OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers Environment and Urban Systems is 37. 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
Navigating the post-pandemic urban landscape: Disparities in transportation recovery & regional insights from New York City	432
Model-based estimation of the isolated impacts of urban expansion on projected streamflow values under varied climate scenarios	112
A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity	97
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes: Can walkable streetscapes make local businesses more attractive?	93
A land-use transport-interaction framework for large scale strategic urban modeling	81
Function and form of U.S. cities	80
An integrated global model of local urban development and population change	79
Rooftop segmentation and optimization of photovoltaic panel layouts in digital surface models	79
How far are we towards sustainable Carfree cities combining shared autonomous vehicles with park-and-ride: An agent-based simulation assessment for Brussels	76
An ANN-based method for population Dasymetric mapping to avoid the scale heterogeneity: A case study in Hong Kong, 2016–2021	75
Characterizing residential segregation in cities using intensity, separation, and scale indicators	72
Large-scale agent-based modelling of street robbery using graphical processing units and reinforcement learning	67
A simple agent-based model for planning for bicycling: Simulation of bicyclists' movements in urban environments	66
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey	65
Quality assessment of crowdsourced social media data for urban flood management	63
Enhanced solution capabilities for multiple patch land allocation	62
Using street-view panoramas to model the decision-making complexity of road intersections based on the passing branches during navigation	61
Locating offenders: Introducing the reverse spatial patterning approach	61
Using a deep learning model to quantify trash accumulation for cleaner urban stormwater	59
The language of neighborhoods: A predictive-analytical framework based on property advertisement text and mortgage lending data	58
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network	56
Analyzing usage patterns from video data through deep learning: The case of an urban park	54
Delineating urban functional use from points of interest data with neural network embedding: A case study in Greater London	53
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area	49
Homogeneity and heterogeneity of diurnal and nocturnal hotspots and the implications for synergetic mitigation in heat-resilient urban planning	48

A framework for modelling spatio-temporal informal settlement growth prediction	47
Plot-scale population estimation modeling based on residential plot form clustering and locational attractiveness analysis	46
Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization	42
A user-friendly assessment of six commonly used urban growth models	42
‘Green or short: choose one’ - A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities	42
Exploring the viability of walk-sharing in outdoor urban spaces	40
Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation	39
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 (	39
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression	38
Editorial Board	38
Machine learning application to spatio-temporal modeling of urban growth	37
Machine learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms	37
Towards generating network of bikeways from Mapillary data	37
Does partition matter? A new approach to modeling land use change	37