OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Landscape and Urban Planning is 54. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	452
Multi-species ecological network based on asymmetric movement: Application in an urban rural fringe	219
Building to conserve: Quantifying the outdoor water savings of residential redevelopment in Denver, Colorado	209
Editorial Board	192
Expanding the toolbox: Assessing methods for local outdoor recreation planning	151
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	150
Green to gold mile: An environmental justice analysis of drought and mitigation policy impacts on home landscapes in Sacramento California	145
Prevalence and effectiveness of nature-based interventions to impact adult health-related behaviours and outcomes: A scoping review	139
Scales of inequality: The role of spatial extent in environmental justice analysis	124
Does urban sprawl lessen green space exposure? Evidence from Chinese cities	121
Honeybee presence restructures pollination networks more than landscape context by reducing foraging breadths of wild bees	120
A typological study of the provision and use of communal outdoor space in Australian apartment developments	113
Building patterns and fuel features drive wildfire severity in wildland-urban interfaces in Southern Europe	102
Balancing multi-species connectivity and socio-economic factors to connect protected areas in the Paraguayan Atlantic Forest	101
Urban overall and visible greenness and diabetes among older adults in China	100
Landscape value in urban neighborhoods: A pilot analysis using street-level images	100
Integrating habitat risk and landscape resilience in forest protection and restoration planning for biodiversity conservation	98
Assessment of heat mitigation capacity of urban greenspaces with the use of InVEST urban cooling model, verified with day-time land surface temperature data	95
Attitudes and preferences towards elements of formal and informal public green spaces in two South African towns	93
Integrating conservation targets and ecosystem services in landscape spatial planning from Portugal	92
Urban tree inventories as a tool to assess tree growth and failure: The case for Australian cities	92
The wildland – urban interface in Europe: Spatial patterns and associations with socioeconomic and demographic variables	92
Preferring Local over Non-Local Parks? Green Space Visit Patterns by Urban Residents in Desert Cities, Arizona	89
Motivations for urban front gardening: A quantitative analysis	87
What’s behind the barriers? Uncovering structural conditions working against urban nature-based solutions	87

Comparing landscape value patterns between participatory mapping and geolocated social media content across Europe	85
Species richness is positively related to mental health – A study for Germany	84
Community, pastoralism, landscape: Eliciting values and human-nature connectedness of forest-related people	84
Global Street Experiment: A Geospatial Database of Pandemic-induced Street Transitions	82
‘Blossom Buddies’ − How do flower colour combinations affect emotional response and influence therapeutic landscape design?	78
Developing and testing the senior park environment assessment in Korea (SPEAK) audit tool	76
A method to prioritize and allocate nature-based solutions in urban areas based on ecosystem service demand	73
Assessment of land cover trajectories as an indicator of urban habitat temporal continuity	71
Associations between green space availability and youth’s physical activity in urban and rural areas across Germany	70
Response to Guerin et al. Comment on ’Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale’	69
Substitution effects and spatial factors in the social demand for landscape aesthetics in agroecosystems	69
Combining multiple socio-cultural approaches – Deeper insights into cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes?	67
How does town planning affect urban-rural income inequality: Evidence from China with simultaneous equation analysis	66
Air regulation service is affected by green areas cover and fragmentation: An analysis using demand, supply and flow during COVID-19 quarantine	66
Beyond the luxury effect: Individual and structural drivers lead to ‘urban forest inequity’ in public street trees in Melbourne, Australia	64
Pollinator gardening is constrained by income but not lot size in urban front yards	64
Editorial Board	63
Urban tree diversity fosters bird insectivory despite a loss in bird diversity with urbanization	63
Risk assessment of terrestrial protected areas to extreme wind hazards: A case study in Queensland, Australia	62
Where money grows on trees: A socio-ecological assessment of land use change in an agricultural frontier	62
Can environmental legislation protect a threatened apex predator across different land tenures?	60
Vertical greening systems serve as effective means to promote pollinators: Experimental comparison of vertical and horizontal plantings	60
Regional-dependent tolerance to humans: A multi-country comparison of horizontal and vertical escape distance in arboreal squirrels	58
Assessing public opinion using self-organizing maps. Lessons from urban planning in Romania	57
Managing urban trees through storms in three United States cities	57
Not all brownfields are equal: A typological assessment reveals hidden green space in the city	57
Global change in the European Alps: A century of post-abandonment natural reforestation at the landscape scale	56
Does gentrification precede and follow greening? Evidence about the green gentrification cycle in Los Angeles and Chicago	55
Factors influencing informal trail conditions: Implications for management and research in Urban-Proximate parks and protected areas	54
The importance of ecological quality of public green and blue spaces for subjective well-being	54
Assessing differences in safety perceptions using GeoAI and survey across neighbourhoods in Stockholm, Sweden	54
Using community surveys with participatory mapping to monitor comprehensive plan implementation	54