主要研究兴趣

包括地理信息系统，区域经济学，空间统计学和空间计量经济模型。

（1）经济地理和区域发展中的空间理论和模型；

（2）以局部分析为主的空间统计分析方法；

（3）空间统计分析软件研究开发。

代表性学术作品
Ke Chen, Shuming Bao, and Yong Mai, Agglomeration and location choice of foreign financial institutions in China, In GeoJournal (June 2013). [6]
Changwen Zhao, Shuming Bao, and Penny Prime, 2013. Assessment on Ten-Year Western China Strategy. China Development Press.
Xiaohuan Zhang and Shuming Bao, 2012. A Study of Financial Crises in the US and Its Implication on the Growth Model in China. In New Finance, Vol. 6, 2012.
Xu, Lan, Shuming Bao, and Yong Mai, 2011. Comparative Researches of Financial Productivity On the 16 Cities in China's Yangtze River Delta Region. In Journal of Convergence Information Technology (JCIT), Vol. 6, August 31, 2011, 235-243 (EI Index).
Lv, Wen, Shuming Bao, Ke Chen and Yong Mai, 2011. The Quantitative Studies of Financial Development and Economic Growth, In Public Finance Studies, 2011 (4).
She, Bing, Xinyan Zhu, Shuming Bao, 2011. Urban and Regional Explorer with Spatial Intelligence, InThe Proceedings of Geoinformatics’ 2011, SPIE
Bao, Shuming, Orn Bodvarsson, Yaohui Zhao, and Jack Hou. 2010. The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy: China?s Hukou System. Contemporary Economic Policy. Vol. 29, No. 4, October 2011, 564–579.
Haynie, Susan, and Shuming Bao. 2010. New Data Draw a Clearer Picture. In China Business Review, March-April 2010.
Zhang Xiaohuan, Shuming Bao, Baijun Wu, 2010. Urban and Regional Analysis with Spatial Intelligence - A case study of Yangtze River Delta In The Proceedings of Geoinformatics’ 2010, SPIE
She, Bing, Xinyan Zhu, Shuming Bao, 2010. Spatial Data Integration and Analysis with Spatial Intelligence. In The Proceedings of Geoinformatics’ 2010, SPIE
Zhang, Xu, Shuming gBao, Kehua Su, 2010. Spatial Intelligence with Spatial Statistics. In The Proceedings of Geoinformatics’ 2010, SPIE
Shi, Anqing, Shuming Bao and Xiaohuan Zhang. 2010. The Comparative Study of Township Migration in China, China Regional Economy, Vol. 1(2), pp51-59.
Bao, Shumingm Orn Bodvarsson, Jack Hou, and Yaohui Zhao, 2009. Migration in China from 1985 to2000. In The Chinese Economy, 2009, Vol. 42 (4).
Zhang, Zhengyu, Shuming Bao, Pingfang Zhu, 2007. GMM and 2SLS Estimation of Panel Data Models with Spatially Lagged Dependent Variables and Spatially Correlated Error Components. In The Proceedings of Geoinformatics?ˉ 2007, SPIE.
Chen, Xiaoling, Shuming Bao, Hui Li, Xiaobin Cai, Peng Guo, Zhongyi Wu, Weijuan Fu, Hongmei Zhao, 2007. LUCC Impact on Sediment Loads in Sub-tropical Rainy Areas, In Photogrametric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS), 2007, 73 (3): 319-327.
Shi, Anqing, Shuming Bao, 2007. Migration, Education and Rural Development: Evidence from China 2000 Population Census Data. In Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. 2007, Vol. 5 (2): 163 ¨C 177.
Haynie, Susan, Shuming Bao, 2006. Geodemography. In GIS Development Asia Pacific, December 2006, Vol. 10, Issue 12.
Ji, Wei, Shuming Bao, Jiaguo Qi and Geying Lai (Eds.), 2006. Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment: A Watershed Perspective. Taylor & Francis.
Bao, Shuming, Shuanglin Lin, Changwen Zhao (Eds), 2006. China?ˉs Economy After WTO Accession, Ashegate.
Zhao, An, Shuming Bao, Peng Gong, 2006. Susceptibility and Infection Risk of Schistosomiasis Disease. Journal of Geographic Information Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 1, June 2006.
