OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Land Use Science is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding land-use change conflict: a systematic review of case studies	48
More than surface temperature: mitigating thermal exposure in hyper-local land system	25
The role of culture in land system science	24
Sustainable intensification to coordinate agricultural efficiency and environmental protection: a systematic review based on metrological visualization	23
Built-up areas are expanding faster than population growth: regional patterns and trajectories in Europe	18
Protected Areas of the Pampa biome presented land use incompatible with conservation purposes	18
Does farmland abandonment harm agricultural productivity in hilly and mountainous areas? evidence from China	15
Agricultural households in times of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic, livelihoods and land-use decisions	14
Advancing the study of driving forces of landscape change	14
Urban sprawl containment by the urban growth boundary: the case of the Regulatory Plan of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago of Chile	12
Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation	11
Effectiveness of community forests for forest conservation in Nan province, Thailand	11
Location factors and dynamics of tree plantation expansion in two coastal river basins in south-central Chile: basis for land use planning	10
The effect of industrial relocations to central and Western China on urban construction land expansion	10
Sixty years of land-use and land-cover change dynamics in a global biodiversity hotspot under threat from global change	9
Landsat time series reveal simultaneous expansion and intensification of irrigated dry season cropping in Southeastern Turkey	9
Drivers of peri-urban farmers’ land-use decisions: an analysis of factors and characteristics	9
Positionality, ‘the field,’ and implications for knowledge production and research ethics in land change science	9
Effects of the oil-find on land management in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Western Coast of Ghana	9
Understanding participatory GIS application in rangeland use planning: a review of PGIS practice in Africa	8
Quantifying local ecosystem service outcomes by modelling their supply, demand and flow in Myanmar’s forest frontier landscape	8
A long way to go: gender and diversity in land use science	8
Surviving cassava: smallholder farmer strategies for coping with market volatility in Cambodia	8
Examining the relationship between migration and land cover change in rural U.S.: evidence from Ohio, United States, between 2008 and 2016	8
Forest Transitions in the United States, France and Austria: dynamics of forest change and their socio- metabolic drivers	8

Strategic land-use planning instruments in tropical regions: state of the art and future research	8
From a rural idyll to an industrial site: an analysis of hydraulic fracturing energy sprawl in Central Appalachia	7
Does land certification increase farmers’ use of organic fertilizer? evidence from China	7
Geographic similarity analysis for Land System Science: opportunities and tools to facilitate knowledge integration and transfer	7
Transportation in urban land change models: a systematic review and future directions	7
Identifying, projecting, and evaluating informal urban expansion spatial patterns	6
Effects of Quality Coffee Production by Smallholders on Local Land Use and Land Cover in Yirgacheffe, Southern Ethiopia	6
Telecoupling as a framework to support a more nuanced understanding of causality in land system science	6
Advancing contiguous environmental land allocation analysis, planning and modeling	6
Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa	6
Data, time, change and land-system dynamics	5
Multi-scale fallow land dynamics in a water-scarce basin of the U.S. Southwest	5
Pious pioneers: the expansion of Mennonite colonies in Latin America	5
Land-use conversions from managed grasslands to croplands in Uruguay increase medium-term net carbon emissions to the atmosphere	5
Agri-urban patterns in Mediterranean urban regions: the case study of Pisa	5
Quantifying oil palm expansion in Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2015: A data fusion approach	5
Agricultural commercialization in the Mekong region: A meta-narrative review and policy implications	5
Gender and authorship patterns in urban land science	5
A dichotomy of domestic and academic pathways: challenges of motherhood in an international doctoral program on land science	5
The recognition and formalization of customary tenure in the forest landscapes of the Mekong region: a Polanyian perspective	5
Assessing farmers’ income vulnerability to vanilla and clove export economies in northeastern Madagascar using land-use change modelling	4
Political ecology of freshening the Mekong’s coastal delta: narratives of place-based land-use dynamics	4
The effect of illicit crops on forest cover in Colombia	4
Towards pro-poor and voluntary PES: assessment of willingness to pay and willingness to accept PES contract in central Vietnam	4
Decolonizing land management in institutions of higher education	4
Questioning the narrative of land marginality in large-scale land acquisition deals: case study of Nansanga Farm Block in Zambia	4
Spatiotemporal changes in vegetation greenness across continental Ecuador: a Pacific-Andean-Amazonian gradient, 1982–2010	4
Review of counterfactual land change modeling for causal inference in land system science	4
Using participatory system dynamics modelling to quantify indirect land use changes of biofuel projects	4