OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Geographical Sciences is 12. 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
Comprehensive evaluation and influencing factors of healthy cities in China’s urban agglomerations	80
The impact of economic development on urban livability: Evidence from 40 large and medium-sized cities of China	65
Spatial morphology optimization for reconciling urban expansion with ecological integrity based on a multi-level ecological network framework	62
Energy dissipation caused by boundary resistance in a typical reach of the lower Yellow River and the implications for riverbed stability	61
Characterization and projection of spatial and temporal changes in habitat quality of Sanjiangyuan based on land use change	58
Land consolidation and eco-environmental sustainability in Loess Plateau: A study of Baota district, Shaanxi province, China	51
Population evolution at the prefecture-level city scale in China: Change patterns and spatial correlations	50
Relocation for improved ecosystem service and human wellbeing? Evidence from Fuping, Hebei, China	49
Does supply match demand? Assessing the relationship between thermal comfort and greenspace exposure in Nanjing, China	49
Regional ecosystem services relationships and their potential driving factors in the Yellow River Basin, China	46
Glacier service value and influence on human well-being in Qilian Mountains	45
Distribution of prehistoric human land use in the Liaohe River Valley as related to climate change	44
Influence mechanism of the flow of high-skilled talents on technological evolution in emerging countries	44
Land-use planning in China: Past, present, and future	43
Geographical features and development models of estuarine cities	42
Examining spatio-temporal variations in carbon budget and carbon compensation zoning in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration based on major functional zones	41
Assessment on the sustainability of water resources utilization in Central Asia based on water resources carrying capacity	39
Effects of water level variations on the water quality of Huayang Lakes, China	35
Assessment of hydraulic performance changes of Dongting Lake after the Three Gorges Reservoir impoundment by a novel semi-empirical approach	35
Dynamics and interactions of water-related ecosystem services in the Yellow River Basin, China	30
Long-term glacier variations and the response to climate fluctuation in Qilian Mountains, China	29
Establishment of urban agglomerations has enabled more people to benefit from sustainable development	27
Spatial scaling effects of gully erosion in response to driving factors in southern China	27
Geomorphology of mega-dunes in the eastern Taklimakan Desert	26
Patterns, synergies, and interactions between human activities and living environment on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau	26

Polycentric urban development with state-led administrative division adjustment: A policy insight for urban spatial transformation	26
Imbalance of inter-provincial forest carbon sequestration rate from 2010 to 2060 in China and its regulation strategy	26
Uncovering differences in the spatial structure of intercity interactive networks described by multi-source migration flow: From the multi-hierarchical perspective	26
Adjustment of thalweg longitudinal profiles in response to sediment silting in cascade reservoirs: A case study of the lower Jinsha River	25
The segmentation of debris-flow fans based on local features and spatial attention mechanism	25
Automatic mapping and pattern analysis of retrogressive thaw slumps on the central Tibetan Plateau using deep learning	25
Exploring the influence of surface soil moisture on heatwave characteristics in the Northern Hemisphere	24
Urban economic efficiency under the interactive effect of urban hierarchy and connection networks in China	23
Climate change impacts on the architectural adaptation in ancient China during the 3rd–6th centuries	23
Spatiotemporal heterogeneities in vegetation phenophase responses to climate extremes in arid mountains of Central Asia	23
Measuring glacier changes in the Tianshan Mountains over the past 20 years using Google Earth Engine and machine learning	22
Evaluation and forecast of the regional marine innovation ecosystem’s competitiveness: A systematic multivariate grey interval model with spatial proximity effects	22
Linkage between riverbed scouring or deposition and the evolution of central bars: Case study in the Yangzhong reach of the Yangtze River	22
Multi-hierarchical spatial clustering for characteristic towns in China: An Orange-based framework to integrate GIS and Geodetector	22
Quantum harmonic oscillator model for simulation of intercity population mobility	21
Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem services under multiple future scenarios to assess the progress of Sustainable Development Goals implementation	21
Evaluation of geopolitical environment along the Belt and Road routes	21
A quantitative assessment of the state and evolution of city–lake relationships using a symbiosis model in the Taihu Lake Basin	21
