OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 20. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	502
Model-based estimation of the isolated impacts of urban expansion on projected streamflow values under varied climate scenarios	104
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	95
Function and form of U.S. cities	88
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	87
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	86
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	84
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	80
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	80
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	72
Enhanced solution capabilities for multiple patch land allocation	71
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	71
Using a deep learning model to quantify trash accumulation for cleaner urban stormwater	69
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	66
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	64
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey	61
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area	60
Quality assessment of crowdsourced social media data for urban flood management	58
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	56
Homogeneity and heterogeneity of diurnal and nocturnal hotspots and the implications for synergetic mitigation in heat-resilient urban planning	51
A simple agent-based model for planning for bicycling: Simulation of bicyclists' movements in urban environments	51
Using street-view panoramas to model the decision-making complexity of road intersections based on the passing branches during navigation	49
Large-scale agent-based modelling of street robbery using graphical processing units and reinforcement learning	49
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	48
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 (	46

Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization	46
Editorial Board	44
‘Green or short: choose one’ - A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities	43
A framework for modelling spatio-temporal informal settlement growth prediction	42
A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models	40
Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation	39
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	39
Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling	38
Does partition matter? A new approach to modeling land use change	38
Machine learning application to spatio-temporal modeling of urban growth	37
A graph-based neural network approach to integrate multi-source data for urban building function classification	36
Interpretable machine learning models for crime prediction	36
Machine learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms	35
Towards a scalable and transferable approach to map deprived areas using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning	35
Revealing correlation patterns of individual location activity motifs between workdays and day-offs using massive mobile phone data	33
Editorial Board	33
Delineating functional urban areas in Chinese mega city regions using fine-grained population data and cellphone location data: A case of Pearl River Delta	33
The fallacy of the closest antenna: Towards an adequate view of device location in the mobile network	32
A new geodemographic classification of the influence of neighbourhood characteristics on crime: The case of Leeds, UK	32
Logistic facility identification from spatial time series data	32
Predicting Desire Paths: Agent-Based Simulation for Neighbourhood Route Planning	32
Shortest covering paths and other covering walks: Refinements and prospects for subtour prevention	31
Modelling active travel accessibility at the micro-scale using multi-source built environment data	30
Information propagation on cyber, relational and physical spaces about covid-19 vaccine: Using social media and splatial framework	29
Utilizing geo-referenced imagery for systematic social observation of neighborhood disorder	29
Areal interpolation of population projections consistent with different SSPs from 1-km resolution to block level based on USA Structures dataset	29
Editorial Board	29
Automatic detection of potential mosquito breeding sites from aerial images acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles	29
A heuristic algorithm for balancing workloads in coverage modeling	29
Predicting individuals' car accident risk by trajectory, driving events, and geographical context	29
“Domains of deprivation framework” for mapping slums, informal settlements, and other deprived areas in LMICs to improve urban planning and policy: A scoping review	28
An agent-based modeling approach for public charging demand estimation and charging station location optimization at urban scale	28
Flow trace: A novel representation of intra-urban movement dynamics	28
How regularly do people visit service places?	28
Large-scale agent-based simulation model of pedestrian traffic flows	28
Integrating species distribution and piecewise linear regression model to identify functional connectivity thresholds to delimit urban ecological corridors	27
A comparison between residential relocation timing of Sydney and Chicago residents: A Bayesian survival analysis	26
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	26
Constructing multi-level urban clusters based on population distributions and interactions	26
Editorial Board	26
Unravelling intercity mobility patterns in China using multi-year big data: A city classification based on monthly fluctuations and year-round trends	26
Generative population synthesis for joint household and individual characteristics	25
Exploring night and day socio-spatial segregation based on mobile phone data: The case of Medellin (Colombia)	25
Application of the local colocation quotient method in jobs-housing balance measurement based on mobile phone data: A case study of Nanjing City	25
When spatial interpolation matters: Seeking an appropriate data transformation from the mobile network for population estimates	24
From points to patterns: An explorative POI network study on urban functional distribution	24
Shared automated vehicle fleet operations for first-mile last-mile transit connections with dynamic pooling	24
Investigating path dependence and spatial characteristics for retail success using location allocation and agent-based approaches	24
Implementing Deep Learning algorithms for urban tree detection and geolocation with high-resolution aerial, satellite, and ground-level images	24
Multi-objective optimization of urban environmental system design using machine learning	24

Diversity and density of urban functions in station areas	23
Exploring the built environment impacts on Online Car-hailing waiting time: An empirical study in Beijing	23
Combining a land parcel cellular automata (LP-CA) model with participatory approaches in the simulation of disruptive future scenarios of urban land use change	23
Causal effects of mobility intervention policies on intracity flows during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of zonal locations in the transportation networks	23
Intra-urban land use maps for a global sample of cities from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and computer vision	22
Calibration of cellular automata urban growth models from urban genesis onwards - a novel application of Markov chain Monte Carlo approximate Bayesian computation	22
A topology-based approach to identifying urban centers in America using multi-source geospatial big data	22
Impact of 3-D urban landscape patterns on the outdoor thermal environment: A modelling study with SOLWEIG	22
Editorial Board	22
Detecting changes in spatial characteristics of Colorado human-caused wildfires using APRIORI-based frequent itemset mining	22
Jointly spatial-temporal representation learning for individual trajectories	22
A systematic review of agent-based models for autonomous vehicles in urban mobility and logistics: Possibilities for integrated simulation models	22
Indoor mobility data encoding with TSTM-in: A topological-semantic trajectory model	22
The Individual Walkable Neighborhood - Evaluating people-centered spatial units focusing on urban density	21
Creating spatially complete zoning maps using machine learning	21
Network analysis and characterization of vulnerability in flood control infrastructure for system-level risk reduction	21
Auditing the fairness of place-based crime prediction models implemented with deep learning approaches	21
Patterns of urban foot traffic dynamics	21
A machine learning approach to evaluate the spatial variability of New York City's 311 street flooding complaints	21
Measuring evacuation rates from mobility data during the McDougall Creek wildfire in British Columbia, Canada	21
Fire and smoke digital twin – A computational framework for modeling fire incident outcomes	21
Road network evolution in the urban and rural United States since 1900	21
Simulating the urban spatial structure with spatial interaction: A case study of urban polycentricity under different scenarios	21
UrbanClassifier: A deep learning-based model for automated typology and temporal analysis of urban fabric across multiple spatial scales and viewpoints	21
Advancing population-targeted urban sensing: A comparative study on mobile and static sensing paradigms	21
Socio-spatial segregation and human mobility: A review of empirical evidence	20
Simulating household energy behavior diffusion using spatial microsimulation and econometric models	20
A specialized inclusive road dataset with elevation profiles for realistic pedestrian navigation using open geospatial data and deep learning	20
Editorial Board	20