OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Geography is 32. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Bridging fragmented knowledge between forecasting and fishing communities: Co-managed decisions on weather delays in Nova Scotia's lobster season openings	79
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon	67
Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence	66
Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach	66
Peripheral development through extractive industries?: Gateways, local content policy, and the oil and gas sector in Neuquén and Río Negro, Argentina	57
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images	54
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods	51
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Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia	46
Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China	46
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany	42
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework	42
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models	41
Divergent distributions of physicians and healthcare beds in China: Changing patterns, driving forces, and policy implications	41
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage	40
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou	40
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan	38
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China	37
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area	35
Revealing the structures of internal migration: A distance and a time-space behaviour perspectives	34
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas	34
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others	34
Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China	33

Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)	33
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce	33
Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach	33
Effects of climate change on paddy expansion and potential adaption strategies for sustainable agriculture development across Northeast China	32
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning	32
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data	32
Socioeconomic inequalities in food outlet access through an online food delivery service in England: A cross-sectional descriptive analysis	32
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China	32