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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The making of land use decisions, war, and state	61
Agroecological initiatives in the Mekong Region: a systematic literature review and mapping reveals their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems	33
Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instruments	27
Effects of the oil-find on land management in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Western Coast of Ghana	27
Land-use conversions from managed grasslands to croplands in Uruguay increase medium-term net carbon emissions to the atmosphere	26
Gender and authorship patterns in urban land science	24
Review of counterfactual land change modeling for causal inference in land system science	20
Agricultural commercialization in the Mekong region: A meta-narrative review and policy implications	16
An embeddedness perspective on family farm development in the Carpathian Mountains	15
Landscape-scale effects of farmers’ restoration decision making and investments in central Malawi: an agent-based modeling approach	14
Geographic similarity analysis for Land System Science: opportunities and tools to facilitate knowledge integration and transfer	14
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	14
Arctic cruise tourism and social license to operate: exploring social acceptance and trust in cruise tourism	12
Deforestation and agricultural fires in South-West Pará, Brazil, under political changes from 2014 to 2020	12
Exploring land use conflicts arising from economic activities and their impacts on local communities in the European Arctic	11
Powers of exclusion: A case study of state-led large scale rubber development in Vietnam’s north-western region	11
Protected Areas of the Pampa biome presented land use incompatible with conservation purposes	11
How does the effect of urban growth management change over time and across urban land uses? Evidence from China’s construction land quotas	10
Editorial introduction: women in land science	10
Land system governance shapes tick-related public and animal health risks	10
How to combine socioeconomic assessment and remote sensing methods to recover and group farm plots at risk of abandonment	9
Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation	9
Strengthening climate resilience of rural communities by co-producing landscape-specific integrated farming systems in Cambodia	9
Transportation in urban land change models: a systematic review and future directions	9
‘Education is the land I give them’ – mothers’ investments in children’s future livelihoods amid growing land competition in rural Uganda	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	8
Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa	8
Drivers of peri-urban farmers’ land-use decisions: an analysis of factors and characteristics	8
Quantifying oil palm expansion in Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2015: A data fusion approach	7
Is the ‘Protected Designation of Origin’ an indicator for sustainable landscape management? Insights from pasture-based animal husbandry in five EU countries	7
Human activities affecting lesser flamingo ( Phoeniconaias minor ) habitat in Momella lakes, Tanzania	7
Uncertainty evaluation approach based on Shannon entropy for upscaled land use/cover maps	7
The recognition and formalization of customary tenure in the forest landscapes of the Mekong region: a Polanyian perspective	7
Agricultural households in times of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic, livelihoods and land-use decisions	6
Understanding land-use change conflict: a systematic review of case studies	6
Harmonization of land-cover data to assess agricultural land transformation patterns in the peri-urban Spanish Mediterranean Huertas	6
Assessing farmers’ income vulnerability to vanilla and clove export economies in northeastern Madagascar using land-use change modelling	6
Forest Transitions in the United States, France and Austria: dynamics of forest change and their socio- metabolic drivers	5
Correction	5
Institutional Change and Compliance in Forest Landscape Restoration Governance: Insights from the Western Highlands of Cameroon	5
Advancing the study of driving forces of landscape change	5
Sustainable intensification to coordinate agricultural efficiency and environmental protection: a systematic review based on metrological visualization	4
Spatiotemporal trajectories of invasive tree species reveal the importance of collective action for successful invasion management	4
Evaluation of urban residential land use efficiency with a neural network from the perspective of service facility capacity	4
The manifestation of institutional bricolage and community forest management outcomes: insights from four socio-ecological settings in Nepal	4
Critical overview of the expansion of Hass avocado plantations in Salamina, northern Caldas, Colombia	4
Legal policy preference for coal mining over other land use alternatives jeopardizes sustainability in Indonesia	4
Declining potential of local food supplies to satisfy urban demand during 1990‒2015 and the resulting implications for urban food security	4
The role of culture in land system science	3
Urban sprawl containment by the urban growth boundary: the case of the Regulatory Plan of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago of Chile	3
Positionality, ‘the field,’ and implications for knowledge production and research ethics in land change science	3
Land cover conversion and land use change combine to reduce grazing	3
Identifying, projecting, and evaluating informal urban expansion spatial patterns	3
More than surface temperature: mitigating thermal exposure in hyper-local land system	3
Towards pro-poor and voluntary PES: assessment of willingness to pay and willingness to accept PES contract in central Vietnam	3
Assessment of land use relations and the sustainability of agricultural systems: considering different views to foster social learning	3
Stakeholder perspectives on farmers’ resistance towards urban land-use changes in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia	3