Yanji Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yanji Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yanji |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fuzhou University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1652-4944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Neighborhood Context Shapes Effects of Physical Disorder and Spatial Knowledge on Burglars’ Location Choice
Understanding multi-scale educational and hukou segregation in urban China
The Long-Term Theft Prediction in Beijing Using Machine Learning Algorithms
To advance the interpretability of machine learning for long-term crime prediction in China, we compared the performance of multiple machine learning algorithms in predicting the spatial pattern of theft in Beijing. Gradient boosting decision tree emerged as the algorithm with best predictive accuracy. After identifying the importance of criminogenic features, we extended the interpreter SHAP to reveal nonlinear and spatially heterogeneous associ…
Bidirectional spatial mobility and intergenerational social mobility in contemporary China
Unequal partnerships
Understanding neighborhood income segregation around the clock using mobile phone ambient population data
This study examines the temporal changes in income segregation within the ambient population around the clock using mobile phone big data. It employs ordinal entropy, a metric suited for measuring segregation among ordered groups, to quantify the level of segregation among eight income groups within micro-geographic units throughout the 24-h period on a weekday and a weekend day in the urban core of Guangzhou, China. The study further decomposes …
Understanding online suicidal ideation in China
Using novel Internet search data from Baidu Index, this study examines for the first time the nationwide distribution of city-level intensity of online suicidal ideation in China and the underlying social determinants and processes. We find that the intensity of suicidal ideation shows moderate spatial clustering, decreasing from east to west nationally and from developed to less developed areas within each province. Overall, socioeconomic inequa…
Causal Effect of Small Businesses on Street Theft
Educational inequality or educational segregation? The determinants of criminal activities in 288 Chinese cities
Can good neighbourhood perception magnify the positive effect of favourable built environment on recreational walking in China
High perceived neighbourhood safety can magnify the positive effects of road connectivity and accessibility to parks and squares. Neighbourhood aesthetics positively moderates the association of time for recreational walking with accessibility to parks and squares. The findings emphasize the need to consider safety- and aesthetics-specific differences in estimates of built environment effects. Improvements in neighbourhood safety and aesthetics a…
Does birthplace affect intergenerational social mobility of migrants in urban escalators? Evidence from China
There is a growing body of literature on the effects of escalator regions on intergenerational social mobility (ISM) of migrants. Nevertheless, the role of migrant origins in migration outcomes remain neglected. To address this gap, this study attempts to investigate whether migrants' birthplaces continue to have an impact after they move to escalator regions and the mechanism of this impact. Using data from the 2010, 2013, and 2015 Chinese Gener…
Parent- or self-reliance? Understanding young homeowners’ housing quality in Beijing from an intergenerational and dynamic perspective
Parental support increasingly influences young people's housing outcomes. Using OLS models, this study examines the relative effects of parental and own socioeconomic status and political resources on young homeowners' housing quality and their temporal dynamics in Beijing, China. We find that the market transition theory has explanatory power for both generations. However, the socioeconomic status of parents outweighs that of young homeowners in…
Residents, Employees and Visitors
Objectives: The residential population of an area is an incomplete measure of the number of people that are momentarily present in the area, and of limited value as an indicator of exposure to the risk of crime. By accounting for the mobility of the population, measures of ambient population better reflect the momentary presence of people. They have therefore become an alternative indicator of exposure to the risk of crime. This study considers t…
Residential locations and residential moves between the city centre and suburb in Beijing, China
Smaller particular matter, larger risk of female lung cancer incidence? Evidence from 436 Chinese counties
The effect on the incidence rate of female lung cancer was greater for PM 1 , followed by PM 2.5 and PM 10 . There were positive modifying roles of urban-rural division on the effects of three particular matters. The finding supports the argument that finer particular matters are more harmful to human health, and also highlights the great significance to develop guidelines for PM 1 control and prevention in Chinese setting
From Residential Neighborhood to Activity Space
The segregation–crime relationship is a classic topic in sociology and crime geography, yet existing literature mainly focuses on the impact of racial segregation at the global scale. Little is known about the impact of local segregation of other socioeconomic characteristics such as education level, an important segregation factor for racially homogenous countries like China. Also unknown is their impact beyond the residential domain. Using the …
Destination‐to‐origin differences and settlement intentions of Chinese internal migrants
Research on Chinese internal migrants has gradually shifted from a focus on the rapid expansion of this population to its relationship with the restructuring of spatial distribution in cities. The settlement intentions of migrants are key to how China's urbanisation and the urban system will evolve. Yet, although there is a considerable body of research on this subject, the determinants of migrants' settlement intentions remain debatable. In this…
Temporal variation in activity-space-based segregation
A Beijing that you might not know
China is generally considered a safe place: among the safest for foreigners to visit. For local (long-term) residents and for Chinese criminology scholars, China as a country and its individual cities might be safer compared to many of their foreign peers; however, they might not be as safe as some travel agents claim. To show why this is the case, we crawled and geovisualized the 2015-2016 crime records ( n = 24,803) available to the public onli…
From Residential Neighborhood to Activity Space
The segregation–crime relationship is a classic topic in sociology and crime geography, yet existing literature mainly focuses on the impact of racial segregation at the global scale. Little is known about the impact of local segregation of other socioeconomic characteristics such as education level, an important segregation factor for racially homogenous countries like China. Also unknown is their impact beyond the residential domain. Using the …
Temporal variation in activity-space-based segregation
Destination‐to‐origin differences and settlement intentions of Chinese internal migrants
