OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is 8. 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
Incorporating multimodal context information into traffic speed forecasting through graph deep learning	41
Scene-GCN: a time-series prediction method in complex monitoring environments through spatial–temporal knowledge graph (ST-KG)	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
A new two-step estimation approach for retrieving surface urban heat island intensity and footprint based on urban-rural temperature gradients	30
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 mobile phone-based multilevel localization framework for field scenes	28
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
Next location prediction using heterogeneous graph-based fusion network with physical and social awareness	27
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
Efficient matrix algebra encoding for urban solar irradiation simulation: fine-grid ground-level estimation with vector data	26

HMLPA: a hierarchical multi-target LPA pathfinding algorithm designed for dynamic indoor path network	25
Statistical tests for the local spatial variance	25
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
A backfitting maximum likelihood estimator for hierarchical and geographically weighted regression modelling, with a case study of house prices in Beijing	24
Toward urban traffic scenarios and more: a spatio-temporal analysis empowered low-rank tensor completion method for data imputation	24
Filling gaps of cartographic polylines by using an encoder–decoder model	23
Lane extraction from trajectories at road intersections based on Graph Transformer Network	21
Simulation of urban perforation after random vacant plot generation: application of the thinning point process	21
Online map-matching assisted by object-based classification of driving scenario	21
Vision-HD: road change detection and registration using images and high-definition maps	20
Trend surface analysis of geographic flows	20
Automatic measurement of building setbacks and streetscape widths and their spatial variability along streets and in plots: integration of streetscape skeletons and plot geometry	19
A topography-aware approach to the automatic generation of urban road networks	19
A normative model to estimate the number of persons not social distancing in a 3D complex built space	19
Developing an integrated approach to validate 3D ownership spaces in complex multistorey buildings	19
Exploring the vertical dimension of street view image based on deep learning: a case study on lowest floor elevation estimation	19
Efficient cell navigation methods and applications of an aperture 4 hexagonal discrete global grid system	18
A reinforcement learning-based routing algorithm for large street networks	17
Dynamic mode decomposition and short-time prediction of PM _2.5 using the graph Neural Koopman network	17
On ignoring the heterogeneity in spatial autocorrelation: consequences and solutions	17
Using vertices of a triangular irregular network to calculate slope and aspect	17
Detecting road network errors from trajectory data with partial map matching and bidirectional recurrent neural network model	17
Uncertainty analysis of geodata derived from digital map processing	16
A matrix factorization model with local and global consistency for flow prediction in bike-sharing systems	16
Integrating hydrological knowledge into deep learning for DEM super-resolution	16
Addressing the fixed effects in gravity model based on higher-order origin-destination pairs	15
An entity alignment approach coupling NGBoost and SHAP for constructing spatio-temporal evolution knowledge graph from historical atlases	15
Enhanced scan statistic with tightened window for detecting irregularly shaped hotspots	15
SEMINT: an LLM-empowered long-term vessel trajectory prediction framework	15
A multi-view bidirectional spatiotemporal graph network for urban traffic flow imputation	14
Fractal evolution of urban street networks in form and structure: a case study of Hong Kong	14
Geospatiality: the effect of topics on the presence of geolocation in English text data	13
Integration of Internet search data to predict tourism trends using spatial-temporal XGBoost composite model	13
Analytically articulating the effect of buffer size on urban green space exposure measures	13
Efficient inference of large-scale air quality using a lightweight ensemble predictor	13
STICC: a multivariate spatial clustering method for repeated geographic pattern discovery with consideration of spatial contiguity	13
A hexagon-based method for polygon generalization using morphological operators	13
Multi-agent reinforcement learning to unify order-matching and vehicle-repositioning in ride-hailing services	13
Discovering co-location patterns in multivariate spatial flow data	13
Scheduling distributed multiway spatial join queries: optimization models and algorithms	12
Unsupervised domain adaptation for cross-style, cross-year land use understanding from historical maps	12
A skeleton extraction method for large-scale spatial interaction networks considering spatial distribution characteristics	12
SIMPLINET: a transmission network simplification method for spatiotemporal epidemic modelling	12
A cost-effective algorithm for calibrating multiscale geographically weighted regression models	11
Deconstructing rurality to better “place” health data	11
Alleviating the resolution limit problem in spatial community detection: a local network structure-based method	11
Visit probability and accessibility within space–time prism of activity program	11
Is the radial distance really a distance? An analysis of its properties and interest for the matching of polygon features	10
Micromobility systems and disease transmission: a spatially explicit agent-based approach	10

A narrative analysis of the 2SFCA and i2SFCA methods	10
How good is TanDEM-X 50 m forest/non-forest map? Product validation using temporally corrected geo-browser supplied imagery through Collect Earth	10
Urban land-use analysis using proximate sensing imagery: a survey	10
Estimating urban noise along road network from street view imagery	10
Automatic extraction of building geometries based on centroid clustering and contour analysis on oblique images taken by unmanned aerial vehicles	10
Global GNSS PDOP calculation method based on hexagonal discrete grid	10
A multi-glimpse deep learning architecture to estimate socioeconomic census metrics in the context of extreme scope variance	10
Multiscale cooperative optimization in multiscale geographically weighted regression models	10
On the local modeling of count data: multiscale geographically weighted Poisson regression	9
A structural catalogue of the settlement morphology in refugee and IDP camps	9
Geographically and temporally weighted co-location quotient: an analysis of spatiotemporal crime patterns in greater Manchester	9
HiPerMovelets: high-performance movelet extraction for trajectory classification	9
An evaluation of geo-located Twitter data for measuring human migration	9
A novel aggregation strategy for producing population density surfaces using poll tax data: the case of Vyborg in 1880	9
A local encryption method for large-scale vector maps based on spatial hierarchical index and 4D hyperchaotic system	9
Measuring accessibility of hierarchical healthcare facilities from the spatio-sentimental perspective	9
Deriving map images of generalised mountain roads with generative adversarial networks	8
Urban traffic flow prediction: a dynamic temporal graph network considering missing values	8
GALLOC: a GeoAnnotator for Labeling LOCation descriptions from disaster-related text messages	8
Detecting synthetic population bias using a spatially-oriented framework and independent validation data	8
GeoAI in urban analytics	8
MapReader: a framework for learning a visual language model for map analysis	8
Fuzzy Bayesian inference for mapping vague and place-based regions: a case study of sectarian territory	8
A Siamese neural network for learning the similarity metrics of linear features	8
Observing the dynamic community structure of urban travel networks based on navigation data	8
Urban-EPR: a universal model for simulating individual human mobility within intra-urban areas	8
Enhancing the accessibility of regionalization techniques through large language models: a case study in conversational agent guidance	8
Act2Loc: a synthetic trajectory generation method by combining machine learning and mechanistic models	8
Automatic sketch map creation from labeled planar graph	8