OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Geographical Sciences is 27. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
China’s rural revitalization and development: Theory, technology and management	178
Spatio-temporal evolution and influencing factors of urban green development efficiency in China	99
Development of land use transitions research in China	83
Designing a spatial pattern to rebalance the orientation of development and protection in Wuhan	67
Geomorphology-oriented digital terrain analysis: Progress and perspectives	65
The coupling relationship between urbanization and ecological resilience in the Pearl River Delta	57
Spatiotemporal variations of cultivated land use efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt based on carbon emission constraints	53
Analysis of ecological quality in Lhasa Metropolitan Area during 1990–2017 based on remote sensing and Google Earth Engine platform	46
Spatiotemporal characteristics and driving mechanism of the coupling coordination degree of urbanization and ecological environment in Kazakhstan	43
Sustainable poverty alleviation and green development in China’s underdeveloped areas	42
Ecosystem carbon storage under different scenarios of land use change in Qihe catchment, China	40
Spatiotemporal evolution of urban carbon emission performance in China and prediction of future trends	40
Multidimensional measurement of poverty and its spatio-temporal dynamics in China from the perspective of development geography	39
Spatial pattern reconstruction of regional habitat quality based on the simulation of land use changes from 1975 to 2010	38
Beautiful China Initiative: Human-nature harmony theory, evaluation index system and application	38
Characteristics and progress of land use/cover change research during 1990–2018	37
Effect of human settlements on urban thermal environment and factor analysis based on multi-source data: A case study of Changsha city	35
A review of the balance of regional development in China from the perspective of development geography	34
Geographical thoughts on the relationship between ‘Beautiful China’ and land spatial planning	34
Assessment and analysis of ecosystem services value along the Yangtze River under the background of the Yangtze River protection strategy	33
Coupled effect of climate change and human activities on the restoration/degradation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau grassland	30
The conservation patterns of grassland ecosystem in response to the forage-livestock balance in North China	30
Spatial-temporal characteristics and decoupling effects of China’s carbon footprint based on multi-source data	29
Ecological changes and the tradeoff and synergy of ecosystem services in western China	28
Urban vacant land in growing urbanization: An international review	27

A strategy of the rural governance for territorial spatial planning in China	27
Revealing ecosystem services relationships and their driving factors for five basins of Beijing	27
Recent signal and impact of wet-to-dry climatic shift in Xinjiang, China	27
A comparison and case analysis between domestic and overseas industrial parks of China since the Belt and Road Initiative	27