OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Health Geographics is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations between the built environment and obesity: an umbrella review	76
Light at night and risk of breast cancer: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis	39
Measuring the association of objective and perceived neighborhood environment with physical activity in older adults: challenges and implications from a systematic review	35
The good, the bad, and the environment: developing an area-based measure of access to health-promoting and health-constraining environments in New Zealand	34
Beyond the map: evidencing the spatial dimension of health inequalities	31
Deep phenotyping meets big data: the Geoscience and hEalth Cohort COnsortium (GECCO) data to enable exposome studies in The Netherlands	30
Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) of environmental noise annoyance: the influence of activity context and the daily acoustic environment	29
Quantifying spatial accessibility of general practitioners by applying a modified huff three-step floating catchment area (MH3SFCA) method	26
Examining the diffusion of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in a metropolis: a space syntax approach	26
Domestic and international mobility trends in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of facebook data	26
Neighbourhood environment and depressive symptoms among the elderly in Hong Kong and Singapore	25
Influence of socio-economic, demographic and climate factors on the regional distribution of dengue in the United States and Mexico	24
Coverage versus response time objectives in ambulance location	21
Spatiotemporal access to emergency medical services in Wuhan, China: accounting for scene and transport time intervals	19
A machine learning approach to small area estimation: predicting the health, housing and well-being of the population of Netherlands	19
The associations between social, built and geophysical environment and age-specific dementia mortality among older adults in a high-density Asian city	18
Reliability of streetscape audits comparing on‐street and online observations: MAPS-Global in 5 countries	16
Remote sensing of environmental risk factors for malaria in different geographic contexts	16
Efficiency of fine scale and spatial regression in modelling associations between healthcare service spatial accessibility and their utilization	15
Long-term exposure and health risk assessment from air pollution: impact of regional scale mobility	14
Smart city lifestyle sensing, big data, geo-analytics and intelligence for smarter public health decision-making in overweight, obesity and type 2 diabetes prevention: the research we should be doing	13
Geographical variation and clustering are found in atrial fibrillation beyond socioeconomic differences: a Danish cohort study, 1987–2015	12
Neighborhood environment and muscle mass and function among rural older adults: a 3-year longitudinal study	12
Estimating the local spatio‐temporal distribution of malaria from routine health information systems in areas of low health care access and reporting	11
Feelings of safety during daytime walking: associations with mental health, physical activity and cardiometabolic health in high vacancy, low-income neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan	11

Differences in depressive symptoms by rurality in Japan: a cross-sectional multilevel study using different aggregation units of municipalities and neighborhoods (JAGES)	10
Reconciling public health common good and individual privacy: new methods and issues in geoprivacy	10
Geospatial techniques for monitoring and mitigating climate change and its effects on human health	10
Children’s outdoor active mobility behaviour and neighbourhood safety: a systematic review in measurement methods and future research directions	10
Climate-driven mosquito-borne viral suitability index: measuring risk transmission of dengue, chikungunya and Zika in Mexico	9
Exploring convolutional neural networks and spatial video for on-the-ground mapping in informal settlements	9
The role of geographic information system and global positioning system in dementia care and research: a scoping review	9
Risk and space: modelling the accessibility of stroke centers using day- & nighttime population distribution and different transportation scenarios	9
Assessing road criticality and loss of healthcare accessibility during floods: the case of Cyclone Idai, Mozambique 2019	9
Exploring the potential for planning support systems to bridge the research-translation gap between public health and urban planning	9
Adapting the SPOTLIGHT Virtual Audit Tool to assess food and activity environments relevant for adolescents: a validity and reliability study	9
Cyclists’ exposure to air pollution, noise, and greenery: a population-level spatial analysis approach	9
Comparing effects of Euclidean buffers and network buffers on associations between built environment and transport walking: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis	8
Exploring factors affecting individual GPS-based activity space and how researcher-defined food environments represent activity space, exposure and use of food outlets	8
