Prof. Yuji Murayama

Professor

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1977  B.Sc., Geography, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Publications (Selected)

1. Guria, R., Mishra, M., Hatui, P., et al. (2026). Agricultural drought: A comprehensive review of research trends, monitoring indices, modeling frameworks, knowledge gaps, and future pathways. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 66, Article 103650.
2. Derdouri, A., Oyama, T., Murayama, Y., et al. (2026). LLM-assisted screening and extraction for systematic reviews: workload reduction and refusal-driven missingness in a land-use evidence synthesis. Environmental Research Letters. Advance online publication.
3. Nyirenda, V. R., Chama, L., Phiri, D., et al. (2026). Effects of acid mine drainage from collapsed tailings dam on Zambia’s human riparian communities: a fuzzy cognitive model perspective. Scientific Reports, 16(1), Article 4618.
4. Morimoto, T., Iwai, Y., & Murayama, Y. (2026). Detection of abandoned paddy fields in the suburbs of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, 2026 Spring Meeting, 294.
5. Darshana, A. A. S., Murayama, Y., & Morimoto, T. (2025). Urban Wetlands in Transition: A Comparative Study of Global Northern and Southern Cities. AGU25.
6. Shafizadeh-Moghadam, H., Xu, T., & Murayama, Y. (2025). Climate-specific trends in urban land surface temperature: A global analysis of 432 cities (2014–2024). Journal of Environmental Management, 395, Article 127789.
7. Athukorala, D., Murayama, Y., Karunaratne, S., et al. (2025). Spatio-temporal changes in mangroves in Sri Lanka: Landsat analysis from 1987 to 2022. Land, 14(9), Article 1820.
8. Iwai, Y., & Murayama, Y. (2025). A historical geography of surveying: Inoh Tadataka's East and Central Japan cartographic expeditions (1800–1803). Journal of Historical Geography, 89, 162–172.
9. Lwin, K. K., & Murayama, Y. (2025). Correction to: Handling of Geospatial Data with QGIS. In Handling of Geospatial Data with QGIS: A Basic and Practical Visual Learning Approach (p. C1). Springer.
10. Wang, R., Murayama, Y., Liu, F., et al. (2025). Impact of urban morphology on land surface temperature: A case study of the central Tokyo Area, Japan. City and Environment Interactions, 26, Article 100227.
11. Dissanayake, D., Morimoto, T., Ranagalage, M., et al. (2025). A seasonal assessment of urban thermal behavior and its links to land use patterns in Harare, Zimbabwe. Scientific African, 28, Article e02677.
12. Athukorala, D., Murayama, Y., Herath, N. S. K., et al. (2025). Exploring the Cooling Effects of Urban Wetlands in Colombo City, Sri Lanka. Remote Sensing, 17(11), Article 1919.
13. Denga, R. V., Simwanda, M., Vinya, R., et al. (2025). Spatiotemporal Patterns of Agriculture Expansion Intensity and Land-Use/Cover Changes in the Mixed Urban-Rural Upper Kafue River Basin of Zambia (1989–2019). Agriculture, 15(10), Article 1047.
14. Xu, G., Zhu, M., Liu, L., et al. (2025). Scaling law in a stable urban system of Japan. Sustainable Cities and Society, 125, Article 106335.
15. Huang, R., Hou, H., Li, J., et al. (2025). Investigating the cooling effect of urban lakes from the perspective of their characteristics and surrounding landscapes: A case study of 82 urban lakes in China. Science of The Total Environment, 969, Article 178925.
16. Guo, Y., Guo, S., Radko, M., et al. (2025). Remote plasma cleaning of chambers for electronics manufacturing systems (U.S. Patent No. 12,249,494). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
17. Lwin, K. K., & Murayama, Y. (2025). Handling of geospatial data with QGIS: a basic and practical visual learning material for geospatial data processing, analysis and visualisation. Springer.
18. Derdouri, A., Murayama, Y., Morimoto, T., et al. (2025). Urban green space in transition: A cross-continental perspective from eight Global North and South cities. Landscape and Urban Planning, 253, Article 105220.
19. Xiao, R., Murayama, Y., Qin, K., et al. (2024). Urban expansion in highly populous East Asian megacities during 1990–2020: Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, and Shanghai. Ecological Informatics, 83, Article 102843.
20. Yan, Y., Hou, H., Murayama, Y., et al. (2024). How do landscape patterns affect cooling intensity and scale? Evidence from 13 primary urban wetlands in China. Ecological Indicators, 166, Article 112574.

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WOS ResearcherID: V-3578-2019