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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: summary of activities 2022	75
Quaternary morpho-stratigraphic evolution of the eastern Campo Imperatore basin (Gran Sasso range, central Italian Apennines) and tectonic implication	17
Lithostratigraphy and structural setting of the Inzecca Unit (Schistes Lustrés Complex, Alpine Corsica, France): clues from the Venaco-Altiani area	15
Geology, U-Pb dating and 3D visualisation of late-orogenic Klenov Pluton (Pelhřimov Core Complex, Central European Variscides)	15
Using SaTScan to identify and map nightlife areas in Philadelphia, PA	15
3D sedimentary architecture of sandy interbeds within massive lacustrine deposits – Lednica Lake, Poland	14
Visualizing climate targets: mapping the 93 funded E.U. Erasmus+ projects versus SDGs and horizon missions targets	13
Landscape evolution and the karst development in the Ojo Guareña multilevel cave system (Merindad de Sotoscueva, Burgos, Spain)	13
Salt diapirism constrained by the stratigraphical record of adjacent basins: the Estopanyà Syncline (South-Central Pyrenees, NE Iberian Peninsula)	13
Dual-proxy estimation of Vs30: the case study of the Marche Region (central Italy)	13
Editorial: summary of activities 2024	13
A drift isopach model for the southwestern Great Slave Lake region, Northwest Territories, Canada	12
Flash flood hazard in Zambia: a data-Driven approach to identifying vulnerable sub-basins	12
Recovering urban nightlife: COVID-19 insights from Google Places activity trends in Madrid	12
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	11
Geohazard features of the Central-Southern Tyrrhenian seamounts	11
Geohazard features of the Northern Sardinia	11
The geographical diversity of Chile’s rural territories: bases for a rural atlas	10
Structure of a Variscan migmatite-granite transition zone (N Sardinia, Italy)	10
Mawrth Vallis, Mars, classified using the NOAH-H deep-learning terrain classification system	10
Geomorphology of the Jebel Akhdar dome (Northern sultanate of Oman): tectonics, surface processes and landscape evolution	10
Surface and subsurface geology of the Hontomín structure, Western Pyrenees	10
Geology of the Michelangelo quadrangle (H12), Mercury	10
Geology of the Bach quadrangle (H15), Mercury	10
Harmonizing multi-source backscatter data using bulk shift approaches to generate regional seabed maps: Bay of Fundy, Canada	10

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)	10
Geology of the basement rocks of Andorra, central Pyrenees	10
Spatial disparities in air conditioning ownership in Florida, United States	10
Maps of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Poreč and Pula (Dioecesis Parentina et Polensis)	10
Race, rurality and geographic accessibility to medication for opioid use disorder in the U.S.	9
Glacial geomorphology of the Kolahoi glacier valley in the northwestern Himalaya	9
Types of forest dynamics in Europe (2000–2018)	9
Correction	9
Glacial geomorphology of the northwest Laurentide Ice Sheet on the northern Interior Plains and western Canadian Shield, Canada	9
Bathymetry and lakebed characterization of Bracciano lake (Lazio region, central Italy)	9
Fluid regionalisation of semantic regions: possibilities for visualisation	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
Geohazard features of the Gulf of Naples and Pontine Islands (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea)	8
Landslide susceptibility under two decades of land use change (2000–2020)	8
Making a narrative tourism map: the case of Jiaxing’s ‘Red Boat Spirit Map’, China	8
Geomorphology of the Maladeta massif (Central Pyrenees): the traces of the last remaining glaciers	8
Bouguer gravity anomaly in the Colfiorito Quaternary continental basin, northern Apennines, central Italy	8
Geology of the Late Carboniferous, Permian and Early Triassic basins of the Eastern Pyrenees	7
Geoarchaeology of the Cornia river coastal plain (Piombino, southern Tuscany, Italy)	7
Terrestrial glacial geomorphology of surge-type and non-surge-type glaciers on Svalbard	7
Mapping airport accessibility and territorial structure in Spain: a GIS-based approach using road isochrones	7
Geoparticipation in the Czech municipalities: index based quantitative approach	7
Creating a digital historical map of the German-inhabited areas in southern Transylvania (central Romania) in 1848	7
Miocene stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology along the western side of Cerros Cadena de los Zanjones (East Pisco Basin, Peru)	7
The geological setting of Matra ore deposit (France): insights from lithostratigraphy and polyphase deformation history	7
Social perception of the connectivity and quality of sidewalks in the Metropolitan Area of Panama	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
