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Dr Ziqi Li
- Honorary Research Fellow (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
Publications
2025
Yuan, Xinyi, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Basiri, Anahid
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2399-1797 and Wang, Mingshu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-3143
(2025)
Where England's cities are growing: Evidence from big building footprint data and explainable AI.
Habitat International, 163,
103457.
(doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103457)
Sutton, Dominick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4881-4380, Basiri, Anahid
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2399-1797 and Li, Ziqi
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2025)
Exploring a diagnostic test for missingness at random.
Mathematics, 13(11),
1728.
(doi: 10.3390/math13111728)
Yuan, Xinyi, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Basiri, Ana
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2399-1797 and Wang, Mingshu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-3143
(2025)
Construction enthusiasts versus demolition giants: insights from building footprint data in England.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science,
(doi: 10.1177/23998083251317573)
(Early Online Publication)
2024
Deng, Rui, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Wang, Mingshu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-3143
(2024)
A Transformer-Based Model for Effective Representation of Geospatial Data and Context.
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14-19 April 2024.
(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-1003)
2023
Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Oshan, Taylor and Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2023)
Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression: Theory and Practice.
CRC Press.
(In Press)
Fotheringham, A. Stewart and Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2023)
Measuring the unmeasurable: models of geographical context.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(10),
pp. 2269-2286.
(doi: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2227690)
Russell, Amy, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Wang, Mingshu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-3143
(2023)
Equalizing urban agriculture access in Glasgow: a spatial optimization approach.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 124,
103525.
(doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2023.103525)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2023)
Leveraging explainable artificial intelligence and big trip data to understand factors influencing willingness to ridesharing.
Travel Behaviour and Society, 31,
pp. 284-294.
(doi: 10.1016/j.tbs.2022.12.006)
Gong, Xi, Lu, Yujian, Beene, Daniel, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Hu, Tao, Morgan, Melinda and Lin, Yan
(2023)
Understanding public perspectives on fracking in the United States using social media big data.
Annals of GIS, 29(1),
pp. 21-35.
(doi: 10.1080/19475683.2022.2121856)
Zhao, Qunshan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-9457, Li, Ziqi
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Shah, Dhrumil, Fischer, Heather, Solís, Patricia and Wentz, Elizabeth
(2023)
Understanding the interaction between human activities and physical health under extreme heat environment in Phoenix, Arizona.
Health and Place, 79,
102691.
(doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102691)
(PMID:34656430)
2022
Sachdeva, Mehak, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Yu, Hanchen
(2022)
Are we modelling spatially varying processes or non-linear relationships?
Geographical Analysis, 54(4),
pp. 715-738.
(doi: 10.1111/gean.12297)
Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Yu, Hanchen, Wolf, Levi John, Oshan, Taylor M. and Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2022)
On the notion of ‘bandwidth’ in geographically weighted regression models of spatially varying processes.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 36(8),
pp. 1485-1502.
(doi: 10.1080/13658816.2022.2034829)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2022)
Extracting spatial effects from machine learning model using local interpretation method: an example of SHAP and XGBoost.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 96,
101845.
(doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101845)
Rey, S. J. et al. (2022) The PySAL ecosystem: philosophy and implementation. Geographical Analysis, 54(3), pp. 467-487. (doi: 10.1111/gean.12276)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Fotheringham, A. Stewart
(2022)
The spatial and temporal dynamics of voter preference determinants in four U.S. presidential elections (2008-2020).
Transactions in GIS, 26(3),
pp. 1609-1628.
(doi: 10.1111/tgis.12880)
Wang, Chuyuan, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Clay Mathews, Mason, Praharaj, Sarbeswar, Karna, Brajesh and Solís, Patricia
(2022)
The spatial association of social vulnerability with COVID-19 prevalence in the contiguous United States.
International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 32(5),
pp. 1147-1154.
(doi: 10.1080/09603123.2020.1847258)
(PMID:33228411)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Xu, Tianyang
(2022)
Understanding Factors Influencing Willingness to Ridesharing Using Big Trip Data and Interpretable Machine Learning.
In: GISRUK 2022, Liverpool, UK, 05-08 Apr 2022,
(doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6411504)
Sachdeva, Mehak, Fotheringham, Stewart and Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2022)
Do places have value?: Quantifying the intrinsic value of housing neighborhoods using MGWR.
Journal of Housing Research, 31(1),
pp. 24-52.
(doi: 10.1080/10527001.2021.2003505)
2021
Kurji, Jaameeta, Thickstun, Charles, Bulcha, Gebeyehu, Taljaard, Monica, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Kulkarni, Manisha A.
(2021)
Spatial variability in factors influencing maternal health service use in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: a geographically-weighted regression analysis.
BMC Health Services Research, 21,
454.
(doi: 10.1186/S12913-021-06379-3)
(PMID:33980233)
(PMCID:PMC8117568)
Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Wolf, Levi John
(2021)
Scale, context, and heterogeneity: a spatial analytical perspective on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(6),
pp. 1602-1621.