Hu, Haitang, Shuming Bao, Bing Xu, Song Liang, 2006. An Integrated Environment for Spatio-temporal Analysis, Simulation and Representation for Public Health Research. Proc. SPIE Vol. 6418, 64180B?￡Presented at the Geoinformatics 2006: GNSS and Integrated Geospatial Applications, October, 2006, Wuhan, China, EI.
Zhao, Changwen, Wing Thye Woo, Shuming Bao (Eds.), 2006. Sustainable Development and Global Challenges: Towards a New Paradigm for Developing Western China. Sichuan Publishing Co.
Wu, Haiying, Qinling Duan, Shuming Bao (Eds.). 2006. The Sustainable Development of Regional Economy in the West China. China Economic Press.
Chen, Xiaoling, Shuming Bao, Hui Li, Zhongyi Wu, Weijuan Fu, Xiaobin Cai, Hongmei Zhao, Ying Liu, Ganghua Peng, 2006. Modeling the Impacts of Land Use/Cover Change on Sediment Load in Wetlands of the Wetlands of the Poyang Lake Basin. In the International Conference on Hydrology and Management of Forested Wetlands Proceedings, April 8-12, 2006, New Bern, North Carolina.
Bao, Shuming, Anqing Shi, and Jack W. Hou. 2006. Migration and Regional Development in China. In Shuming Bao, Shuanglin Lin, Changwen Zhao (Eds.), Chinese Economy after WTO Accession. Ashegate.
Haitang Hu, Shuming Bao, Hui Lin, Qing Zhu, 2005. RADSS: an integration of GIS, spatial statistics, and network service for regional data mining, In Proc. SPIE Vol. 6045, 60450U. Presented at the MIPPR 2005: Geospatial Information, Data Mining, and Applications, Dec. 2, 2005.
Bao, Shuming, Anqing Shi and Jack W. Hou. 2005. An Analysis of the Spatial Changing Patterns of Migration in China. In China Population Science, 2005 (5).
Zhao, Changwen, Shuming Bao and Chunfa Chen, 2005. Public Venture Capital and U.S.-China Comparative Studies, In Public Finance Studies, 2005 (4).
Bao, Shuming and Wing Thye Woo. 2004. Migration Scenarios and Western China Development: Some Evidence from 2000 Population Census Data. In Ding Lu and William A W Neilson (Eds.), China?ˉs West Region Development: Domestic Strategies and Global Implications, World Scientific Publishing Co.
Zenk, S. N., B. A. Israel, A. J. Schulz, S. A. James, S. Bao, and M. L. Wilson. 2004. Neighborhood Racial Composition, Neighborhood Poverty, and Supermarket Accessibility in Metropolitan Detroit, American Journal of Public Health.
Bao, Shuming, Mark Henry and David Barkley, 2004. Identifying Urban-Rural Linkages - Tests for Spatial Effects in the Carlino-Mills Model. In: Luc Anselin, Raymond Florax and Sergio J. Rey (Eds.), Advances in Special Econometrics, Springer-Verlag New York, LLC.
¨|murger, Sylvie, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo, Shuming Bao, and Gene Chang. 2004. Explaning Unequal Distribution of Economic Growth among China Provinces: Geography or Policy? In: Aimin Chen, Gordon G. Liu, and Kevin H. Zhang (Eds.), Urbanization and Social Welface in China, Ashgate.
Xu, Lian and Shuming Bao, 2003. Detect spatial cluster: a Bayesian approach with application to identifying disability patterns in Mississippi and Alabama. In: Art Getis, Jesus Mur and Henry G. Zoller (Eds.), Spatial Econometrics and Spatial Statistics, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
D¨|murger, Sylvie, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo, Shuming Bao, Gene Chang and Andrew Mellinger, 2002. Geography, Economic Policy and Regional Development in China. In: Asian Economic Papers, Vol. 1 (1).
