OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Landscape and Urban Planning is 55. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	518
Editorial Board	220
Green to gold mile: An environmental justice analysis of drought and mitigation policy impacts on home landscapes in Sacramento California	173
Building patterns and fuel features drive wildfire severity in wildland-urban interfaces in Southern Europe	165
Landscape value in urban neighborhoods: A pilot analysis using street-level images	148
Building to conserve: Quantifying the outdoor water savings of residential redevelopment in Denver, Colorado	148
Motivations for urban front gardening: A quantitative analysis	135
Integrating conservation targets and ecosystem services in landscape spatial planning from Portugal	133
Association between objective and subjective relatedness to nature and human well-being: Key factors for residents and possible measures for inequality in Japan’s megacities	126
Global Street Experiment: A Geospatial Database of Pandemic-induced Street Transitions	123
Assessment of land cover trajectories as an indicator of urban habitat temporal continuity	114
From social innovation to institutional governance: Unveiling urban rooftop farming in Dhaka city using YouTube video analysis	112
Urban overall and visible greenness and diabetes among older adults in China	111
The wildland – urban interface in Europe: Spatial patterns and associations with socioeconomic and demographic variables	109
A typological study of the provision and use of communal outdoor space in Australian apartment developments	107
Comparing landscape value patterns between participatory mapping and geolocated social media content across Europe	103
Prevalence and effectiveness of nature-based interventions to impact adult health-related behaviours and outcomes: A scoping review	99
Preferring Local over Non-Local Parks? Green Space Visit Patterns by Urban Residents in Desert Cities, Arizona	99
Community, pastoralism, landscape: Eliciting values and human-nature connectedness of forest-related people	99
Scales of inequality: The role of spatial extent in environmental justice analysis	98
Urban tree inventories as a tool to assess tree growth and failure: The case for Australian cities	97
Developing and testing the senior park environment assessment in Korea (SPEAK) audit tool	96
Multi-species ecological network based on asymmetric movement: Application in an urban rural fringe	95
Does urban sprawl lessen green space exposure? Evidence from Chinese cities	94
Balancing multi-species connectivity and socio-economic factors to connect protected areas in the Paraguayan Atlantic Forest	93

Attitudes and preferences towards elements of formal and informal public green spaces in two South African towns	91
A method to prioritize and allocate nature-based solutions in urban areas based on ecosystem service demand	88
‘Blossom Buddies’ − How do flower colour combinations affect emotional response and influence therapeutic landscape design?	86
What’s behind the barriers? Uncovering structural conditions working against urban nature-based solutions	86
Integrating habitat risk and landscape resilience in forest protection and restoration planning for biodiversity conservation	80
Honeybee presence restructures pollination networks more than landscape context by reducing foraging breadths of wild bees	76
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	76
Assessment of heat mitigation capacity of urban greenspaces with the use of InVEST urban cooling model, verified with day-time land surface temperature data	75
Air regulation service is affected by green areas cover and fragmentation: An analysis using demand, supply and flow during COVID-19 quarantine	73
Factors influencing informal trail conditions: Implications for management and research in Urban-Proximate parks and protected areas	70
Pollinator gardening is constrained by income but not lot size in urban front yards	70
Impacts of sights and sounds on anxiety relief in the high-density city	68
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?	68
The importance of ecological quality of public green and blue spaces for subjective well-being	67
How does town planning affect urban-rural income inequality: Evidence from China with simultaneous equation analysis	67
Examining ecological justice within the social-ecological-technological system of New York City, USA	65
Not all brownfields are equal: A typological assessment reveals hidden green space in the city	65
Editorial Board	64
Combining multiple socio-cultural approaches – Deeper insights into cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes?	62
Associations between green space availability and youth’s physical activity in urban and rural areas across Germany	61
Using community surveys with participatory mapping to monitor comprehensive plan implementation	61
Where money grows on trees: A socio-ecological assessment of land use change in an agricultural frontier	61
Regional-dependent tolerance to humans: A multi-country comparison of horizontal and vertical escape distance in arboreal squirrels	60
Risk assessment of terrestrial protected areas to extreme wind hazards: A case study in Queensland, Australia	60
Beyond the luxury effect: Individual and structural drivers lead to ‘urban forest inequity’ in public street trees in Melbourne, Australia	58
Substitution effects and spatial factors in the social demand for landscape aesthetics in agroecosystems	58
Urban tree diversity fosters bird insectivory despite a loss in bird diversity with urbanization	57
Managing urban trees through storms in three United States cities	56
Drone imagery to create a common understanding of landscapes	55