• 2025
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• Gu H*, Lin Y. Having another baby on the move? Geographical variation in the determinants of migrant women’s fertility intentions for another child among Chinese cities[J]. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, 12(1): 1-12. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04282-w
• Gu H, Lin Y, Hu H*, et al. COVID-19 pandemic and road infrastructure exerted stage-dependent spatiotemporal influences on inter-city road travel in China[J]. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, 12(1): 1-13. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05018-0
• Hu H, Shen J, Gu H*, et al. Evolution of inter-city transportation modes in China from cars to alternatives[J]. npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport, 2025, 2(1): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44333-025-00044-6
• Zhao Z, Gu H*, Lei P, Lao X. Dilemmas for regional inequality in talent aggregation through environmental amenities: Re-examine China's hukou puzzle[J]. Habitat International, 2025, 162: 103440. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103440
• Zhang Y, Gu H*, Niu T. Progress Rings Visualization of G20 countries’ achievements on SDG13 (Climate Action) [J]. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2025: 1-4. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083251360279
• Gu H, Zhang L, Yu H*. Influencing factors of spatial distribution of skilled individuals and their impact on regional innovation in China from the lens of spatio-temporal heterogeneity[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2025, 80(6): 1465-1481 (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.11821/dlxb202506003
• Gu H, Li Y, Wan S, Wang Y*. Spatial patterns and driving factors of interprovincial elderly migration in China[J]. Progress in Geography, 2025, 44 (03): 534-550. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.18306/dlkxjz.2025.03.008
• Gu Y*, Zhang Y, Han X, Li Y. Spatial nonstationarity effects of human capital on urban innovation in China[J]. Progress in Geography, 2025, 44(2): 240-255. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.18306/dlkxjz.2025.02.003
• 2024
• Gu H, Wang J, Ling Y*. Economic geography of talent migration and agglomeration in China: A dual-driver framework[J]. China Economic Review, 2024: 102180. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102180
• Gu H, Zhao Z*. Rethinking the nexus between urban amenities and migrants’ hukou transfer intentions in China: the role of the hukou value[J]. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2024: 1-27. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2024.2326447
• Gu H, Jie Y*. Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China[J]. Habitat International, 2024, 145: 103015. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103015
• Gu H*, Zhang Y. Visualising intercity mobility patterns during China’s Spring Festival travel rush under the COVID-19 pandemic[J]. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2024, 11(1): 471-473. (ESCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2024.2375012
• Zhou L, Jie Y, Ye Z, Gu H*. Understanding the geographical process of the decline in manufacturing employment in China between 2000 and 2020. Population, Space and Place, 2024, e2855. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2855
• Luan X, Paryzat H, Chu J, Shu X, Gu H*, Tong D*, Li B. Different roads take me home: the nonlinear relationship between distance and flows during China’s Spring Festival[J]. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024, 11, 1356. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03779-8
• Gu W, Fan X, Ren Y, Gu H*. The evolution and influencing factors of global semiconductor trade network[J]. Geographical Research, 2024, 43 (08): 2194-2214. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.11821/dlyj020240009
• Lin Y, Gu H*. Spatial heterogeneity of factors affecting subjective social integration degree of migrant population: Based on the binary analysis perspective of “integration-acceptance”[J]. Progress in Geography, 2024, 43 (11): 2197-2212. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.18306/dlkxjz.2024.11.008
• 2023
• Gu H, Shen J*, Chu J. Understanding Intercity Mobility Patterns in Rapidly Urbanizing China, 2015–2019: Evidence from Longitudinal Poisson Gravity Modeling[J]. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2023, 113(1): 307-330. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2097050
• Li S, Gu H*, Shen J. Detecting spatial heterogeneity in the determinants of intercity migration in China[J]. Population, Space and Place, 2023: e49. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2649
• Shen J, Gu H*, Chu J. Unravelling intercity mobility patterns in China using multi-year big data: A city classification based on monthly fluctuations and year-round trends[J]. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2023, 102: 101954. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2023.101954
• Zhao Z, Gu H*, Lei P, Wen F*. Influence of migrants’ health status on their perceived acceptance in receiving cities: Moderating role of hukou thresholds and environmental amenities[J]. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023, 140214. (SCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.140214
• 2022
• Gu H, Lin Y, Shen T*. Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities[J]. Cities, 2022, 125: 103626. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103626
• Gu H, Xu Z, Zheng J, et al. Visualising global currents of international students between 1999 and 2018[J]. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2022, 54(1): 3-6.(SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X21105518
• Gu H, Jie Y, Lao X*. Health service disparity, push-pull effect, and elderly migration in ageing China[J]. Habitat International, 2022, 125: 102581. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102581
• Gu H*, Xu Z. Kaleidoscope visualisation of China’s internal migration, 1985–2020[J]. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2022, 49(4): 1341-1344. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221082916
• Lao X, Gu H*, Gao Q et al. Unraveling the geography of intercity flows of migrants’ hukou conversion intentions: A spatial econometric origin-destination flow analysis[J]. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 2022, 148(4): 05022032.(SSCI JCR Q3) https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000875
• Lao X, Zhao Z, Gu H*. Revisiting Hukou Transfer Intentions Among Floating Population in Chinese Cities: Spatial Differences and Multi-Level Determinants[J]. SAGE Open, 2022, 12(2): 21582440221097926.(SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221097926
