OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Digital Earth is 23. 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
Human mobility data in the COVID-19 pandemic: characteristics, applications, and challenges	131
Discontinuous rock slope stability analysis by limit equilibrium approaches – a review	80
Immersive virtual reality for extending the potential of building information modeling in architecture, engineering, and construction sector: systematic review	78
The characteristics of multi-source mobility datasets and how they reveal the luxury nature of social distancing in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic	67
A landslide extraction method of channel attention mechanism U-Net network based on Sentinel-2A remote sensing images	43
Global DEMs vary from one to another: an evaluation of newly released Copernicus, NASA and AW3D30 DEM on selected terrains of China using ICESat-2 altimetry data	42
An object detection method for bayberry trees based on an improved YOLO algorithm	39
Validation of Landsat land surface temperature product in the conterminous United States using in situ measurements from SURFRAD, ARM, and NDBC sites	37
A transformer-based Siamese network and an open optical dataset for semantic change detection of remote sensing images	37
Ensemble machine learning models based on Reduced Error Pruning Tree for prediction of rainfall-induced landslides	36
Driving forces and prediction of urban land use change based on the geodetector and CA-Markov model: a case study of Zhengzhou, China	34
Spatial–temporal variations of NDVI and its response to climate in China from 2001 to 2020	34
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data	30
FWENet: a deep convolutional neural network for flood water body extraction based on SAR images	29
Evaluation of neural network models for landslide susceptibility assessment	28
Implementation of serverless cloud GIS platform for land valuation	27
Assessing OSM building completeness for almost 13,000 cities globally	26
A dynamic holographic modelling method of digital twin scenes for bridge construction	25
Multiplex network reconstruction for the coupled spatial diffusion of infodemic and pandemic of COVID-19	25
Nyström-based spectral clustering using airborne LiDAR point cloud data for individual tree segmentation	24
Digital earth: yesterday, today, and tomorrow	24
Tunnel vision optimization method for VR flood scenes based on Gaussian blur	24
An improved social force model (ISFM)-based crowd evacuation simulation method in virtual reality with a subway fire as a case study	24
Disaggregating population data for assessing progress of SDGs: methods and applications	23
Cloud-based storage and computing for remote sensing big data: a technical review	23

Deep neural network ensembles for remote sensing land cover and land use classification	23
Assessing the ecological vulnerability of protected areas by using Big Earth Data	23