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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dual Role of Economic Migration in Pakistan: Direct and Spatial Spillover Effects on Food Insecurity	70
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Sustainable Development in Resource-Based Cities: Insights from an SDGs-Oriented Framework and its Link to Carbon Emissions	55
Exploring the Impacts of Green Space and Healthcare Accessibility on Small for Gestational Age	33
Research on the Assessment and Drivers of the Coupling Coordination Development between Green Innovation and Digital Economy	31
Digital economy and urban settlement intentions of rural-to-urban migrants in China: Empirical evidence from quasi-natural experiments	30
Gated or Ungated? A Case Study on Walkability Measurement for Urban Communities	28
Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Health Outcomes in China: A Life-Course Perspective	26
The Impact of Digital Economy Policy on the Entrepreneurial Vitality of the Logistics Industry: Empirical Evidence from China	23
Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning	20
Scientific Evaluation of Fengshui from the Perspective of Geography: Empirical Evidence from the Site Selection of Traditional Hakka Villages	19
How COVID-19 Policy Shift Affects Mental Wellbeing? Assessing the Effect Heterogeneity of Urban Water Body Exposures	19
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Form Change in Developing Africa: The Case of Addis Ababa City	18
Using a Spatial Access Measure to assess the Relationship between Alcohol Outlet Types and Various Violent Crimes in the Bronx, NY	18
Urban-Rural Disparity in the Relationship Between Geographic Environment and the Health of the Elderly	17
A Public Participation GIS for Infrastructure Assessment in Rural Human Settlements	16
Earthquake Risk, Flooding Risk and Housing Prices: Evidence from Taichung, Taiwan	15
A QGIS Plugin for GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis: an Application of Developing Alternative Future Land-Use Scenarios in Ghana	15
Income Elasticity and Housing Demand Segmentation in New South Wales Australia	15
Structural Differentiation and Diffusion Laws of China's Intercity Networks Driven by Digital Innovation: An Analysis Based on Panel Data of 292 Cities	13
Enhancing Subjective Well-being: Greenspace Perceptions of Older Adult Amenity Migrants in China’s Second-home Ecotourism	13
Spatio-temporal evolution, driving mechanisms, and simulation of land use and cover in China from 2000 to 2060	13
Regional Heterogeneities and Socio-economic Determinants of Childhood Undernutrition in India: A Geospatial Analysis	12
The Response and Prediction of Ecosystem Service Values to Land Use Alterations over 1990–2044 in Kamrup Metropolitan District, Northeast India	12
Sustainable Urbanization in Pakistan: Challenges and Pathways	12
Urban Change in a University Town: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Post-secondary Students, University Graduates, and Young Adults During a Period of Development and Disruption	12

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

Deep Network Capacitated Covering Location Model: Spatial Location-allocation Optimization of Community Healthcare Facilities in Consideration of Public Health Emergencies	6
Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Zoning Optimization of Ecosystem Service Equity in Interprovincial Grain Trade in China	6
The Influence of Density-Diversity and Facility Accessibility in Work-Residence Built Environments on Commuting Mode Choice	6
Is the High-Speed Railway Network Narrowing the Urban‒Rural Income Gap?	6
Spatial Distribution of Carbon Emissions and Synergistic Evidence for Achieving Climate-Friendly Development in Underdeveloped Area of China	6
Examining Rental Housing Market Segmentation in Chinese Megacities: The Case of Beijing	6
Spatial Heterogeneity of the Impact of New Quality Productive Forces on Carbon Emissions in Chinese Urban Agglomerations	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
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
The Impact of New-Type Urbanization Pilot Policy on Urban Economic Resilience: Evidence from China	6
Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Provincial High-End Manufacturing Innovation Clusters in China: A Big Data Analysis of Technology-Based Enterprises	6
Unraveling the Local Determinants of Well-being in the Dabie Mountain Old Revolutionary Base Area: a Geographically Weighted Random Forest Model	6
AI- and Remote-Sensing-Driven Smart Mobility: A Structured Review of Data Fusion, Intelligent Analytics, and Mobility Applications	6
Correction to: Mapping Gendered Vulnerability to Energy Poverty in Romania	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
Exploring Long-Term Allocation Level and its Influencing Factors of Compulsory Education Resources in China	6
Effect of Working Patterns on Spatial Variation in Outdoor Leisure Activity of Fixed-Location Workers: A Case Study of Nanjing, China	6
Social-Ecological Resilience and Population Shrinkage in County-level Units: a Case Study of Heilongjiang Province in China	5
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cyclist Collisions in Germany: Variations in Frequency, Severity of Injury, and Type of Collision in 2019	5
How Open Data Reduces Carbon Emission Intensity Without Sacrificing Growth—Causal Evidence and Mechanism Identification Based on Double Machine Learning	5