• Lao X, Deng X, Gu H*, et al. Comparing intercity mobility patterns among different holidays in China: A big data analysis[J]. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2022, 15: 993-1020. (SSCI JCR Q2) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-021-09433-z
• Gu H, Lao X, Wen F*, Zhao Z. Spatiotemporal patterns and determinants of interprovincial migration in China between 2000 and 2020[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2022, 77(12): 3041-3054. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.11821/dlxb202212007
• Gu H, Shen T*. Spatio-temporal evolution mechanism of China's internal skilled migration[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2022, 77(10): 2457-2473. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.11821/dlxb202210004
• Liu Y, Wang X, Guan J, Gu H*.Spatial pattern and determinants of international migration flows in Asia, 1990-2015[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2022, 77(10): 2409-2425. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.11821/dlxb202210001
• 2021
• Gu H*. Understanding the migration of highly and less-educated labourers in post-reform China[J]. Applied Geography, 2021, 137: 102605. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102605
• Gu H, Shen T*. Modelling skilled and less‐skilled internal migrations in China, 2010–2015: Application of an eigenvector spatial filtering hurdle gravity approach[J]. Population, Space and Place, 2021, 27(6), e2439.(SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2439
• Gu H, Yu H, Sachdeva M, et al. Analyzing the distribution of researchers in China: An approach using multiscale geographically weighted regression[J]. Growth and Change, 2021, 52(1): 443-459. (SSCI JCR Q2) https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12453
• Gu H, Ling Y, Shen T*. Return or not return: Examining the determinants of return intentions among migrant workers in Chinese cities[J]. Asian Population Studies, 2021, 17(1): 51-70. (SSCI JCR Q2) https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1825161
• Gu H, Rowe F, Liu Y*, et al. Geography of talent in China during 2000–2015: An eigenvector spatial filtering negative binomial approach[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2021, 31(2): 297-312. (SCI JCR Q2) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-021-1191-y
• Gu H, Jie Y, Li Z, et al. What drives migrants to settle in Chinese cities: A panel data analysis[J]. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2021, 14(2): 297-314. (SSCI JCR Q2) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-020-09358-z
• Cui N, Gu H*. Homeowner and Renter Payment for School Quality in Beijing: Boundary Fixed Effect Analysis with Housing Price–Rent Comparison[J]. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 2021, 147(3): 05021025. (SSCI JCR Q3) https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.000071
• Lao X, Gu H*, Yu H, et al. Exploring the spatially-varying effects of human capital on urban innovation in China[J]. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2021, 14(4): 827-848. (SSCI JCR Q2) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-021-09380-9
• Gu H, Shen T*. Spatial evolution characteristics and driving forces of Chinese highly educated talents[J].Acta Geographica Sinica, 2021, 76(02): 326-340. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.11821/dlxb202102006
• Gu H, Shen T*. Evolution patterns of China's interprovincial migration networks between 1995 and 2015: Based on labour heterogeneity[J]. Geographical Research, 2021, 40(06): 1823-1839. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.11821/dlyj020200507
• 2020
• Gu H, Ling Y, Shen T*, Yang L. How does rural homestead influence the hukou transfer intention of rural-urban migrants in China?[J]. Habitat International, 2020, 105: 102267. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102267
• Gu H, Liu Z, Shen T*. Spatial pattern and determinants of migrant workers' interprovincial hukou transfer intention in China: Evidence from a National Migrant Population Dynamic Monitoring Survey in 2016[J]. Population, Space and Place, 2020, 26(2): e2250. (SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2250
• Gu H, Meng X, Shen T*, et al. China’s highly educated talents in 2015: Patterns, determinants and spatial spillover effects[J]. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2020, 13(3): 631-648. (SSCI JCR Q2) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-019-09322-6
• Lao X, Gu H*. Unveiling various spatial patterns of determinants of hukou transfer intentions in China: A multi‐scale geographically weighted regression approach[J]. Growth and Change, 2020, 51(4): 1860-1876. (SSCI JCR Q2) https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12429
• Liu Z, Gu H*. Evolution characteristics of spatial concentration patterns of interprovincial population migration in China from 1985 to 2015[J]. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2020, 13(2): 375-391. (SSCI JCR Q2) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-019-09308-4
• Gu H, Meng X, Shen T*, Cui N. Spatial variation of the determinants of China's urban floating population's settlement intention[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2020, 75(02): 240-254. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.11821/dlxb202002003
• Gu H, Li S, Shen T*. Spatial Difference and Influencing Factors of Floating Population’s Settlement Intention in the Three Provinces of Northeast China[J]. Geographical Science, 2020, 40(02): 261-269. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2020.02.011
• 2019
• Gu H, Liu Z, Shen T*, Meng X. Modelling interprovincial migration in China from 1995 to 2015 based on an eigenvector spatial filtering negative binomial model[J]. Population, Space and Place, 2019, 25(8): e2253.(SSCI JCR Q1) https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2253
• Gu H, Shen T*, Liu Z, Meng X. Driving mechanism of interprovincial population migration flows in China based on spatial filtering[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2019, 74(02): 222-237. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.11821/dlxb201902002
• Gu H, Qin X, Shen T*. Spatial variation of migrant population's return intention and its determinants in China's prefecture and provincial level cities[J]. Geographical Research, 2019, 38(08): 1877-1890. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.11821/dlyj020180473
• Gu H, Liu Z, Shen T*. Spatial Pattern and Influencing Mechanism of Interprovincial Migration’s Hukou Transfer Intention in China[J]. Geographical Science, 2019, 39(11): 1702-1710. (in Chinese) https://doi.org/10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2019.11.003