Research on Chinese internal migrants has gradually shifted from a focus on the rapid expansion of this population to its relationship with the restructuring of spatial distribution in cities. The settlement intentions of migrants are key to how China's urbanisation and the urban system will evolve. Yet, although there is a considerable body of research on this subject, the determinants of migrants' settlement intentions remain debatable. In this…
Residential locations and residential moves between the city centre and suburb in Beijing, China
Does birthplace affect intergenerational social mobility of migrants in urban escalators? Evidence from China
There is a growing body of literature on the effects of escalator regions on intergenerational social mobility (ISM) of migrants. Nevertheless, the role of migrant origins in migration outcomes remain neglected. To address this gap, this study attempts to investigate whether migrants' birthplaces continue to have an impact after they move to escalator regions and the mechanism of this impact. Using data from the 2010, 2013, and 2015 Chinese Gener…
A Beijing that you might not know
China is generally considered a safe place: among the safest for foreigners to visit. For local (long-term) residents and for Chinese criminology scholars, China as a country and its individual cities might be safer compared to many of their foreign peers; however, they might not be as safe as some travel agents claim. To show why this is the case, we crawled and geovisualized the 2015-2016 crime records ( n = 24,803) available to the public onli…
Destination‐to‐origin differences and settlement intentions of Chinese internal migrants
Research on Chinese internal migrants has gradually shifted from a focus on the rapid expansion of this population to its relationship with the restructuring of spatial distribution in cities. The settlement intentions of migrants are key to how China's urbanisation and the urban system will evolve. Yet, although there is a considerable body of research on this subject, the determinants of migrants' settlement intentions remain debatable. In this…
Temporal variation in activity-space-based segregation
Smaller particular matter, larger risk of female lung cancer incidence? Evidence from 436 Chinese counties
The effect on the incidence rate of female lung cancer was greater for PM 1 , followed by PM 2.5 and PM 10 . There were positive modifying roles of urban-rural division on the effects of three particular matters. The finding supports the argument that finer particular matters are more harmful to human health, and also highlights the great significance to develop guidelines for PM 1 control and prevention in Chinese setting
From Residential Neighborhood to Activity Space
The segregation–crime relationship is a classic topic in sociology and crime geography, yet existing literature mainly focuses on the impact of racial segregation at the global scale. Little is known about the impact of local segregation of other socioeconomic characteristics such as education level, an important segregation factor for racially homogenous countries like China. Also unknown is their impact beyond the residential domain. Using the …
Residents, Employees and Visitors
Objectives: The residential population of an area is an incomplete measure of the number of people that are momentarily present in the area, and of limited value as an indicator of exposure to the risk of crime. By accounting for the mobility of the population, measures of ambient population better reflect the momentary presence of people. They have therefore become an alternative indicator of exposure to the risk of crime. This study considers t…
Residential locations and residential moves between the city centre and suburb in Beijing, China
Understanding neighborhood income segregation around the clock using mobile phone ambient population data
This study examines the temporal changes in income segregation within the ambient population around the clock using mobile phone big data. It employs ordinal entropy, a metric suited for measuring segregation among ordered groups, to quantify the level of segregation among eight income groups within micro-geographic units throughout the 24-h period on a weekday and a weekend day in the urban core of Guangzhou, China. The study further decomposes …
Understanding online suicidal ideation in China
Using novel Internet search data from Baidu Index, this study examines for the first time the nationwide distribution of city-level intensity of online suicidal ideation in China and the underlying social determinants and processes. We find that the intensity of suicidal ideation shows moderate spatial clustering, decreasing from east to west nationally and from developed to less developed areas within each province. Overall, socioeconomic inequa…
Causal Effect of Small Businesses on Street Theft
Educational inequality or educational segregation? The determinants of criminal activities in 288 Chinese cities
Can good neighbourhood perception magnify the positive effect of favourable built environment on recreational walking in China
High perceived neighbourhood safety can magnify the positive effects of road connectivity and accessibility to parks and squares. Neighbourhood aesthetics positively moderates the association of time for recreational walking with accessibility to parks and squares. The findings emphasize the need to consider safety- and aesthetics-specific differences in estimates of built environment effects. Improvements in neighbourhood safety and aesthetics a…
Does birthplace affect intergenerational social mobility of migrants in urban escalators? Evidence from China
There is a growing body of literature on the effects of escalator regions on intergenerational social mobility (ISM) of migrants. Nevertheless, the role of migrant origins in migration outcomes remain neglected. To address this gap, this study attempts to investigate whether migrants' birthplaces continue to have an impact after they move to escalator regions and the mechanism of this impact. Using data from the 2010, 2013, and 2015 Chinese Gener…
Parent- or self-reliance? Understanding young homeowners’ housing quality in Beijing from an intergenerational and dynamic perspective
Parental support increasingly influences young people's housing outcomes. Using OLS models, this study examines the relative effects of parental and own socioeconomic status and political resources on young homeowners' housing quality and their temporal dynamics in Beijing, China. We find that the market transition theory has explanatory power for both generations. However, the socioeconomic status of parents outweighs that of young homeowners in…
Understanding multi-scale educational and hukou segregation in urban China
The Long-Term Theft Prediction in Beijing Using Machine Learning Algorithms
To advance the interpretability of machine learning for long-term crime prediction in China, we compared the performance of multiple machine learning algorithms in predicting the spatial pattern of theft in Beijing. Gradient boosting decision tree emerged as the algorithm with best predictive accuracy. After identifying the importance of criminogenic features, we extended the interpreter SHAP to reveal nonlinear and spatially heterogeneous associ…
Bidirectional spatial mobility and intergenerational social mobility in contemporary China
Unequal partnerships
Neighborhood Context Shapes Effects of Physical Disorder and Spatial Knowledge on Burglars’ Location Choice
Geography (16 works) · China (15 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Beijing (8 works) · Demography (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works)