Nighttime light metrics for analysing urban-rural economic disparities
A case study in 36 Chinese metropolitan areas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6419213 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ge Zhai (0009-0002-5684-183X), Maoxin Zhang (0000-0001-9459-4361), Yihua Hu (0000-0002-1007-1617), Yuwei Chen (0000-0003-0148-3609), Cifang Wu, Youpeng Lu (0000-0001-7745-1422), Tingting He (0000-0001-6889-3333) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 162 |
| Pages | 105930-105930 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-2751 • E-ISSN: 1873-6084 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105930 |
| OpenAlex | W4408954995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 94 |
Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Metropolitan area · Regional science · Socioeconomics · Impact of Light on Environment and Health · Night-time city culture · Urban Transport and Accessibility
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Identifying spatial boundary of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas in China by multi-scale integrated framework
Deciphering China's urban-rural income gap
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Which Regional Inequality? The Evolution of Rural–Urban and Inland–Coastal Inequality in China from 1983 to 1995
An extended time series (2000–2018) of global NPP-Viirs-like nighttime light data from a cross-sensor calibration
Urbanisation and health in China
Moving towards a sustainable environment
Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics
Rural and urban areas
Urban agglomeration
The composition of public expenditure and economic growth
Mapping urbanization dynamics at regional and global scales using multi-temporal DMSP/OLS nighttime light data
Rural area and agricultural region revitalisation modelling
Digital resilience
New nighttime light landscape metrics for analyzing urban-rural differentiation in economic development at township
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Critical Reflections on Cities in Southeast Asia
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Top lights
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High-quality development in China
The spatial restructuring and determinants of industrial landscape in a mega city under rapid urbanization
Intra-city access to inter-city transport nodes
From cities to super mega city regions in China in a new wave of urbanisation and economic transition
Air connectivity and spatial effects
Impacts of transport connections on port hinterlands
Cluster or Capture? Manufacturing Foreign Direct Investment, External Economies and Agglomeration
A blessing or curse
Stabilizing economic growth
Effects of economic growth target on the urban–rural income gap in China
Modeling Dynamics in Time-Series–Cross-Section Political Economy Data
Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities
Educational Inequality under China's Rural-Urban Divide
The View from Above
Theorizing the relationship between inequality and economic growth
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |