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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning	38
Italian High-Speed Railway Stations and the Attractivity Index: the Downscaling Potential to Implement Coworking as Service in Station	37
Gated or Ungated? A Case Study on Walkability Measurement for Urban Communities	30
Digital economy and urban settlement intentions of rural-to-urban migrants in China: Empirical evidence from quasi-natural experiments	21
Research on the Assessment and Drivers of the Coupling Coordination Development between Green Innovation and Digital Economy	20
Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Health Outcomes in China: A Life-Course Perspective	19
Why can’t we be friends? The underlying hierarchy of social connections between diverse neighborhoods	18
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Form Change in Developing Africa: The Case of Addis Ababa City	17
A QGIS Plugin for GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis: an Application of Developing Alternative Future Land-Use Scenarios in Ghana	17
Urban-Rural Disparity in the Relationship Between Geographic Environment and the Health of the Elderly	16
Spatio-temporal evolution, driving mechanisms, and simulation of land use and cover in China from 2000 to 2060	15
Space-time Models and Personal Accessibility to Educational Facilities. Case Study of Space-time Accessibility to Schools in the City of Valencia	14
A Public Participation GIS for Infrastructure Assessment in Rural Human Settlements	14
Using a Spatial Access Measure to assess the Relationship between Alcohol Outlet Types and Various Violent Crimes in the Bronx, NY	11
Scientific Evaluation of Fengshui from the Perspective of Geography: Empirical Evidence from the Site Selection of Traditional Hakka Villages	11
Earthquake Risk, Flooding Risk and Housing Prices: Evidence from Taichung, Taiwan	10
The Relationship between Industrial Parks and County Economic Growth in Underdeveloped Areas: Evidence from Gansu Province of China	10
How COVID-19 Policy Shift Affects Mental Wellbeing? Assessing the Effect Heterogeneity of Urban Water Body Exposures	10
The Impacts of Visible Green Spaces on the Mental well-being of University Students	10
Greenness and Crime in the City: An Investigation Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Panel Models	9
Lessons from the Criticality of the Spanish High Capacity Road Network on Direct, Representative Democracies and Technocracies	9
Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Vacant Houses in a Small Provincial Town in Japan	9
Regional Heterogeneities and Socio-economic Determinants of Childhood Undernutrition in India: A Geospatial Analysis	9
Investigating the Determinants of Housing Rents in Hangzhou, China: A Spatial Multilevel Model Approach	9
Nocturnal Vs. Diurnal: Relationship between Land Use and Visit Time Patterns in Commercial Areas	9

Modelling Conflict Dynamics: Evidence from Africa: What Do the Data Show via Spatiotemporal Global ACLED Dataset?	8
Spatially Varying Intergenerational Changes in the Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Nigeria: Lessons Learnt from a Recent Household Survey	8
Integration Failure or Integration risk? Revisiting the Modality of Return Migration in China	8
Inequality and Future Trends in Agricultural Net Primary Productivity Across Chinese Cities Based on Satellite Data	8
Effects of Pandemic Response Measures on Crime Counts in English and Welsh Local Authorities	8
A Multi-Layer Approach to Assess Urban Innovation Districts	8
A Spatial Assessment of Urban Welfare Facility Supply: Integrating Accessibility, Equity, and Demand for Daycare Centers and Senior Welfare Facilities	8
Mapping a Country Image from Global News Reports about COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Machine Learning for Sustainable Development: Ranking Villages for Rural Development Initiatives	8
Can Digital Inclusive Finance Promote Urban Ecological Efficiency?—Impact Mechanism and Spatial Effects	8
A Methodological Benchmark in Determining the Urban Growth: Spatiotemporal Projections for Eskişehir, Türkiye	7
Evaluating the Improvement of Healthcare Accessibility for Urban Residents via the Construction of New Hospitals: A Case Study of Xi’an, China	7
Correction to: A Bayesian Model for Estimating the Effects of Human Disturbance on Wildlife Habitats Based on Nighttime Light Data and INLA‑SPDE	7
Deep Network Capacitated Covering Location Model: Spatial Location-allocation Optimization of Community Healthcare Facilities in Consideration of Public Health Emergencies	7
Decomposing the Temporal Signature of Nitrogen Dioxide Declines during the COVID-19 Pandemic in UK Urban Areas	7
Planar vs. Vertical Dominance? A Nonlinear Analysis of the Urban Landscape-Land Surface Temperature Nexus	7
Correction to: Mapping Gendered Vulnerability to Energy Poverty in Romania	7
