Publications

Research and scholarship from SDSC

Recent peer-reviewed publications by our faculty and students across the spatial data science spectrum.

Canadian Geographies / Geographies canadiennes

69(1), e12961

Alone together? A time use approach for examining socializing when travel is limited

DeJohn, A., Liu, B., Ma, X., Widener, M. J., & Liu, Z. (2024)

Population, Space and Place

31(1), e2849

Evaluating small area differential privacy life expectancy

Melix, B. L., & Uejio, C. K. (2025)

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

GeoShapley: A Game Theory Approach to Measuring Spatial Effects in Machine Learning Models

Li, Z. (2024)

Journal of Spatial Information Science

26, 1-25.

A Geographical Perspective on Simpson's Paradox.

Sachdeva, M., & Fotheringham, A. S. (2023).

Spatial Economic Analysis

Advance online, 1-13

On the political and socioeconomic geography of violence: Spatial heterogeneity and scale effects in Brazil

Mendez, C., & Sachdeva, M. (2025)

Geographical Analysis

Geographically Weighted Cronbach's Alpha (GWalpha): An Exploratory Local Measure of Reliability for Scale Construction

Zhang, S. and Li, Z. (2025)

Sustainable Cities and Society

122, 106243

Revealing key factors of heat-related illnesses using geospatial explainable AI model: A case study in Texas, USA

Foroutan, E., Hu, T. and Li, Z. (2025)

Journal of Urban Health

102(1), 177-188

Respiratory and Cardiovascular Medical Emergency Calls Related to Indoor Heat Exposure through a Case-Control Study in New York City

Gonsoroski, E., Tamerius, J. D., Asaeda, G., Isaacs, D. A., Braun, J., Remigio, R., ... & Uejio, C. K. (2025)

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

39(6), 1203-1222.

Inference and Bandwidth Selection in Multiscale Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression.

Yu, H., & Fotheringham, A. S. (2024).

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

113(10), 2269-2286.

Measuring the Unmeasurable: Models of Geographic Context.

Fotheringham, A. S., & Li, Z. (2023).

Geographical Analysis

Can Moran Eigenvectors Improve Machine Learning of Spatial Data? Insights From Synthetic Data Validation

Li, Z. and Peng, Z. (2024)

BMC Public Health

25(1), Article 513

Mobility, ICT, and health: a built environment investigation of older Chinese migrants' social isolation and loneliness

DeJohn, A., Liu, B., Ma, X., Widener, M. J., & Liu, Z. (2025)

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

115(4), 854-875

Integrating People in Place-Based Accessibility Measures: Design and Application of a Mode Choice Accessibility Model

Kim, K., & Horner, M. W. (2025)

Politics & Policy

52(1), 196-226

The effect of place on voting behavior: The case of the Arizona proposition to legalize recreational marijuana

Mathews, M. C., & Fotheringham, A. S. (2024)

Applied Geography

182, 103721

Introducing rational agent access model to enhance scene-to-hospital accessibility of emergency medical services

Kim, K., Kwon, K., & Horner, M. W. (2025)

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

In press.

RegionGCN: Spatial-Heterogeneity-Aware Graph Convolutional Networks.

Guo, H., Wang, H., Zhu, D., Wu, L., Fotheringham, A. S., & Liu, Y. (2025).

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

108, 104455

Resource exchange patterns between Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOADs): A multilevel network assessment to improve disaster response capacity

Mathews, M. C., Vickery, J., & Peek, L. (2024)