OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Geography is 42. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	100
Editorial Board	89
Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach	86
Editorial Board	78
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan	70
Causal effects of transit investment on neighborhoods: Evidence from unbuilt alternative alignments	68
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images	68
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others	66
Heterogeneous effects of neighborhood renewal on mental well-being: A capability approach to analyzing complex causal pathways	66
Traffic safety in relation to multidimensional street network and land use features: A nonlinear analysis with population heterogeneity	64
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany	62
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data	60
Driving uneven development: The emerging geography of India's electric vehicle transition	60
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning	56
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area	56
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China	55
Governance of sustainable critical-minerals supply chain: A telecoupled network-of-networks framework	54
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China	53
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou	53
Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China	52
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods	50
Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China	50
National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage	49
Can delivery riders act as informal guardians in crime prevention?	49
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce	48

An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas	47
Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)	47
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework	46
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models	46
Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia	45
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon	45
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	45
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	44
Measuring the spatial and size polycentricity: An empirical study of China's urban agglomerations using population distribution data	44
Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data	44
Blue-space availability, environmental quality and amenity use across contrasting socioeconomic contexts	44
Identification of priority areas for public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in metropolitan areas: A case study in Hangzhou, China	43
Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective	43
Agricultural development, structural transformation, and industrial diversification of regions: Evidence from rural land contracting law reform in China	43
Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China	43
A life cycle perspective on smart city innovation ecosystem: the case of Florianopolis	42
Corrigendum to “Plant hardiness zone mapping for the conterminous USA using the Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression Prediction method” [Applied Geography 189 (2026) 103927]	42