Analysis of city centrality based on entropy weight TOPSIS and population mobility: A case study of cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Jing LUO; Siyun CHEN; Xuan SUN; Yuanyuan ZHU; Juxin ZENG; Guangping CHEN

doi:10.1007/s11442-020-1740-9

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