OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Health Outcomes in China: A Life-Course Perspective	63
The Dual Role of Economic Migration in Pakistan: Direct and Spatial Spillover Effects on Food Insecurity	52
The Impact of Digital Economy Policy on the Entrepreneurial Vitality of the Logistics Industry: Empirical Evidence from China	30
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Sustainable Development in Resource-Based Cities: Insights from an SDGs-Oriented Framework and its Link to Carbon Emissions	26
Research on the Assessment and Drivers of the Coupling Coordination Development between Green Innovation and Digital Economy	25
Italian High-Speed Railway Stations and the Attractivity Index: the Downscaling Potential to Implement Coworking as Service in Station	25
Digital economy and urban settlement intentions of rural-to-urban migrants in China: Empirical evidence from quasi-natural experiments	25
Exploring the Impacts of Green Space and Healthcare Accessibility on Small for Gestational Age	25
Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning	24
Gated or Ungated? A Case Study on Walkability Measurement for Urban Communities	23
Why can’t we be friends? The underlying hierarchy of social connections between diverse neighborhoods	20
How COVID-19 Policy Shift Affects Mental Wellbeing? Assessing the Effect Heterogeneity of Urban Water Body Exposures	18
Scientific Evaluation of Fengshui from the Perspective of Geography: Empirical Evidence from the Site Selection of Traditional Hakka Villages	18
Space-time Models and Personal Accessibility to Educational Facilities. Case Study of Space-time Accessibility to Schools in the City of Valencia	17
Using a Spatial Access Measure to assess the Relationship between Alcohol Outlet Types and Various Violent Crimes in the Bronx, NY	17
Urban-Rural Disparity in the Relationship Between Geographic Environment and the Health of the Elderly	16
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Form Change in Developing Africa: The Case of Addis Ababa City	15
Enhancing Subjective Well-being: Greenspace Perceptions of Older Adult Amenity Migrants in China’s Second-home Ecotourism	15
A Public Participation GIS for Infrastructure Assessment in Rural Human Settlements	15
A QGIS Plugin for GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis: an Application of Developing Alternative Future Land-Use Scenarios in Ghana	14
Structural Differentiation and Diffusion Laws of China's Intercity Networks Driven by Digital Innovation: An Analysis Based on Panel Data of 292 Cities	13
Income Elasticity and Housing Demand Segmentation in New South Wales Australia	13
Earthquake Risk, Flooding Risk and Housing Prices: Evidence from Taichung, Taiwan	13
Spatio-temporal evolution, driving mechanisms, and simulation of land use and cover in China from 2000 to 2060	13
Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Vacant Houses in a Small Provincial Town in Japan	12

Lessons from the Criticality of the Spanish High Capacity Road Network on Direct, Representative Democracies and Technocracies	12
Inequality and Future Trends in Agricultural Net Primary Productivity Across Chinese Cities Based on Satellite Data	12
The Impacts of Visible Green Spaces on the Mental well-being of University Students	12
City Governance Digital Transformation and Rural-to-Urban Migrants’ Urban Settlement Intentions: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China	11
Differential Gains from Regional Cooperation: Institutional Forms and Border effects on Interurban Capital Flow Dynamics	11
The Influence of Air Pollution on Older Migrants’ Intentions To Settle in the Destination Cities in China	11
Unveiling the Spatio-temporal Heterogeneity of National Innovation Ecosystem Resilience and its Driving factors: Based on the INNOVATE-3Rs Framework	11
Greenness and Crime in the City: An Investigation Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Panel Models	11
Identifying the influencing factors of healthcare resource distribution based on spatial panel data of 276 prefecture-level cities in China, 2007–2022	11
The Relationship between Industrial Parks and County Economic Growth in Underdeveloped Areas: Evidence from Gansu Province of China	10