Beyond standardized mortality ratios; some uses of smoothed age-specific mortality rates on small areas studies	8
Park environment and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in parks among adolescents in a high-density city: the moderating role of neighbourhood income	7
Investigating the drivers of the spatio-temporal heterogeneity in COVID-19 hospital incidence—Belgium as a study case	7
Development of a Web GIS for small-scale detection and analysis of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) cases based on volunteered geographic information for the city of Cologne, Germany, in July/August 2020	7
Socioeconomic and environmental determinants of asthma prevalence: a cross-sectional study at the U.S. County level using geographically weighted random forests	7
Optimizing the maximum reported cluster size in the spatial scan statistic for survival data	6
Spatial accessibility to health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: comparing existing models with survey-based perceived accessibility	6
Correction to: Beyond the map: evidencing the spatial dimension of health inequalities	6
Deriving neighborhood-level diet and physical activity measurements from anonymized mobile phone location data for enhancing obesity estimation	6
Comparison of static and dynamic exposures to air pollution, noise, and greenness among seniors living in compact-city environments	6
Comparing different data sources by examining the associations between surrounding greenspace and children's weight status	6
Feasibility of satellite image and GIS sampling for population representative surveys: a case study from rural Guatemala	6
sparrpowR: a flexible R package to estimate statistical power to identify spatial clustering of two groups and its application	5
The geospatial and conceptual configuration of the natural environment impacts the association with health outcomes and behavior in children and adolescents	5
Measuring the impact of spatial perturbations on the relationship between data privacy and validity of descriptive statistics	5
Gravity models for potential spatial healthcare access measurement: a systematic methodological review	5
Spatiotemporal modelling and mapping of cervical cancer incidence among HIV positive women in South Africa: a nationwide study	5
Joint mapping of cardiovascular diseases: comparing the geographic patterns in incident acute myocardial infarction, stroke and atrial fibrillation, a Danish register-based cohort study 2014–15	5
Global mosquito observations dashboard (GMOD): creating a user-friendly web interface fueled by citizen science to monitor invasive and vector mosquitoes	5
High-resolution age-specific mapping of the two-week illness prevalence rate based on the National Health Services Survey and geostatistical analysis: a case study in Guangdong province, China	4
Context-aware heatstroke relief station placement and route optimization for large outdoor events	4
Application of machine learning to predict transport modes from GPS, accelerometer, and heart rate data	4
Spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in Portugal’s Mainland with self-organizing maps	4
Participatory mapping to address neighborhood level data deficiencies for food security assessment in Southeastern Virginia, USA	4
Improving spatial data in health geographics: a practical approach for testing data to measure children’s physical activity and food environments using Google Street View	4
Evidence of transgenerational effects on autism spectrum disorder using multigenerational space-time cluster detection	4
Stress and perceived health among primary care visitors in two corners of Europe: Scandinavia and Greece	4
Regional variation in lifestyle patterns and BMI in young children: the GECKO Drenthe cohort	4
Using geographic rescue time contours, point-of-care strategies, and spatial care paths to prepare island communities for global warming, rising oceans, and weather disasters	3
A practical illustration of spatial smoothing methods for disconnected regions with INLA: spatial survey on overweight and obesity in Malaysia	3
The built environment, purpose-specific walking behaviour and overweight: evidence from Wuhan metropolis in central China	3
Associations between neighborhood characteristics and dating violence: does spatial scale matter?	3
Spatially varying effects of measured confounding variables on disease risk	3
Assessing the association between overcrowding and human physiological stress response in different urban contexts: a case study in Salzburg, Austria	3
Assessing the association between food environment and dietary inflammation by community type: a cross-sectional REGARDS study	3
Effect and significance of incorporating access in estimating the number of required physicians: focus on differences in population density in the target area	3

Cycling in one of the most polluted cities in the world: Exposure to noise and air pollution and potential adverse health impacts in Delhi	3
Impacts of seasonal flooding on geographical access to maternal healthcare in the Barotse Floodplain, Zambia	3