OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 23. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	988
Function and form of U.S. cities	133
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	125
Modeling shared e-micromobility as a label propagation process for detecting overlapping communities	118
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	110
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	101
A critical assessment of selected urban resilience decision-support tools in the United States	91
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	88
Model-based estimation of the isolated impacts of urban expansion on projected streamflow values under varied climate scenarios	85
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	81
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	80
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	75
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	75
Large-scale agent-based modelling of street robbery using graphical processing units and reinforcement learning	74
Enhanced solution capabilities for multiple patch land allocation	68
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey	66
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	65
Homogeneity and heterogeneity of diurnal and nocturnal hotspots and the implications for synergetic mitigation in heat-resilient urban planning	63
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	58
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	58
Why same datasets yield different environment–activity relationships? Hidden uncertainties in geospatial processing methods	58
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area	57
Using street-view panoramas to model the decision-making complexity of road intersections based on the passing branches during navigation	56
Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization	55
A simple agent-based model for planning for bicycling: Simulation of bicyclists' movements in urban environments	55

Machine learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms	55
Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation	51
Hedonic price models, social media data and AI – An application to the AIRBNB sector in us cities	48
Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling	47
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	47
Machine learning application to spatio-temporal modeling of urban growth	46
A graph-based neural network approach to integrate multi-source data for urban building function classification	45
Towards a scalable and transferable approach to map deprived areas using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning	44
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	44
Interpretable machine learning models for crime prediction	44
Does partition matter? A new approach to modeling land use change	44
A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models	43
‘Green or short: choose one’ - A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities	43
Logistic facility identification from spatial time series data	42
The fallacy of the closest antenna: Towards an adequate view of device location in the mobile network	40
Areal interpolation of population projections consistent with different SSPs from 1-km resolution to block level based on USA Structures dataset	39
How regularly do people visit service places?	39
Flow trace: A novel representation of intra-urban movement dynamics	38
Editorial Board	38
Predicting Desire Paths: Agent-Based Simulation for Neighbourhood Route Planning	38
Information propagation on cyber, relational and physical spaces about covid-19 vaccine: Using social media and splatial framework	38
Editorial Board	38
Shortest covering paths and other covering walks: Refinements and prospects for subtour prevention	38
Large-scale agent-based simulation model of pedestrian traffic flows	37
Modelling active travel accessibility at the micro-scale using multi-source built environment data	37
Measuring nuanced walkability: Leveraging ChatGPT's vision reasoning with multisource spatial data	37
An agent-based modeling approach for public charging demand estimation and charging station location optimization at urban scale	36
Integrating species distribution and piecewise linear regression model to identify functional connectivity thresholds to delimit urban ecological corridors	36
Constructing multi-level urban clusters based on population distributions and interactions	36
Editorial Board	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	36
Application of the local colocation quotient method in jobs-housing balance measurement based on mobile phone data: A case study of Nanjing City	35
Unravelling intercity mobility patterns in China using multi-year big data: A city classification based on monthly fluctuations and year-round trends	35
Generative population synthesis for joint household and individual characteristics	35
Investigating path dependence and spatial characteristics for retail success using location allocation and agent-based approaches	35
Multi-objective optimization of urban environmental system design using machine learning	34
Implementing Deep Learning algorithms for urban tree detection and geolocation with high-resolution aerial, satellite, and ground-level images	34
When spatial interpolation matters: Seeking an appropriate data transformation from the mobile network for population estimates	33
Exploring the built environment impacts on Online Car-hailing waiting time: An empirical study in Beijing	33
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
Jointly spatial-temporal representation learning for individual trajectories	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	32
Digital twins and AI for healthy and sustainable cities	32
Indoor mobility data encoding with TSTM-in: A topological-semantic trajectory model	31
Modeling spatial and temporal urban environmental noise using street view imagery and machine learning	31
Intra-urban land use maps for a global sample of cities from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and computer vision	31
Impact of 3-D urban landscape patterns on the outdoor thermal environment: A modelling study with SOLWEIG	31
Mapping priority zones for urban heat mitigation in Shanghai: Heat risk vs. shelter provision	31

Measuring evacuation rates from mobility data during the McDougall Creek wildfire in British Columbia, Canada	30
Fire and smoke digital twin – A computational framework for modeling fire incident outcomes	30
Editorial Board	30
Exploring climate-induced migration impacts on urban growth	30
Auditing the fairness of place-based crime prediction models implemented with deep learning approaches	30
Creating spatially complete zoning maps using machine learning	30
A topology-based approach to identifying urban centers in America using multi-source geospatial big data	28
Road network evolution in the urban and rural United States since 1900	28
Advancing population-targeted urban sensing: A comparative study on mobile and static sensing paradigms	28
Semantic data enrichment for maintenance of foundation spatial data	28
A machine learning approach to evaluate the spatial variability of New York City's 311 street flooding complaints	28
Learning street view representations based on a spatiotemporal contrastive learning framework	28
The Individual Walkable Neighborhood - Evaluating people-centered spatial units focusing on urban density	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	27
Simulating household energy behavior diffusion using spatial microsimulation and econometric models	27
Editorial Board	27
Urban visual uniqueness: A landmark-free framework to quantify city's identity and distinctiveness from everyday scenes	27
Characterizing the activity patterns of outdoor jogging using massive multi-aspect trajectory data	27
Socio-spatial segregation and human mobility: A review of empirical evidence	26
Optimizing urban green space spatial patterns for thermal environment improvement: A multi-objective approach in the context of urban renewal	25
Housing segregation in Chinese major cities: A K-nearest neighbor analysis of longitudinal big data	25
Editorial Board	24
Decoding urban soundscapes: spatial prediction and influence mechanism analysis with interpretable semi-supervised learning	24
Detecting older pedestrians and aging-friendly walkability using computer vision technology and street view imagery	24
A specialized inclusive road dataset with elevation profiles for realistic pedestrian navigation using open geospatial data and deep learning	24
Beyond distance: A computational framework for route-based urban park accessibility	24
FlowsDT: A geospatial digital twin for navigating urban flood dynamics	23
Editorial Board	23
Identifying degrees of deprivation from space using deep learning and morphological spatial analysis of deprived urban areas	23
ScaleFC: A scale-aware geographical flow clustering algorithm for heterogeneous origin-destination data	23
Machine-based understanding of noise perception in urban environments using mobility-based sensing data	23
Realized spatial accessibility vs. potential spatial accessibility in the United States: A case study based on geospatial big data	23