OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 22. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	934
Model-based estimation of the isolated impacts of urban expansion on projected streamflow values under varied climate scenarios	131
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	117
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	115
A critical assessment of selected urban resilience decision-support tools in the United States	108
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	99
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	87
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	87
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	79
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	73
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area	73
Modeling shared e-micromobility as a label propagation process for detecting overlapping communities	73
Homogeneity and heterogeneity of diurnal and nocturnal hotspots and the implications for synergetic mitigation in heat-resilient urban planning	72
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	65
A simple agent-based model for planning for bicycling: Simulation of bicyclists' movements in urban environments	64
Using street-view panoramas to model the decision-making complexity of road intersections based on the passing branches during navigation	63
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	61
Why same datasets yield different environment–activity relationships? Hidden uncertainties in geospatial processing methods	58
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	57
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	57
Enhanced solution capabilities for multiple patch land allocation	55
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey	55
A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models	53
Large-scale agent-based modelling of street robbery using graphical processing units and reinforcement learning	53

‘Green or short: choose one’ - A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities	53
Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation	48
Towards a scalable and transferable approach to map deprived areas using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning	47
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	46
Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling	46
Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization	45
Hedonic price models, social media data and AI – An application to the AIRBNB sector in us cities	44
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	44
Machine learning application to spatio-temporal modeling of urban growth	43
A graph-based neural network approach to integrate multi-source data for urban building function classification	43
Machine learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms	41
Interpretable machine learning models for crime prediction	41
Does partition matter? A new approach to modeling land use change	40
The fallacy of the closest antenna: Towards an adequate view of device location in the mobile network	39
Logistic facility identification from spatial time series data	39
How regularly do people visit service places?	38
Areal interpolation of population projections consistent with different SSPs from 1-km resolution to block level based on USA Structures dataset	38
Editorial Board	38
Information propagation on cyber, relational and physical spaces about covid-19 vaccine: Using social media and splatial framework	37
Shortest covering paths and other covering walks: Refinements and prospects for subtour prevention	37
Editorial Board	36
Predicting Desire Paths: Agent-Based Simulation for Neighbourhood Route Planning	36
Flow trace: A novel representation of intra-urban movement dynamics	36
An agent-based modeling approach for public charging demand estimation and charging station location optimization at urban scale	36
Modelling active travel accessibility at the micro-scale using multi-source built environment data	36
Integrating species distribution and piecewise linear regression model to identify functional connectivity thresholds to delimit urban ecological corridors	35
Large-scale agent-based simulation model of pedestrian traffic flows	35
Editorial Board	34
Implementing Deep Learning algorithms for urban tree detection and geolocation with high-resolution aerial, satellite, and ground-level images	34
Constructing multi-level urban clusters based on population distributions and interactions	34
When spatial interpolation matters: Seeking an appropriate data transformation from the mobile network for population estimates	34
Multi-objective optimization of urban environmental system design using machine learning	34
Measuring nuanced walkability: Leveraging ChatGPT's vision reasoning with multisource spatial data	34
Unravelling intercity mobility patterns in China using multi-year big data: A city classification based on monthly fluctuations and year-round trends	33
Investigating path dependence and spatial characteristics for retail success using location allocation and agent-based approaches	33
From points to patterns: An explorative POI network study on urban functional distribution	33
Smart water metering as a non-invasive tool to infer dwelling type and occupancy – Implications for the collection of neighbourhood-level housing and tourism statistics	33
Application of the local colocation quotient method in jobs-housing balance measurement based on mobile phone data: A case study of Nanjing City	32
Exploring the built environment impacts on Online Car-hailing waiting time: An empirical study in Beijing	32
Digital twins and AI for healthy and sustainable cities	32
Generative population synthesis for joint household and individual characteristics	32
Intra-urban land use maps for a global sample of cities from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and computer vision	32
Jointly spatial-temporal representation learning for individual trajectories	31
Combining a land parcel cellular automata (LP-CA) model with participatory approaches in the simulation of disruptive future scenarios of urban land use change	31
Impact of 3-D urban landscape patterns on the outdoor thermal environment: A modelling study with SOLWEIG	30
Modeling spatial and temporal urban environmental noise using street view imagery and machine learning	30
Mapping priority zones for urban heat mitigation in Shanghai: Heat risk vs. shelter provision	30
Detecting changes in spatial characteristics of Colorado human-caused wildfires using APRIORI-based frequent itemset mining	30
Causal effects of mobility intervention policies on intracity flows during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of zonal locations in the transportation networks	30
Torque work of origin-destination flows: Quantifying urban place centrality from a physical perspective	29

Measuring evacuation rates from mobility data during the McDougall Creek wildfire in British Columbia, Canada	29
Creating spatially complete zoning maps using machine learning	29
Indoor mobility data encoding with TSTM-in: A topological-semantic trajectory model	29
Auditing the fairness of place-based crime prediction models implemented with deep learning approaches	29
Editorial Board	29
Exploring climate-induced migration impacts on urban growth	28
Learning street view representations based on a spatiotemporal contrastive learning framework	28
Fire and smoke digital twin – A computational framework for modeling fire incident outcomes	28
Advancing population-targeted urban sensing: A comparative study on mobile and static sensing paradigms	28
The Individual Walkable Neighborhood - Evaluating people-centered spatial units focusing on urban density	28
A topology-based approach to identifying urban centers in America using multi-source geospatial big data	27
A machine learning approach to evaluate the spatial variability of New York City's 311 street flooding complaints	26
UrbanClassifier: A deep learning-based model for automated typology and temporal analysis of urban fabric across multiple spatial scales and viewpoints	26
Road network evolution in the urban and rural United States since 1900	26
Optimizing urban green space spatial patterns for thermal environment improvement: A multi-objective approach in the context of urban renewal	25
A specialized inclusive road dataset with elevation profiles for realistic pedestrian navigation using open geospatial data and deep learning	25
Simulating household energy behavior diffusion using spatial microsimulation and econometric models	25
Characterizing the activity patterns of outdoor jogging using massive multi-aspect trajectory data	25
Editorial Board	25
Detecting older pedestrians and aging-friendly walkability using computer vision technology and street view imagery	24
Urban visual uniqueness: A landmark-free framework to quantify city's identity and distinctiveness from everyday scenes	24
Socio-spatial segregation and human mobility: A review of empirical evidence	24
Housing segregation in Chinese major cities: A K-nearest neighbor analysis of longitudinal big data	24
Editorial Board	23
Realized spatial accessibility vs. potential spatial accessibility in the United States: A case study based on geospatial big data	23
Mapping Great Britain's semantic footprints through a large language model analysis of Reddit comments	23
Editorial Board	23
Identifying degrees of deprivation from space using deep learning and morphological spatial analysis of deprived urban areas	22
Converting street view images to land cover maps for metric mapping: A case study on sidewalk network extraction for the wheelchair users	22
ScaleFC: A scale-aware geographical flow clustering algorithm for heterogeneous origin-destination data	22
Capturing urban recreational hotspots from GPS data: A new framework in the lens of spatial heterogeneity	22
Investigating the spatiotemporal pattern between the built environment and urban vibrancy using big data in Shenzhen, China	22
Extracting spatial effects from machine learning model using local interpretation method: An example of SHAP and XGBoost	22