A Spatial Assessment of Urban Welfare Facility Supply: Integrating Accessibility, Equity, and Demand for Daycare Centers and Senior Welfare Facilities	10
How Does Green Finance Agglomeration Reshape the Flow of Green Innovation Factors? Evidence From China	10
Nocturnal Vs. Diurnal: Relationship between Land Use and Visit Time Patterns in Commercial Areas	10
Unveiling Nonlinear Effects of Built Environment on Weekend Urban Vitality Using Interpretable Ensemble Learning: Evidence from Shanghai’s Commercial Functional Zones	10
Regional Heterogeneities and Socio-economic Determinants of Childhood Undernutrition in India: A Geospatial Analysis	10
Investigating the Determinants of Housing Rents in Hangzhou, China: A Spatial Multilevel Model Approach	10
Spatial Association Network of Urban School Commuting Carbon Emissions and Its Influencing Factors: A Case Study of Kaifeng, China	9
Modelling Conflict Dynamics: Evidence from Africa: What Do the Data Show via Spatiotemporal Global ACLED Dataset?	9
A Multi-Layer Approach to Assess Urban Innovation Districts	9
A Methodological Benchmark in Determining the Urban Growth: Spatiotemporal Projections for Eskişehir, Türkiye	9
Revealed Preferences for the Composition of Local Government Expenditures in US Cities	9
Positive Changes in Urban Greenspaces and Ecological Security Patterns in the Late Stage of Urbanization in China: A Case Study of the Megacity Shenzhen	9
Mapping a Country Image from Global News Reports about COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Spatially Varying Intergenerational Changes in the Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Nigeria: Lessons Learnt from a Recent Household Survey	8
Correction to: Impact of Traffic Disruptions on Road Network Accessibility and Vulnerability in Inner Campania Areas	8
Can Digital Inclusive Finance Promote Urban Ecological Efficiency?—Impact Mechanism and Spatial Effects	8
Integrating Geographic Information System, Artificial Intelligence, and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: A Comprehensive Review for Sustainable Urban Settlement Planning	8
Effects of Pandemic Response Measures on Crime Counts in English and Welsh Local Authorities	8
Beyond the Sound Source Itself: how Daily Activities and Demographics Influence Residential Soundscape Perception and Satisfaction	8
The Effects of the Vaccination Stage on Identifying COVID Vaccination Hot Spots and Cold Spots	8
Machine Learning for Sustainable Development: Ranking Villages for Rural Development Initiatives	8
Integration Failure or Integration risk? Revisiting the Modality of Return Migration in China	8
Dynamics of Human Activity and Trade Dependency in Border Areas: Evidence from Yunnan, China	8
Analysis of the Drivers of Farmers’ Willingness To Exit Rural Homesteads from a Sustainable Livelihood Perspective	8
How Streetscape Design Shapes Everyday Street Vitality: The Mediating Role of Commercial Satisfaction within a Servicescape Framework	7
Planar vs. Vertical Dominance? A Nonlinear Analysis of the Urban Landscape-Land Surface Temperature Nexus	7
Spatial Heterogeneity and Determinants of Family Caregiving for Older Adults: Evidence from the China Time Use Survey	7
Predicting Crime Across Cities and Regions: A Comparative Analysis of Predictive Modelling in Three Belgian Settings	7
Spatial Dynamics of Migration and Economic Growth: a Comparative Analysis of China’s Three Largest Megacity Regions	7
Asymmetric Relationships Between Attribute Performance and Pedestrian Satisfaction Among Older Adults: Implications for Age-Friendly Walkability	7
The Impact of Angular Effects on Nighttime Economy Observations: Determining the Optimal Observation Angle of Nighttime Light Remote Sensing	7
Multifractal Characteristics Analysis of Spatial State of Prefecture-Level Cities in China	7
Correction to: Mapping Gendered Vulnerability to Energy Poverty in Romania	7
Did COVID-19 Reshape Inter-city Mobility Patterns in China? Evidence from Spring Festival Travel Rush Mobility Networks	7
Tourist Sentiment in Bali Before and During COVID-19: A Spatial-Temporal and Thematic Analysis Using Twitter Data	7
