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
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; Q1 Urban Studies	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127494
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	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115232
FAN Pingyu	Quantifying land use heterogeneity on drought conditions for mitigation strategies development in the Dongjiang River Basin, China	Ecological Indicators	Q1 Environmental Sciences	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107945
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; Q1 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.101034
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	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	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154322
Md Lokman HOSSAIN	Disentangling the effects of climatic variability and climate extremes on the belowground biomass of C3- and C4-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 Fan	Circulation-regulated impacts of aerosol pollution on urban heat island in Beijing	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	Q1 Environmental Sciences; Q1 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-13341-2022
WANG Fan	Pollution severity-regulated effects of roof strategies on China’s winter PM2.5	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	Q1 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00278-y
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	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102831
WANG Xinxin	Just transition: A conceptual review	Energy Research & Social Science	Q1 Environmental Studies	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102291
WANG Xinxin	Political economy of just transition: Disparate impact of coal mine closure on state-owned and private coal workers in Inner Mongolia, China	Energy Research & Social Science	Q1 Environmental Studies	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102585
XIAO Xiang	Amplified upward trend of the joint occurrences of heat and ozone extremes in China over 2013–2020	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	Q1 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0222.1
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
ZHANG Xiaorui	Observed sensitivities of PM2.5 and O3 extremes to meteorological conditions in China and implications for the future	Environment International	Q1 Environmental Sciences	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107428
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