Analysis of the Drivers of Farmers’ Willingness To Exit Rural Homesteads from a Sustainable Livelihood Perspective	7
Correction to: Impact of Traffic Disruptions on Road Network Accessibility and Vulnerability in Inner Campania Areas	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
The Spatial Distribution Pattern and Formation Mechanism of the Spatial Agglomeration of Chinese Higher Education Population: A Cross-Province Comparison	7
Assessing Ecosystem Services Provision as a Support for Metropolitan Green Infrastructure Planning: the Case of Three Spanish Metropolitan Areas	6
Is the High-Speed Railway Network Narrowing the Urban‒Rural Income Gap?	6
Effect of Working Patterns on Spatial Variation in Outdoor Leisure Activity of Fixed-Location Workers: A Case Study of Nanjing, China	6
Measuring Spatial Congruence in the School-Neighborhood Nexus	6
Urban Night Vitality Measurements and Related Factors Based on Multisource Data: a Case Study of Central Shanghai	6
Optimization of United States Residential Real Estate Investment through Geospatial Analysis and Market Timing	6
Spatial Distribution of Carbon Emissions and Synergistic Evidence for Achieving Climate-Friendly Development in Underdeveloped Area of China	6
Predicting Crime Across Cities and Regions: A Comparative Analysis of Predictive Modelling in Three Belgian Settings	6
Characterising Land Cover Change in Brunei Darussalam’s Capital District	6
Digital Inclusive Finance, Spatial Spillover Effects and Relative Rural Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from China	6
Examining Rental Housing Market Segmentation in Chinese Megacities: The Case of Beijing	5
Harmonising Incompatible Datasets to Enable GIS Use to Study Non-communicable Diseases in Tonga	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
Downscaling Amphibian Species Richness Maps to Explore the Role of Spatial Scale in Conservation	5
Geovisualization and Spatial Modelling of Armed Conflicts in the Great Lake Region of Central and East Africa	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
Mapping gendered vulnerability to energy poverty in Romania	5
Evaluation of Municipal Territorial Utilisation Quality in New-Type Urbanisation: A Case Study of Changzhou, China	5
Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Provincial High-End Manufacturing Innovation Clusters in China: A Big Data Analysis of Technology-Based Enterprises	5
The Impact of Innovative Cities Construction on Air Pollution: Evidence from China	5
Critical Shelter Analysis Considering Social Vulnerability and Accessibility: A Case Study of Hurricane Michael Track Uncertainty	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 Neighbourhood Change Using a Data Primitive Approach: the Example of Gentrification	5
Classifying High-Speed Rail Stations in the Yangtze River Delta, China: The Node-Place Modelling Approach	4
Analyzing Rural Community Growth and Shrinkage: Insights from Household Electricity Data in Xinxing County, China	4
The Auckland Urban Liveability Index: A Mechanism for Quantifying and Evaluating Modern Urban Densification	4

An Investigation of the Impact and Resilience of British High Streets Following the COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions	4
Unemployment in Rural Europe: A Machine Learning Perspective	4
Spatial Modeling: an Approach for Estimating the Effect of Industrial Emissions on the Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide	4
Challenging terrains: socio-spatial analysis of Primary Health Care Access Disparities in West Virginia	4
Research on Port-Industry-City Integration and its Spatial Spillover Effects: Empirical Evidence from the Bohai Sea Rim Region	4
The Identification of Industrial Clusters and their Spatial Characteristics Based on Natural Semantics	4
A Multilevel Spatial Model to Investigate Voting Behaviour in the 2019 UK General Election	4
Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis for Discovering Nature-Based Solutions Location for Urban Flood Mitigation in Accra	4
Measuring the Accessibility and Capacity Sufficiency of Private and Public Health Centers in the Istanbul Metropolitan Area	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
The Impact of the Digital Economy on Provincial Carbon Emissions in China	4
Wildlife Crime in China: A Study of Spatial Heterogeneity in Yunnan Province	4
Mono-centrism as a Destiny? An Econometric Test of Urban Models Using Building Activity	4
Estimating Large-Scale Urban Traffic Emissions with Incomplete Covered Traffic Flow Data—A Case of Core Areas of Guangzhou, China	4
Land Use Spatial Optimization Using Accessibility Maps to Integrate Land Use and Transport in Urban Areas	4
An Integrated Land-Use, Population, and Transport Model for Strategic Regional Planning: From Research to Operational Practice	4
How Nature Reserve Policies in China Support Local and Peripheral Biodiversity: Evidence from the INVEST-SDID Model	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