Qian Zhou

Academic Honors & Awards

Recipient of Hubei Provincial Young Talent Program
Provincial-level affirmative comment (Research and Analysis Report on Hubei's Economic Operation in the First Half of 2023 Based on Key Enterprises in Local Pillar Industries), 2023
Top 2% Scientists (Elsevier and Stanford University, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Contact Information

Education Background

Research Interests

Urban and Regional Economics, Resource and Environmental Economics, Spatial Economics and Big Data Analysis

Academic Positions & Professional Titles

1. Associate Professor & Master's Supervisor, School of Economics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 2020.08 – Present
2. Visiting Scholar, Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2021.08 – 2022.08
3. Reviewer, Degree Center of the Ministry of Education, Present

Editorial & Reviewer Experience

1. Editorial Board Memberships
   ● Guest Editor, 5 SSCI Journals, Present
2. Regular Reviewer for Top Journals 
   ● Regular Reviewer for more than 70 domestic and foreign academic journals, Present

Representative Publications

1. Key Publications
   ● Zhou, Q. et al. (2024). "What is the role of environmental pollution in commercial health insurance? Evidence from quasi-natural experiments of low-carbon city policy in China," Environment, Development and Sustainability, (SSCI Q1, Impact Factor 4.542).
   ● Zhou, Q. et al. (2023). "Urban economic resilience and human capital: An exploration of heterogeneity and mechanism in the context of spatial population mobility," Sustainable Cities and Society, (SSCI Q1, Impact Factor 5.700). (ESI 1% Highly Cited Paper)
   ● Zhou, Q. (Corresponding Author). (2023). "Spatial differentiation of urban economic resilience and its influencing factors: Evidence from Baidu migration big data," Technological and Economic Development of Economy, (SSCI Q2, Impact Factor 2.893). (ESI 1% Highly Cited Paper)
   ● [Supervisor et al.], Zhou, Q. (Second Author). (2023). "On the modernization of Chinese-style macroeconomic governance," Beijing Social Sciences, (CSSCI).
   ● Zhou, Q. et al. (2022). "How does college scale affect urban resilience? Spatiotemporal evidence from China," Sustainable Cities and Society, (SSCI Q1, Impact Factor 5.700). (ESI 1% Highly Cited Paper)
   ● Zhou, Q. (Corresponding Author). (2022). "The regional differences and random convergence of urban resilience in China," Technological and Economic Development of Economy, (SSCI Q2, Impact Factor 2.893). (ESI 1% Highly Cited Paper)
   ● Zhou, Q. (Sole Author). (2022). "Linking ecological infrastructure and tourism development through environmental governance," Environment, Development and Sustainability, (SSCI Q1, Impact Factor 4.542). (ESI 1% Highly Cited Paper)
   ● Zhou, Q. et al. (2022). "The influence of firms’ social relationship with customers on online retail channel," Journal of Cleaner Production, (SCI/SSCI Q1, Impact Factor 11.072). (ESI 1% Highly Cited Paper)
   ● Zhou, Q. et al. (2021). "Achieving urban resilience through smart cities? Evidence from China," Habitat International, (SSCI Q1, Impact Factor 4.333). (ESI 1% Highly Cited Paper)
   ● Zhou, Q. et al. (2021). "Environmental regulation and haze pollution: Neighbor-companion or Neighbor-beggar?," Energy Policy, (SSCI Q1, Impact Factor 5.244). (ESI 1% Highly Cited Paper)
   ● Zhou, Q. (Corresponding Author). (2021). "Spatiotemporal evolution and spatial relevance of urban resilience: Evidence from cities of China," Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy, (SSCI Q3, Impact Factor 2.125).
   ● Zhou, Q. et al. (2020). "Non-linear effects of environmental regulation and innovation - Spatial interaction evidence from the Yangtze River Delta in China," Environmental Science and Policy, (SSCI Q1, Impact Factor 4.888).
   ● Zhou, Q. et al. (2020). "Do housing prices promote total factor productivity? Evidence from spatial panel data models in explaining the mediating role of population density," Land Use Policy, (SSCI Q1, Impact Factor 4.804).
   ● Zhou, Q. et al. (2020). "Do double-edged swords cut both ways? Housing inequality and haze pollution in Chinese Cities," Science of the Total Environment, (SCI Q1, Impact Factor 9.800).
   ● Zhou, Q. (Corresponding Author). (2020). "Linking Environmental Regulation and Economic Growth through technological innovation and resource consumption: Analysis of Spatial interaction patterns of urban agglomerations," Ecological Indicators, (SCI/SSCI Q1, Impact Factor 6.263).
   ● Zhou, Q. et al. (2019). "The non-linear effect of environmental regulation on haze pollution: Empirical evidence for 277 Chinese cities during 2002-2010," Journal of Environmental Management, (SCI Q1, Impact Factor 8.910).
   ● Zhou, Q. (Corresponding Author). (2019). "Spatiotemporal relationship between ecological environment and economic development in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia," Tropical Conservation Science, (SSCI Q4, Impact Factor 1.789).
   ● Zhou, Q. (Corresponding Author). (2017). "City Size and Urban Labor Productivity in China: New Evidence from Spatial City-level Panel Data Analysis," Economic Systems, (SSCI Q2, Impact Factor 2.567).
   ● [Supervisor et al.], Zhou, Q. (Second Author). (2016). "The coordination effect of urban scale and industrial structure on urban labor productivity in China," Journal of Finance and Economics, (CSSCI).
2. Research Grants 
   ● Principal Investigator, Central University Basic Scientific Research Business Fund Project - Measurement and Improvement Path of Green Industrial Chain Resilience, 2024 – Present.
   ● Principal Investigator, Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce Research Project - Current Situation, Measurement and Improvement Strategies of Green Industrial Chain and Supply Chain Resilience in Hubei Province, 2023 – 2023.
   ● Sub-project Leader, State Council Research Office Project - The Impact of Global Industrial Chain and Supply Chain Pattern Adjustment on China's High-Quality Utilization of Foreign Capital, 2022 – 2022.
   ● Sub-project Leader, National Social Science Fund Major Project - Research on Early Warning and Prevention Mechanism of China's Economic Security Risks under the Background of "Dual Circulation", 2021 – 2026.
   ● Principal Investigator, Hubei Provincial Social Science Fund General Project (Post-funding Project) - Research on Environmental Regulation and Its Impacts: Analysis Based on Hubei's "Yangtze River Economic Belt" and "Hanjiang Ecological Economic Belt", 2020 – 2021.
   ● Sub-project Leader, National Social Science Fund Major Project - Research on Improving the National Financial Security System, 2018 – 2023.
   ● Principal Investigator, Shanghai Municipal People's Government Development Research Center Project - Research on Improving the Shared Property Housing System in Shanghai, 2018 – 2018.
   ● Principal Investigator, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Young Teachers Pre-research Project - Problems and Countermeasures of Shanghai's Housing System, 2018 – 2019.
   ● Principal Investigator, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Graduate Innovation Fund Project - Research on the New Urbanization Road in China's Modernization Process: Based on the Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Urbanization Strategy, 2014 – 2016.