OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Geography is 41. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	98
Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach	87
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas	83
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods	77
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning	69
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan	66
Causal effects of transit investment on neighborhoods: Evidence from unbuilt alternative alignments	65
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images	65
Editorial Board	64
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)	61
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou	59
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others	59
Editorial Board	57
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce	55
Heterogeneous effects of neighborhood renewal on mental well-being: A capability approach to analyzing complex causal pathways	53
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data	53
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia	53
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon	51
Traffic safety in relation to multidimensional street network and land use features: A nonlinear analysis with population heterogeneity	49
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany	49
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework	49
Driving uneven development: The emerging geography of India's electric vehicle transition	48
Can delivery riders act as informal guardians in crime prevention?	47
Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China	46
Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China	46

The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area	46
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models	45
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage	45
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China	45
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure	44
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China	44
Using street view images and a geographical detector to understand how street-level built environment is associated with urban poverty: A case study in Guangzhou	44
Corrigendum to “Plant hardiness zone mapping for the conterminous USA using the Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression Prediction method” [Applied Geography 189 (2026) 103927]	43
Evolving food and beverage landscapes: A multidisciplinary inquiry into technological innovation, policy, and industry structure	42
The impact of relatedness and unrelatedness on breakthrough innovation in China: Examining the role of complementary interregional linkages	42
Identification of priority areas for public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in metropolitan areas: A case study in Hangzhou, China	41
Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics, seasonality, and time-of-day trends of PM2.5 pollution with a low-cost sensor network: Insights from classic and spatially explicit Markov chains	41
Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data	41
Effectiveness variation of different census outreach activities: An empirical analysis from the state of Illinois using machine learning and user interface technologies for participatory data collecti	41
Modelling the Impacts of land finance on urban expansion: Evidence from Chinese cities	41
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami	41
Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective	41