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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Permutation entropy-based quantification for joint effect of gestalt principles on grouping segments of cross-curves	157
GPU-accelerated parallel all-pair shortest path routing within stochastic road networks	72
Capturing spatial heterogeneity of population-level human mobility via a prior-guided graph neural network	69
GeoXCP: uncertainty quantification of spatial explanations in explainable AI	57
From public discourse to place semantics: modeling semantic similarity of places using geosocial media data	54
STAGE: a spatiotemporal-knowledge enhanced multi-task generative adversarial network (GAN) for trajectory generation	52
There’s no best model! Addressing limitations of land-use scenario modelling through multi-model ensembles	50
A probabilistic framework with the gradient-based method for multi-objective land use optimization	50
Incorporating multimodal context information into traffic speed forecasting through graph deep learning	47
Predicting short-term PM _2.5 concentrations at fine temporal resolutions using a multi-branch temporal graph convolutional neural network	47
Geospatial foundation models for image analysis: evaluating and enhancing NASA-IBM Prithvi’s domain adaptability	45
Reasoning over higher-order qualitative spatial relations via spatially explicit neural networks	44
Scene-GCN: a time-series prediction method in complex monitoring environments through spatial–temporal knowledge graph (ST-KG)	43
A mobile phone-based multilevel localization framework for field scenes	41
A hierarchical deep reinforcement learning method for solving urban route planning problems under large-scale customers and real-time traffic conditions	41
A novel approach for cluster detection in trajectory data with low cluster-to-noise density ratio	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	40
Fine-grained geographic named entity recognition with few-shot learning	39
A new two-step estimation approach for retrieving surface urban heat island intensity and footprint based on urban-rural temperature gradients	38
A linearization for stable and fast geographically weighted Poisson regression	33
Children’s walking to urban services: an analysis of pedestrian access to social infrastructures and its relationship with land use	32
PathVGAE: a path-based variational graph autoencoder for learning to rank roads	32
StreetSenser: a novel approach to sensing street view via a fine-tuned multimodal large language model	31
A streamlined approach to uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for models with spatial outputs with an example from geodiversity assessment	31

Decision making under uncertainty: increasing the impact of public Participatory GIS	30
Efficient matrix algebra encoding for urban solar irradiation simulation: fine-grid ground-level estimation with vector data	30
A multi-hierarchical method to extract spatial network structures from large-scale origin-destination flow data	29
HMLPA: a hierarchical multi-target LPA pathfinding algorithm designed for dynamic indoor path network	29