OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy is 2. 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
Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning	39
Is High Speed Rail a Geographically Inclusive System? Evidence from some European Countries	30
The Spatial Structure Evolution of China's High-Speed Rail Network and Its Impacts on Real Estate Investment	29
Gated or Ungated? A Case Study on Walkability Measurement for Urban Communities	29
Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Health Outcomes in China: A Life-Course Perspective	28
Research on the Assessment and Drivers of the Coupling Coordination Development between Green Innovation and Digital Economy	27
Why can’t we be friends? The underlying hierarchy of social connections between diverse neighborhoods	25
Italian High-Speed Railway Stations and the Attractivity Index: the Downscaling Potential to Implement Coworking as Service in Station	20
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Form Change in Developing Africa: The Case of Addis Ababa City	19
Scientific Evaluation of Fengshui from the Perspective of Geography: Empirical Evidence from the Site Selection of Traditional Hakka Villages	19
Using a Spatial Access Measure to assess the Relationship between Alcohol Outlet Types and Various Violent Crimes in the Bronx, NY	17
Space-time Models and Personal Accessibility to Educational Facilities. Case Study of Space-time Accessibility to Schools in the City of Valencia	14
Urban-Rural Disparity in the Relationship Between Geographic Environment and the Health of the Elderly	14
A QGIS Plugin for GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis: an Application of Developing Alternative Future Land-Use Scenarios in Ghana	14
Spatio-temporal evolution, driving mechanisms, and simulation of land use and cover in China from 2000 to 2060	13
Innovation Effect and Regional Difference of Related Variety: An Empirical Study Based on Prefecture-level City Data of China	12
A Public Participation GIS for Infrastructure Assessment in Rural Human Settlements	12
The Impacts of Visible Green Spaces on the Mental well-being of University Students	12
Earthquake Risk, Flooding Risk and Housing Prices: Evidence from Taichung, Taiwan	12
Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Vacant Houses in a Small Provincial Town in Japan	11
Economic Integration, Spatial Interaction and Labour Income Share: Evidence from the EU-13 Countries and the UK	11
Modelling Conflict Dynamics: Evidence from Africa: What Do the Data Show via Spatiotemporal Global ACLED Dataset?	11
Greenness and Crime in the City: An Investigation Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Panel Models	11
Investigating the Determinants of Housing Rents in Hangzhou, China: A Spatial Multilevel Model Approach	10
The Relationship between Industrial Parks and County Economic Growth in Underdeveloped Areas: Evidence from Gansu Province of China	9

Lessons from the Criticality of the Spanish High Capacity Road Network on Direct, Representative Democracies and Technocracies	9
Nocturnal Vs. Diurnal: Relationship between Land Use and Visit Time Patterns in Commercial Areas	9
Spatially Varying Intergenerational Changes in the Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Nigeria: Lessons Learnt from a Recent Household Survey	8
Mapping a Country Image from Global News Reports about COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Effects of Pandemic Response Measures on Crime Counts in English and Welsh Local Authorities	8
Can Digital Inclusive Finance Promote Urban Ecological Efficiency?—Impact Mechanism and Spatial Effects	8
An Empirical Study on the Effects of Fine Dust Concentration on the Utilisation of Shared Bicycles	8
Machine Learning for Sustainable Development: Ranking Villages for Rural Development Initiatives	8
A Methodological Benchmark in Determining the Urban Growth: Spatiotemporal Projections for Eskişehir, Türkiye	7
The Impact of Angular Effects on Nighttime Economy Observations: Determining the Optimal Observation Angle of Nighttime Light Remote Sensing	7
Decomposing the Temporal Signature of Nitrogen Dioxide Declines during the COVID-19 Pandemic in UK Urban Areas	7
Integration Failure or Integration risk? Revisiting the Modality of Return Migration in China	7
Correction to: Urban Spatial Structure in Barcelona (1902–2011): Immigration, Spatial Segregation and New Centrality Governance	7
