OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Geography is 35. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods	88
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework	80
Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach	79
Editorial Board	73
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage	66
Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China	60
Editorial Board	59
Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach	56
Revealing the structures of internal migration: A distance and a time-space behaviour perspectives	54
Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence	54
Traffic safety in relation to multidimensional street network and land use features: A nonlinear analysis with population heterogeneity	52
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia	51
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning	50
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area	50
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas	49
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models	49
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan	44
Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China	44
Driving uneven development: The emerging geography of India's electric vehicle transition	43
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany	41
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon	41
Editorial Board	40
Editorial Board	39
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China	38
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images	38

Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others	37
Divergent distributions of physicians and healthcare beds in China: Changing patterns, driving forces, and policy implications	37
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data	37
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce	37
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou	37
Effects of climate change on paddy expansion and potential adaption strategies for sustainable agriculture development across Northeast China	36
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China	36
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)	35
Exploring urban environmental semantics for air quality prediction using explainable multi-view spatiotemporal graph neural networks	35
Long time-series change characteristics and suitable scale of oasis in arid and semi-arid regions of China	35
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure	35
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami	35