OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Maps is 5. 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
Editorial: summary of activities 2022	84
Quaternary morpho-stratigraphic evolution of the eastern Campo Imperatore basin (Gran Sasso range, central Italian Apennines) and tectonic implication	18
Lithostratigraphy and structural setting of the Inzecca Unit (Schistes Lustrés Complex, Alpine Corsica, France): clues from the Venaco-Altiani area	18
Salt diapirism constrained by the stratigraphical record of adjacent basins: the Estopanyà Syncline (South-Central Pyrenees, NE Iberian Peninsula)	16
Editorial: summary of activities 2024	16
3D sedimentary architecture of sandy interbeds within massive lacustrine deposits – Lednica Lake, Poland	16
Flash flood hazard in Zambia: a data-Driven approach to identifying vulnerable sub-basins	15
Dual-proxy estimation of Vs30: the case study of the Marche Region (central Italy)	15
Visualizing climate targets: mapping the 93 funded E.U. Erasmus+ projects versus SDGs and horizon missions targets	15
Recovering urban nightlife: COVID-19 insights from Google Places activity trends in Madrid	14
A drift isopach model for the southwestern Great Slave Lake region, Northwest Territories, Canada	13
Using SaTScan to identify and map nightlife areas in Philadelphia, PA	13
Landscape evolution and the karst development in the Ojo Guareña multilevel cave system (Merindad de Sotoscueva, Burgos, Spain)	13
Geology, U-Pb dating and 3D visualisation of late-orogenic Klenov Pluton (Pelhřimov Core Complex, Central European Variscides)	13
Estimation of the minimum required bus capacity between the hinterland and the centre of a functional urban region – a comparative study of the five largest Serbian cities	12
Geohazard features of the Central-Southern Tyrrhenian seamounts	12
Geohazard features of the Northern Sardinia	12
Mawrth Vallis, Mars, classified using the NOAH-H deep-learning terrain classification system	11
Surface and subsurface geology of the Hontomín structure, Western Pyrenees	11
Geology of the basement rocks of Andorra, central Pyrenees	11
Geomorphology of the Jebel Akhdar dome (Northern sultanate of Oman): tectonics, surface processes and landscape evolution	11
The geographical diversity of Chile’s rural territories: bases for a rural atlas	11
Harmonizing multi-source backscatter data using bulk shift approaches to generate regional seabed maps: Bay of Fundy, Canada	11
Structure of a Variscan migmatite-granite transition zone (N Sardinia, Italy)	11
Home is where my villa is: a machine learning-based predictive suitability map for Roman features in Northern Noricum (ca. 50–500 CE/Lower Austria/AUT)	11

Making a narrative tourism map: the case of Jiaxing’s ‘Red Boat Spirit Map’, China	10
Maps of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Poreč and Pula (Dioecesis Parentina et Polensis)	10
Bathymetry and lakebed characterization of Bracciano lake (Lazio region, central Italy)	10
Spatial disparities in air conditioning ownership in Florida, United States	10
Geology of the Michelangelo quadrangle (H12), Mercury	10
Geology of the Bach quadrangle (H15), Mercury	10
Geohazard features of the Gulf of Naples and Pontine Islands (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea)	9
Correction	9
Glacial geomorphology of the Kolahoi glacier valley in the northwestern Himalaya	9
Fluid regionalisation of semantic regions: possibilities for visualisation	9
Types of forest dynamics in Europe (2000–2018)	9
Geomorphology of the Maladeta massif (Central Pyrenees): the traces of the last remaining glaciers	9
Glacial geomorphology of the northwest Laurentide Ice Sheet on the northern Interior Plains and western Canadian Shield, Canada	9
A deep-seated roto-translational landslide in flysch rocks in the Northern Apennines (the Casale-Colla landslide, Ferriere, Italy)	8
The geology of Sierra Calderona (SE Iberian Cordillera, Spain), a review. Results of a new 1:25.000 scale geological mapping	8
Bouguer gravity anomaly in the Colfiorito Quaternary continental basin, northern Apennines, central Italy	8
The geological setting of Matra ore deposit (France): insights from lithostratigraphy and polyphase deformation history	8
Race, rurality and geographic accessibility to medication for opioid use disorder in the U.S.	8
High-resolution geological-tectonic of the Caquerelle Anticline and surrounding geological features in the western boundary of the Delémont Basin area, Jura fold-and-thrust belt (Switzerland)	8
Landslide susceptibility under two decades of land use change (2000–2020)	8
Geoarchaeology of the Cornia river coastal plain (Piombino, southern Tuscany, Italy)	7
Geoheritage of the Sila National Park and surrounding areas (Northern Calabria, Italy)	7
Increasing geohydrological instability in a valley of the Italian Central Alps: a study in the Anthropocene	7
Detection of potential illegal environmental activities in Slovakia based on earth observation data	7
Geology of the eastern tip of the El Tordell Fault, Southern Pyrenees	7
Miocene stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology along the western side of Cerros Cadena de los Zanjones (East Pisco Basin, Peru)	7
Map design from varying narrative standpoints: a case of Guizhou Jinxiu Project Map, China	7
Prague Squared	7
Creating a digital historical map of the German-inhabited areas in southern Transylvania (central Romania) in 1848	7
