To cite geodetector in publications, please use:

Wang JF, Li XH, Christakos G, Liao YL, Zhang T, Gu X & Zheng XY. 2010. Geographical detectors-based health risk assessment and its application in the neural tube defects study of the Heshun region, China. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 24(1): 107-127.

Wang JF, Zhang TL, Fu BJ. 2016. A measure of spatial stratified heterogeneity. Ecological Indicators 67: 250-256.

Wang JF, Haining R, Zhang TL, Xu CD, Hu MG, Yin Q, Li LF, Zhou CH, Li GQ, Chen HY. 2024. Statistical Modeling of Spatially Stratified Heterogeneous Data. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 114(3): 499-519.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    author = {JF Wang and XH Li and G Christakos and YL Liao and T
      Zhang and X Gu and XY Zheng},
    title = {Geographical detectors-based health risk assessment and
      its application in the neural tube defects study of the Heshun
      region, China},
    journal = {International Journal of Geographical Information
      Science},
    year = {2010},
    volume = {24},
    number = {1},
    pages = {107-127},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13658810802443457},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {JF Wang and TL Zhang and BJ Fu},
    title = {A measure of spatial stratified heterogeneity},
    journal = {Ecological Indicators},
    year = {2016},
    volume = {67},
    pages = {250-256},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.052},
  }

  @Article{,
    author = {JF Wang and R Haining and TL Zhang and CD Xu and MG Hu
      and Q Yin and LF Li and CH Zhou and GQ Li and HY Chen},
    title = {Statistical Modeling of Spatially Stratified Heterogeneous
      Data},
    journal = {Annals of the American Association of Geographers},
    year = {2024},
    volume = {114},
    number = {3},
    pages = {499-519},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2289982},
  }