OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Health Geographics is 4. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Geographical tracking and mapping of coronavirus disease COVID-19/severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic and associated events around the world: how 21st century GIS tec	431
Targeting the spatial context of obesity determinants via multiscale geographically weighted regression	102
Rapidly measuring spatial accessibility of COVID-19 healthcare resources: a case study of Illinois, USA	75
A multimethod approach for county-scale geospatial analysis of emerging infectious diseases: a cross-sectional case study of COVID-19 incidence in Germany	66
Associations between the built environment and obesity: an umbrella review	55
How urban densification shapes walking behaviours in older community dwellers: a cross-sectional analysis of potential pathways of influence	33
Gridded population survey sampling: a systematic scoping review of the field and strategic research agenda	30
Geostatistical COVID-19 infection risk maps for Portugal	28
Measuring the association of objective and perceived neighborhood environment with physical activity in older adults: challenges and implications from a systematic review	27
Beyond the map: evidencing the spatial dimension of health inequalities	27
Light at night and risk of breast cancer: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis	27
The good, the bad, and the environment: developing an area-based measure of access to health-promoting and health-constraining environments in New Zealand	25
Improving geographical accessibility modeling for operational use by local health actors	23
Examining the diffusion of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in a metropolis: a space syntax approach	22
Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) of environmental noise annoyance: the influence of activity context and the daily acoustic environment	22
Spatio-temporal distribution of negative emotions on Twitter during floods in Chennai, India, in 2015: a post hoc analysis	22
Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling with sliding windows to correct reporting delays for real-time dengue surveillance in Thailand	21
Domestic and international mobility trends in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of facebook data	21
Quantifying spatial accessibility of general practitioners by applying a modified huff three-step floating catchment area (MH3SFCA) method	21
Deep phenotyping meets big data: the Geoscience and hEalth Cohort COnsortium (GECCO) data to enable exposome studies in The Netherlands	21
Urban–rural disparity in the relationship between ambient air pollution and preterm birth	19
Adults’ leisure-time physical activity and the neighborhood built environment: a contextual perspective	19
Neighbourhood environment and depressive symptoms among the elderly in Hong Kong and Singapore	18
Influence of socio-economic, demographic and climate factors on the regional distribution of dengue in the United States and Mexico	18
Spatiotemporal access to emergency medical services in Wuhan, China: accounting for scene and transport time intervals	17

The association between spatial access to physical activity facilities within home and workplace neighborhoods and time spent on physical activities: evidence from Guangzhou, China	16
Overcoming inefficiencies arising due to the impact of the modifiable areal unit problem on single-aggregation disease maps	16
The associations between social, built and geophysical environment and age-specific dementia mortality among older adults in a high-density Asian city	15
Coverage versus response time objectives in ambulance location	14
Daily activity locations k-anonymity for the evaluation of disclosure risk of individual GPS datasets	14
Prediction of hospital visits for the general inpatient care using floating catchment area methods: a reconceptualization of spatial accessibility	14
Modeling spatial access to cervical cancer screening services in Ondo State, Nigeria	13
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
Efficiency of fine scale and spatial regression in modelling associations between healthcare service spatial accessibility and their utilization	13
Remote sensing of environmental risk factors for malaria in different geographic contexts	13
Evaluating the impact of a small number of areas on spatial estimation	12
Distance sampling for epidemiology: an interactive tool for estimating under-reporting of cases from clinic data	12
A spatially explicit analysis of chronic diseases in small areas: a case study of diabetes in Santiago, Chile	12
Gender-based vulnerability: combining Pareto ranking and spatial statistics to model gender-based vulnerability in Rohingya refugee settlements in Bangladesh	11
Street masking: a network-based geographic mask for easily protecting geoprivacy	11
Using gridded population and quadtree sampling units to support survey sample design in low-income settings	11
GIS-modelled built-environment exposures reflecting daily mobility for applications in child health research	10