Geomorphology of the Cook Islands, tropical South Pacific Ocean	7
The geology of Sierra Calderona (SE Iberian Cordillera, Spain), a review. Results of a new 1:25.000 scale geological mapping	7
Detection of potential illegal environmental activities in Slovakia based on earth observation data	7
Evolution of stone fish weirs in Jibei area, Penghu Archipelago (eighteenth to twenty-first century)	7
Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas	7
The naïve map of the sixteenth century roads in Spain	6
Morphological mapping of mountains on a global scale: combining topographic representation with tectonic features	6
Delimitation of rural and urban areas from spatial data in statistical grids: the province of Jaén (Spain) as a case study	6
Geohazard features of the western Sardinia	6
The Alpine settlement system: capturing relevance beyond size	6
Landscape planning-addressed regional-scale mapping of geolithological units: an example from Southern Italy	6
Bottom water masses on the European continental margins	6
The Jurassic structure of the northern sector of Foligno mountains (Central Italy)	6
The Albeşti Limestone: a geoheritage and cultural heritage in Romania	6
Geomorphology of the Liera catchment (Dolomites, NE Italy): understanding landscape response to an extreme event	6
Prague Squared	6
The influence of soil parameters on the price of agricultural land in Slovakia	6
Geological study of the seafloor applied to marine renewable energies	6
Palaeochannels of the upper central Murray and lower Goulburn rivers, southeastern Australia	6
Groundwater of Italy: hydrogeological mapping at 1:500,000 scale	6
Glacial and periglacial geomorphology of the Drang Drung, Haskira, and Pensilungpa glaciers, Trans-Himalayan Ladakh, India	6
Morphostructural mapping of Borealis Planitia, Mercury	6

Geology of the eastern tip of the El Tordell Fault, Southern Pyrenees	6
The glacial geomorphology of the Cordillera Darwin Icefield, Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America	6
Subsurface geology of the Torino metropolitan area (Westernmost Po Plain, NW Italy)	6
Submerged coastal systems along the western Sardinian shelf (Mediterranean Sea)	6
Mapping of textural facies in Europa’s chaotic terrains	6
Historical damaging geo-hydrological events affecting the Catanzaro municipality (Calabria, Southern Italy), 1830–2023	6
Salt sheet extrusion and emplacement within the South-Central Pyrenean fold-and-thrust belt: the Les Avellanes Diapir case-of-study	5
Mapping of functional areas in Spain based on mobile phone data during different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Geology of Montecastelli Pisano (inner Northern Apennines, Italy): normal and transfer fault zones affecting a dismantled ophiolite bearing orogenic wedge	5
Geomorphology of the Central Kurdistan Region of Iraq: landscapes of the Erbil Plain between the Great Zab and Little Zab Rivers	5
New logistic patterns of European online and hybrid retailing – the example of Cologne (Germany)	5
Geology of the Derain quadrangle (H10), Mercury	5
Administrative and ethno-linguistic boundaries of Western Tigray (Ethiopia) since 1683	5
Geomorphology of the Évettes alpine glacial landsystem: documenting the legacy of the Little Ice Age in the Western Alps, France	5
Mapping urban land type with multi-source geospatial big data: a case study of Shenzhen, China	5
‘My Sweet Little Village’: Central Settlement System in Socialist Central Bohemia	5
The glacial geomorphology of the Mackenzie Mountains region, Canada	5
Mapping marine geohazard features: cartographic criteria, map legend and layout of magic project	5
A GIS-based multiscale mapping framework to assess and visualize complex and polygenetic geomorphic systems – A novel ‘Geomorphic Entities’ approach	5
Icings in the Selenga River basin	5
Geomorphology and geotourism for a sustainable development of the Daunia Mts, Southern Italy	5
The magic project: genesis, implementation, and results	5
Geohydrologic units of Ischia Island (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)	5
Tectonic setting of the Susa and Lanzo Valleys Ophiolites (Western Alps)	5
Landslide inventory of Puerto Plata, Santiago de los Caballeros and Jarabacoa (Dominican Republic)	5
The pattern of brittle deformation in Central America for an assessment of the seismo-tectonic framework	5
Map of tectonic shortening structures in Chryse Planitia and Arabia Terra, Mars	5
Exploring the public bus ridership loss and recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic: a spatiotemporal analysis using smart card data	5
Glacial geomorphology of Newfoundland, Canada	5
Potential priority areas for forest-dwelling species in Spain based on the degree of forest fragmentation	5