Evaluating the Improvement of Healthcare Accessibility for Urban Residents via the Construction of New Hospitals: A Case Study of Xi’an, China	7
Spatial Analysis of Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Mexico: Implications for Urban Planning to Improve Public Health	7
Spending and length of stay by tourists flying to the Canary Islands (Spain) using low-cost carriers	6
Examining Multilevel Poverty-Causing Factors in Poor Villages: a Hierarchical Spatial Regression Model	6
Deep Network Capacitated Covering Location Model: Spatial Location-allocation Optimization of Community Healthcare Facilities in Consideration of Public Health Emergencies	6
Characterising Land Cover Change in Brunei Darussalam’s Capital District	6
Multifractal Characteristics Analysis of Spatial State of Prefecture-Level Cities in China	6
Optimization of United States Residential Real Estate Investment through Geospatial Analysis and Market Timing	6
Harmonising Incompatible Datasets to Enable GIS Use to Study Non-communicable Diseases in Tonga	6
The Spatial Distribution Pattern and Formation Mechanism of the Spatial Agglomeration of Chinese Higher Education Population: A Cross-Province Comparison	6
Urban Night Vitality Measurements and Related Factors Based on Multisource Data: a Case Study of Central Shanghai	6
Predicting Crime Across Cities and Regions: A Comparative Analysis of Predictive Modelling in Three Belgian Settings	6
Assessing Ecosystem Services Provision as a Support for Metropolitan Green Infrastructure Planning: the Case of Three Spanish Metropolitan Areas	6
Measuring Spatial Congruence in the School-Neighborhood Nexus	6
Digital Inclusive Finance, Spatial Spillover Effects and Relative Rural Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from China	6
Correction to: A Bayesian Model for Estimating the Effects of Human Disturbance on Wildlife Habitats Based on Nighttime Light Data and INLA‑SPDE	6
Correction to: Mapping Gendered Vulnerability to Energy Poverty in Romania	6
Is the High-Speed Railway Network Narrowing the Urban‒Rural Income Gap?	6
Accessibility-Based Equity of Public Facilities: a Case Study in Xiamen, China	6
Characterizing Spatio-Temporal Differences in Homicides and Non-Fatal Shootings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2006–2015	5
Spatial Distribution of Carbon Emissions and Synergistic Evidence for Achieving Climate-Friendly Development in Underdeveloped Area of China	5
Assessing the Combinational Effects of Access to Urban Amenities on Housing Prices: A Perspective on the “15-Minute City”	5
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cyclist Collisions in Germany: Variations in Frequency, Severity of Injury, and Type of Collision in 2019	5
Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Provincial High-End Manufacturing Innovation Clusters in China: A Big Data Analysis of Technology-Based Enterprises	5
Examining Rental Housing Market Segmentation in Chinese Megacities: The Case of Beijing	5
Firm Location: A Spatial Point Process Approach	5
Geographic Distribution of Economic Inequality and Crime in Indonesia: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Econometrics Approach	5
Critical Shelter Analysis Considering Social Vulnerability and Accessibility: A Case Study of Hurricane Michael Track Uncertainty	5
Mapping gendered vulnerability to energy poverty in Romania	5
The Impact of Innovative Cities Construction on Air Pollution: Evidence from China	5
Identifying Neighbourhood Change Using a Data Primitive Approach: the Example of Gentrification	5
Spatial Modeling: an Approach for Estimating the Effect of Industrial Emissions on the Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide	4
Unemployment in Rural Europe: A Machine Learning Perspective	4
Research on Port-Industry-City Integration and its Spatial Spillover Effects: Empirical Evidence from the Bohai Sea Rim Region	4
Mono-centrism as a Destiny? An Econometric Test of Urban Models Using Building Activity	4
Downscaling Amphibian Species Richness Maps to Explore the Role of Spatial Scale in Conservation	4
Challenging terrains: socio-spatial analysis of Primary Health Care Access Disparities in West Virginia	4

The Auckland Urban Liveability Index: A Mechanism for Quantifying and Evaluating Modern Urban Densification	4
Evaluation of Municipal Territorial Utilisation Quality in New-Type Urbanisation: A Case Study of Changzhou, China	4