Identifying Neighbourhood Change Using a Data Primitive Approach: the Example of Gentrification	5
Ecological well-being Performance in a Chinese Urban Agglomeration: Spatiotemporal Analysis and Policy Insights from an Orange-based Machine Learning Framework	5
Critical Shelter Analysis Considering Social Vulnerability and Accessibility: A Case Study of Hurricane Michael Track Uncertainty	5
Exploring Differences in Daily Travel Patterns of Traditional and Ride-hailing Taxis Via Spatial-temporal OD Data: A Case Study of Jinan, China	5
The Impact of Corporate Sustainability Performance on Share Prices: a Spatial Econometric Study of Emerging Markets	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
Digital Twins for Accessory Dwelling Unit Feasibility under Environmental and Infrastructure Constraints: The Case of Austin, Texas	5
Geographic Distribution of Economic Inequality and Crime in Indonesia: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Econometrics Approach	5
Multi-Dimensional Inequalities and Determinants of Neighborhood Facility Accessibility Under the 15-Minute City Framework	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
Geovisualization and Spatial Modelling of Armed Conflicts in the Great Lake Region of Central and East Africa	5
Intra-urban Amenities and the Spatial Emergence of High-tech Employment: A Firm-centred Analysis of Guangzhou, China	5
Assessing the Combinational Effects of Access to Urban Amenities on Housing Prices: A Perspective on the “15-Minute City”	5
The Impact of Innovative Cities Construction on Air Pollution: Evidence from China	5
Pathways to Carbon Peak in the Middle Yangtze River Urban Agglomeration: Scenario Forecasting and Pressure Assessment Using Gaussian Process Regression	5
Exploring the Impact of Neighbourhood Nature Exposure on Older Adults’ Subjective Wellbeing, Nature Connectedness and Nature Contact: a Case Study in Guangzhou	5
The Influence of Labour Work Mode Shifts on City-Wide Residential Migration	5
China’s Cross-City Consumption: Regional Preference and Mutual Benefits	4
Challenging terrains: socio-spatial analysis of Primary Health Care Access Disparities in West Virginia	4
Computational Analysis of Urban Transformation in Bursa: Spatial Dynamics of Westernization Period (1861–1910)	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
Varied Effects of High-Speed Rail Network Expansion on Changes in Employed and Resident Populations: A Tale of Two Developed Provinces in China	4
Research on Port-Industry-City Integration and its Spatial Spillover Effects: Empirical Evidence from the Bohai Sea Rim Region	4
The Auckland Urban Liveability Index: A Mechanism for Quantifying and Evaluating Modern Urban Densification	4
Minimal Grid Dimensions for High-Order Connectivity via 2-Distance Dominating Sets in Spatial-Temporal Analysis	4
Estimating Large-Scale Urban Traffic Emissions with Incomplete Covered Traffic Flow Data—A Case of Core Areas of Guangzhou, China	4
Measuring the Accessibility and Capacity Sufficiency of Private and Public Health Centers in the Istanbul Metropolitan Area	4
Environmental Amenities and Destination Preferences of Highly Educated Talents in China: A Multi-Scale Spatial Perspective	4
Towards the Equalization of Basic Public Services in Chinese Cities: Investigating the Role of Urban Polycentric Structure	4
Innovation in the Periphery: Evaluating the Impact of High-Speed Rail on County-Level Innovation in China’s Yangtze River Delta Region	4
Wildlife Crime in China: A Study of Spatial Heterogeneity in Yunnan Province	4
Downscaling Amphibian Species Richness Maps to Explore the Role of Spatial Scale in Conservation	4
The Impact of the Digital Economy on Provincial Carbon Emissions in China	4
The Identification of Industrial Clusters and their Spatial Characteristics Based on Natural Semantics	4
How Nature Reserve Policies in China Support Local and Peripheral Biodiversity: Evidence from the INVEST-SDID Model	4
City Shape, Air Pollution, and Income Inequality: Evidence from Chinese Cities	4
Spatial Modeling: an Approach for Estimating the Effect of Industrial Emissions on the Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide	4
Evaluating the Morphological and Functional Centrality: An Integrated Approach To Spatial Structure	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
Modal Accessibility Gap in Curitiba (Brazil). Dynamic Analysis Considering Time and Spatial Variations	4
Analyzing Rural Community Growth and Shrinkage: Insights from Household Electricity Data in Xinxing County, China	4
Evaluation of Municipal Territorial Utilisation Quality in New-Type Urbanisation: A Case Study of Changzhou, China	4
Quantifying Multifactorial Effects on Land Subsidence Using Interpretable Machine Learning: a Case Study in Cangzhou, China	4
An Integrated Land-Use, Population, and Transport Model for Strategic Regional Planning: From Research to Operational Practice	4
An Investigation of the Impact and Resilience of British High Streets Following the COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions	4
A Study on the Dissemination Pathways of Public Opinion in Urban Public Safety Emergencies Driven by Social Media	4
Classifying High-Speed Rail Stations in the Yangtze River Delta, China: The Node-Place Modelling Approach	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