OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Geographical Sciences is 9. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
China’s rural revitalization and development: Theory, technology and management	227
Geomorphology-oriented digital terrain analysis: Progress and perspectives	73
The coupling relationship between urbanization and ecological resilience in the Pearl River Delta	73
Spatiotemporal characteristics and driving mechanism of the coupling coordination degree of urbanization and ecological environment in Kazakhstan	55
Analysis of ecological quality in Lhasa Metropolitan Area during 1990–2017 based on remote sensing and Google Earth Engine platform	54
A review of the balance of regional development in China from the perspective of development geography	52
Sustainable poverty alleviation and green development in China’s underdeveloped areas	52
Multidimensional measurement of poverty and its spatio-temporal dynamics in China from the perspective of development geography	48
Characteristics and progress of land use/cover change research during 1990–2018	42
Effect of human settlements on urban thermal environment and factor analysis based on multi-source data: A case study of Changsha city	41
Construction of ecological security patterns and ecological restoration zones in the city of Ningbo, China	36
Spatial-temporal characteristics and decoupling effects of China’s carbon footprint based on multi-source data	35
Revealing ecosystem services relationships and their driving factors for five basins of Beijing	35
Recent signal and impact of wet-to-dry climatic shift in Xinjiang, China	35
The conservation patterns of grassland ecosystem in response to the forage-livestock balance in North China	34
Coupled effect of climate change and human activities on the restoration/degradation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau grassland	34
Urbanization of county in China: Spatial patterns and influencing factors	33
Spatio-temporal evolution and dynamic simulation of the urban resilience of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration	33
Ecological changes and the tradeoff and synergy of ecosystem services in western China	33
A strategy of the rural governance for territorial spatial planning in China	31
Identification and alleviation pathways of multidimensional poverty and relative poverty in counties of China	30
The impact of COVID-19 on China’s regional economies and industries	29
Exploring temporal heterogeneity in an intercity travel network: A comparative study between weekdays and holidays in China	28
Evaluating changes in ecological land and effect of protecting important ecological spaces in China	28
China’s food security situation and key questions in the new era: A perspective of farmland protection	27

Impacts of traffic accessibility on ecosystem services: An integrated spatial approach	26
Understanding land for high-quality development	26
Exploring detailed urban-rural development under intersecting population growth and food production scenarios: Trajectories for China’s most populous agricultural province to 2030	25
Spatiotemporal changes of land desertification sensitivity in northwest China from 2000 to 2017	25
Chemical fertilizer rate, use efficiency and reduction of cereal crops in China, 1998–2018	25
Effect of Three Gorges Dam on Poyang Lake water level at daily scale based on machine learning	24
Monitoring periodically national land use changes and analyzing their spatiotemporal patterns in China during 2015–2020	23
Global poverty dynamics and resilience building for sustainable poverty reduction	23
Air pollution effects of industrial transformation in the Yangtze River Delta from the perspective of spatial spillover	22
Spatiotemporal evolution of PM2.5 concentrations in urban agglomerations of China	20
Examining spatio-temporal variations in carbon budget and carbon compensation zoning in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration based on major functional zones	20
Ecological risk assessment and ecological security pattern optimization in the middle reaches of the Yellow River based on ERI+MCR model	20
On integrated urban and rural development	20
Comparison of spatio-temporal transmission characteristics of COVID-19 and its mitigation strategies in China and the US	20
Spatio-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of farmland fragmentation in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain	19
Effects of vegetation restoration on local microclimate on the Loess Plateau	19
Spatial expansion effects on urban ecosystem services supply-demand mismatching in Guanzhong Plain Urban Agglomeration of China	19
Interaction between urbanization and eco-environment in the Tibetan Plateau	19
Dynamic changes and transitions of agricultural landscape patterns in mountainous areas: A case study from the hinterland of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area	19
Traffic accessibility and the coupling degree of ecosystem services supply and demand in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, China	18
Spatiotemporal evolution and influencing mechanism of ecosystem service value in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area	18
