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 2022-08-01 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
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
Machine learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms	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
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	42
Modelling spatio-temporal distribution of urban population - A high-resolution model for German cities	42
Towards a scalable and transferable approach to map deprived areas using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning	41
Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling	40
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	40
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
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
Information propagation on cyber, relational and physical spaces about covid-19 vaccine: Using social media and splatial framework	38
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
Modelling active travel accessibility at the micro-scale using multi-source built environment data	37
Large-scale agent-based simulation model of pedestrian traffic flows	37
Measuring nuanced walkability: Leveraging ChatGPT's vision reasoning with multisource spatial data	37
Editorial Board	36
When spatial interpolation matters: Seeking an appropriate data transformation from the mobile network for population estimates	36
Integrating species distribution and piecewise linear regression model to identify functional connectivity thresholds to delimit urban ecological corridors	36
Delineating urban development boundaries in urban agglomeration: Integrating flow-based approach and U-Net deep learning	36
An agent-based modeling approach for public charging demand estimation and charging station location optimization at urban scale	36
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	35
Generative population synthesis for joint household and individual characteristics	35
Constructing multi-level urban clusters based on population distributions and interactions	35
Unravelling intercity mobility patterns in China using multi-year big data: A city classification based on monthly fluctuations and year-round trends	34
Application of the local colocation quotient method in jobs-housing balance measurement based on mobile phone data: A case study of Nanjing City	34
Implementing Deep Learning algorithms for urban tree detection and geolocation with high-resolution aerial, satellite, and ground-level images	34
From points to patterns: An explorative POI network study on urban functional distribution	33
Detecting changes in spatial characteristics of Colorado human-caused wildfires using APRIORI-based frequent itemset mining	32
Combining a land parcel cellular automata (LP-CA) model with participatory approaches in the simulation of disruptive future scenarios of urban land use change	32
Causal effects of mobility intervention policies on intracity flows during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of zonal locations in the transportation networks	31
Mapping priority zones for urban heat mitigation in Shanghai: Heat risk vs. shelter provision	31
Modeling spatial and temporal urban environmental noise using street view imagery and machine learning	31
Exploring the built environment impacts on Online Car-hailing waiting time: An empirical study in Beijing	31
Jointly spatial-temporal representation learning for individual trajectories	31
Digital twins and AI for healthy and sustainable cities	30
Intra-urban land use maps for a global sample of cities from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and computer vision	30
Indoor mobility data encoding with TSTM-in: A topological-semantic trajectory model	29
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
Exploring climate-induced migration impacts on urban growth	28

Editorial Board	28
UrbanClassifier: A deep learning-based model for automated typology and temporal analysis of urban fabric across multiple spatial scales and viewpoints	28
Torque work of origin-destination flows: Quantifying urban place centrality from a physical perspective	28
Semantic data enrichment for maintenance of foundation spatial data	27
Learning street view representations based on a spatiotemporal contrastive learning framework	27
Creating spatially complete zoning maps using machine learning	25
Auditing the fairness of place-based crime prediction models implemented with deep learning approaches	25
A machine learning approach to evaluate the spatial variability of New York City's 311 street flooding complaints	25
Decoding urban soundscapes: spatial prediction and influence mechanism analysis with interpretable semi-supervised learning	24
Editorial Board	24
Fire and smoke digital twin – A computational framework for modeling fire incident outcomes	24
Housing segregation in Chinese major cities: A K-nearest neighbor analysis of longitudinal big data	24
Simulating household energy behavior diffusion using spatial microsimulation and econometric models	24
Measuring evacuation rates from mobility data during the McDougall Creek wildfire in British Columbia, Canada	24
A specialized inclusive road dataset with elevation profiles for realistic pedestrian navigation using open geospatial data and deep learning	24
A topology-based approach to identifying urban centers in America using multi-source geospatial big data	24
Detecting older pedestrians and aging-friendly walkability using computer vision technology and street view imagery	23
Beyond distance: A computational framework for route-based urban park accessibility	23
Socio-spatial segregation and human mobility: A review of empirical evidence	23
Optimizing urban green space spatial patterns for thermal environment improvement: A multi-objective approach in the context of urban renewal	23
Urban visual uniqueness: A landmark-free framework to quantify city's identity and distinctiveness from everyday scenes	23
Capturing urban recreational hotspots from GPS data: A new framework in the lens of spatial heterogeneity	22
ScaleFC: A scale-aware geographical flow clustering algorithm for heterogeneous origin-destination data	22
Mapping Great Britain's semantic footprints through a large language model analysis of Reddit comments	22
Editorial Board	22
Realized spatial accessibility vs. potential spatial accessibility in the United States: A case study based on geospatial big data	22
Editorial Board	22
FlowsDT: A geospatial digital twin for navigating urban flood dynamics	22