Modal Accessibility Gap in Curitiba (Brazil). Dynamic Analysis Considering Time and Spatial Variations	4
The Impact of the Digital Economy on Provincial Carbon Emissions in China	4
Classifying High-Speed Rail Stations in the Yangtze River Delta, China: The Node-Place Modelling Approach	4
Wildlife Crime in China: A Study of Spatial Heterogeneity in Yunnan Province	4
The Impacts of POI Data on PM2.5: A Case Study of Weifang City in China	4
The Impact of Public Investment on Urban Growth Under Different Scenarios by Using the SLEUTH as a Forecasting Model: The Case of Konya/Turkey	4
Associations Between Cycling Facilities and Residential Property Values: A Case Study in a Growing Mid-sized City in Canada	3
Housing Informality and Labor Informality in Space: In Search of the Missing Links	3
Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of Data Mining and Beyond	3
Coagglomeration of manufacturing and producer services: How does it affect regional innovation in China?	3
Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Gas Consumption in England and Wales: Assessing the Residential Sector Using Sequence Analysis	3
Population Growth and Urban Management in Metropolitan Regions: the Contribution of Natural Balance and Migration to Polycentric Development in Barcelona	3
Using an index of wellbeing for older people in small areas of Australia to assist identifying services required	3
The Spatial Variability of the Sex and Age- Specific 10-Year Incidence of Cardiovascular Diseases and its Clinical Risk Factors in Athens Metropolitan Area: a Local Statistical Modelling Approach in t	3
Exploring the Spatial Morphological Evolution of Mineral Resource-Based Cities	3
The Identification of Industrial Clusters and their Spatial Characteristics Based on Natural Semantics	3
Linking Historical Discriminatory Housing Patterns to the Contemporary Alcohol Environment	3
The Spatiotemporal Patterns of Community Vulnerability in the U.S. Mobile Bay from 2000–2020	3
Fertility Intention for Two or More Children among Childbearing-Age Adults under China’s Changing Fertility Policies and Economic Development from 2010 to 2021	3
Geographical Variability of Sex-Specific, Health Related Determinants of Quality of Life in Athens Metropolitan Area: A Spatial Analysis in the Context of the ATTICA Epidemiological Study	3
Spatial Analysis of Educational Inequalities and Evaluation of its Affecting Factors: the Period of Before and During the COVID-19 Epidemic in Iran	3
Evolution Pattern of Urban Agglomerations Based on Bayesian Networks from the Perspective of Spatial Connection: A Case Study of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China	3
A Multilevel Spatial Model to Investigate Voting Behaviour in the 2019 UK General Election	3
Rural–Urban Educational Inequalities and Their Spatial Variations in China	3
Land Use Spatial Optimization Using Accessibility Maps to Integrate Land Use and Transport in Urban Areas	3
Measuring the Accessibility and Capacity Sufficiency of Private and Public Health Centers in the Istanbul Metropolitan Area	3
Furthest Neighbour Distance Distribution Function: An Application to Evaluate the Relationship Between the Density of City Benches and the Required Continuous Walking Distance Distribution	3
Familiar Strangers and Crime at Transit Stations: Is Crime Lower at Train Stations Where Familiar Strangers are Present?	3
Correction to: How Does Administrative Data Compare with Census Data for the Measurement of Internal Migration? The Case of Northern Ireland, 2001–2011	3
A Sustainable Urban Framework Based on Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services Accounting	3
Spatial Location Optimization of Fire Stations with Traffic Status and Urban Functional Areas	3
Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis for Discovering Nature-Based Solutions Location for Urban Flood Mitigation in Accra	3
Mapping of Spatial Variance of Family Policy that Could Increase Fertility: Indices for 23 OECD Countries across 21 Year Period	3
Archetypes of Footfall Context: Quantifying Temporal Variations in Retail Footfall in relation to Micro-Location Characteristics	3
Urban Structure, Housing Prices and the Double Role of Amenity: A Study of Nanjing, China	3
Understanding Town Centre Performance in Wales: Using GIS to Develop a Tool for Benchmarking	3
An Investigation of the Impact and Resilience of British High Streets Following the COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions	3
