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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Health Outcomes in China: A Life-Course Perspective	41
Research on the Assessment and Drivers of the Coupling Coordination Development between Green Innovation and Digital Economy	32
Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning	31
Gated or Ungated? A Case Study on Walkability Measurement for Urban Communities	30
Is High Speed Rail a Geographically Inclusive System? Evidence from some European Countries	29
Why can’t we be friends? The underlying hierarchy of social connections between diverse neighborhoods	29
Italian High-Speed Railway Stations and the Attractivity Index: the Downscaling Potential to Implement Coworking as Service in Station	25
Scientific Evaluation of Fengshui from the Perspective of Geography: Empirical Evidence from the Site Selection of Traditional Hakka Villages	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
Urban-Rural Disparity in the Relationship Between Geographic Environment and the Health of the Elderly	17
A QGIS Plugin for GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis: an Application of Developing Alternative Future Land-Use Scenarios in Ghana	16
Space-time Models and Personal Accessibility to Educational Facilities. Case Study of Space-time Accessibility to Schools in the City of Valencia	16
Innovation Effect and Regional Difference of Related Variety: An Empirical Study Based on Prefecture-level City Data of China	14
Earthquake Risk, Flooding Risk and Housing Prices: Evidence from Taichung, Taiwan	14
A Public Participation GIS for Infrastructure Assessment in Rural Human Settlements	14
The Impacts of Visible Green Spaces on the Mental well-being of University Students	12
Spatio-temporal evolution, driving mechanisms, and simulation of land use and cover in China from 2000 to 2060	12
Modelling Conflict Dynamics: Evidence from Africa: What Do the Data Show via Spatiotemporal Global ACLED Dataset?	12
Economic Integration, Spatial Interaction and Labour Income Share: Evidence from the EU-13 Countries and the UK	12
Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Vacant Houses in a Small Provincial Town in Japan	12
The Relationship between Industrial Parks and County Economic Growth in Underdeveloped Areas: Evidence from Gansu Province of China	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	9
Lessons from the Criticality of the Spanish High Capacity Road Network on Direct, Representative Democracies and Technocracies	9

Greenness and Crime in the City: An Investigation Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Panel Models	9
An Empirical Study on the Effects of Fine Dust Concentration on the Utilisation of Shared Bicycles	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
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	8
Machine Learning for Sustainable Development: Ranking Villages for Rural Development Initiatives	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
Optimization of United States Residential Real Estate Investment through Geospatial Analysis and Market Timing	7
Decomposing the Temporal Signature of Nitrogen Dioxide Declines during the COVID-19 Pandemic in UK Urban Areas	7
Evaluating the Improvement of Healthcare Accessibility for Urban Residents via the Construction of New Hospitals: A Case Study of Xi’an, China	7
Deep Network Capacitated Covering Location Model: Spatial Location-allocation Optimization of Community Healthcare Facilities in Consideration of Public Health Emergencies	7
Multifractal Characteristics Analysis of Spatial State of Prefecture-Level Cities in China	7
Spatial Analysis of Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Mexico: Implications for Urban Planning to Improve Public Health	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
Is the High-Speed Railway Network Narrowing the Urban‒Rural Income Gap?	7
Correction to: Mapping Gendered Vulnerability to Energy Poverty in Romania	7
Examining Multilevel Poverty-Causing Factors in Poor Villages: a Hierarchical Spatial Regression Model	7
The Impact of Angular Effects on Nighttime Economy Observations: Determining the Optimal Observation Angle of Nighttime Light Remote Sensing	7
Measuring Spatial Congruence in the School-Neighborhood Nexus	6
Digital Inclusive Finance, Spatial Spillover Effects and Relative Rural Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from China	6
Spending and length of stay by tourists flying to the Canary Islands (Spain) using low-cost carriers	6
Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Provincial High-End Manufacturing Innovation Clusters in China: A Big Data Analysis of Technology-Based Enterprises	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
Urban Night Vitality Measurements and Related Factors Based on Multisource Data: a Case Study of Central Shanghai	6
Harmonising Incompatible Datasets to Enable GIS Use to Study Non-communicable Diseases in Tonga	6
Examining Rental Housing Market Segmentation in Chinese Megacities: The Case of Beijing	6
The Spatial Distribution Pattern and Formation Mechanism of the Spatial Agglomeration of Chinese Higher Education Population: A Cross-Province Comparison	6
Characterising Land Cover Change in Brunei Darussalam’s Capital District	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
Characterizing Spatio-Temporal Differences in Homicides and Non-Fatal Shootings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2006–2015	6
The Impact of Innovative Cities Construction on Air Pollution: Evidence from China	5
The Impacts of POI Data on PM2.5: A Case Study of Weifang City in China	5
Evaluation of Municipal Territorial Utilisation Quality in New-Type Urbanisation: A Case Study of Changzhou, China	5
Downscaling Amphibian Species Richness Maps to Explore the Role of Spatial Scale in Conservation	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
Identifying Neighbourhood Change Using a Data Primitive Approach: the Example of Gentrification	5
The Impact of the Digital Economy on Provincial Carbon Emissions in China	5
Modal Accessibility Gap in Curitiba (Brazil). Dynamic Analysis Considering Time and Spatial Variations	5
Firm Location: A Spatial Point Process Approach	5
Critical Shelter Analysis Considering Social Vulnerability and Accessibility: A Case Study of Hurricane Michael Track Uncertainty	5
Assessing the Combinational Effects of Access to Urban Amenities on Housing Prices: A Perspective on the “15-Minute City”	5
Classifying High-Speed Rail Stations in the Yangtze River Delta, China: The Node-Place Modelling Approach	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
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cyclist Collisions in Germany: Variations in Frequency, Severity of Injury, and Type of Collision in 2019	5
Research on Port-Industry-City Integration and its Spatial Spillover Effects: Empirical Evidence from the Bohai Sea Rim Region	5