Rural vulnerability in China: Evaluation theory and spatial patterns	18
Relationship of minimum winter temperature and temperature seasonality to the northern range limit and species richness of trees in North America	18
Spatio-temporal analysis of human wellbeing and its coupling relationship with ecosystem services in Shandong province, China	18
China’s agricultural land use change and its underlying drivers: A literature review	18
The historical logics and geographical patterns of rural-urban governance in China	18
Game strategies in government-led eco-compensation in the Xin’an River Basin from the perspective of the politics of scale	18
Integrating the ecosystem service in sustainable plateau spatial planning: A case study of the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin	18
Sensitivity and areal differentiation of vegetation responses to hydrothermal dynamics on the northern and southern slopes of the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi province	17
Spatial evolution and growth mechanism of urban networks in western China: A multi-scale perspective	17
Spatiotemporal variation and hotspots of climate change in the Yangtze River Watershed during 1958–2017	17
Multi-scale analysis of trade-off/synergistic effects of forest ecosystem services in the Funiu Mountain Region, China	16
Urban planning construction land standard and its revision based on climate and topography in China	16
The poverty evolution of typical countries along the Belt and Road and implications from China’s poverty reduction experiences	16
Climate change and multi-dimensional sustainable urbanization	16
Regional ecosystem services relationships and their potential driving factors in the Yellow River Basin, China	16
Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the normalized difference vegetation index of desertified areas in northern China	15
Spatial non-stationary characteristics between grass yield and its influencing factors in the Ningxia temperate grasslands based on a mixed geographically weighted regression model	15
The impact of energy-intensive industries on air quality in China’s industrial agglomerations	15
Quantitative relationship between channels and bars in a tidal reach of the lower Yangtze River: Implications for river management	15
Dynamics of the eco-environmental quality in response to land use changes in rapidly urbanizing areas: A case study of Wuhan, China from 2000 to 2018	15
Flood assessment and early warning of the reoccurrence of river blockage at the Baige landslide	15
Spatial and temporal variabilities of rainstorms over China under climate change	14
Research progress and prospect on development geography	14
Dynamic evolution trend of comprehensive transportation green efficiency in China: From a spatio-temporal interaction perspective	14
Characteristics of industrial structure evolution and isomorphism in Central Asia	14
Differences and dynamics of multidimensional poverty in rural China from multiple perspectives analysis	14
Urban forest loss using a GIS-based approach and instruments for integrated urban planning: A case study of João Pessoa, Brazil	14
Glacier changes in the Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve of China during 2000–2018	14
Heterogeneity of water-retention capacity of forest and its influencing factors based on meta-analysis in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	13

Energy geopolitics in Central Asia: China’s involvement and responses	13
Economic sustainability of China’s growth from the perspective of its resource and environmental supply system: National scale modeling and policy analysis	13
Energy globalization of China: Trade, investment, and embedded energy flows	13
Spatial pattern of location advantages of ports along the Maritime Silk Road	13
An overall consistent increase of global aridity in 1970–2018	13
Spatio-temporal characteristics and typical patterns of eco-efficiency of cultivated land use in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	12
Investigation on flood event variations at space and time scales in the Huaihe River Basin of China using flood behavior classification	12
Remote sensing assessment of the ecological benefits provided by national key ecological projects in China during 2000–2019	12
The pattern, evolution, and mechanism of venture capital flows in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China	12
Spatiotemporal variations of eco-environment in the Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone based on remote sensing ecological index and granular computing	12
Functional zoning in national parks under multifactor trade-off guidance: A case study of Qinghai Lake National Park in China	12
Three-dimensional delineation of soil pollutants at contaminated sites: Progress and prospects	12
Geopolitics of the energy transition	12
A review of the ecohydrology discipline: Progress, challenges, and future directions in China	12
Variegated transnational partnerships: Multi-scalar actor networks in China’s overseas industrial parks	12
Profoundly entwined ecosystem services, land-use change and human well-being into sustainability management in Yushu, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	12
