OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening is 48. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Characteristics and influencing factors of taxonomic and functional diversity of butterflies in urban green spaces	144
Rediscovering circularity in productive urban landscapes	142
Book Review	129
Climate change threatens carbon storage in Europe’s urban trees	107
The role of urban parks in affecting health outcomes and the differences between vulnerable groups: Evidence from the central city of Beijing	101
New morphological features for urban tree species identification using LiDAR point clouds	85
Soil water stress at young urban street-tree sites in response to meteorology and site parameters	80
An approach to prioritize urban tree planting to mitigate heat and advance equity in New Haven	79
Turning a new leaf: Social and land use drivers of urban tree canopy change in the Chicago Metropolitan Area 2010–2017	78
Urbanization weakens mutualisms without affecting antagonisms of a hawkmoth-pollinated plant species	74
Does user-generated content increase the valuation of urban green space? Evidence from China	74
Forest type and stand structure influence soil microbial network composition and stability in urban forests: Insights from Beijing, China	72
UAV leaf-on, leaf-off and ALS-aided tree height: A case study on the trees in the vicinity of roads	71
Coarse-to-fine segmentation of individual street trees from side-view point clouds	71
Estimating aboveground biomass of tropical urban forests with UAV-borne hyperspectral and LiDAR data	69
Non-native plants and illegitimate interactions are highly relevant for supporting hummingbird pollinators in the urban environment	69
Sniff the urban park: Unveiling odor features and landscape effect on smellscape in Guangzhou, China	68
A systematic review of the relationship between urban forest quality and socioeconomic status or race	67
Visible greenery as my resource? The connection between passive green space exposure and relative deprivation from a self-determination perspective	66
Assessing ecological interactions in urban areas using citizen science data: Insights from hummingbird–plant meta-networks in a tropical megacity	66
Review on the multi-scale interactions of urban forests and atmospheric particles: Affecting factors are scale-dependent among tree, stand and region	65
Eight recommendations to improve the reporting of qualitative social research in urban nature studies	64
Parks Please! Implementing the 3–30-300 green space rule in developing countries − The case of Surakarta, Indonesia	64
Bridging the land use gap: Examining tree canopy cover and connectivity by land use in 10 U.S. cities	63
Vegetation complexity and greenspace diversity in urban schools	62

Multi-level barriers and opportunities for urban greening and depaving initiatives as climate change adaptation measures: Quebec City case study	61
Machine learning-based prediction of tree crown development in competitive urban environments	61
Branching Out: The under examined role of urban tree giveaway programs and urban greening in Florida	61
A generative optimization framework for pocket parks supported by mature plant carbon sequestration data	60
The influence of greening management and landscape patterns on plant diversity in urban green spaces in Danzhou, China	58
A three-layer evapotranspiration model considering the vertical structure of urban green spaces	58
Identifying causal changes in landscape greenness with very high-resolution airborne multispectral imagery and a panel data model	57
Spatial pattern of urban forest diversity and its potential drivers in a snow climate city, Northeast China	57
More than green: Tree structure and biodiversity patterns differ across canopy change regimes in Baltimore’s urban forest	57
Diversity and structure in California’s urban forest: What over six million data points tell us about one of the world's largest urban forests	57
Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures	56
Structure of an urban green space indirectly affects the distribution of airborne particulate matter: A study based on structural equation modelling	54
Does intensive cutting regime maintain lowland dry heathlands habitat? The case study of Milano Malpensa airport (Northern Italy)	54
Editorial Board	53
The role of greenspace deprivation in children’s decision-making	53
The advantage of mobile technologies in crowdsourcing landscape preferences: Testing a mobile app to inform planning decisions	53
Demographic, social, and environmental factors predicting Danish children’s greenspace use	52
Editorial Board	52
Urban greenery distribution and its link to social vulnerability	50
Greening streets, gaining insights: Unpacking resident perceptions of urban greening	50
Urban green space preferences for various health-related psychological benefits of adolescent pupils, university students and adults	49
City walk or nature walk? Evidence-based psychological and physiological outcomes – A systematic review and meta-analysis	49
Spatio-temporal monitoring of urban street-side vegetation greenery using Baidu Street View images	48
Dependence of urban park visits on thermal environment and air quality	48