Top Recent High Impact Articles
July 2026
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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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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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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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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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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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Lyu, Wenbo, Shaoqing Dai, Yongze Song, Wufan Zhao, Wen Yi, Yumiao Xiao, and Nan Jia. "Measuring causal strengths from spatial cross-sectional data with geographical cross mapping cardinality." International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2026). pdf
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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