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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of urbanization on agricultural dynamics: a case study in Belgium	50
Land use/land cover change detection and urban sprawl in the peri-urban area of greater Cairo since the Egyptian revolution of 2011	46
Framing the search for a theory of land use	41
Understanding land-use change conflict: a systematic review of case studies	38
Bridging the rural-urban dichotomy in land use science	25
Sustainable intensification to coordinate agricultural efficiency and environmental protection: a systematic review based on metrological visualization	20
The role of culture in land system science	20
More than surface temperature: mitigating thermal exposure in hyper-local land system	18
Towards a better understanding of land conversion at the urban-rural interface: planning intentions and the effectiveness of growth management	17
Agricultural households in times of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic, livelihoods and land-use decisions	14
Protected Areas of the Pampa biome presented land use incompatible with conservation purposes	13
Does farmland abandonment harm agricultural productivity in hilly and mountainous areas? evidence from China	13
Built-up areas are expanding faster than population growth: regional patterns and trajectories in Europe	12
Advancing the study of driving forces of landscape change	11
Location factors and dynamics of tree plantation expansion in two coastal river basins in south-central Chile: basis for land use planning	8
Drivers of peri-urban farmers’ land-use decisions: an analysis of factors and characteristics	8
Landsat time series reveal simultaneous expansion and intensification of irrigated dry season cropping in Southeastern Turkey	8
Farmland size, chemical fertilizers, and irrigation management effects on maize and wheat yield in Mexico	8
Positionality, ‘the field,’ and implications for knowledge production and research ethics in land change science	7
Institutional shifts and landscape change: the impact of the Período Especial on Cuba’s land system architecture	7
The effect of industrial relocations to central and Western China on urban construction land expansion	7
Spatial impact of cropland supplement policy on regional ecosystem services under urban expansion circumstance: a case study of Hubei Province, China	7
Effects of the oil-find on land management in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Western Coast of Ghana	7
Urban sprawl containment by the urban growth boundary: the case of the Regulatory Plan of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago of Chile	6
Quantifying local ecosystem service outcomes by modelling their supply, demand and flow in Myanmar’s forest frontier landscape	6

Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation	6
Sixty years of land-use and land-cover change dynamics in a global biodiversity hotspot under threat from global change	6
Access mapping highlights risks from land reform in upland Myanmar	6
Quantifying inconsistencies in old cadastral maps and their impact on land-use reconstructions	6
Examining the relationship between migration and land cover change in rural U.S.: evidence from Ohio, United States, between 2008 and 2016	6
Effects of Quality Coffee Production by Smallholders on Local Land Use and Land Cover in Yirgacheffe, Southern Ethiopia	6
A long way to go: gender and diversity in land use science	6
Understanding participatory GIS application in rangeland use planning: a review of PGIS practice in Africa	5
From a rural idyll to an industrial site: an analysis of hydraulic fracturing energy sprawl in Central Appalachia	5
Who owns the Earth? A challenge for the land system science community	5
Strategic land-use planning instruments in tropical regions: state of the art and future research	5
Forest Transitions in the United States, France and Austria: dynamics of forest change and their socio- metabolic drivers	5
Agency and structure: a grounded theory approach to explain land-use change in the Mindo and western foothills of Pichincha, Ecuador	5
Agri-urban patterns in Mediterranean urban regions: the case study of Pisa	5
Multi-scale fallow land dynamics in a water-scarce basin of the U.S. Southwest	4
Identifying, projecting, and evaluating informal urban expansion spatial patterns	4
Quantifying oil palm expansion in Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2015: A data fusion approach	4
Effectiveness of community forests for forest conservation in Nan province, Thailand	4
Pious pioneers: the expansion of Mennonite colonies in Latin America	4
Advancing contiguous environmental land allocation analysis, planning and modeling	4
Environmental governance and conservation. Experiences in two natural protected areas of Mexico and Costa Rica	4
Telecoupling as a framework to support a more nuanced understanding of causality in land system science	4
Data, time, change and land-system dynamics	4
Transportation in urban land change models: a systematic review and future directions	4
Towards pro-poor and voluntary PES: assessment of willingness to pay and willingness to accept PES contract in central Vietnam	4
Spatiotemporal changes in vegetation greenness across continental Ecuador: a Pacific-Andean-Amazonian gradient, 1982–2010	4
Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa	4
Does land certification increase farmers’ use of organic fertilizer? evidence from China	4
Too small to count? Making Land Use Transformations in Chiquitano communities of San Ignacio de Velasco, East Bolivia, visible	3
Land-use conversions from managed grasslands to croplands in Uruguay increase medium-term net carbon emissions to the atmosphere	3
Socio-ecological trajectories in a rural Austrian region from 1961 to 2011: comparing the theories of Malthus and Boserup via systemic-dynamic modelling	3
Using participatory system dynamics modelling to quantify indirect land use changes of biofuel projects	3
The importance of agricultural yield elasticity for indirect land use change: a Bayesian network analysis for robust uncertainty quantification	3
The recognition and formalization of customary tenure in the forest landscapes of the Mekong region: a Polanyian perspective	3
Political ecology of freshening the Mekong’s coastal delta: narratives of place-based land-use dynamics	3
A dichotomy of domestic and academic pathways: challenges of motherhood in an international doctoral program on land science	3
Questioning the narrative of land marginality in large-scale land acquisition deals: case study of Nansanga Farm Block in Zambia	3
Surviving cassava: smallholder farmer strategies for coping with market volatility in Cambodia	3
Agricultural commercialization in the Mekong region: A meta-narrative review and policy implications	3
Gender and authorship patterns in urban land science	3
The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in Colombia	3