OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 36. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	502
Model-based estimation of the isolated impacts of urban expansion on projected streamflow values under varied climate scenarios	104
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	95
Function and form of U.S. cities	88
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	87
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	86
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	84
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	80
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	80
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	72
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	71
Enhanced solution capabilities for multiple patch land allocation	71
Using a deep learning model to quantify trash accumulation for cleaner urban stormwater	69
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	66
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	64
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey	61
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area	60
Quality assessment of crowdsourced social media data for urban flood management	58
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	56
A simple agent-based model for planning for bicycling: Simulation of bicyclists' movements in urban environments	51
Homogeneity and heterogeneity of diurnal and nocturnal hotspots and the implications for synergetic mitigation in heat-resilient urban planning	51
Large-scale agent-based modelling of street robbery using graphical processing units and reinforcement learning	49
Using street-view panoramas to model the decision-making complexity of road intersections based on the passing branches during navigation	49
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	48
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 (	46

Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization	46
Editorial Board	44
‘Green or short: choose one’ - A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities	43
A framework for modelling spatio-temporal informal settlement growth prediction	42
A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models	40
Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation	39
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	39
Does partition matter? A new approach to modeling land use change	38
Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling	38
Machine learning application to spatio-temporal modeling of urban growth	37
Interpretable machine learning models for crime prediction	36
A graph-based neural network approach to integrate multi-source data for urban building function classification	36