D¨|murger, Sylvie, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo, Shuming Bao, and Gene Chang, 2002. The Relative Contributions of Location and Preferential Policies in China?ˉs Regional Development: Being in the Right Place and Having the Right Incentives. In: China Economic Review, Vol. 13: 444-465.
Bao, Shuming, Gene Chang, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Wing Thye Woo. 2002. Geographic Factors and China?ˉs Regional Development Under Market Reforms, 1978¨C98. In: China Economic Review, Vol. 13:89-111.
Bao, Shuming and Bin Li, 2000. Spatial Statistics in Natural Resources, Environment and Social Sciences (eds.), A Special Issue of the Journal of Geographic Information Science.
Bao, Shuming, Luc Anselin, Doug Martin, and Diana Stralberg, 2000. An Seemless Integration of Spatial Statistics and GIS: the S-PLUS for ArcView and the S+GRASSLAND Link. Geographical Systems. 2000, Vol. 2:287-306.
Stralberg, Diana and Shuming Bao, 1999. Identifying the Spatial Structure in Error Terms with Spatial Covariance Models: A Case Study on Urbanization Influence in Chaparral Bird Species. In Journal of Geographical Information Sciences, Vol. 5 (2):106-120.
Henry, Mark S., Bertrand Schmitt, Knud Kristensen, David L. Barkley, and Shuming Bao. 1999. Extending Carlino-Mills Models to Examine Urban Size and Growth Impacts on Proximate Rural Communities, Growth and Change, 30: 526-548.
Lin, Ge, Shuming Bao and Xiaoming Sun, 1999. Establishing a social security system integrated with family and community service. Population Research, No. 2, 1999 (in Chinese).
Bao, Shuming, Diana Stralberg and Doug Martin, 1998. Spatial Data Analysis and Statistical Modeling Get a Boost with GIS, In ArcNews Summer Issue, pp24, 1998.
Barkley, David, Mark Henry and Shuming Bao, 1998. The Role of Local School Quality in Rural Employment and Population Growth, Review of Regional Studies, Vol. 28 (1): 81-95.
Bao, Shuming and Luc Anselin. 1997. "Linking Spatial Statistics with GIS: Operational Issues in SpaceStat/ArcView Interface and S+Grassland Link". In Proceedings of 1997 American Statistics Association Meeting, 61-66.
Bao, Shuming and Mark S. Henry. 1996. "Heterogeneity issues in local measurements of spatial association.?± Geographical Systems, 1996, Vol. 3: 1-13.
Bao, Shuming, Mark. S. Henry, David L. Barkley, and Kerry Brooks. 1995. ?°RAS - an integrated Regional Analysis System with ARC/INFO.?± Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 19, 1: 37-56.
Barkley, David L., Mark S. Henry, Shuming Bao and Kerry Brooks. 1996. ?°Identifying ??Spread?ˉ versus ??Backwash?ˉ effects in regional economic areas: a density functions approach.?± Land Economics, 72, 3: 336-357.
Anselin, Luc and Shuming Bao. 1997. ?°Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis Linking SpaceStat and ArcView.?± In: Manfred Fischer and Arthur Getis (Eds.), Recent Developments in Spatial Analysis, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp35-59.
Henry, Mark S., David L. Barkley, Shuming Bao and Kerry Brooks. 1997. ?°The hinterland?ˉs stake in metropolitan growth: evidence from selected southern regions.?± Journal of Regional Science, 37, 3: 479-501.
Barkley, David L., Mark S. Henry, Shuming Bao and Kerry Brooks. 1995. ?°How functional are economic areas: tests for spatial association using GIS based analytic techniques.?± Papers of Regional Science, 74, 4: 1-19.
Barkley, David L., Mark S. Henry, Shuming Bao. 1995. ?°Good school aid rural development in South Carolina.?± Issues in Community and Economic Development, 5(1)1-6.