Geographical variation and clustering are found in atrial fibrillation beyond socioeconomic differences: a Danish cohort study, 1987–2015	10
Differences in depressive symptoms by rurality in Japan: a cross-sectional multilevel study using different aggregation units of municipalities and neighborhoods (JAGES)	10
Children’s outdoor active mobility behaviour and neighbourhood safety: a systematic review in measurement methods and future research directions	10
Neighborhood environment and muscle mass and function among rural older adults: a 3-year longitudinal study	10
Modelling and mapping the intra-urban spatial distribution of Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate using very-high-resolution satellite derived indicators	10
Estimating the local spatio‐temporal distribution of malaria from routine health information systems in areas of low health care access and reporting	10
A machine learning approach to small area estimation: predicting the health, housing and well-being of the population of Netherlands	10
Reliability of streetscape audits comparing on‐street and online observations: MAPS-Global in 5 countries	9
Risk and space: modelling the accessibility of stroke centers using day- & nighttime population distribution and different transportation scenarios	9
Geospatial estimation of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health indicators: a systematic review of methodological aspects of studies based on household surveys	9
Reconciling public health common good and individual privacy: new methods and issues in geoprivacy	8
Exploring convolutional neural networks and spatial video for on-the-ground mapping in informal settlements	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
Climate-driven mosquito-borne viral suitability index: measuring risk transmission of dengue, chikungunya and Zika in Mexico	7
Bayesian spatial modelling of childhood cancer incidence in Switzerland using exact point data: a nationwide study during 1985–2015	7
Investigating the drivers of the spatio-temporal heterogeneity in COVID-19 hospital incidence—Belgium as a study case	7
Comparing effects of Euclidean buffers and network buffers on associations between built environment and transport walking: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis	7
Spatial predictive properties of built environment characteristics assessed by drop-and-spin virtual neighborhood auditing	7
Feelings of safety during daytime walking: associations with mental health, physical activity and cardiometabolic health in high vacancy, low-income neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan	7
Assessing road criticality and loss of healthcare accessibility during floods: the case of Cyclone Idai, Mozambique 2019	6
Exploring the potential for planning support systems to bridge the research-translation gap between public health and urban planning	6
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	6
Comparing different data sources by examining the associations between surrounding greenspace and children's weight status	6
Detecting multiple spatial disease clusters: information criterion and scan statistic approach	6
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
Adapting the SPOTLIGHT Virtual Audit Tool to assess food and activity environments relevant for adolescents: a validity and reliability study	5
Correction to: Beyond the map: evidencing the spatial dimension of health inequalities	5
Optimizing the maximum reported cluster size in the spatial scan statistic for survival data	5
Beyond standardized mortality ratios; some uses of smoothed age-specific mortality rates on small areas studies	5
Cyclists’ exposure to air pollution, noise, and greenery: a population-level spatial analysis approach	5
Dealing with spatial misalignment to model the relationship between deprivation and life expectancy: a model-based geostatistical approach	5
Feasibility of satellite image and GIS sampling for population representative surveys: a case study from rural Guatemala	5
Spatiotemporal modelling and mapping of cervical cancer incidence among HIV positive women in South Africa: a nationwide study	5

Geospatial techniques for monitoring and mitigating climate change and its effects on human health	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
Deriving neighborhood-level diet and physical activity measurements from anonymized mobile phone location data for enhancing obesity estimation	4
Long-term exposure and health risk assessment from air pollution: impact of regional scale mobility	4
Park environment and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in parks among adolescents in a high-density city: the moderating role of neighbourhood income	4
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
Multivariate Bayesian meta-analysis: joint modelling of multiple cancer types using summary statistics	4
sparrpowR: a flexible R package to estimate statistical power to identify spatial clustering of two groups and its application	4
Spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in Portugal’s Mainland with self-organizing maps	4
Measuring the impact of spatial perturbations on the relationship between data privacy and validity of descriptive statistics	4