OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Climate is 54. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Net impact of London Strand-Aldwych pedestrianisation project on air quality and noise	187
Impact of refined 2D/3D urban morphology on hourly air temperature across different spatial scales in a snow climate city	178
Does the spatial configuration of urban parks matter in ameliorating extreme heat?	144
Assessment of key air pollutants in an eastern Indian urban area: Levels, characteristics, and risk assessment	140
Collaborative scenario building: Engaging stakeholders to unravel opportunities for urban adaptation planning	138
The influences of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature at the block scale in Chinese megacities	137
Assessment of the TsHARP method for spatial downscaling of land surface temperature over urban regions	123
Source apportionment of PM2.5 before and after COVID-19 lockdown in an urban-industrial area of the Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal	121
Assessing microclimate and solar potential in courtyard morphologies: A comparative study of European urban blocks	108
Correspondence between urbanization and surface wind in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Observations and idealized large-eddy simulation	103
Community perceptions of flood risks and their attributes: A case study of rural communities of Khipro, District Sanghar, Pakistan	99
Derivation of nonstationary rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves considering the impacts of climate change and urbanization	98
Long-term airborne particle pollution assessment in the city of Coyhaique, Patagonia, Chile	97
The divergent effects of spatial structure of urban agglomerations on carbon emission reduction capacity	97
Energy savings in buildings applying ASHRAE 55 and regional adaptive thermal comfort models	94
Ventilation analysis of urban functional zoning based on circuit model in Guangzhou in winter, China	91
Analysis of decoupling between CO2 emissions and economic growth in China's provincial capital cities: A Tapio model approach	89
Spatial-temporal evolution of urban form resilience to climate disturbance in adaptive cycle: A case study of Changchun city	88
Effective street tree and grass designs to cool European neighbourhoods	87
Comparing universal thermal climate index (UTCI) with selected thermal indices to evaluate outdoor thermal comfort in traditional courtyards with BWh climate	87
Landscape patterns and diurnal thermal effects of golf courses in urban and suburban settings	78
The synergistic effects of urbanization and an extreme heatwave event on urban thermal environment in Paris	78
Assessing urban heat island intensity and emissions with compressed natural gas in non-commercial vehicles	78
Mitigating urban heat stress through green infrastructure: A climate service approach	76
Assessing the influence of urban scene characteristics on urban heat island: An interpretable machine learning approach in New York City	74

Heavy metal pollution in groundwater of urban Delhi environs: Pollution indices and health risk assessment	73
The independent and joint effects of meteorological factors on influenza: A nationwide time series study in China	72
Predicting environmental pollutants in the apartment public space: Evaluating the impact of spatial enclosure and monitoring locations	71
Climate change transformation in built environments – A policy instrument framework	68
A geospatial-based framework for rapid simulation of storm-induced flooding and comprehensive risk assessment leveraging GWDD and fuzzy-SWARA	68
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission interferes with real-time regulatory monitoring of ozone in urban atmosphere	68
Understanding heat exposure risks and adaptation behaviors among elderly Asian communities in New York City	67
Tropospheric ozone variability in Delhi during pre & post monsoon periods: Decoding influence of seasonal variation, diurnal variation, short-range and long-range transport	67
Climate policy and inequality in urban areas: Beyond incomes	67
Estimating urban PM2.5 concentration: An analysis on the nonlinear effects of explanatory variables based on gradient boosted regression tree	66
Urban heat and pollution island in the Moscow megacity: Urban environmental compartments and their interactions	66
Measuring shaded bike lanes for heat stress mitigation with deep learning: A case study in Amsterdam, Netherlands	66
“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”	65
Evaluating inter-site similarity and model transferability for machine learning prediction of CO2 and CH4 concentrations across urban typologies	63
The study of enhancing urban flood management for riverless cities with high external runoff intrusion characteristics	63
Investigation of air-conditioning anthropogenic heat dissipation and thermal discomfort in street canyons toward sustainable urban cooling	63
Resilient urbanization assessment framework: A new perspective on urban resilience	62
Outdoor ventilation evaluation and optimization based on spatial morphology analysis in Macau	62
Land-surface-physics-based downscaling versus conventional dynamical downscaling for high-resolution urban climate change information: The case study of two cities	61
Exploring socio-environmental effects on community health in Edmonton, Canada to understand older adult and immigrant risk in a changing climate	61
Integrating urban-rural gradient differences into regional climate resilience governance: Insights from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, China	60
Do hot temperatures reduce health-related quality of life among inpatients? A 10-year population-based survey using EQ-5D-5L in Hong Kong	60
Impact of trees with varying size on street canyon flow under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions using water channel PIV measurements	59
How to enhance thermal comfort in greenway walking? An exploration of the physical environment, walking status, and emotional perspectives	57
Street-scale traffic emission inventory derived from GeoVideo and coupled WRF/Chem–MUNICH modelling for urban air quality management: A case study in Kaifeng, China	57
Health-centred climate adaptation: Insights from local governments in western Sydney, Australia	57
Introducing evaporating water channels in urban canyons: Assessment of ventilation and thermal effects through Large-Eddy Simulation	57
Dual carbon and sulfur isotopes as tracers of PM1 pollution sources after COVID-19 confinement in Vilnius, Lithuania	56
A generalizable WebGIS–machine learning system for real-time urban flood forecasting	55
Influence of flood risk communication on threat and coping appraisals of individuals to enhance flood resilience	54
Synergistic effects of compound temperature-humidity extremes and urban heat-moisture islands: An observational study in high-density humid subtropical twin cities	54
High summer land surface temperatures in a temperate city are mitigated by tree canopy cover	54
Evaluating the improvements of thermal comfort by different natural elements within courtyards in Singapore	54