OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Climate is 44. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring socio-environmental effects on community health in Edmonton, Canada to understand older adult and immigrant risk in a changing climate	126
Urban water infrastructure: A critical review on climate change impacts and adaptation strategies	124
Modelling the microscale spatial distribution of urban air temperature in suburban sprawl	100
Cooling effects of urban parks under various ecological factors	98
Characteristics of PM2.5-bound water-soluble inorganic ions generated during cooking	94
Introducing new morphometric parameters to improve urban canopy air flow modeling: A CFD to machine-learning study in real urban environments	90
Characterizing and predicting carbon emissions from an emerging land use perspective: A comprehensive review	85
Mapping flood risk using a workflow including deep learning and MCDM– Application to southern Iran	83
Estimation of space heating CO2 emissions based only on CO2 fluxes observations	81
Exploring air temperature variability and socio-demographic inequalities in heat exposure through machine learning: A case study of Maricopa County, Arizona	81
Land-surface-physics-based downscaling versus conventional dynamical downscaling for high-resolution urban climate change information: The case study of two cities	80
Exploration of improvement schemes for simulating LST in Beijing, China over multiple years based on LCZ	80
Comparison of PM2.5 around 1893 elementary schools and kindergartens in Tehran over different time windows	75
Developing local-climate-zone-based logarithmic law wind profile considering urban morphology	72
Disentangling the non-linear relationships and interaction effects of urban digital transformation on carbon emission intensity	70
Calibrating the UTCI scale for hot and humid climates through comprehensive year-round field surveys to improve the adaptability	69
Study on the efficiency evolution of carbon emissions and factors affecting them in 143 countries worldwide	68
Spatial bias in placement of citizen and conventional weather stations and their impact on urban climate research: A case study of the Urban Heat Island effect in Canada	63
Predicting environmental pollutants in the apartment public space: Evaluating the impact of spatial enclosure and monitoring locations	62
Harnessing geographic information system and street view imagery for thermal gradient distribution auditing	61
Optical properties of carbonaceous aerosols and source impacts in the Lanzhou valley: In-situ observations by means of topographical relief	60
Source apportionment of metal ions in ambient air (PM2.5) during firecracker bursting: A case study of Amritsar Diwali on 24 October 2022	60
Spatiotemporal trends of selected air quality parameters during force lockdown and its relationship to COVID-19 positive cases in Bangladesh	59
Urban sprawl can inhibit convection and decrease rainfall over an Amazonian city during a squall line type phenomenon	59
Investigating the impact of long-term agricultural practices on selected peri-urban aquifers in tropical Southwest India	59

Microclimatic coupling to assess the impact of crossing urban form on outdoor thermal comfort in temperate oceanic climate	58
Information fusion and information quality assessment for environmental forecasting	57
Prognosis of boundary layer assimilative capacity over a landlocked urban district in India: A prelude to exposure risk assessment	56
Observational analyses of a penetrating sea-breeze front in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration	55
Collaborative scenario building: Engaging stakeholders to unravel opportunities for urban adaptation planning	53
Investigating the microclimate impacts of blue–green space development in the urban–rural fringe using the WRF-UCM model	52
Climate policy and inequality in urban areas: Beyond incomes	50
Do large, educated, left-leaning cities really adopt more climate change policies? Testing for potential bias in planning and policy research	49
Research on PM2.5 road resuspension dust and its population exposure based on sliding grids	49
Composition, seasonal variation and sources attribution of volatile organic compounds in urban air in southwestern China	49
Carbon isotope for carbonyls in roadside air	49
Attribution of the unprecedented heat event of August 2023 in Barcelona (Spain) to observed and projected global warming	49
The interaction of urban heat mitigation strategies-a case study in Beijing	48
Understanding urban heat vulnerability: Scientometric analysis of five decades of research	48
Effects of envelope features on building surface temperature and ventilation performance in 2D street canyons	47
Seasonal and diurnal variability of a water body's effects on the urban microclimate in a coastal city in Italy	46
Outdoor ventilation evaluation and optimization based on spatial morphology analysis in Macau	46
Importance of temporal dimension and rural land cover when computing surface urban Heat Island intensity	45
How does urban heat island differ across urban functional zones? Insights from 2D/3D urban morphology using geospatial big data	45
Research on the correlation network of carbon emissions and economic between Chinese urban agglomerations	44
Analyzing urban footprints over four coastal cities of India and the association with rainfall and temperature using deep learning models	44