OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 34. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Quantitative assessment and comparison of urban patterns in Germany and the United States	228
ORTEGA: An object-oriented time-geographic analytical approach to trace space-time contact patterns in movement data	94
Simulating the urban spatial structure with spatial interaction: A case study of urban polycentricity under different scenarios	92
Road network evolution in the urban and rural United States since 1900	85
A machine learning approach to evaluate the spatial variability of New York City's 311 street flooding complaints	79
Early warning of COVID-19 hotspots using human mobility and web search query data	64
Time will not tell: Temporal approaches for privacy-preserving trajectory publishing	62
Does real time experience matter? Comparison of retrospective and in-situ spatial data in participatory mapping	59
A topology-based approach to identifying urban centers in America using multi-source geospatial big data	59
Developing two-dimensional indicators of transport demand and supply to promote sustainable transportation equity	55
Urban streets profiling with coupled spatio-temporal characteristics and topological information from the biking perspective	53
What we can learn from selected, unmatched data: Measuring internet inequality in Chicago	48
Inferring storefront vacancy using mobile sensing images and computer vision approaches	48
Editorial Board	47
Granularity of origins and clustering destinations in indoor wayfinding	47
Identifying the spatial footprint of pollen distributions using the Geoforensic Interdiction (GOFIND) model	47
Evolutions of households with every member out-of-home across Japanese cities from 1987 to 2015	46
Patterns of urban foot traffic dynamics	46
A framework for human-computer interactive street network design based on a multi-stage deep learning approach	45
Editorial Board	44
Editorial Board	43
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	42
Impacts of COVID-19 on urban networks: Evidence from a novel approach of flow measurement based on nighttime light data	41
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	41
Towards healthcare access equality: Understanding spatial accessibility to healthcare services for wheelchair users	40

Modelling the effect of landmarks on pedestrian dynamics in urban environments	39
A rapid analytics tool to map the effect of rezoning on property values	39
UrbanClassifier: A deep learning-based model for automated typology and temporal analysis of urban fabric across multiple spatial scales and viewpoints	39
Entangled footprints: Understanding urban neighbourhoods by measuring distance, diversity, and direction of flows in Singapore	39
Network analysis and characterization of vulnerability in flood control infrastructure for system-level risk reduction	39
How can SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) interpretations improve deep learning based urban cellular automata model?	38
High-resolution urban change modeling and flood exposure estimation at a national scale using open geospatial data: A case study of the Philippines	36
Creating spatially complete zoning maps using machine learning	35
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	34