OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Landscape and Urban Planning is 36. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-05-01 to 2023-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban ecology and sustainability: The state-of-the-science and future directions	637
âCity form and natural processââindicators for the ecological performance of urban areas and their application to Merseyside, UK	306
Who has access to urban vegetation? A spatial analysis of distributional green equity in 10 US cities	220
Addressing societal challenges through nature-based solutions: How can landscape planning and governance research contribute?	141
Urban trees, air quality, and asthma: An interdisciplinary review	135
Using Google Street View to investigate the association between street greenery and physical activity	134
Multi-year comparison of the effects of spatial pattern of urban green spaces on urban land surface temperature	126
Exploring the disparities in park access through mobile phone data: Evidence from Shanghai, China	122
Measuring daily accessed street greenery: A human-scale approach for informing better urban planning practices	122
Estimation of water provision service for monsoon catchments of South China: Applicability of the InVEST model	114
Neighbourhood greenness and mental wellbeing in Guangzhou, China: What are the pathways?	113
Effects of urban planning indicators on urban heat island: a case study of pocket parks in high-rise high-density environment	112
Urban form and composition of street canyons: A human-centric big data and deep learning approach	104
Influence of social capital on community preparedness for wildfires	104
Characteristics of urban parks and their relation to user well-being	99
Accessibility to urban parks for elderly residents: Perspectives from mobile phone data	94
Does mapping improve public participation? Exploring the pros and cons of using public participation GIS in urban planning practices	93
Measuring visual quality of street space and its temporal variation: Methodology and its application in the Hutong area in Beijing	91
Quantifying the cooling-effects of urban and peri-urban wetlands using remote sensing data: Case study of cities of Northeast China	88
Urbanization, economic development, environmental and social changes in transitional economies: Vietnam after Doimoi	87
Twitter sentiment in New York City parks as measure of well-being	80
Polycentric urban development and urban thermal environment: A case of Hangzhou, China	72
Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure: A social practice approach to understanding community preferences and stewardship	69
Crowdsourcing geo-information on landscape perceptions and preferences: A review	61
Preferences for urban green spaces and peri-urban forests: An analysis of stated residential choices	61

How does urban population density decline over time? An exponential model for Chinese cities with international comparisons	58
Investigating the influence of urban land use and landscape pattern on PM2.5 spatial variation using mobile monitoring and WUDAPT	57
A greener urban environment: Designing green infrastructure interventions to promote citizens’ subjective wellbeing	55
Analysis of factors affecting urban park service area in Beijing: Perspectives from multi-source geographic data	54
Sustainable landscapes and landscape sustainability: A tale of two concepts	54
Is urban spatial development on the right track? Comparing strategies and trends in the European Union	53
The impairment of environmental sustainability due to rapid urbanization in the dryland region of northern China	52
Assessing habitat loss, fragmentation and ecological connectivity in Luxembourg to support spatial planning	51
Change from agricultural to touristic use: Effects on the aesthetic value of landscapes over the last 150 years	50
Urban ecology in China: Historical developments and future directions	50
The restorative potential of a university campus: Objective greenness and student perceptions in Turkey and the United States	49
The blue water footprint of urban green spaces: An example for Adelaide, Australia	49
From “red” to green? A look into the evolution of green spaces in a post-socialist city	48
Temporal and spatial trends in air quality in Beijing	47
Impacts of spatial clustering of urban land cover on land surface temperature across Köppen climate zones in the contiguous United States	46
Themes and trends in visual assessment research: Introduction to the Landscape and Urban Planning special collection on the visual assessment of landscapes	46
How is environmental greenness related to students' academic performance in English and Mathematics?	46
A narrative and systematic review of the behavioural, cognitive and emotional effects of passive nature exposure on young people: Evidence for prescribing change	46
Untangling the role of urban ecosystems as habitats for endangered plant species	46
Monitoring finer-scale population density in urban functional zones: A remote sensing data fusion approach	45
Urban mapping needs up-to-date approaches to provide diverse perspectives of current urbanization: A novel attempt to map urban areas with nighttime light data	45
Understanding the local impact of urban park plans and park typology on housing price: A case study of the Busan metropolitan region, Korea	45
The effect of green space behaviour and per capita area in small urban green spaces on psychophysiological responses	43
Explaining subjective perceptions of public spaces as a function of the built environment: A massive data approach	43
The influence of building density on Neotropical bird communities found in small urban parks	42
Land use and socio-economic determinants of urban forest structure and diversity	42
Urban forest governance and decision-making: A systematic review and synthesis of the perspectives of municipal managers	41
The utilization of immersive virtual environments for the investigation of environmental preferences	41
Influence of urban form on the cooling effect of a small urban river	41
Scale dependence of the benefits and efficiency of green and cool roofs	41
Spatiotemporal dynamics of urban growth in Latin American cities: An analysis using nighttime light imagery	41
Social vulnerability to large wildfires in the western USA	41
Classification of soundscapes of urban public open spaces	40
Mapping the spatio-temporal distribution of solar radiation within street canyons of Boston using Google Street View panoramas and building height model	39
Accounting for artificial light impact on bat activity for a biodiversity-friendly urban planning	39
The “Green Belt Berlin”: Establishing a greenway where the Berlin Wall once stood by integrating ecological, social and cultural approaches	39
Cross-boundary cooperation for landscape management: Collective action and social exchange among individual private forest landowners	39
Safety evaluation methodology of urban public parks by multi-criteria decision making	38
Factors associated with family forest owner actions: A vote-count meta-analysis	38
Urbanisation and socio-ecological challenges in high mountain towns: Insights from Leh (Ladakh), India	37
Front and back yard green analysis with subpixel vegetation fractions from earth observation data in a city	37
Examining pedestrian satisfaction in gated and open communities: An integration of gradient boosting decision trees and impact-asymmetry analysis	37
Enhancing post-disaster resilience by ‘building back greener’: Evaluating the contribution of nature-based solutions to recovery planning in Futaba County, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan	36
Environmental and social dimensions of community gardens in East Harlem	36
More than weeds: Spontaneous vegetation in streets as a neglected element of urban biodiversity	36
Growth patterns and effects of urban micro-climate on two physiologically contrasting urban tree species	36