Quantitative identification and the evolution characteristics of production—living—ecological space in the mountainous area: From the perspective of multifunctional land	11
The response of key ecosystem services to land use and climate change in Chongqing: Time, space, and altitude	11
Urban construction land demand prediction and spatial pattern simulation under carbon peak and neutrality goals: A case study of Guangzhou, China	11
Literature review of accessibility measures and models used in land use and transportation planning in last 5 years	11
Policy transfer and scale reconstruction of China’s overseas industrial parks: A case study of the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park	11
Regional land ecological security evaluation and ecological poverty alleviation practice: A case study of Yangxian County in Shaanxi Province, China	11
Space reconstruction process and internal driving mechanisms of Taobao villages in metropolitan fringe areas: A case study of Lirendong village in Guangzhou, China	11
The spatial pattern and governance of Zhongyuan Urban-Rural System in its development trajectory	11
Land consolidation and eco-environmental sustainability in Loess Plateau: A study of Baota district, Shaanxi province, China	11
Vulnerability of glacier change in the Tianshan Mountains region of China	11
Influence of the variation in rural population on farmland preservation in the rapid urbanization area of China	11
Rocky desertification poverty in Southwest China: Progress, challenges and enlightenment to rural revitalization	11
Simulation and prediction of multi-scenario evolution of ecological space based on FLUS model: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	11
Distribution and land use characteristics of alluvial fans in the Lhasa River Basin, Tibet	10
Spatio-temporal variations and influencing factors of energy-related carbon emissions for Xinjiang cities in China based on time-series nighttime light data	10
Simulation of land-cover change in Jing-Jin-Ji region under different scenarios of SSP-RCP	10
Analysis on geo-effects of China’s overseas industrial parks: A case study of Cambodia Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone	10
Influence of river-lake isolation on the water level variations of Caizi Lake, lower reach of the Yangtze River	10
Contributions of climate change to cereal yields in Tibet, 1993–2017	10
Predicting and assessing changes in NPP based on multi-scenario land use and cover simulations on the Loess Plateau	10
Evaluation, simulation, and optimization of land use spatial patterns for high-quality development: A case study of Zhengzhou city, China	10
Application of geographically weighted regression model in the estimation of surface air temperature lapse rate	10
Spatio-temporal correlation between human activity intensity and land surface temperature on the north slope of Tianshan Mountains	10
Spatial distribution and influencing factors of Surface Nibble Degree index in the severe gully erosion region of China’s Loess Plateau	10
Quantification of human and climate contributions to multi-dimensional hydrological alterations: A case study in the Upper Minjiang River, China	10
Spatiotemporal evolution and driving factors of global production networks: An analysis based on the input-output technique	10
Spatiotemporal distribution of sea-island prehistoric dune sites, Holocene sea levels, and aeolian sand activities in Fujian Province, China	10
The spatio-temporal heterogeneity of county-level economic development and primary drivers across the Loess Plateau, China	9
The effects of climate change and phenological variation on agricultural production and its risk pattern in the black soil area of northeast China	9
Multi-scale coupling analysis of urbanization and ecosystem services supply-demand budget in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China	9
Attribution of trends in meteorological drought during 1960–2016 over the Loess Plateau, China	9
Anthropogenic origin of a change in the fire-climate relationship in northern China after ∼2000 yr BP: Evidence from a 15,500-year black carbon record from Dali Lake	9
A spatio-temporal assessment and prediction of Ahmedabad’s urban growth between 1990–2030	9
The study of artificial intelligence for predicting land use changes in an arid ecosystem	9
Model construction of urban agglomeration expansion simulation considering urban flow and hierarchical characteristics	9
Comprehensive urbanization level and its dynamic factors for five Central Asian countries	9
Spatio-temporal variations in ecological spaces and their ecological carrying status in China’s mega-urban agglomerations	9
Evaluation system and influencing paths for the integration of culture and tourism in traditional villages	9
The functional evolution and system equilibrium of urban and rural territories	9
Regional variation of urban air quality in China and its dominant factors	9
North-south vegetation transition in the eastern Qinling-Daba Mountains	9
Population evolution at the prefecture-level city scale in China: Change patterns and spatial correlations	9