How Does Rural Digitization Shape County Economic Resilience? Evidence from China Based on Spatial Spillover Analysis	7
Measuring Spatial Congruence in the School-Neighborhood Nexus	7
Spatially Explicit Diagnosis of Eco-Economic Coupling and Its Drivers: A GIS and Remote Sensing-Based Framework for Zoned Sustainability Governance in the Dabie Mountains	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 Heterogeneity of the Impact of New Quality Productive Forces on Carbon Emissions in Chinese Urban Agglomerations	6

Unraveling the Local Determinants of Well-being in the Dabie Mountain Old Revolutionary Base Area: a Geographically Weighted Random Forest Model	6
Deep Network Capacitated Covering Location Model: Spatial Location-allocation Optimization of Community Healthcare Facilities in Consideration of Public Health Emergencies	6
Examining Rental Housing Market Segmentation in Chinese Megacities: The Case of Beijing	6
The Impact of New-Type Urbanization Pilot Policy on Urban Economic Resilience: Evidence from China	6
Exploring Differences in Daily Travel Patterns of Traditional and Ride-hailing Taxis Via Spatial-temporal OD Data: A Case Study of Jinan, China	6
Digital Inclusive Finance, Spatial Spillover Effects and Relative Rural Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from China	6
Is the High-Speed Railway Network Narrowing the Urban‒Rural Income Gap?	6
Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Provincial High-End Manufacturing Innovation Clusters in China: A Big Data Analysis of Technology-Based Enterprises	6
Urban Night Vitality Measurements and Related Factors Based on Multisource Data: a Case Study of Central Shanghai	6
Spatial Distribution of Carbon Emissions and Synergistic Evidence for Achieving Climate-Friendly Development in Underdeveloped Area of China	6
Social-Ecological Resilience and Population Shrinkage in County-level Units: a Case Study of Heilongjiang Province in China	6
Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Zoning Optimization of Ecosystem Service Equity in Interprovincial Grain Trade in China	6
Optimization of United States Residential Real Estate Investment through Geospatial Analysis and Market Timing	6
Effect of Working Patterns on Spatial Variation in Outdoor Leisure Activity of Fixed-Location Workers: A Case Study of Nanjing, China	6
The Influence of Density-Diversity and Facility Accessibility in Work-Residence Built Environments on Commuting Mode Choice	6
Geovisualization and Spatial Modelling of Armed Conflicts in the Great Lake Region of Central and East Africa	6
Harmonising Incompatible Datasets to Enable GIS Use to Study Non-communicable Diseases in Tonga	5
How Open Data Reduces Carbon Emission Intensity Without Sacrificing Growth—Causal Evidence and Mechanism Identification Based on Double Machine Learning	5
To Determine if Changing to White Light Street Lamps Reduces Crime: A Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis of Crime Occurrence during the Relighting of Leeds, a UK City	5
Identifying Spatial Association between Frequent Mental Distress (FMD) and Air Pollution (PM 2.5): Evidence from 2,648 Counties in the United States	5
The Impact of Public Investment on Urban Growth Under Different Scenarios by Using the SLEUTH as a Forecasting Model: The Case of Konya/Turkey	5
Wildlife Crime in China: A Study of Spatial Heterogeneity in Yunnan Province	5
Multi-Dimensional Inequalities and Determinants of Neighborhood Facility Accessibility Under the 15-Minute City Framework	5
The Impact of Corporate Sustainability Performance on Share Prices: a Spatial Econometric Study of Emerging Markets	5
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cyclist Collisions in Germany: Variations in Frequency, Severity of Injury, and Type of Collision in 2019	5
The Impact of Innovative Cities Construction on Air Pollution: Evidence from China	5
Ecological well-being Performance in a Chinese Urban Agglomeration: Spatiotemporal Analysis and Policy Insights from an Orange-based Machine Learning Framework	5
Downscaling Amphibian Species Richness Maps to Explore the Role of Spatial Scale in Conservation	5
