RSPP Call for Papers

Special Issue on A New Toolbox for Novel Research in Regional, Urban and Spatial Studies

Editor

Katarzyna Kopczewska - University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Science, Poland. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Novelty in research is rooted in critical observation, theory, data or methods. There is no progress in science without these elements. Very often the focus is on the first two, while the last two are neglected. The aim of this special session is to collect papers whose strength lies in data and/or methods. They should open up new avenues for regional research, allowing new questions to be asked and the same phenomena to be seen with new eyes. Taking a new approach is risky - it may not always be successful and convincing to others. But it can also bring great scientific gain and stimulate scientific debate, which is the seed of conferences and publications. This session aims to stimulate discussion on novel methods and data that can be used in regional, urban and spatial studies.

Welcome topics include, among others:

- spatial machine learning

- links between spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and spatial machine learning

- novel approaches to dealing with low granularity spatial data

- methods, tricks and approaches for dealing with spatio-temporal data

- new algorithms for dealing with big data and streaming data

- challenges of aggregating spatial data of different granulation - coherent databases of pixel, raster, line, regional, point, polygon data

- new sources of data that can be used in regional, urban and spatial studies.

- what is right - theory-driven, problem-driven or data-driven science?

Manuscript submission information:

All submissions must be original and may not be under review elsewhere. All manuscripts will be submitted via the Regional Science Policy & Practice online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/rspp/). Authors should indicate in the cover letter that the paper is submitted for consideration for publication in this special issue “A New Toolbox for Novel Research in Regional, Urban and Spatial Studies”, otherwise, your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript.

• Submissions open until January 15, 2025.