Postgraduate Outstanding Publication Award
The Department 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 the Department of Geography and to encourage them to disseminate research findings through publishing in top-tier international journals.
Award
An award of HK$5,000 will be offered to eligible students. Awardees will be invited to present the published work in the Departmental Seminar Series.
Eligibility
- Current or recently graduated research postgraduate students in the Department of Geography
- The publication must appear in a Q1 journal of a relevant category according to InCites Journal Citation Reports.
- The research student must be the first or sole author of the publication.
- The Department of Geography at the Hong Kong Baptist University must be the only or first affiliation of the research student.
Application Procedure
- Students with a qualifying publication, published either “online first” or in its final version, on or after 1 September 2020, can apply for the award by filling out an application form and submitting a copy of the publication.
- The application must be endorsed by the Principal Supervisor before it is submitted to the Department for further processing.
Remarks:
i) Please note that the application for the Award must be made within one year from the publication date. Late applications will not be considered.
ii) Please contact Miss Grace Li (by email to graceli@hkbu.edu.hk or by phone at 3411-7129) to obtain the application form and further information.
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 |
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FAN Pingyu |
A framework to evaluate the accessibility, visibility, and intelligibility of green-blue spaces (GBSs) related to pedestrian movement |
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening |
Q1 Forestry; |
|
FAN Pingyu |
Integrating the Budyko framework with the emerging hot spot analysis in local land use planning for regulating surface evapotranspiration ratio |
Journal of Environmental Management |
Q1 Environmental Sciences |
|
FAN Pingyu |
Quantifying land use heterogeneity on drought conditions for mitigation strategies development in the Dongjiang River Basin, China |
Ecological Indicators |
Q1 Environmental Sciences |
|
FAN Pingyu |
Spatially-heterogeneous impacts of surface characteristics on urban thermal environment, a case of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area |
Urban Climate |
Q1 Environmental Sciences; |
|
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 |
|
HOU Guolong |
Grouping tree species to estimate afforestation-driven soil organic carbon sequestration |
Plant and Soil |
Q1 Agronomy; |
|
HOU Guolong |
Optimizing rotation periods of forest plantations: The effects of carbon accounting regimes |
Forest Policy and Economics |
Q1 Economics; |
|
LAI Yangchen |
Global Compound Floods from Precipitation and Storm Surge: Hazards and the Roles of Cyclones |
Journal of Climate |
Q1 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
|
LIU Minsi |
Governing eco-cities in China: Urban climate experimentation, international cooperation, and multilevel governance |
Geoforum |
Q1 |
|
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; |
|
Md Lokman HOSSAIN |
Biodiversity showed positive effects on resistance but mixed effects on resilience to climatic extremes in a long-term grassland experiment |
Science of The Total Environment |
Q1 Environmental Sciences |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
WANG Fan |
Circulation-regulated impacts of aerosol pollution on urban heat island in Beijing |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
Q1 Environmental Sciences;
Q1 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
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WANG Fan |
Pollution severity-regulated effects of roof strategies on China’s winter PM2.5 |
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science |
Q1 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
|
WANG Xinxin |
Civil society, environmental litigation, and Confucian energy justice: A case study of an environmental NGO in China
|
Energy Research & Social Science |
Q1 Environmental Studies |
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Amplified upward trend of the joint occurrences of heat and ozone extremes in China over 2013–2020 |
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Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China |