OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 38. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	463
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	116
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	103
Model-based estimation of the isolated impacts of urban expansion on projected streamflow values under varied climate scenarios	93
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	85
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	84
Function and form of U.S. cities	84
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	83
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	78
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	77
Large-scale agent-based modelling of street robbery using graphical processing units and reinforcement learning	77
Quality assessment of crowdsourced social media data for urban flood management	69
Enhanced solution capabilities for multiple patch land allocation	68
Using a deep learning model to quantify trash accumulation for cleaner urban stormwater	68
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area	67
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	66
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey	62
Using street-view panoramas to model the decision-making complexity of road intersections based on the passing branches during navigation	61
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	61
Homogeneity and heterogeneity of diurnal and nocturnal hotspots and the implications for synergetic mitigation in heat-resilient urban planning	59
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	58
A simple agent-based model for planning for bicycling: Simulation of bicyclists' movements in urban environments	55
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	54
The language of neighborhoods: A predictive-analytical framework based on property advertisement text and mortgage lending data	50
Delineating urban functional use from points of interest data with neural network embedding: A case study in Greater London	48

A framework for modelling spatio-temporal informal settlement growth prediction	48
A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models	46
Machine learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms	46
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	45
Revealing correlation patterns of individual location activity motifs between workdays and day-offs using massive mobile phone data	45
Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization	44
Corrigendum to “An integrated physical-social analysis of disrupted access to critical facilities and community service-loss tolerance in urban flooding” [Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 80 (	41
Exploring the viability of walk-sharing in outdoor urban spaces	41
Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation	41
Editorial Board	40
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	38
Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling	38
Does partition matter? A new approach to modeling land use change	38