OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Land Use Policy is 66. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The relevance of sustainable soil management within the European Green Deal	259
Land use change and driving factors in rural China during the period 1995-2015	162
Nexus between nature-based solutions, ecosystem services and urban challenges	148
Cultivated land protection and rational use in China	136
Territory spatial planning and national governance system in China	135
Understanding cognitive and socio-psychological factors determining farmers’ intentions to use improved grassland: Implications of land use policy for sustainable pasture production	135
Future (post-COVID) digital, smart and sustainable cities in the wake of 6G: Digital twins, immersive realities and new urban economies	134
Land use transitions and urban-rural integrated development: Theoretical framework and China’s evidence	132
Spatial-temporal characteristics and influencing factors of agricultural eco-efficiency in China in recent 40 years	132
Quantifying spatial supply-demand mismatches in ecosystem services provides insights for land-use planning	128
Reflections on China's food security and land use policy under rapid urbanization	124
Agriculture 4.0: Making it work for people, production, and the planet	124
Green infrastructure and public policies: An international review of green roofs and green walls incentives	124
Spatial interaction between urbanization and ecosystem services in Chinese urban agglomerations	123
Worldwide trends in the scientific production on rural depopulation, a bibliometric analysis using bibliometrix R-tool	122
The effects of changing land use and flood hazard on poverty in coastal Bangladesh	114
Pandemic stricken cities on lockdown. Where are our planning and design professionals [now, then and into the future]?	111
Study on the coordinated relationship between Urban Land use efficiency and ecosystem health in China	109
Determinants of climate change adaptation strategies and its impact on the net farm income of rice farmers in south-west Nigeria	106
Exploring the influence of urban form on land-use efficiency from a spatiotemporal heterogeneity perspective: Evidence from 336 Chinese cities	97
The balance between economic development and ecosystem service value in the process of land urbanization: A case study of China’s land urbanization from 2000 to 2015	96
How land transfer marketization influence on green total factor productivity from the approach of industrial structure? Evidence from China	94
How land transfer affects agricultural land use efficiency: Evidence from China’s agricultural sector	92
Farmland transition in China and its policy implications	90
Rural decline or restructuring? Implications for sustainability transitions in rural China	89

Identifying the driving forces of non-grain production expansion in rural China and its implications for policies on cultivated land protection	87
What matters in the e-commerce era? Modelling and mapping shop rents in Guangzhou, China	86
Urban land use efficiency and improvement potential in China: A stochastic frontier analysis	85
Usage of urban green space and related feelings of deprivation during the COVID-19 lockdown: Lessons learned from an Italian case study	85
Urbanization, land use transformation and spatio-environmental impacts: Analyses of trends and implications in major metropolitan regions of Ghana	81
How COVID-19 reshaped quality of life in cities: A synthesis and implications for urban planning	80
Land financialisation and the financing of urban development in China	80
Land use regulation and urban land value: Evidence from China	79
Integrated regional development: Comparison of urban agglomeration policies in China	79
Future scenarios based on a CA-Markov land use and land cover simulation model for a tropical humid basin in the Cerrado/Atlantic forest ecotone of Brazil	79
Does labor migration affect rural land transfer? Evidence from China	79
Land use changes in the coastal zone of China’s Hebei Province and the corresponding impacts on habitat quality	78
Understanding trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services to support the decision-making in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region	77
Spatial heterogeneity analysis and driving forces exploring of built-up land development intensity in Chinese prefecture-level cities and implications for future Urban Land intensive use	77
Dynamics of land use, land cover change trend and its drivers in Jimma Geneti District, Western Ethiopia	76
Identification and spatial-temporal evolution of rural “production-living-ecological” space from the perspective of villagers’ behavior – A case study of Ertai Town, Zhangjiakou City	76
Poverty alleviation through land assetization and its implications for rural revitalization in China	76
Integrated landscape approaches in the tropics: A brief stock-take	75
Spatial pattern of arable land-use intensity in China	75
Urban land use efficiency in Ethiopia: An assessment of urban land use sustainability in Addis Ababa	75
Understanding house price appreciation using multi-source big geo-data and machine learning	74
China’s initiatives towards rural land system reform	73
Real estate supports rapid development of China's urbanization	73
Compact Urban Form and Expansion Pattern Slow Down the Decline in Urban Densities: A Global Perspective	73
Mapping hotspots and bundles of forest ecosystem services across the European Union	73
Neighborhood characteristics, neighborhood satisfaction, and well-being: The links with neighborhood deprivation	73
Influencing factors of farmers' adoption of pro-environmental agricultural technologies in China: Meta-analysis	72
Urbanization’s effects on the urban-rural income gap in China: A meta-regression analysis	71
Actions against sustainability: Dismantling of the environmental policies in Brazil	71
Household-owned farm machinery vs. outsourced machinery services: The impact of agricultural mechanization on the land leasing behavior of relatively large-scale farmers in China	71
Brazil’s conservation reform and the reduction of deforestation in Amazonia	70
Examining the policy needs for implementing nature-based solutions in cities: Findings from city-wide transdisciplinary experiences in Glasgow (UK), Genk (Belgium) and Poznań (Poland)	70
How collective efficacy makes a difference in responses to water shortage due to climate change in southwest Iran	69
Effects of land transfer quality on the application of organic fertilizer by large-scale farmers in China	69
Time Preferences and green agricultural technology adoption: Field evidence from rice farmers in China	69
Brazilian policy and agribusiness damage the Amazon rainforest	69
Understanding the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers: Evidence from land reform beneficiaries in South Africa	69
Urbanization and ecosystem services: The multi-scale spatial spillover effects and spatial variations	67
How feasible is regional integration for reconciling land use conflicts across the urban–rural interface? Evidence from Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei metropolitan region in China	67
Changes in and prospects for cultivated land use since the reform and opening up in China	67
The impacts of population and agglomeration development on land use intensity: New evidence behind urbanization in China	66
Land finance dependence and urban land marketization in China: The perspective of strategic choice of local governments on land transfer	66
Adoption of precision farming tools: A context-related analysis	66