OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is 25. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Predicting short-term PM _2.5 concentrations at fine temporal resolutions using a multi-branch temporal graph convolutional neural network	93
A probabilistic framework with the gradient-based method for multi-objective land use optimization	67
Geospatial foundation models for image analysis: evaluating and enhancing NASA-IBM Prithvi’s domain adaptability	56
GPU-accelerated parallel all-pair shortest path routing within stochastic road networks	53
Scene-GCN: a time-series prediction method in complex monitoring environments through spatial–temporal knowledge graph (ST-KG)	41
Incorporating multimodal context information into traffic speed forecasting through graph deep learning	41
Capturing spatial heterogeneity of population-level human mobility via a prior-guided graph neural network	39
STAGE: a spatiotemporal-knowledge enhanced multi-task generative adversarial network (GAN) for trajectory generation	39
There’s no best model! Addressing limitations of land-use scenario modelling through multi-model ensembles	37
Reasoning over higher-order qualitative spatial relations via spatially explicit neural networks	36
Context-aware movement analysis in ecology: a systematic review	35
A streamlined approach to uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for models with spatial outputs with an example from geodiversity assessment	32
The influence of uncertainty visualization on cognitive load in a safety- and time-critical decision-making task	31
Children’s walking to urban services: an analysis of pedestrian access to social infrastructures and its relationship with land use	30
A hierarchical deep reinforcement learning method for solving urban route planning problems under large-scale customers and real-time traffic conditions	30
A linearization for stable and fast geographically weighted Poisson regression	30
A new two-step estimation approach for retrieving surface urban heat island intensity and footprint based on urban-rural temperature gradients	30
A multi-hierarchical method to extract spatial network structures from large-scale origin-destination flow data	28
A novel approach for cluster detection in trajectory data with low cluster-to-noise density ratio	28
A mobile phone-based multilevel localization framework for field scenes	28
Simplification of contour lines, based on axial splines, with high-quality results	27
Discovering source areas of disease outbreaks based on ring-shaped hotspot detection in road network space	27
An explainable spatial interpolation method considering spatial stratified heterogeneity	27
Next location prediction using heterogeneous graph-based fusion network with physical and social awareness	27
Efficient matrix algebra encoding for urban solar irradiation simulation: fine-grid ground-level estimation with vector data	26

Exploring geospatial digital twins: a novel panorama-based method with enhanced representation of virtual geographic scenes in Virtual Reality (VR)	25
MNCD-KE: a novel framework for simultaneous attribute- and interaction-based geographical regionalization	25
HMLPA: a hierarchical multi-target LPA pathfinding algorithm designed for dynamic indoor path network	25
Statistical tests for the local spatial variance	25