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Mei-Po Kwan publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mei-Po Kwan sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 353 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Mei-Po Kwan D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mei-Po Kwan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 91 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award

Overview

Mei-Po Kwan is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China, with a research focus spanning social sciences and environmental science. Their scholarly output includes contributions to interdisciplinary studies emphasizing human-environment interactions.

The researcher's principal fields of study are:

  • Social Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields they contribute to include:
  • Transportation
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Speech and Hearing
  • Environmental Engineering

Main topics addressed in their research encompass:
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health

Frequent coauthors in their publications are:

  • Dong Liu
  • Zihan Kan
  • Yang Liu
  • Jianwei Huang
  • Jiannan Cai

They have published extensively in several venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Health & Place
  • Urban forestry & urban greening
  • Applied Geography
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • Transactions in GIS

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Influence of meteorological conditions on PM2.5 concentrations across China: A review of methodology and mechanism" (2020) published in Environment International
  • "Observed inequality in urban greenspace exposure in China" (2021) published in Environment International
  • "Analysis of urban green space accessibility and distribution inequity in the City of Chicago" (2021) published in Urban forestry & urban greening
  • "Racial disparities in energy poverty in the United States" (2020) published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Does urbanization lead to less residential energy consumption? A comparative study of 136 countries" (2020) published in Energy

In addition to journal articles, Mei-Po Kwan has contributed to book publications, including the title Urban Informatics (2021) published by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Space-time and integral measures of individual accessibility: a comparative analysis using a point-based framework

    Mei Po Kwan

  • The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem

    Mei Po Kwan

  • Feminist Visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research

    Mei Po Kwan

  • Gender and Individual Access to Urban Opportunities: A Study Using Space–Time Measures

    Mei Po Kwan

  • Interactive geovisualization of activity-travel patterns using three-dimensional geographical information systems: a methodological exploration with a large data set

    Mei Po Kwan

  • Influence of meteorological conditions on PM2.5 concentrations across China: A review of methodology and mechanism.

    Ziyue Chen;Danlu Chen;Chuanfeng Zhao;Mei po Kwan

  • Beyond Space (As We Knew It): Toward Temporally Integrated Geographies of Segregation, Health, and Accessibility: Space–Time Integration in Geography and GIScience

    Mei Po Kwan

  • Gender, the Home-Work Link, and Space-Time Patterns of Nonemployment Activities

    Mei Po Kwan

  • Emergency response after 9/11: the potential of real-time 3D GIS for quick emergency response in micro-spatial environments

    Mei Po Kwan;Jiyeong Lee

  • Geo-Narrative: Extending Geographic Information Systems for Narrative Analysis in Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research∗

    Mei Po Kwan;Guoxiang Ding

  • GIS Methods in Time-Geographic Research: Geocomputation and Geovisualization of Human Activity Patterns

    Mei Po Kwan

  • Space-time accessibility measures: A geocomputational algorithm with a focus on the feasible opportunity set and possible activity duration

    Hyun Mi Kim;Mei Po Kwan

  • Beyond Space (As We Knew It): Toward Temporally Integrated Geographies of Segregation, Health, and Accessibility

    Mei-Po Kwan

  • Individual Accessibility Revisited: Implications for Geographical Analysis in the Twenty-first Century

    Mei-Po Kwan;Joe Weber

  • The Internet, mobile phone and space-time constraints

    Tim Schwanen;Mei Po Kwan

  • Recent advances in accessibility research: Representation, methodology and applications

    Mei Po Kwan;Alan T. Murray;Morton E. O'Kelly;Michael Tiefelsdorf

  • Gender differences in space‐time constraints

    Mei Po Kwan

  • From place-based to people-based exposure measures.

    Mei Po Kwan

  • Affecting Geospatial Technologies: Toward a Feminist Politics of Emotion*

    Mei Po Kwan

  • How fixed is fixed? Gendered rigidity of space–time constraints and geographies of everyday activities

    Tim Schwanen;Mei Po Kwan;Fang Ren

Frequent Co-Authors

Reginald G. Golledge
Reginald G. Golledge University of California, Santa Barbara
Tim Schwanen
Tim Schwanen University of Oxford
Tommy Gärling
Tommy Gärling University of Gothenburg
Bing Xu
Bing Xu Tsinghua University
Marco Helbich
Marco Helbich Utrecht University
Martin Dijst
Martin Dijst Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
Xianjin Huang
Xianjin Huang Nanjing University
Christopher R. Browning
Christopher R. Browning The Ohio State University
Man Sing Wong
Man Sing Wong Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Michael F. Goodchild
Michael F. Goodchild University of California, Santa Barbara

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