Critical Shelter Analysis Considering Social Vulnerability and Accessibility: A Case Study of Hurricane Michael Track Uncertainty	5
Identifying Neighbourhood Change Using a Data Primitive Approach: the Example of Gentrification	5
The Influence of Labour Work Mode Shifts on City-Wide Residential Migration	5
Mapping gendered vulnerability to energy poverty in Romania	5
Geographic Distribution of Economic Inequality and Crime in Indonesia: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Econometrics Approach	5
Pathways to Carbon Peak in the Middle Yangtze River Urban Agglomeration: Scenario Forecasting and Pressure Assessment Using Gaussian Process Regression	5
Assessing the Combinational Effects of Access to Urban Amenities on Housing Prices: A Perspective on the “15-Minute City”	5
Exploring the Impact of Neighbourhood Nature Exposure on Older Adults’ Subjective Wellbeing, Nature Connectedness and Nature Contact: a Case Study in Guangzhou	5
Estimating Large-Scale Urban Traffic Emissions with Incomplete Covered Traffic Flow Data—A Case of Core Areas of Guangzhou, China	4
Environmental Amenities and Destination Preferences of Highly Educated Talents in China: A Multi-Scale Spatial Perspective	4
Challenging terrains: socio-spatial analysis of Primary Health Care Access Disparities in West Virginia	4
Evaluation of Municipal Territorial Utilisation Quality in New-Type Urbanisation: A Case Study of Changzhou, China	4
Computational Analysis of Urban Transformation in Bursa: Spatial Dynamics of Westernization Period (1861–1910)	4
Classifying High-Speed Rail Stations in the Yangtze River Delta, China: The Node-Place Modelling Approach	4
Towards the Equalization of Basic Public Services in Chinese Cities: Investigating the Role of Urban Polycentric Structure	4
Measuring the Accessibility and Capacity Sufficiency of Private and Public Health Centers in the Istanbul Metropolitan Area	4
How Nature Reserve Policies in China Support Local and Peripheral Biodiversity: Evidence from the INVEST-SDID Model	4
An Investigation of the Impact and Resilience of British High Streets Following the COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions	4
An Integrated Land-Use, Population, and Transport Model for Strategic Regional Planning: From Research to Operational Practice	4
Varied Effects of High-Speed Rail Network Expansion on Changes in Employed and Resident Populations: A Tale of Two Developed Provinces in China	4
The Impact of the Digital Economy on Provincial Carbon Emissions in China	4
Research on Port-Industry-City Integration and its Spatial Spillover Effects: Empirical Evidence from the Bohai Sea Rim Region	4
Quantifying Multifactorial Effects on Land Subsidence Using Interpretable Machine Learning: a Case Study in Cangzhou, China	4
Evaluating the Morphological and Functional Centrality: An Integrated Approach To Spatial Structure	4
The Spatial Footprint of EU Green Transition Policies: Assessing Socio‑Economic Vulnerability in Greek Regions	4
City Shape, Air Pollution, and Income Inequality: Evidence from Chinese Cities	4
The Identification of Industrial Clusters and their Spatial Characteristics Based on Natural Semantics	4
The Auckland Urban Liveability Index: A Mechanism for Quantifying and Evaluating Modern Urban Densification	4
Analyzing Rural Community Growth and Shrinkage: Insights from Household Electricity Data in Xinxing County, China	4
Spatial Differentiation and Mechanism of Effects of Preventing Return to Poverty Driven by Rural Tourism in the Western Minority Region of China: a Case Study of Naxi Ethnic Township, Markam County, T	4
Evaluating the Use of Google Street View to Visually Verify the Locations of Cannabis Retailers in the United States Extracted from Websites, 2015–2018	4
Modal Accessibility Gap in Curitiba (Brazil). Dynamic Analysis Considering Time and Spatial Variations	4
China’s Cross-City Consumption: Regional Preference and Mutual Benefits	4
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
Mono-centrism as a Destiny? An Econometric Test of Urban Models Using Building Activity	4
A Study on the Dissemination Pathways of Public Opinion in Urban Public Safety Emergencies Driven by Social Media	4