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Acknowledgements

I am immensely grateful to Drs. Jin CHEN, Lei DONG, Weihua DONG, Qingyun DU, Wenjie FAN, Song GAO, Chaogui KANG, Yunfeng KONG, Xin LI, Xia LI, Huiping LIU, Tao PEI, Changqing SONG, Maolin TANG, Jinfeng WANG, Zuoquan ZHAO, Di ZHU, and Ms. Xiaohuan WU who have provided valuable comments when the manuscript was prepared. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41625003 & 41830645).

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Liu, Y. Core or edge? Revisiting GIScience from the geography-discipline perspective. Sci. China Earth Sci. 65, 387–390 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-021-9815-3

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