Post-suburbanization in Qingpu New Town: Process and formation mechanism	21
Evolution of rural multifunction and its natural and socioeconomic factors in coastal China	21
Have China’s drylands become wetting in the past 50 years?	20
Evolution of vegetation phenology and its response to urbanisation in Shaanxi province, China: A fine-scale perspective	20
Morphometric analyses of a deltaic strandplain inferred from LiDAR data and old maps: A contribution to the coastal risk mapping of the Tiber Delta (Italy)	19
Morphological evolution of the channel-shoal system in the South Channel of the Changjiang Estuary during 1958–2018: Causes and future trends	19
Global and regional changes in working-age population exposure to heat extremes under climate change	19
Mapping interaction between human activities and land surface temperature in the Yellow River Basin	19
Land cover change and its response to water level around Tonle Sap Lake in 1988–2020	19
Flow resistance adjustments of channel and bars in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in response to the operation of the Three Gorges Dam	19
Evaluation, simulation, and optimization of land use spatial patterns for high-quality development: A case study of Zhengzhou city, China	19
Multidimensional and multiscenario assessment for cropland supply–demand matches and sustainable development zoning	19
Green roofs for a greener future: Quantifying carbon sequestration and oxygen production potential in Chinese cities	19
Evaluating climate-induced productivity of typical ecosystems of the eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	19
Zoning framework and policy implications of sustainable development by coupling multilevel in Beijing, China	18
How geographic accessibility and rural governance mitigate the impact of multiple risks on rural households’ well-being: Evidence from the Dabie Mountains in China	18
Geographical big data and data mining: A new opportunity for “water-energy-food” nexus analysis	18
Nonlinear response of China’s eco-geographical arid/humid regions to climate change during 1961–2020	18
Influencing factors of manufacturing agglomeration in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region based on enterprise big data	18
Global submarine cable network and digital divide	18
Comparative analysis of different machine learning algorithms for urban footprint extraction in diverse urban contexts using high-resolution remote sensing imagery	18
Quantitative assessment of fire occurrence Dead Fuel Index threshold and spatio-temporal variation in different grassland types of China-Mongolia border area	18
Estimation and simulation on carbon sinks potential of marine aquaculture in China	18
Regulation factors driving vegetation changes in China during the past 20 years	18
Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the normalized difference vegetation index of desertified areas in northern China	17
Climate change and human activities on runoff in northern Shaanxi: Based on Budyko framework analysis	17
Characteristics of the iron mineralogy of farmland and red soils in eastern Guangdong and their pedogenetic implications	17
Lake surface water-heat flux variation and its correlations with meteorological factors on multiscale in the Yamzhog Yumco, south Tibet	17
Spatiotemporal evolution of national development zones and their impact on urban land growth in China	17
The effects of Taobao villages’ spatiotemporal agglomeration on urbanization: A case study of Quanzhou, Fujian	17
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	17
Housing tenure and type choices of urban migrants in China	17

An influencing mechanism for ecological asset gains and losses and its optimization and promotion pathways in China	17
Nonlinear relationship between urban form and transport CO2 emissions: Evidence from Chinese cities based on machine learning	16
Relationship between potential waterway depth improvement and evolution of the Jingjiang Reach of the Yangtze River in China	16
Evaluation system and influencing paths for the integration of culture and tourism in traditional villages	16
Understanding the multidimensional poverty in South Asia	16
Influencing mechanisms of natural factors for riverine dissolved oxygen differ under various geographic features of rivers across China	16
Spatiotemporal variations of eco-environment in the Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone based on remote sensing ecological index and granular computing	16
Chronology of the urban evolution of Ancient Loulan City	16
Trajectories of vegetation dynamics and their driving factors across China Ecosystem Research Network: A long-term assessment (2000–2024)	16
Tourism development potential and obstacle factors of cultural heritage: Evidence from traditional music in Xiangxi	15
The (geo)politics of the marine knowledge production and evolution in the South China Sea: The case of Genglubu	15
Beach morphodynamic characteristics and classifications around Hainan Island, China	15
On integrated urban and rural development	15
