OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Landscape and Urban Planning is 53. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Street view imagery in urban analytics and GIS: A review	192
Back to nature: Norwegians sustain increased recreational use of urban green space months after the COVID-19 outbreak	144
Analyzing the effects of Green View Index of neighborhood streets on walking time using Google Street View and deep learning	139
Green Apartheid: Urban green infrastructure remains unequally distributed across income and race geographies in South Africa	137
Urban agriculture — A necessary pathway towards urban resilience and global sustainability?	136
The role of perceived public and private green space in subjective health and wellbeing during and after the first peak of the COVID-19 outbreak	132
Which communities have better accessibility to green space? An investigation into environmental inequality using big data	119
Remote sensing in urban planning: Contributions towards ecologically sound policies?	108
Understanding the use of urban green spaces from user-generated geographic information	108
How to effectively mitigate urban heat island effect? A perspective of waterbody patch size threshold	107
Built environment, urban vitality and social cohesion: Do vibrant neighborhoods foster strong communities?	101
Integrating spatial continuous wavelet transform and kernel density estimation to identify ecological corridors in megacities	96
The peri-urbanization of Europe: A systematic review of a multifaceted process	96
A review of green infrastructure research in Europe: Challenges and opportunities	95
Spending time in the garden is positively associated with health and wellbeing: Results from a national survey in England	95
Parks and safety: a comparative study of green space access and inequity in five US cities	93
A systematic map of research exploring the effect of greenspace on mental health	90
Spatial correlation between the changes of ecosystem service supply and demand: An ecological zoning approach	85
A performance-based planning approach integrating supply and demand of urban ecosystem services	85
Effects of urban parks on residents’ expressed happiness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	85
Locating the green space paradox: A study of gentrification and public green space accessibility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	83
A ‘green’ chameleon: Exploring the many disciplinary definitions, goals, and forms of “green infrastructure”	82
Designing wildlife-inclusive cities that support human-animal co-existence	79
Effects of building density on land surface temperature in China: Spatial patterns and determinants	79
The influence of tree traits on urban ground surface shade cooling	79

The role of ‘nativeness’ in urban greening to support animal biodiversity	76
Evidence of urban heat island impacts on the vegetation growing season length in a tropical city	74
Where greenspace matters most: A systematic review of urbanicity, greenspace, and physical health	71
Heatwave-induced human health risk assessment in megacities based on heat stress-social vulnerability-human exposure framework	70
Life satisfaction linked to the diversity of nature experiences and nature views from the window	70
A conceptual framework to untangle the concept of urban ecosystem services	67
Evaluation of the policy-driven ecological network in the Three-North Shelterbelt region of China	65
Public park attributes, park visits, and associated health status	65
Compact development and adherence to stay-at-home order during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal investigation in the United States	64
The image of the City on social media: A comparative study using “Big Data” and “Small Data” methods in the Tri-City Region in Poland	64
Mixed-cell cellular automata: A new approach for simulating the spatio-temporal dynamics of mixed land use structures	63
Objective and perceived built environment, sense of community, and mental wellbeing in older adults in Hong Kong: A multilevel structural equation study	63
Physiological and psychological effects of visits to different urban green and street environments in older people: A field experiment in a dense inner-city area	62
Psychological restoration in urban gardens related to garden type, biodiversity and garden-related stress	62
How is urbanization shaping agricultural land-use? Unraveling the nexus between farmland abandonment and urbanization in China	61
The global homogenization of urban form. An assessment of 194 cities across time	60
Within-city spatial and temporal heterogeneity of air temperature and its relationship with land surface temperature	58
Green growth? On the relation between population density, land use and vegetation cover fractions in a city using a 30-years Landsat time series	58
Urban mapping needs up-to-date approaches to provide diverse perspectives of current urbanization: A novel attempt to map urban areas with nighttime light data	58
The co-production of sustainable future scenarios	58
Relative importance of quantitative and qualitative aspects of urban green spaces in promoting health	58
Supply and demand assessment of urban recreation service and its implication for greenspace planning-A case study on Guangzhou	57
“Perception bias”: Deciphering a mismatch between urban crime and perception of safety	56
Inequalities of urban green space area and ecosystem services along urban center-edge gradients	55
Tracing and building up environmental justice considerations in the urban ecosystem service literature: A systematic review	55
Assessing the thermal contributions of urban land cover types	53
Comparing outdoor recreation preferences in peri-urban landscapes using different data gathering methods	53
Urban flood risk and green infrastructure: Who is exposed to risk and who benefits from investment? A case study of three U.S. Cities	53