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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Preferring Local over Non-Local Parks? Green Space Visit Patterns by Urban Residents in Desert Cities, Arizona	397
After-sealing life in urban soils: Experimental evidence of resilience and efficiency of ectomycorrhizal inoculation	209
Deconstructing viewshed analysis makes it possible to construct a useful visual impact map for wind projects	202
EO + Morphometrics: Understanding cities through urban morphology at large scale	186
Using climate analogues and vulnerability metrics to inform urban tree species selection in a changing climate: The case for Canadian cities	142
Impacts of woodland planting on nature-based recreational tourism in upland England – A case study	137
Research note: Climate change, peri-urban space and emerging infectious disease	132
Landscape value in urban neighborhoods: A pilot analysis using street-level images	131
A virtual reality investigation of factors influencing landscape preferences: Natural elements, emotions, and media creation	114
‘Blossom Buddies’ − How do flower colour combinations affect emotional response and influence therapeutic landscape design?	110
A distributive environmental justice index to support green space planning in cities	107
Why go green? Comparing rationales and planning criteria for green infrastructure in U.S. city plans	103
Just nature-based solutions and the pursuit of climate resilient urban development	100
Early stages of crop expansion have little effect on farm-scale vegetation patterns in a Cerrado biome working landscape	97
Editorial Board	93
The socio-economic context of form-based codes	88
Assessing impacts of objective features and subjective perceptions of street environment on running amount: A case study of Boston	88
Global Street Experiment: A Geospatial Database of Pandemic-induced Street Transitions	88
The significance of shade provision in reducing street-level summer heat stress in a hot Mediterranean climate	86
Exploring mechanistic pathways linking urban green and blue space to mental wellbeing before and after urban regeneration of a greenway: Evidence from the Connswater Community Greenway, Belfast, UK	84
When healthy aging meets Vitamin G: Assessing the associations between green space and heart health in older adults using street view and electrocardiography	84
Urban overall and visible greenness and diabetes among older adults in China	83
How mobility-based exposure to green space and environmental pollution influence individuals’ wellbeing? A structural equation analysis through the lens of environmental justice	81
Integrating habitat risk and landscape resilience in forest protection and restoration planning for biodiversity conservation	81
The relationship between urban greenness and mental health: A national-level study of China	80

The socio-spatial response to environmentally mitigated channelization in Southeast Asia. A longitudinal landscape pattern analysis	80
Accounting for spatial spillover benefits in neighborhood wildfire risk mitigation	77
Ecosystem restoration along the “pattern-process-service-sustainability” path for achieving land degradation neutrality	77
Impact of urban schoolyard play zone diversity and nature-based design features on unstructured recess play behaviors	76
Four decades of urban land cover change in Philadelphia	75
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Moderate ability to predict perceptions of beauty, restorativeness, and naturalness, in imagery among 10,727 participants	73
A systematic review of evidence of additional health benefits from forest exposure	72
A trail-based approach using crowdsourced data to assess recreationists' preferences for landscape	72
Climate change and real estate markets: An empirical study of the impacts of wildfires on home values in California	69
Green to gold mile: An environmental justice analysis of drought and mitigation policy impacts on home landscapes in Sacramento California	69
Productive urban landscapes contribute to physical activity promotion among Tokyo residents	67
The wildland – urban interface in Europe: Spatial patterns and associations with socioeconomic and demographic variables	66
Do various dimensions of exposure metrics affect biopsychosocial pathways linking green spaces to mental health? A cross-sectional study in Nanjing, China	65
Urbanisation of a growing tropical mega-city during the 21st century — Landscape transformation and vegetation dynamics	64
Scales of inequality: The role of spatial extent in environmental justice analysis	63
The association of residential greenness, genetic susceptibility and telomere length: A cross-sectional study	62
Motivations for urban front gardening: A quantitative analysis	62
Valuing property over the environment: Municipal landscaping ordinances in Texas	60
Research Note: Is urban nature necessary for well-being? For whom? A necessary condition analysis	58
Editorial Board	57
Editorial Board	57
Do greenness and landscape indices for greenspace correlate with suicide ratio?	55
Bee visitation to flowers throughout New York City	55
Beyond priority pixels: Delineating and evaluating landscapes for conservation in the contiguous United States	55
Editorial Board	54
Editorial Board	54
Effectiveness of management of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor in Mexico	54
Editorial Board	54
Editorial Board	54