OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Landscape Research is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Positioning Ecocities within the planetary system: ecological performance of China’s National New Areas	50
Deep engagement with a pluralistic landscape: Response to Katherine Burlingame (2024), “Landscape geographies: Interdisciplinary landscape research and a new framework to apply landscape as method”	37
Embracing the unruly landscape: reply to Frederik Aagaard Hagemann	21
Collaborative possibilities for urban landscape futures: Response to Frederik Aagaard Hagemann (2024), ‘“Can we Mec the Municipality?’ Emerging voices of young people in a segregated urban landscape”	18
Older adults’ domestic green environments: the preference for flowers	17
Saigon as a landscape palimpsest: the hybrid identity of Saigon’s urban area in the opening period through Tran Anh Hung’s Cyclo (1995)	17
Estimating the predictability of physical activities in urban parks based on landscape morphology—empirical analysis based on 10 urban parks in Nanjing, China	16
Characteristics of novel urban vegetation in two Portuguese urban regions	15
Creative approaches to landscape research: Using multisensory and multispecies research perspectives with marginalised groups	14
Defining public open spaces: an investigation framework to inform planning and design decision-making processes	13
Rethinking the ‘green city’ – contemporary research, teaching, and practice in urban greening	13
Like night and day: channelling desires through landscapes and nightscapes	12
An integrated approach to modelling the interaction of the natural landscape and the karez water system in Turpan (Xinjiang, P.R.C.)	12
Local residents’ lived experiences of energy sprawl in West Virginia. A visual exploration of landscape change	10
The covert and overt role of art in landscape partnership	10
Landscape and education: Politics of/in practices	9
A front lawn fit to fight in: Contextualising Mary Rosse’s defence works at Birr Castle, Ireland (1846–48)	9
Ecosystem services and green infrastructure planning of peri-urban lakes: the multifunctionality of Situ Jatijajar and Situ Pengasinan in Depok, Indonesia	9
‘This is not nature restoration, this is a technical installation’: nature values of disrupted and restored wetlands	9
Landscape economics	9
Romanticisation, and the future of Senan and beyond: Response to Luke Harris (2024), Against wastelanding: distributed design at the pace of soil in the Conca de Barberà	9
Reimagining Coastal Cultural Landscapes: transforming place and memory on Yeongdo Island, South Korea	8
Against wastelanding: distributed design at the pace of soil in the Conca de Barberà	8
Mutualism and ontology: rethinking spatial imagery composition in Chinese gardens	8
Protest as care, care as protest: cultural labour, Indigenous irony, collective action, and legal resistance as methods for landscape stewardship	8

The restorative potential of commercial streets	7
All is land, but not all is landscape: social discourses around the landscape	6
Dwelling in unsustainability: tourism landscapes and modern roads in a remote part of Finland	6
Potential of airborne LiDAR data in detecting cultural landscape features in Slovakia	6
The historic character of a depopulating borderland: historic landscape characterisation on the Duero River	6
The Chinese city in mountain and water: shaping the urban landscape in Chengdu	6
A review of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) disturbance research in Northern Europe: towards a social-ecological framework?	6
Revolution and continuity? Reassessing nineteenth-century moorland reclamation through palaeoecological and archival research	6
A systematic review of planning principles for green infrastructure in response to urban stormwater management	6
Nature-based winter sports and their ephemeral tracks: interspecies (non-)encounters in snow	6
Reshaping energy landscape: a regional approach to explore electricity infrastructure networks*	5
Back to basics in landscape architecture pedagogy through collage and model-making: a qualitative study in Korean basic-level design education	5
Third space pedagogy and community-based park design in Austin, Texas	5
Relational heritage: ‘relational character’ in national cultural heritage characterisation tools	5
Finding changes within protected habitats: an assessment of landscape characteristics using geospatial techniques in the lower Shivalik landscape of the Western Himalayas	5
Following the dogs of Prishtina: landscape as living memorial	5
Cross-cultural Rongoā healing: a landscape response to urban health	5
Voices in a contested landscape: community participation and upland management in the North York Moors National Park	5
The connections between Historic Urban Landscape layers in Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of China	5
A brownfield regeneration in urban renewal contexts visual analysis: research hotspots, trends, and global challenges	4
Boundary thinking in landscape architecture and boundary-spanning roles of landscape architects	4
Exploring the cultural heritage space adaptability of the Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal based on point of interest data	4
Participatory school ground design: play behaviour and student and teacher views of a school ground post-construction	4
Barefoot walking, nature connectedness and psychological restoration: the importance of stimulating the sense of touch for feeling closer to the natural world	4
