OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Landscape and Urban Planning is 54. 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
Balancing multi-species connectivity and socio-economic factors to connect protected areas in the Paraguayan Atlantic Forest	428
Editorial Board	214
Building patterns and fuel features drive wildfire severity in wildland-urban interfaces in Southern Europe	205
Multi-species ecological network based on asymmetric movement: Application in an urban rural fringe	191
Building to conserve: Quantifying the outdoor water savings of residential redevelopment in Denver, Colorado	148
Editorial Board	143
Expanding the toolbox: Assessing methods for local outdoor recreation planning	140
Calculating a national Anomie Density Ratio: Measuring the patterns of loneliness and social isolation across the UK’s residential density gradient using results from the UK Biobank study	138
Green to gold mile: An environmental justice analysis of drought and mitigation policy impacts on home landscapes in Sacramento California	119
Prevalence and effectiveness of nature-based interventions to impact adult health-related behaviours and outcomes: A scoping review	118
Attitudes and preferences towards elements of formal and informal public green spaces in two South African towns	113
Community, pastoralism, landscape: Eliciting values and human-nature connectedness of forest-related people	107
Comparing landscape value patterns between participatory mapping and geolocated social media content across Europe	105
Scales of inequality: The role of spatial extent in environmental justice analysis	99
Does urban sprawl lessen green space exposure? Evidence from Chinese cities	98
Honeybee presence restructures pollination networks more than landscape context by reducing foraging breadths of wild bees	94
Landscape value in urban neighborhoods: A pilot analysis using street-level images	93
A typological study of the provision and use of communal outdoor space in Australian apartment developments	90
Assessment of land cover trajectories as an indicator of urban habitat temporal continuity	89
Integrating habitat risk and landscape resilience in forest protection and restoration planning for biodiversity conservation	88
Global Street Experiment: A Geospatial Database of Pandemic-induced Street Transitions	88
Preferring Local over Non-Local Parks? Green Space Visit Patterns by Urban Residents in Desert Cities, Arizona	87
The wildland – urban interface in Europe: Spatial patterns and associations with socioeconomic and demographic variables	87
Urban tree inventories as a tool to assess tree growth and failure: The case for Australian cities	87
Integrating conservation targets and ecosystem services in landscape spatial planning from Portugal	86

What’s behind the barriers? Uncovering structural conditions working against urban nature-based solutions	85
Perceived benefits from agroforestry landscapes across North-Eastern Europe: What matters and for whom?	85
Urban overall and visible greenness and diabetes among older adults in China	82
‘Blossom Buddies’ − How do flower colour combinations affect emotional response and influence therapeutic landscape design?	81
Developing and testing the senior park environment assessment in Korea (SPEAK) audit tool	80
Motivations for urban front gardening: A quantitative analysis	76
Species richness is positively related to mental health – A study for Germany	74
Assessment of heat mitigation capacity of urban greenspaces with the use of InVEST urban cooling model, verified with day-time land surface temperature data	74
Beyond the luxury effect: Individual and structural drivers lead to ‘urban forest inequity’ in public street trees in Melbourne, Australia	71
A method to prioritize and allocate nature-based solutions in urban areas based on ecosystem service demand	71
Associations between green space availability and youth’s physical activity in urban and rural areas across Germany	70
Vertical greening systems serve as effective means to promote pollinators: Experimental comparison of vertical and horizontal plantings	69
Substitution effects and spatial factors in the social demand for landscape aesthetics in agroecosystems	65
Local people’s sense of place in heavily touristified protected areas: Contested place meanings around the Wulingyuan World Heritage Site, China	65
Drone imagery to create a common understanding of landscapes	65
Combining multiple socio-cultural approaches – Deeper insights into cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes?	63
Assessing public opinion using self-organizing maps. Lessons from urban planning in Romania	63
Air regulation service is affected by green areas cover and fragmentation: An analysis using demand, supply and flow during COVID-19 quarantine	63
Factors influencing informal trail conditions: Implications for management and research in Urban-Proximate parks and protected areas	62
Managing urban trees through storms in three United States cities	62
Simulating urban land growth by incorporating historical information into a cellular automata model	60
Does gentrification precede and follow greening? Evidence about the green gentrification cycle in Los Angeles and Chicago	59
How does town planning affect urban-rural income inequality: Evidence from China with simultaneous equation analysis	59
Urban tree diversity fosters bird insectivory despite a loss in bird diversity with urbanization	57
Examining ecological justice within the social-ecological-technological system of New York City, USA	57
Where money grows on trees: A socio-ecological assessment of land use change in an agricultural frontier	56
Regional-dependent tolerance to humans: A multi-country comparison of horizontal and vertical escape distance in arboreal squirrels	56
Editorial Board	55
Pollinator gardening is constrained by income but not lot size in urban front yards	55
Can environmental legislation protect a threatened apex predator across different land tenures?	54