktanonchai, Andrew J. Tatem, and Shengjie Lai. "Untangling the changing impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions and vaccination on European COVID-19 trajectories." Nature Communications 13 (2022): 3106. pdf
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Ge, Yong, Wen-Bin Zhang, Haiyan Liu, Corrine W. Ruktanonchai, Maogui Hu, Xilin Wu, Yongze Song, Nick W. Ruktanonchai, Wei Yan, Eimear Cleary, Luzhao Feng, Zhongjie Li, Weizhong Yang, Mengxiao Liu, Andrew J. Tatem, Jin-Feng Wang, and Shengjie Lai. "Impacts of worldwide individual non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 transmission across waves and space." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 106 (2022): 102649. pdf
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Song, Yongze, Peng Wu, Qindong Li, Yuchen Liu, and Lalinda Karunaratne. "Hybrid Nonlinear and Machine Learning Methods for Analyzing Factors Influencing the Performance of Large-Scale Transport Infrastructure." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2021). pdf
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Song, Yongze, Xiangyu Wang, Graeme L. Wright, Dominique Thatcher, Peng Wu, and Pascal Felix. "Traffic Volume Prediction With Segment-Based Regression Kriging and its Implementation in Assessing the Impact of Heavy Vehicles." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 20, no. 1 (2019): 232β243. pdf
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Song, Yongze, Yi Tan, Yimeng Song, Peng Wu, Jack C. P. Cheng, and Mi Jeong Kim. "Spatial and temporal variations of spatial population accessibility to public hospitals: A case study of rural-urban comparison." GIScience & Remote Sensing 55, no. 5 (2018): 718β744. pdf