Location of Franchise Networks in the United States	2
A Cooperative Regional Economic System for Sustainable Resilience Policy	2
Mapping Multidimensional Poverty: The Case of Cambodia	2
Multidimensional Distances and Internal Migration in China: Spatial Patterns, Driving Factors and Regional Heterogeneity	2
Green Investment, Financial Efficiency, and Sustainable Development: Dual Perspectives of Enterprise Cost and Government Guidance	2
Density, Division and Distance: Understanding China’s Urban Land-Use Change from an Economic Geography Perspective	2
Spatial Association Between Urban Neighbourhood Characteristics ‎‎and ‎‎‎Child Pedestrian–Motor Vehicle Collision‎s	2
What Characteristics of Urban Parks are Associated with High and Stable Visitor Flow? A Spatiotemporal Exploration Using Mobile Phone Data	2
Improving Home Insurance Ratemaking with Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression (GWPR) Model: Assessing Water Damage Risk	2
Spatial distribution and the facility evaluation of the service and rest areas in the toll motorway network of the European Union	2
Spatial Visualization: Community-Level Effects of Sport Industry on Community Resilience	2
Understanding the City Networks: An Analysis from China’s Inter-city Population Migration	2
Characteristics of Population Shrinkage in Inner Urban China and Correlations with Urban Growth Patterns	2
Spatial Patterns and Health-Based Characterization of the Retail Food Environment in Mexico City	2
Where’s the Ticket? Identifying Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Parking Violations with Crowdsourced Web-GIS Data	2
The Impact of the Real Estate Crisis on a South European Metropolis: From Urban Diffusion to Reurbanisation	2
Housing Wellbeing and Settlement Intentions of Skilled Migrants in China: the Effects of Subjective Housing Feelings and Objective Housing Outcomes	2
Paving the Road towards Efficiency: a Case Study of Hangzhou Bay Bridge	2
Spatial Heterogeneities or Inequalities? Health Care Supply and Demand of the Older Population in Italy	2
A National Analysis of the Spatial Patterns and Correlates of Evictions in the United States	2
A Bayesian Model for Estimating the Effects of Human Disturbance on Wildlife Habitats Based on Nighttime Light Data and INLA-SPDE	2
The Cooling Effect of Plant Configuration on Urban Parks Green Space in Temperate Continental Climate Zones	2
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Child Mortality and Relationship With a Macroeconomic Indicator in Africa	2
Identifying the Spatial–Temporal Patterns of Vulnerability to Re-Poverty and its Determinants in Rural China	2
Temperature Rise Amplifies Environmental Inequities? Europe’s North-South Divide	2
Contemporary Applications For Spatially Integrated Social Science	2
Correction to: Convergence and Catch‑Up of the Region Types in the Central and Eastern European Countries	2
Design and Use of a Spatial Harmful Algal Bloom Vulnerability Index for Informing Environmental Policy and Advancing Environmental Justice	2
Spatio-Temporal Evolution of EIWB and Influencing Factors: An Empirical Study from the Yangtze River Delta	2
Spatial Accessibility to Sports Facilities in Dongguan, China: a Multi-Preference Gaussian Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Method	2
School-Housing Nexus in Urban China: A Comparative Study of the Effect of School Districts on Commercial and Danwei Housing Prices	2
Does Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure Affect Self-Reported Health and Limiting Long Term Illness Disproportionately for Ethnic Minorities in the UK? A Census-Based Individual Level Analysis	2
Spatiotemporal Pattern of Vulnerability to Climate Change in Madhya Pradesh, India	2
Why Don’t More Commuters Consider Buses for Their Work Trip?—A Geographically Weighted Segmented Logistic Regression Modelling Approach	2
Analysis of Residential Location Choices of Different Socio-Economic Groups and Their Impact on the Density in a City Using Agent Based Modelling	2
A Context-based Approach for Neighbourhood Life Circle Delineation and Internal Spatial Utilization Analysis Based on GIS and GPS Tracking Data	2
Changes in Spatiotemporal Patterns of Crimes During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Atlanta, Georgia	2
New Evolutionary Features of the Urban Scale Distribution in China: Based on the Seventh Census Data	2
An Index for Measuring Spatial Graph Dispersion in Socio-Economic Networks	2