OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Geography is 41. 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
Editorial Board	98
Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach	87
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas	83
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods	77
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning	69
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan	66
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images	65
Causal effects of transit investment on neighborhoods: Evidence from unbuilt alternative alignments	65
Editorial Board	64
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)	61
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou	59
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others	59
Editorial Board	57
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce	55
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data	53
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia	53
Heterogeneous effects of neighborhood renewal on mental well-being: A capability approach to analyzing complex causal pathways	53
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon	51
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany	49
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework	49
Traffic safety in relation to multidimensional street network and land use features: A nonlinear analysis with population heterogeneity	49
Driving uneven development: The emerging geography of India's electric vehicle transition	48
Can delivery riders act as informal guardians in crime prevention?	47
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area	46
Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China	46

Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China	46
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China	45
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models	45
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage	45
Using street view images and a geographical detector to understand how street-level built environment is associated with urban poverty: A case study in Guangzhou	44
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure	44
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China	44
Corrigendum to “Plant hardiness zone mapping for the conterminous USA using the Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression Prediction method” [Applied Geography 189 (2026) 103927]	43
Evolving food and beverage landscapes: A multidisciplinary inquiry into technological innovation, policy, and industry structure	42
The impact of relatedness and unrelatedness on breakthrough innovation in China: Examining the role of complementary interregional linkages	42
Effectiveness variation of different census outreach activities: An empirical analysis from the state of Illinois using machine learning and user interface technologies for participatory data collecti	41
Modelling the Impacts of land finance on urban expansion: Evidence from Chinese cities	41
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami	41
Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective	41
Identification of priority areas for public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in metropolitan areas: A case study in Hangzhou, China	41
Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics, seasonality, and time-of-day trends of PM2.5 pollution with a low-cost sensor network: Insights from classic and spatially explicit Markov chains	41
Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data	41