Geohazard features of the western Sardinia	7
The glacial geomorphology of the Cordillera Darwin Icefield, Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America	7
Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas	7
Geology of the Late Carboniferous, Permian and Early Triassic basins of the Eastern Pyrenees	7
Geomorphology of the Cook Islands, tropical South Pacific Ocean	7
Evolution of stone fish weirs in Jibei area, Penghu Archipelago (eighteenth to twenty-first century)	7
Geoparticipation in the Czech municipalities: index based quantitative approach	7
Social perception of the connectivity and quality of sidewalks in the Metropolitan Area of Panama	7
Morphological mapping of mountains on a global scale: combining topographic representation with tectonic features	7
Mapping airport accessibility and territorial structure in Spain: a GIS-based approach using road isochrones	7
Terrestrial glacial geomorphology of surge-type and non-surge-type glaciers on Svalbard	7
Geological study of the seafloor applied to marine renewable energies	6
The naïve map of the sixteenth century roads in Spain	6
Morphostructural mapping of Borealis Planitia, Mercury	6
The influence of soil parameters on the price of agricultural land in Slovakia	6
Groundwater of Italy: hydrogeological mapping at 1:500,000 scale	6
Mapping urban land type with multi-source geospatial big data: a case study of Shenzhen, China	6
Geohydrologic units of Ischia Island (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)	6
Submerged coastal systems along the western Sardinian shelf (Mediterranean Sea)	6
Landscape planning-addressed regional-scale mapping of geolithological units: an example from Southern Italy	6
Geomorphology of the Liera catchment (Dolomites, NE Italy): understanding landscape response to an extreme event	6

Subsurface geology of the Torino metropolitan area (Westernmost Po Plain, NW Italy)	6
Bottom water masses on the European continental margins	6
The magic project: genesis, implementation, and results	6
Salt sheet extrusion and emplacement within the South-Central Pyrenean fold-and-thrust belt: the Les Avellanes Diapir case-of-study	6
The Jurassic structure of the northern sector of Foligno mountains (Central Italy)	6
Glacial and periglacial geomorphology of the Drang Drung, Haskira, and Pensilungpa glaciers, Trans-Himalayan Ladakh, India	6
Delimitation of rural and urban areas from spatial data in statistical grids: the province of Jaén (Spain) as a case study	6
The Albeşti Limestone: a geoheritage and cultural heritage in Romania	6
Mapping of textural facies in Europa’s chaotic terrains	6
The Alpine settlement system: capturing relevance beyond size	6
Tectonic setting of the Susa and Lanzo Valleys Ophiolites (Western Alps)	6
Palaeochannels of the upper central Murray and lower Goulburn rivers, southeastern Australia	6
‘My Sweet Little Village’: Central Settlement System in Socialist Central Bohemia	6
Historical damaging geo-hydrological events affecting the Catanzaro municipality (Calabria, Southern Italy), 1830–2023	6
New logistic patterns of European online and hybrid retailing – the example of Cologne (Germany)	5
Mapping of functional areas in Spain based on mobile phone data during different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Glacial geomorphology of Newfoundland, Canada	5
Landslide inventory of Puerto Plata, Santiago de los Caballeros and Jarabacoa (Dominican Republic)	5
Geomorphology of the Central Kurdistan Region of Iraq: landscapes of the Erbil Plain between the Great Zab and Little Zab Rivers	5
Identification of potential areas for reforestation applying the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), case study from the valley of Aguascalientes, Mexico	5
Phoenician colonization from its origin to the 7th century BC	5
Icings in the Selenga River basin	5
Geology of Montecastelli Pisano (inner Northern Apennines, Italy): normal and transfer fault zones affecting a dismantled ophiolite bearing orogenic wedge	5
Exploring the public bus ridership loss and recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic: a spatiotemporal analysis using smart card data	5
Potential priority areas for forest-dwelling species in Spain based on the degree of forest fragmentation	5
Reconstruction of land cover distribution for mid-twentieth century in Ebro basin	5
MAGIC Project collection – Marine Geohazards along the Italian Coasts	5
‘A Pearl of Canal and A Paradise on Earth’ – The Suzhou City Branding Maps	5
The glacial geomorphology of the Mackenzie Mountains region, Canada	5
Administrative and ethno-linguistic boundaries of Western Tigray (Ethiopia) since 1683	5
The pattern of brittle deformation in Central America for an assessment of the seismo-tectonic framework	5
Geomorphology of the Évettes alpine glacial landsystem: documenting the legacy of the Little Ice Age in the Western Alps, France	5
Environmental influences on children’s active travel: a spatial analysis of school routes	5
Late Pleistocene to Holocene glacial, periglacial, and paraglacial geomorphology of the upper Río Limarí basin (30–31° S) in the Andes of central Chile	5
Landslide susceptibility of Rwanda (Central Africa)	5
Mining tailings dumps and socio-territorial inequalities in Chile: an exploratory study	5
Mapping marine geohazard features: cartographic criteria, map legend and layout of magic project	5