OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Climate is 50. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate policy and inequality in urban areas: Beyond incomes	159
Impact of trees with varying size on street canyon flow under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions using water channel PIV measurements	151
Net impact of London Strand-Aldwych pedestrianisation project on air quality and noise	122
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission interferes with real-time regulatory monitoring of ozone in urban atmosphere	113
Source apportionment of PM2.5 before and after COVID-19 lockdown in an urban-industrial area of the Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal	113
The study of enhancing urban flood management for riverless cities with high external runoff intrusion characteristics	112
Correspondence between urbanization and surface wind in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Observations and idealized large-eddy simulation	110
The effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the air pollutants concentration during the lockdown in Tehran, Iran	106
Community perceptions of flood risks and their attributes: A case study of rural communities of Khipro, District Sanghar, Pakistan	97
Tropospheric ozone variability in Delhi during pre & post monsoon periods: Decoding influence of seasonal variation, diurnal variation, short-range and long-range transport	94
Assessment of the TsHARP method for spatial downscaling of land surface temperature over urban regions	92
Sensitivity study of PBL schemes and soil initialization using the WRF-BEP-BEM model over a Mediterranean coastal city	89
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in PM2.5 in the metropolitan zone of Mexico Valley: Impact of air quality management programmes	85
Urban heat and pollution island in the Moscow megacity: Urban environmental compartments and their interactions	84
Green infrastructure indicators to plan resilient urban settlements in Pakistan: Local stakeholder's perspective	82
Land-surface-physics-based downscaling versus conventional dynamical downscaling for high-resolution urban climate change information: The case study of two cities	78
The synergistic effects of urbanization and an extreme heatwave event on urban thermal environment in Paris	78
Long-term airborne particle pollution assessment in the city of Coyhaique, Patagonia, Chile	78
Assessment of pollutant dispersion in deep street canyons under different source positions: Numerical simulation	77
Impact of refined 2D/3D urban morphology on hourly air temperature across different spatial scales in a snow climate city	77
A geospatial-based framework for rapid simulation of storm-induced flooding and comprehensive risk assessment leveraging GWDD and fuzzy-SWARA	76
Predicting environmental pollutants in the apartment public space: Evaluating the impact of spatial enclosure and monitoring locations	75
Measuring shaded bike lanes for heat stress mitigation with deep learning: A case study in Amsterdam, Netherlands	75
Climate change transformation in built environments – A policy instrument framework	75
Does the spatial configuration of urban parks matter in ameliorating extreme heat?	71

Feminization of surface temperature: Environmental justice and gender inequality among socioeconomic groups	70
“Investigating and mapping day-night urban heat island and its driving factors using Sentinel/MODIS data and Google Earth Engine. Case study: Greater Cairo, Egypt”	69
Exploring socio-environmental effects on community health in Edmonton, Canada to understand older adult and immigrant risk in a changing climate	68
Assessing urban heat island intensity and emissions with compressed natural gas in non-commercial vehicles	67
Collaborative scenario building: Engaging stakeholders to unravel opportunities for urban adaptation planning	65
Derivation of nonstationary rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves considering the impacts of climate change and urbanization	65
Estimating urban PM2.5 concentration: An analysis on the nonlinear effects of explanatory variables based on gradient boosted regression tree	62
Weighted clustering-based risk assessment on urban rainstorm and flood disaster	61
Spatial-temporal evolution of urban form resilience to climate disturbance in adaptive cycle: A case study of Changchun city	60
Heavy metal pollution in groundwater of urban Delhi environs: Pollution indices and health risk assessment	59
Ventilation analysis of urban functional zoning based on circuit model in Guangzhou in winter, China	59
Thermal perception in outdoor urban spaces under the Mediterranean climate of Annaba, Algeria	59
Analysis of decoupling between CO2 emissions and economic growth in China's provincial capital cities: A Tapio model approach	59
Comparing universal thermal climate index (UTCI) with selected thermal indices to evaluate outdoor thermal comfort in traditional courtyards with BWh climate	58
The influences of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature at the block scale in Chinese megacities	57
Outdoor ventilation evaluation and optimization based on spatial morphology analysis in Macau	57
Energy savings in buildings applying ASHRAE 55 and regional adaptive thermal comfort models	55
Coupling detailed urban energy and water budgets with TEB-Hydro model: Towards an assessment tool for nature based solution performances	54
Source identification, seasonal and spatial variations of airborne dust trace elements pollution in Tehran, the capital of Iran	53
Investigation of landslide hazard areas in the municipality of Cunha (Brazil) and climate projections from 2024 to 2040	53
A comprehensive spatiotemporal approach to mapping air quality distribution and prediction in desert region	52
The risk management tools'role for urban infrastructure resilience building	52
Satellite image analysis of thermal comfort for a sustainable urban ecology of Winneba, Ghana	52
Research on the veering wind characteristics in typical suburban terrain based on lidar field measurements	51
City-scale ventilation analysis using 3D buildings with Guangzhou case	51
A conceptual analytical framework for green infrastructure (GI) towards resilience building in urban contexts: A Stakeholders' collaboration perspective	50
Interactions of urban heat islands and heat waves in Swedish cities under present and future climates	50