GEOG Postgraduate Outstanding Publication Award

The Department of Geography (GEOG) has supported postgraduate students’ research via the Postgraduate Outstanding Publication Award since 1 September 2020. This Award aims to bring recognition to outstanding research contributions of postgraduate students’ in GEOG and to encourage them to disseminate research findings through publishing in top-tier international journals.

 

Previous Awardees

Applicant Title of paper Name of Journal Ranking & Category DOI

CUI Aihong

Use of a multiscalar GRACE-based standardized terrestrial water storage index for assessing global hydrological droughts

Journal of Hydrology

Q1 Water Resources;

Q1 Engineering, Civil

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126871

HOU Guolong

A meta-analysis of changes in soil organic carbon stocks after afforestation with deciduous broadleaved, sempervirent broadleaved, and conifer tree species

Annals of Forest Science

Q1 Forestry

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-020-00997-3

HOU Guolong

Grouping tree species to estimate afforestation-driven soil organic carbon sequestration

Plant and Soil

Q1 Agronomy;

Q1 Plant sciences

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04685-z

HOU Guolong

Optimizing rotation periods of forest plantations: The effects of carbon accounting regimes

Forest Policy and Economics

Q1 Economics;

Q1 Forestry 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102263

LAI Yangchen

Global Compound Floods from Precipitation and Storm Surge: Hazards and the Roles of Cyclones

Journal of Climate

Q1 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0050.1

LIU Minsi

Governing eco-cities in China: Urban climate experimentation, international cooperation, and multilevel governance

Geoforum

Q1
Geography

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.02.017

Md Lokman HOSSAIN

Biomass partitioning of C3- and C4-dominated grasslands in response to climatic variability and climate extremes

Environmental Research Letters

Q1 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences;
Q1 Environmental Sciences

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac027a

Md Lokman HOSSAIN

Disentangling the effects of climatic variability and climate extremes on the belowground biomass of C 3- and C 4-dominated grasslands across five ecoregions

Science of the Total Environment

Q1 Environmental Sciences 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143894

Md Lokman HOSSAIN

NDVI-based vegetation dynamics and its resistance and resilience to different intensities of climatic events

Global Ecology and Conservation

Q1 Biodiversity Conservation

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01768

WANG Xinxin

Just transition: A conceptual review

Energy Research & Social Science

Q1 Environmental Studies

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102291

XIAO Xiang

Is greener better? Associations between greenness and birth outcomes in both urban and non-urban settings

International Journal of Epidemiology

Q1 Public, Environmental &

Occupational Health

https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab164

XIAO Xiang

Street view greenness is associated with lower risk of obesity in adults: Findings from the 33 Chinese community health study

Environmental Research

Q1 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health;

Q1 Environmental Sciences

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111434

ZHU Liyuan

Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China

Political Geography

Q1 Political Science

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102533