Different trajectories of livelihood transformations in response to the trans-Eurasian exchange in agricultural, pastoral, and agro-pastoral regions of north China during the late Neolithic and Bronze	15
Moving towards synergistic reductions on PM2.5 and CO2 and its mechanism: A case study of Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	15
A geographical perspective on the Xia culture: Evidence from ancient phenology and paleoclimate simulation	15
Landslide susceptibility on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Key driving factors identified through machine learning	15
How does the coupling coordination relationship between high-quality urbanization and land use evolve in China? New evidence based on exploratory spatiotemporal analyses	15
Extraction and spatiotemporal evolution analysis of tidal flats in the Bohai Rim during 1984–2019 based on remote sensing	15
Divergent responses of Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) to recent warming along elevational gradients in the central Qilian Mountains, Northwest China	15
Land use change and its influencing factors along railways in Africa: A case study of the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway	15
Spatio-temporal variation prediction on Cd content in the rice grains from Northern Zhejiang Plain during 2014–2019 based on high-precision soil geochemical data	15
Integrating categorical and standard triple collocation to improve precipitation fusion over the five largest freshwater lakes in China	15
Divergent effects of climate change on cropland ecosystem water use efficiency at different elevations in southwestern China	15
Touristic urbanization and greening of coastal dune fields: A long-term assessment of a temperate sandy barrier of Argentina	15
Traffic accessibility and the coupling degree of ecosystem services supply and demand in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, China	15
Progress on spatial prediction methods for soil particle-size fractions	14
Geopolitics of the energy transition	14
Provincial anthropogenic emission inventory of carbonyl sulfide (COS) in China from 2015 to 2021	14
Climate-driven changes in drought metrics across the Yellow River Basin based on Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6	14
Assessing Common Era impacts of Asian dust on tropical cyclone changes in the Northwestern Pacific	14
Developing socio-hydrology: Research progress, opportunities and challenges	14
A 1000-year history of cropland cover change along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in China	13
Evolution characteristics of ecosystem functional stability and ecosystem functional zoning on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	13
Regional differences and formation mechanisms of watershed territorial space patterns evolution: A case study of the critical areas in the Pearl River Basin	13
Nonlinear effects of the urban built environment on urban vitality: A case study of Hangzhou, China	13
The location choice of Chinese investment in the United States: Industrial agglomeration, ethnic networks and firm heterogeneity	13
Relational characteristics and dynamics between high-tech firms in the Pearl River Delta and the empowerment for technological innovation by Hong Kong	13
Bank and point bar morphodynamics in the Lower Jingjiang Reach of the Yangtze River in response to the Three Gorges Project	13
Revealing global patterns of teleconnections in armed conflict	13
The spatial pattern and governance of Zhongyuan Urban-Rural System in its development trajectory	13
Characteristics and driving factors of population age structure in China: A study based on the scale nesting theory	13
Thalweg migration under the collaborative changes in the hydro-sediment regime and erosion base level in the Xiaobeiganliu reach of the Middle Yellow River	12
Lithic miniaturization in South China since the terminal Pleistocene: A multivariate analysis of lithic reduction from Fodongdi, Fulin and Xiqiaoshan	12
The meliorization process of urban green spaces: Integrating landsense creation for sustainable development	12
Ecological state of the natural and agricultural phytocenoses as the marker of ecosystem services: Taking into account differences in natural and anthropogenic conditions under global climate change	12
Residents’ urbanized landscape preferences in rural areas reveal the importance of naturalness-livability contrast	12
Temporal and spatial laws and simulations of erosion and deposition in the Lower Yellow River since the operation of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir	12
Multi-objective land use simulation by integrating urban spatial suitability and ecological carrying capacity evaluations	12
Multi-scale coupling analysis of urbanization and ecosystem services supply-demand budget in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China	12
Tracing the agro-pastoral ecotone transition in northern China from the human-Earth system perspective	12
How does land consolidation affect rural development transformation?	12
Differential depression of the glacier equilibrium-line altitudes in the Yarlung Zangbo Downstream Basin in the Last Glacial Maximum compared to the pre-industrial era	12