OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 39. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	1086
Model-based estimation of the isolated impacts of urban expansion on projected streamflow values under varied climate scenarios	117
Modeling shared e-micromobility as a label propagation process for detecting overlapping communities	106
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	99
A critical assessment of selected urban resilience decision-support tools in the United States	94
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	87
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	80
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	78
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	77
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	70
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	70
Function and form of U.S. cities	66
Editorial Board	61
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey	60
Enhanced solution capabilities for multiple patch land allocation	60
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	59
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	57
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	56
A simple agent-based model for planning for bicycling: Simulation of bicyclists' movements in urban environments	56
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	56
Homogeneity and heterogeneity of diurnal and nocturnal hotspots and the implications for synergetic mitigation in heat-resilient urban planning	55
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area	49
Using street-view panoramas to model the decision-making complexity of road intersections based on the passing branches during navigation	48
Why same datasets yield different environment–activity relationships? Hidden uncertainties in geospatial processing methods	48
A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models	46

Does partition matter? A new approach to modeling land use change	45
Machine learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms	44
Does weather matter? Examining measurement bias in street view image-based urban perception assessments	44
Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization	44
Causal discovery in urban data with temporal empirical dynamic modeling: The R package tEDM	44
Hedonic price models, social media data and AI – An application to the AIRBNB sector in us cities	43
Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation	43
Modelling spatio-temporal distribution of urban population - A high-resolution model for German cities	42
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	42
Towards a scalable and transferable approach to map deprived areas using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning	41
A graph-based neural network approach to integrate multi-source data for urban building function classification	40
‘Green or short: choose one’ - A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities	40
Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling	40
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	40
Predicting Desire Paths: Agent-Based Simulation for Neighbourhood Route Planning	39
Editorial Board	39
Flow trace: A novel representation of intra-urban movement dynamics	39
Logistic facility identification from spatial time series data	39
Shortest covering paths and other covering walks: Refinements and prospects for subtour prevention	39