OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy is 5. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Health Outcomes in China: A Life-Course Perspective	41
Gated or Ungated? A Case Study on Walkability Measurement for Urban Communities	32
Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning	32
Italian High-Speed Railway Stations and the Attractivity Index: the Downscaling Potential to Implement Coworking as Service in Station	32
Why can’t we be friends? The underlying hierarchy of social connections between diverse neighborhoods	31
Is High Speed Rail a Geographically Inclusive System? Evidence from some European Countries	30
Digital economy and urban settlement intentions of rural-to-urban migrants in China: Empirical evidence from quasi-natural experiments	26
Research on the Assessment and Drivers of the Coupling Coordination Development between Green Innovation and Digital Economy	21
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Form Change in Developing Africa: The Case of Addis Ababa City	20
Using a Spatial Access Measure to assess the Relationship between Alcohol Outlet Types and Various Violent Crimes in the Bronx, NY	19
A Public Participation GIS for Infrastructure Assessment in Rural Human Settlements	17
A QGIS Plugin for GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis: an Application of Developing Alternative Future Land-Use Scenarios in Ghana	17
Space-time Models and Personal Accessibility to Educational Facilities. Case Study of Space-time Accessibility to Schools in the City of Valencia	16
The Impacts of Visible Green Spaces on the Mental well-being of University Students	15
Scientific Evaluation of Fengshui from the Perspective of Geography: Empirical Evidence from the Site Selection of Traditional Hakka Villages	14
Earthquake Risk, Flooding Risk and Housing Prices: Evidence from Taichung, Taiwan	14
Innovation Effect and Regional Difference of Related Variety: An Empirical Study Based on Prefecture-level City Data of China	13
Spatio-temporal evolution, driving mechanisms, and simulation of land use and cover in China from 2000 to 2060	12
Urban-Rural Disparity in the Relationship Between Geographic Environment and the Health of the Elderly	12
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?	10
Lessons from the Criticality of the Spanish High Capacity Road Network on Direct, Representative Democracies and Technocracies	10
The Relationship between Industrial Parks and County Economic Growth in Underdeveloped Areas: Evidence from Gansu Province of China	10
Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Vacant Houses in a Small Provincial Town in Japan	9
Investigating the Determinants of Housing Rents in Hangzhou, China: A Spatial Multilevel Model Approach	9

An Empirical Study on the Effects of Fine Dust Concentration on the Utilisation of Shared Bicycles	9
Regional Heterogeneities and Socio-economic Determinants of Childhood Undernutrition in India: A Geospatial Analysis	9
Greenness and Crime in the City: An Investigation Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Panel Models	9
Nocturnal Vs. Diurnal: Relationship between Land Use and Visit Time Patterns in Commercial Areas	9
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	8
Can Digital Inclusive Finance Promote Urban Ecological Efficiency?—Impact Mechanism and Spatial Effects	8
Mapping a Country Image from Global News Reports about COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Integration Failure or Integration risk? Revisiting the Modality of Return Migration in China	8
Decomposing the Temporal Signature of Nitrogen Dioxide Declines during the COVID-19 Pandemic in UK Urban Areas	8
Effects of Pandemic Response Measures on Crime Counts in English and Welsh Local Authorities	8
Spatially Varying Intergenerational Changes in the Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Nigeria: Lessons Learnt from a Recent Household Survey	8
Spatial Analysis of Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Mexico: Implications for Urban Planning to Improve Public Health	8
Examining Multilevel Poverty-Causing Factors in Poor Villages: a Hierarchical Spatial Regression Model	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
The Spatial Distribution Pattern and Formation Mechanism of the Spatial Agglomeration of Chinese Higher Education Population: A Cross-Province Comparison	7
The Impact of Angular Effects on Nighttime Economy Observations: Determining the Optimal Observation Angle of Nighttime Light Remote Sensing	7
Correction to: Mapping Gendered Vulnerability to Energy Poverty in Romania	7
Evaluating the Improvement of Healthcare Accessibility for Urban Residents via the Construction of New Hospitals: A Case Study of Xi’an, China	7
Characterising Land Cover Change in Brunei Darussalam’s Capital District	7
Measuring Spatial Congruence in the School-Neighborhood Nexus	6
Optimization of United States Residential Real Estate Investment through Geospatial Analysis and Market Timing	6
Accessibility-Based Equity of Public Facilities: a Case Study in Xiamen, China	6
Spatial Distribution of Carbon Emissions and Synergistic Evidence for Achieving Climate-Friendly Development in Underdeveloped Area of China	6
Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Provincial High-End Manufacturing Innovation Clusters in China: A Big Data Analysis of Technology-Based Enterprises	6
Is the High-Speed Railway Network Narrowing the Urban‒Rural Income Gap?	6
Predicting Crime Across Cities and Regions: A Comparative Analysis of Predictive Modelling in Three Belgian Settings	6
Urban Night Vitality Measurements and Related Factors Based on Multisource Data: a Case Study of Central Shanghai	6
Spending and length of stay by tourists flying to the Canary Islands (Spain) using low-cost carriers	6
Examining Rental Housing Market Segmentation in Chinese Megacities: The Case of Beijing	6
Deep Network Capacitated Covering Location Model: Spatial Location-allocation Optimization of Community Healthcare Facilities in Consideration of Public Health Emergencies	6
Multifractal Characteristics Analysis of Spatial State of Prefecture-Level Cities in China	6
Assessing Ecosystem Services Provision as a Support for Metropolitan Green Infrastructure Planning: the Case of Three Spanish Metropolitan Areas	6
Digital Inclusive Finance, Spatial Spillover Effects and Relative Rural Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from China	6
Harmonising Incompatible Datasets to Enable GIS Use to Study Non-communicable Diseases in Tonga	6
Geovisualization and Spatial Modelling of Armed Conflicts in the Great Lake Region of Central and East Africa	6
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
Assessing the Combinational Effects of Access to Urban Amenities on Housing Prices: A Perspective on the “15-Minute City”	5
Geographic Distribution of Economic Inequality and Crime in Indonesia: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Econometrics Approach	5
The Impact of the Digital Economy on Provincial Carbon Emissions in China	5
Wildlife Crime in China: A Study of Spatial Heterogeneity in Yunnan Province	5
Downscaling Amphibian Species Richness Maps to Explore the Role of Spatial Scale in Conservation	5
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cyclist Collisions in Germany: Variations in Frequency, Severity of Injury, and Type of Collision in 2019	5
Critical Shelter Analysis Considering Social Vulnerability and Accessibility: A Case Study of Hurricane Michael Track Uncertainty	5
Firm Location: A Spatial Point Process Approach	5
Research on Port-Industry-City Integration and its Spatial Spillover Effects: Empirical Evidence from the Bohai Sea Rim Region	5
Evaluation of Municipal Territorial Utilisation Quality in New-Type Urbanisation: A Case Study of Changzhou, China	5
Challenging terrains: socio-spatial analysis of Primary Health Care Access Disparities in West Virginia	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
The Impacts of POI Data on PM2.5: A Case Study of Weifang City in China	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
Classifying High-Speed Rail Stations in the Yangtze River Delta, China: The Node-Place Modelling Approach	5