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20132026
most citedMachine Learning on the COVID-19 Pandemic, Human Mobility and Air Quality: A Review

95 citations · 156 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

stat.ME2026

The Geographic Moran Effect: Theory, Methods, and Interpretation

Zhenzhi Jiao, X. Angela Yao, Jean-Claude Thill

The Moran effect traditionally refers to the synchronization of population dynamics driven by shared environmental forcing rather than direct interactions among populations. Althou…

physics.soc-ph2026

Delineating hierarchical activity space from high-resolution urban mobility flows

Zhicheng Deng, Zhaoya Gong, Jean-Claude Thill +1

Current studies on activity space are limited by the conceptualization of absolute physical space that fails to consider the heterogeneity of relational spaces reconstructed from s…

stat.ME2026

Geographically Weighted Canonical Correlation Analysis: Local Spatial Associations Between Two Sets of Variables

Zhenzhi Jiao, Angela Yao, Ran Tao +1

This article critically assesses the utility of the classical statistical technique of Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) for studying spatial associations and proposes a new app…

physics.soc-ph2025

Local asymmetry in spatial interactions: A generalized slide-vector approach

Bin Liu, Zhaoya Gong, Jean-Claude Thill

The conceptualization of space is crucial for comprehending the processes that shape geographic phenomena. Functional space exhibits asymmetric spatial separations, which deviate f…

physics.soc-ph2022

Pandemic Vulnerability Index of US Cities: A Hybrid Knowledge-based and Data-driven Approach

Md. Shahinoor Rahman, Kamal Chandra Paul, Md. Mokhlesur Rahman +4

Cities become mission-critical zones during pandemics and it is vital to develop a better understanding of the factors that are associated with infection levels. The COVID-19 pande…

cs.CY2021★ 95 cited

Machine Learning on the COVID-19 Pandemic, Human Mobility and Air Quality: A Review

Md. Mokhlesur Rahman, Kamal Chandra Paul, Md. Amjad Hossain +3

The ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic is affecting every facet of human lives (e.g., public health, education, economy, transportation, and the environment). This novel pandemic and…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 49 cited

COVID-19 Pandemic Severity, Lockdown Regimes, and People Mobility: Early Evidence from 88 Countries

Md. Mokhlesur Rahman, Jean-Claude Thill, Kamal Chandra Paul

This study empirically investigates the complex interplay between the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, mobility changes in retail and recreation, transit stations, workplaces,…

cs.SI2020★ 10 cited

Measuring relative opinion from location-based social media: A case study of the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Zhaoya Gong, Tengteng Cai, Jean-Claude Thill +2

Social media has become an emerging alternative to opinion polls for public opinion collection, while it is still posing many challenges as a passive data source, such as structure…

cs.SI2013★ 2 cited

Combining smart card data and household travel survey to analyze jobs-housing relationships in Beijing

Ying Long, Jean-Claude Thill

Location Based Services (LBS) provide a new perspective for spatiotemporally analyzing dynamic urban systems. Research has investigated urban dynamics using GSM (Global System for…