OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Landscape and Urban Planning is 56. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	497
Community, pastoralism, landscape: Eliciting values and human-nature connectedness of forest-related people	216
Editorial Board	164
Preferring Local over Non-Local Parks? Green Space Visit Patterns by Urban Residents in Desert Cities, Arizona	159
‘Blossom Buddies’ − How do flower colour combinations affect emotional response and influence therapeutic landscape design?	151
Green to gold mile: An environmental justice analysis of drought and mitigation policy impacts on home landscapes in Sacramento California	144
Honeybee presence restructures pollination networks more than landscape context by reducing foraging breadths of wild bees	141
Building patterns and fuel features drive wildfire severity in wildland-urban interfaces in Southern Europe	128
Balancing multi-species connectivity and socio-economic factors to connect protected areas in the Paraguayan Atlantic Forest	127
Building to conserve: Quantifying the outdoor water savings of residential redevelopment in Denver, Colorado	118
Attitudes and preferences towards elements of formal and informal public green spaces in two South African towns	115
Landscape value in urban neighborhoods: A pilot analysis using street-level images	108
Expanding the toolbox: Assessing methods for local outdoor recreation planning	107
Motivations for urban front gardening: A quantitative analysis	107
A method to prioritize and allocate nature-based solutions in urban areas based on ecosystem service demand	105
Calculating a national Anomie Density Ratio: Measuring the patterns of loneliness and social isolation across the UK’s residential density gradient using results from the UK Biobank study	104
Integrating conservation targets and ecosystem services in landscape spatial planning from Portugal	97
The wildland – urban interface in Europe: Spatial patterns and associations with socioeconomic and demographic variables	97
Global Street Experiment: A Geospatial Database of Pandemic-induced Street Transitions	96
Developing and testing the senior park environment assessment in Korea (SPEAK) audit tool	96
Assessment of land cover trajectories as an indicator of urban habitat temporal continuity	95
Urban overall and visible greenness and diabetes among older adults in China	94
From social innovation to institutional governance: Unveiling urban rooftop farming in Dhaka city using YouTube video analysis	94
Does urban sprawl lessen green space exposure? Evidence from Chinese cities	92
Comparing landscape value patterns between participatory mapping and geolocated social media content across Europe	89

Urban tree inventories as a tool to assess tree growth and failure: The case for Australian cities	89
What’s behind the barriers? Uncovering structural conditions working against urban nature-based solutions	88
A typological study of the provision and use of communal outdoor space in Australian apartment developments	81
Scales of inequality: The role of spatial extent in environmental justice analysis	80
Multi-species ecological network based on asymmetric movement: Application in an urban rural fringe	79
Integrating habitat risk and landscape resilience in forest protection and restoration planning for biodiversity conservation	78
Prevalence and effectiveness of nature-based interventions to impact adult health-related behaviours and outcomes: A scoping review	77
Air regulation service is affected by green areas cover and fragmentation: An analysis using demand, supply and flow during COVID-19 quarantine	74
Assessment of heat mitigation capacity of urban greenspaces with the use of InVEST urban cooling model, verified with day-time land surface temperature data	74
Pollinator gardening is constrained by income but not lot size in urban front yards	73
Does gentrification precede and follow greening? Evidence about the green gentrification cycle in Los Angeles and Chicago	71
Not all brownfields are equal: A typological assessment reveals hidden green space in the city	70
Assessing public opinion using self-organizing maps. Lessons from urban planning in Romania	68
Can environmental legislation protect a threatened apex predator across different land tenures?	67
Editorial Board	65
Combining multiple socio-cultural approaches – Deeper insights into cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes?	64
Risk assessment of terrestrial protected areas to extreme wind hazards: A case study in Queensland, Australia	64
Where money grows on trees: A socio-ecological assessment of land use change in an agricultural frontier	64
Regional-dependent tolerance to humans: A multi-country comparison of horizontal and vertical escape distance in arboreal squirrels	64
Factors influencing informal trail conditions: Implications for management and research in Urban-Proximate parks and protected areas	63
Beyond the luxury effect: Individual and structural drivers lead to ‘urban forest inequity’ in public street trees in Melbourne, Australia	63
Examining ecological justice within the social-ecological-technological system of New York City, USA	62
Vertical greening systems serve as effective means to promote pollinators: Experimental comparison of vertical and horizontal plantings	61
Urban tree diversity fosters bird insectivory despite a loss in bird diversity with urbanization	60
Substitution effects and spatial factors in the social demand for landscape aesthetics in agroecosystems	59
Drone imagery to create a common understanding of landscapes	58
Response to Guerin et al. Comment on ’Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale’	58
Associations between green space availability and youth’s physical activity in urban and rural areas across Germany	58
Managing urban trees through storms in three United States cities	57
Global change in the European Alps: A century of post-abandonment natural reforestation at the landscape scale	57
Local people’s sense of place in heavily touristified protected areas: Contested place meanings around the Wulingyuan World Heritage Site, China	56