OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 38. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	636
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	119
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	101
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	101
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	98
Function and form of U.S. cities	97
Model-based estimation of the isolated impacts of urban expansion on projected streamflow values under varied climate scenarios	94
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	92
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	91
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	87
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey	79
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	78
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	78
Large-scale agent-based modelling of street robbery using graphical processing units and reinforcement learning	73
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area	73
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	69
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	66
Enhanced solution capabilities for multiple patch land allocation	58
Using street-view panoramas to model the decision-making complexity of road intersections based on the passing branches during navigation	58
Using a deep learning model to quantify trash accumulation for cleaner urban stormwater	57
Quality assessment of crowdsourced social media data for urban flood management	55
Homogeneity and heterogeneity of diurnal and nocturnal hotspots and the implications for synergetic mitigation in heat-resilient urban planning	53
A simple agent-based model for planning for bicycling: Simulation of bicyclists' movements in urban environments	50
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	49
Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization	48

Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling	46
Does partition matter? A new approach to modeling land use change	45
Hedonic price models, social media data and AI – An application to the AIRBNB sector in us cities	45
Corrigendum to “An integrated physical-social analysis of disrupted access to critical facilities and community service-loss tolerance in urban flooding” [Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 80 (	44
Editorial Board	44
A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models	42
Machine learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms	42
Towards a scalable and transferable approach to map deprived areas using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning	42
‘Green or short: choose one’ - A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities	40
Delineating functional urban areas in Chinese mega city regions using fine-grained population data and cellphone location data: A case of Pearl River Delta	40
A framework for modelling spatio-temporal informal settlement growth prediction	39
Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation	38
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	38