OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is 29. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Permutation entropy-based quantification for joint effect of gestalt principles on grouping segments of cross-curves	119
Scene-GCN: a time-series prediction method in complex monitoring environments through spatial–temporal knowledge graph (ST-KG)	115
Capturing spatial heterogeneity of population-level human mobility via a prior-guided graph neural network	77
From public discourse to place semantics: modeling semantic similarity of places using geosocial media data	65
A probabilistic framework with the gradient-based method for multi-objective land use optimization	55
Reasoning over higher-order qualitative spatial relations via spatially explicit neural networks	53
GPU-accelerated parallel all-pair shortest path routing within stochastic road networks	50
There’s no best model! Addressing limitations of land-use scenario modelling through multi-model ensembles	50
Geospatial foundation models for image analysis: evaluating and enhancing NASA-IBM Prithvi’s domain adaptability	48
Incorporating multimodal context information into traffic speed forecasting through graph deep learning	46
GeoXCP: uncertainty quantification of spatial explanations in explainable AI	45
Predicting short-term PM _2.5 concentrations at fine temporal resolutions using a multi-branch temporal graph convolutional neural network	44
STAGE: a spatiotemporal-knowledge enhanced multi-task generative adversarial network (GAN) for trajectory generation	43
Fine-grained geographic named entity recognition with few-shot learning	43
PathVGAE: a path-based variational graph autoencoder for learning to rank roads	40
The influence of uncertainty visualization on cognitive load in a safety- and time-critical decision-making task	40
Human dynamics in GIScience: emerging opportunities, challenges, and the road toward SplatialAI	39
A hierarchical deep reinforcement learning method for solving urban route planning problems under large-scale customers and real-time traffic conditions	38
A novel approach for cluster detection in trajectory data with low cluster-to-noise density ratio	37
A mobile phone-based multilevel localization framework for field scenes	36
A new two-step estimation approach for retrieving surface urban heat island intensity and footprint based on urban-rural temperature gradients	36
A linearization for stable and fast geographically weighted Poisson regression	34
StreetSenser: a novel approach to sensing street view via a fine-tuned multimodal large language model	34
Children’s walking to urban services: an analysis of pedestrian access to social infrastructures and its relationship with land use	33
A streamlined approach to uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for models with spatial outputs with an example from geodiversity assessment	33

MNCD-KE: a novel framework for simultaneous attribute- and interaction-based geographical regionalization	30
Decision making under uncertainty: increasing the impact of public Participatory GIS	30
Simplification of contour lines, based on axial splines, with high-quality results	29
Efficient matrix algebra encoding for urban solar irradiation simulation: fine-grid ground-level estimation with vector data	29
A review of representation and similarity measurement methods for geospatial scenes	29