OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening is 51. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review	224
Characteristics and influencing factors of taxonomic and functional diversity of butterflies in urban green spaces	188
Editorial Board	147
Forest type and stand structure influence soil microbial network composition and stability in urban forests: Insights from Beijing, China	123
Rediscovering circularity in productive urban landscapes	122
Greening streets, gaining insights: Unpacking resident perceptions of urban greening	118
The impact of crime on urban park visitation patterns: A longitudinal analysis in Austin, Texas	115
Coarse-to-fine segmentation of individual street trees from side-view point clouds	94
Changes in decomposition rates and nutrients of leaf litter and fine roots in urban tree species under ozone pollution	91
Crafting a walkable and ridable urban green space system: Human-centered park network planning supported by active leisure travel trajectories	91
Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures	85
Eight recommendations to improve the reporting of qualitative social research in urban nature studies	85
Visible greenery as my resource? The connection between passive green space exposure and relative deprivation from a self-determination perspective	85
UAV leaf-on, leaf-off and ALS-aided tree height: A case study on the trees in the vicinity of roads	85
Bridging the land use gap: Examining tree canopy cover and connectivity by land use in 10 U.S. cities	83
Associations between implementation outcomes of urban park system planning and surrounding land use change patterns: Evidence from Quanzhou, China	82
Sniff the urban park: Unveiling odor features and landscape effect on smellscape in Guangzhou, China	82
Green stormwater infrastructure and perception of the neighborhood social environment in Philadelphia 2010–2018	81
Remote sensing reveals heterogeneous responses of urban vegetation types to compound heat and drought events in Hamburg, Germany	81
Estimating aboveground biomass of tropical urban forests with UAV-borne hyperspectral and LiDAR data	79
Does user-generated content increase the valuation of urban green space? Evidence from China	78
Multi-level barriers and opportunities for urban greening and depaving initiatives as climate change adaptation measures: Quebec City case study	74
Climate change-induced heat reduces urban green space use: Insights from mobile phone location big data	74
A generative optimization framework for pocket parks supported by mature plant carbon sequestration data	71
Urban green space preferences for various health-related psychological benefits of adolescent pupils, university students and adults	68

Assessing ecological interactions in urban areas using citizen science data: Insights from hummingbird–plant meta-networks in a tropical megacity	68
Machine learning-based prediction of tree crown development in competitive urban environments	67
An approach to prioritize urban tree planting to mitigate heat and advance equity in New Haven	66
Soil water stress at young urban street-tree sites in response to meteorology and site parameters	65
Parks Please! Implementing the 3–30-300 green space rule in developing countries − The case of Surakarta, Indonesia	64
The role of urban parks in affecting health outcomes and the differences between vulnerable groups: Evidence from the central city of Beijing	62
The influence of greening management and landscape patterns on plant diversity in urban green spaces in Danzhou, China	62
Does intensive cutting regime maintain lowland dry heathlands habitat? The case study of Milano Malpensa airport (Northern Italy)	60
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	59
Quasi-individual-level analysis of urban green space accessibility: Disparities, determinants, and equity across neighborhoods	59
Assessing tree canopy cooling efficiency in different local climate zones: A cost-benefit analysis	59
Vegetation complexity and greenspace diversity in urban schools	58
The synergistic mechanism of urban green space on physical activity density and emotional experience: Evidence from the Pearl River Delta	57
Dependence of urban park visits on thermal environment and air quality	57
A systematic review of the relationship between urban forest quality and socioeconomic status or race	57
Urbanization weakens mutualisms without affecting antagonisms of a hawkmoth-pollinated plant species	56
Small but powerful? The seasonal and diurnal cooling potential of urban green spaces in Munich, Germany, is moderated by size and vegetation complexity	56
Turning a new leaf: Social and land use drivers of urban tree canopy change in the Chicago Metropolitan Area 2010–2017	56
Spatial pattern of urban forest diversity and its potential drivers in a snow climate city, Northeast China	55
The relationship between urban green space and social health of individuals: A scoping review	55
A three-layer evapotranspiration model considering the vertical structure of urban green spaces	54
City walk or nature walk? Evidence-based psychological and physiological outcomes – A systematic review and meta-analysis	53
Branching Out: The under examined role of urban tree giveaway programs and urban greening in Florida	53
Climate change threatens carbon storage in Europe’s urban trees	53
Urban greenery distribution and its link to social vulnerability	52
Review on the multi-scale interactions of urban forests and atmospheric particles: Affecting factors are scale-dependent among tree, stand and region	52
Editorial Board	51
Editorial Board	51
Non-native plants and illegitimate interactions are highly relevant for supporting hummingbird pollinators in the urban environment	51