(doi: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1835459)
2020
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Oshan, Taylor M. and Wolf, Levi John
(2020)
Measuring bandwidth uncertainty in multiscale geographically weighted regression using Akaike weights.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(5),
pp. 1500-1520.
(doi: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1704680)
Yu, Hanchen, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Oshan, Taylor and Wolf, Levi John
(2020)
On the measurement of bias in geographically weighted regression models.
Spatial Statistics, 38,
100453.
(doi: 10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100453)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Fotheringham, A. Stewart
(2020)
Computational improvements to multi-scale geographically weighted regression.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34(7),
pp. 1378-1397.
(doi: 10.1080/13658816.2020.1720692)
Yu, Hanchen, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Oshan, Taylor, Kang, Wei and Wolf, Levi John
(2020)
Inference in multiscale geographically weighted regression.
Geographical Analysis, 52(1),
pp. 87-106.
(doi: 10.1111/gean.12189)
2019
Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Yue, Han and Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2019)
Examining the influences of air quality in China's cities using multi‐scale geographically weighted regression.
Transactions in GIS, 23(6),
pp. 1444-1464.
(doi: 10.1111/tgis.12580)
Oshan, Taylor, Wolf, Levi John, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Kang, Wei, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Yu, Hanchen
(2019)
A comment on geographically weighted regression with parameter-specific distance metrics.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(7),
pp. 1289-1299.
(doi: 10.1080/13658816.2019.1572895)
Oshan, Taylor M., Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Kang, Wei, Wolf, Levi J. and Fotheringham, A. Stewart
(2019)
mgwr: a Python implementation of multiscale geographically weighted regression for investigating process spatial heterogeneity and scale.
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(6),
269.
(doi: 10.3390/ijgi8060269)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Li, Wenwen and Oshan, Taylor
(2019)
Fast Geographically Weighted Regression (FastGWR): a scalable algorithm to investigate spatial process heterogeneity in millions of observations.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(1),
pp. 155-175.
(doi: 10.1080/13658816.2018.1521523)
2018
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2018)
NoSQL databases.
Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge, 2018(Q2),
(doi: 10.22224/gistbok/2018.2.10)
2015
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Zhang, Zidong and Davey, Keith
(2015)
Estimating geographical PV potential using LiDAR data for buildings in downtown San Francisco.
Transactions in GIS, 19(6),
pp. 930-963.
(doi: 10.1111/tgis.12140)
Articles
Yuan, Xinyi, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Basiri, Anahid
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2399-1797 and Wang, Mingshu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-3143
(2025)
Where England's cities are growing: Evidence from big building footprint data and explainable AI.
Habitat International, 163,
103457.
(doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103457)
Sutton, Dominick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4881-4380, Basiri, Anahid
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2399-1797 and Li, Ziqi
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2025)
Exploring a diagnostic test for missingness at random.
Mathematics, 13(11),
1728.
(doi: 10.3390/math13111728)
Yuan, Xinyi, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Basiri, Ana
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2399-1797 and Wang, Mingshu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-3143
(2025)
Construction enthusiasts versus demolition giants: insights from building footprint data in England.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science,
(doi: 10.1177/23998083251317573)
(Early Online Publication)
Fotheringham, A. Stewart and Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2023)
Measuring the unmeasurable: models of geographical context.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(10),
pp. 2269-2286.
(doi: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2227690)
Russell, Amy, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Wang, Mingshu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-3143
(2023)
Equalizing urban agriculture access in Glasgow: a spatial optimization approach.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 124,
103525.
(doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2023.103525)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2023)
Leveraging explainable artificial intelligence and big trip data to understand factors influencing willingness to ridesharing.
Travel Behaviour and Society, 31,
pp. 284-294.
(doi: 10.1016/j.tbs.2022.12.006)
Gong, Xi, Lu, Yujian, Beene, Daniel, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Hu, Tao, Morgan, Melinda and Lin, Yan
(2023)
Understanding public perspectives on fracking in the United States using social media big data.
Annals of GIS, 29(1),
pp. 21-35.
(doi: 10.1080/19475683.2022.2121856)
Zhao, Qunshan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-9457, Li, Ziqi
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Shah, Dhrumil, Fischer, Heather, Solís, Patricia and Wentz, Elizabeth
(2023)
Understanding the interaction between human activities and physical health under extreme heat environment in Phoenix, Arizona.
Health and Place, 79,
102691.
(doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102691)
(PMID:34656430)
Sachdeva, Mehak, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Yu, Hanchen
(2022)
Are we modelling spatially varying processes or non-linear relationships?
Geographical Analysis, 54(4),
pp. 715-738.
(doi: 10.1111/gean.12297)
Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Yu, Hanchen, Wolf, Levi John, Oshan, Taylor M. and Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2022)
On the notion of ‘bandwidth’ in geographically weighted regression models of spatially varying processes.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 36(8),
pp. 1485-1502.
(doi: 10.1080/13658816.2022.2034829)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2022)
Extracting spatial effects from machine learning model using local interpretation method: an example of SHAP and XGBoost.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 96,
101845.
(doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101845)
Rey, S. J. et al. (2022) The PySAL ecosystem: philosophy and implementation. Geographical Analysis, 54(3), pp. 467-487. (doi: 10.1111/gean.12276)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Fotheringham, A. Stewart
(2022)
The spatial and temporal dynamics of voter preference determinants in four U.S. presidential elections (2008-2020).
Transactions in GIS, 26(3),
pp. 1609-1628.
(doi: 10.1111/tgis.12880)
Wang, Chuyuan, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Clay Mathews, Mason, Praharaj, Sarbeswar, Karna, Brajesh and Solís, Patricia
(2022)
The spatial association of social vulnerability with COVID-19 prevalence in the contiguous United States.
International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 32(5),
pp. 1147-1154.
(doi: 10.1080/09603123.2020.1847258)
(PMID:33228411)
Sachdeva, Mehak, Fotheringham, Stewart and Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2022)
Do places have value?: Quantifying the intrinsic value of housing neighborhoods using MGWR.
Journal of Housing Research, 31(1),
pp. 24-52.
(doi: 10.1080/10527001.2021.2003505)
Kurji, Jaameeta, Thickstun, Charles, Bulcha, Gebeyehu, Taljaard, Monica, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Kulkarni, Manisha A.
(2021)
Spatial variability in factors influencing maternal health service use in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: a geographically-weighted regression analysis.
BMC Health Services Research, 21,
454.
(doi: 10.1186/S12913-021-06379-3)
(PMID:33980233)
(PMCID:PMC8117568)
Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Wolf, Levi John
(2021)
Scale, context, and heterogeneity: a spatial analytical perspective on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(6),
pp. 1602-1621.
(doi: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1835459)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Oshan, Taylor M. and Wolf, Levi John
(2020)
Measuring bandwidth uncertainty in multiscale geographically weighted regression using Akaike weights.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(5),
pp. 1500-1520.
(doi: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1704680)
Yu, Hanchen, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Oshan, Taylor and Wolf, Levi John
(2020)
On the measurement of bias in geographically weighted regression models.
Spatial Statistics, 38,
100453.
(doi: 10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100453)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Fotheringham, A. Stewart
(2020)
Computational improvements to multi-scale geographically weighted regression.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34(7),
pp. 1378-1397.
(doi: 10.1080/13658816.2020.1720692)
Yu, Hanchen, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Oshan, Taylor, Kang, Wei and Wolf, Levi John
(2020)
Inference in multiscale geographically weighted regression.
Geographical Analysis, 52(1),
pp. 87-106.
(doi: 10.1111/gean.12189)
Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Yue, Han and Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2019)
Examining the influences of air quality in China's cities using multi‐scale geographically weighted regression.
Transactions in GIS, 23(6),
pp. 1444-1464.
(doi: 10.1111/tgis.12580)
Oshan, Taylor, Wolf, Levi John, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Kang, Wei, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Yu, Hanchen
(2019)
A comment on geographically weighted regression with parameter-specific distance metrics.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(7),
pp. 1289-1299.
(doi: 10.1080/13658816.2019.1572895)
Oshan, Taylor M., Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Kang, Wei, Wolf, Levi J. and Fotheringham, A. Stewart
(2019)
mgwr: a Python implementation of multiscale geographically weighted regression for investigating process spatial heterogeneity and scale.
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(6),
269.
(doi: 10.3390/ijgi8060269)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Li, Wenwen and Oshan, Taylor
(2019)
Fast Geographically Weighted Regression (FastGWR): a scalable algorithm to investigate spatial process heterogeneity in millions of observations.
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(1),
pp. 155-175.
(doi: 10.1080/13658816.2018.1521523)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2018)
NoSQL databases.
Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge, 2018(Q2),
(doi: 10.22224/gistbok/2018.2.10)
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347, Zhang, Zidong and Davey, Keith
(2015)
Estimating geographical PV potential using LiDAR data for buildings in downtown San Francisco.
Transactions in GIS, 19(6),
pp. 930-963.
(doi: 10.1111/tgis.12140)
Books
Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Oshan, Taylor and Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347
(2023)
Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression: Theory and Practice.
CRC Press.
(In Press)
Conference or Workshop Item
Deng, Rui, Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Wang, Mingshu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-3143
(2024)
A Transformer-Based Model for Effective Representation of Geospatial Data and Context.
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14-19 April 2024.
(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-1003)
Conference Proceedings
Li, Ziqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-4347 and Xu, Tianyang
(2022)
Understanding Factors Influencing Willingness to Ridesharing Using Big Trip Data and Interpretable Machine Learning.
In: GISRUK 2022, Liverpool, UK, 05-08 Apr 2022,
(doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6411504)
Supervision
- Deng, Rui
Advancing Transformer-based models for understanding geospatial tabular data in urban systems - Sutton, Dominick
Using Spatial Data to Understand Missing Data Mechanisms - Xu, Zhiya
Title: Spatial variation of jobs-housing balance using cellphone big data - Yuan, Xinyi
Urban Renewal Potential: Multi-criteria Evaluation Model Supported by Digital Twin System