Landscape design in infrastructure projects - is it an extravagance? A cost-benefit investigation of practices in dams	4
Active urbanism and choice architecture: encouraging the use of challenging city routes for health and fitness	4
Urban agriculture and urban planning: a case of Bangalore between the 1950s and the 1970s	3
Spatiotemporal evolution of urban landscapes in Chinese historic water towns (1918–2021)	3
The resurgence of urban foraging under COVID-19	3
Where tourism fails: the (un)making of a post-working landscape in the Italian Alps	3
Co-design workshops for cultural landscape planning	3
Identifying therapeutic landscape experiences in rural tourism: an embodied perspective	3
Learning from Hampstead’s Pergola: walking and image-making at a spectacular Edwardian structure	3
Spatial dynamics of environmental offsetting in cities: Response to Koenraad Danneels (2024), ‘Compensation landscapes’	3
‘The Charm of a Thousand Years’: exploring tourists’ perspectives of the ‘culture-nature value’ of the Humble Administrator’s Garden, Suzhou, China	3
A Philosophy of Landscape Construction: The Vision of Built Landscapes	3
Multispecies households in the Saian Mountains: ecology at the Russia-Mongolia border	3
Renewable energy and landscape quality	3
How researchers shape the construction of landscape change – insights from a scenario study	3
Spatiotemporal narrative structure of the lingering garden based on traditional Chinese conception of time and space	3
From ecological calculation to landscape politics: Reply to Elza D’Cruz	3
David Lowenthal’s Archipelagic and Transatlantic Landscapes His Public and Scholarly Heritage	3
Reproducing biocultural heritage landscapes through alternative and retro-innovative food production	3
Constructing the green wedge in the planning discourse - a case study of Central Park in Helsinki, Finland	3
Memorial landscapes and contestation: destabilising artefacts of stability	2
Examining emotional responses and psychological restoration of four types of natural landscapes	2
Urban park visitor perceptions of climate change: beliefs, concerns and support for action	2
Historic construction of diffuse cultural landscapes: towards a GIS-based method for mapping the interlinkages of heritage	2
Sensory, motor, and emotion associations for landscape concepts differ across neighbouring speech communities	2
Historical landed commons in Greece: a governance system at risk on Astypalaia Island	2

Spatial patterns of historical and cultural blocks based on multisource data and protection and development strategies within the context of urban renewal: a case study of Xi’an, China	2
Tourists’ narrative engagement and the multidimensional construction of historic urban landscapes: exploring the role of narration in place attachment	2
River channelization as a catalyst of rural degradation in rapidly urbanizing regions	2
People and places: towards an understanding and categorisation of reasons for place attachment – case studies from the north of England	2
Ambiguous temporariness: production of time-space territories in Hong Kong’s small urban open spaces	2
Romanticising regeneration: A reply to Nathan Atherton	2
Introducing David Lowenthal’s archipelagic and transatlantic landscapes	2
Twenty years of research on shrinking cities: a focus on keywords and authors	2
Exploring the differences between landscape colour and perceptive colour when walking through urban green space in summer	2
Barrier and corridor effects in cost-distance-based accessibility approximation for LUCC modelling: a case study of Slovakia from 2000 to 2018	2
Making Sense of Here : revealing multiple narratives of place through artistic process and integrating art and artists into transdisciplinary research	2
Examining coastal sense of place through community geography in Island County, Washington	2
Transforming Svea: staging a return to a wilderness-like nature	2
How do rural landscapes support place attachment in refugees? Results from a photo elicitation	2
Pollution Is Colonialism	2
Whose collective voice? Landscape, power, and participation	2
Developments in big data for park management: a review of mobile phone location data for visitor use management	2
Taking stock	2
Educating future landscape professionals about climate change and climate-wise design: current status, priorities, and information needs	2
Emulating and transcending literati gardens: landscape design of the Plum Villa, the garden of a literatus-merchant	2
The spiritual forest: an ethnographic exploration of Finnish forest yoga and the forest landscape	2
Transatlantic landscapes: Gottmann and the roots of Lowenthal’s intellectual heritage	2
The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice	2
Food for thought: unveiling urban transitions in a small US city through the lens of foodscape typologies	2
Ambiguous fortifications in the garden: response to Nathan Atherton (2024), A front lawn fit to fight in: contextualising Mary Rosse’s defence works at Birr Castle, Ireland (1846–48)	2
Infrastructure territories as moving landscapes: using digital media to narrate a Montreal highway corridor (Canada)	2
Examining city image construction through the lens of linguistic soundscape: a case analysis of Shenzhen	2
The use of old demarcations to recover vanished landscapes: a case study in Doñana (SW Spain)	2
Enhancing urban nature: on design, biodiversity and the construction of experience in Italy	2
Reconstructing the unknown: an integrated and multisource description of Albanian landscape transformations since the 1850s	2
Audiences and influences of Birr Castle’s defences: Reply to Luke Harris	2