OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Health Geographics is 9. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

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
Overcoming inefficiencies arising due to the impact of the modifiable areal unit problem on single-aggregation disease maps	16
Remote sensing of environmental risk factors for malaria in different geographic contexts	16
Reliability of streetscape audits comparing on‐street and online observations: MAPS-Global in 5 countries	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
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

Estimating the local spatio‐temporal distribution of malaria from routine health information systems in areas of low health care access and reporting	11
Geospatial estimation of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health indicators: a systematic review of methodological aspects of studies based on household surveys	11
Reconciling public health common good and individual privacy: new methods and issues in geoprivacy	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
Geospatial techniques for monitoring and mitigating climate change and its effects on human health	10
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
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