OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Geography is 44. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	107
Editorial Board	103
Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach	92
Editorial Board	83
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan	76
Causal effects of transit investment on neighborhoods: Evidence from unbuilt alternative alignments	73
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others	70
Heterogeneous effects of neighborhood renewal on mental well-being: A capability approach to analyzing complex causal pathways	70
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods	69
Governance of sustainable critical-minerals supply chain: A telecoupled network-of-networks framework	69
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)	67
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework	66
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area	65
Modelling state-level crash fatalities by a network-constrained inhomogeneous poisson point process	61
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage	60
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany	60
Driving uneven development: The emerging geography of India's electric vehicle transition	59
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models	57
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas	56
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon	56
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia	55
Traffic safety in relation to multidimensional street network and land use features: A nonlinear analysis with population heterogeneity	54
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce	53
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data	53
Seeing the whole coastline: Building and testing a comprehensive sustainable coastal vulnerability index	52

Can delivery riders act as informal guardians in crime prevention?	52
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China	51
Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China	51
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou	50
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning	50
Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China	49
Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China	49
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China	49
Agricultural development, structural transformation, and industrial diversification of regions: Evidence from rural land contracting law reform in China	48
Corrigendum to “Plant hardiness zone mapping for the conterminous USA using the Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression Prediction method” [Applied Geography 189 (2026) 103927]	48
Evolving food and beverage landscapes: A multidisciplinary inquiry into technological innovation, policy, and industry structure	48
Exploring urban environmental semantics for air quality prediction using explainable multi-view spatiotemporal graph neural networks	47
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami	47
Mapping the Margins: A spatial vulnerability index of Women's Peace and security in Nigeria	47
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	46
Daily changes in spatial accessibility to ICU beds and their relationship with the case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the state of Texas, USA	46
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure	46
The impact of embodied land flow in interregional trade on carbon emissions in China	45
Access and cost of primary educational services in plateau areas: A case study in Tibet, China	45
Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data	44
A life cycle perspective on smart city innovation ecosystem: the case of Florianopolis	44