OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Land Use Science is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Learnings from the changing Arctic: economy, society, and sustainability	17
Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instruments	16
Agroecological initiatives in the Mekong Region: a systematic literature review and mapping reveals their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems	16
Applying the DPSIR framework to a Nordic Arctic context – opportunities and challenges	15
Agricultural commercialization in the Mekong region: A meta-narrative review and policy implications	15
Review of counterfactual land change modeling for causal inference in land system science	14
Embracing community science to study broadscale landscape change: successes, failures, challenges, issues of sustainability, and advice	14
Geographic similarity analysis for Land System Science: opportunities and tools to facilitate knowledge integration and transfer	12
A comparative analysis on the use of a cellular automata Markov chain versus a convolutional LSTM model in forecasting urban growth using sentinel 2A images	12
Arctic cruise tourism and social license to operate: exploring social acceptance and trust in cruise tourism	11
Divergent patterns of settlement expansion and population growth in China	10
Producers’ perspectives on agricultural intensification in the Brazilian Amazon: bridging behavioral theory, empirical evidence, and land use models	10
Deforestation and agricultural fires in South-West Pará, Brazil, under political changes from 2014 to 2020	9
As cities grow larger, they may also become less green	9
Land system governance shapes tick-related public and animal health risks	8
Empowering community voices in land use planning and decision-making using PPGIS - A case study from the Westfjords, Iceland	8
Exploring land use conflicts arising from economic activities and their impacts on local communities in the European Arctic	8
How does the effect of urban growth management change over time and across urban land uses? Evidence from China’s construction land quotas	7
Powers of exclusion: A case study of state-led large scale rubber development in Vietnam’s north-western region	7
Managing sustainable expansion of smallholder oil palms with strategic spatial planning of land use	7
Strengthening climate resilience of rural communities by co-producing landscape-specific integrated farming systems in Cambodia	7
How to combine socioeconomic assessment and remote sensing methods to recover and group farm plots at risk of abandonment	7
The recognition and formalization of customary tenure in the forest landscapes of the Mekong region: a Polanyian perspective	6
Assessing farmers’ income vulnerability to vanilla and clove export economies in northeastern Madagascar using land-use change modelling	6
Filling the historical data gap in peri-metropolitan vacant courtyards: a high-precision temporal reconstruction via a retrospective prediction model	5

Marginal landscapes: a study of early medieval settlement preferences	5
Tree diversity and land use choices in agroforestry systems: co-learning through the FORCES game in Indonesia	5
Is the ‘Protected Designation of Origin’ an indicator for sustainable landscape management? Insights from pasture-based animal husbandry in five EU countries	5
Human activities affecting lesser flamingo ( Phoeniconaias minor ) habitat in Momella lakes, Tanzania	5
Correction	4
Institutional Change and Compliance in Forest Landscape Restoration Governance: Insights from the Western Highlands of Cameroon	4
Critical overview of the expansion of Hass avocado plantations in Salamina, northern Caldas, Colombia	4
Declining potential of local food supplies to satisfy urban demand during 1990‒2015 and the resulting implications for urban food security	3
Stakeholder perspectives on farmers’ resistance towards urban land-use changes in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia	3
The manifestation of institutional bricolage and community forest management outcomes: insights from four socio-ecological settings in Nepal	3
Legal policy preference for coal mining over other land use alternatives jeopardizes sustainability in Indonesia	3
Stakeholder-informed LCLUC modeling: a state-of-the-art review	3