OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Land Use Policy is 61. 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
Editorial Board	238
Explanation of land-use system evolution: Modes, trends, and mechanisms	234
Development of an agent-based First Nation land use voting model: Experiments in policy adoption at Curve Lake First Nation, Canada	213
Amenity-based development and protected areas in the American West	150
Urban expansion-flood damage nexus: Evidence from the Dosso Region, Niger	149
Efficiency of urban land use in China’s resource-based cities, 2000–2018	148
Social capital and the effectiveness of land use policies: Evidence from rural China	140
Assessing performance and disparities in China’s land finance transition: Insights from neo-liberalism and neo-Marxism	138
The Greek model of urbanization	136
How do different rural-land-consolidation modes shape farmers’ ecological production behaviors?	129
Multifunctional agriculture in a peri-urban fringe: Chinese farmers’ responses to shifts in policy and changing socio-economic conditions	125
Using transfer of development rights (TDR) in a legally ambiguous context: Istanbul case	120
What drives densification and sprawl in cities? A spatially explicit assessment for Vienna, between 1984 and 2018	118
Engaging citizens in land use policy in the smart city context	117
Land redevelopment under ambiguous property rights in transitional Vietnam: A case of spatial transformation in Hanoi city center	117
How do upzonings impact neighborhood demographic change? Examining the link between land use policy and gentrification in New York City	114
Views of government and non-government actors on urban forest management and governance in ten Latin-American capital cities	111
Regional differences and dynamic evolution of urban land green use efficiency within the Yangtze River Delta, China	111
Digital technologies for climate-induced disaster risk reduction and management in Ghana: Applicability and operational challenges	104
Mitigating conflicts in the implementation of intensive land use policies: Insights from a tripartite evolutionary game model	104
Establishment of an inter-provincial compensation system for farmland protection in China: A framework from zoning-integrative transferable development rights	100
Retraction notice to “Model of the influencing factors of the withdrawal from rural homesteads in China: Application of grounded theory method” [Land Use Policy 85 (2019) 285–289]	99
Evaluation of land consolidation projects with parcel shape and dispersion	98
Modelling the legal spaces of 3D underground objects in 3D land administration systems	95
Domain-Driven Design applied to land administration system development: Lessons from the Netherlands	92

Governance of interdependent ecosystem services and common-pool resources	89
From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services	89
Planning control over rural land transformation in Hong Kong: A remote sensing analysis of spatio-temporal land use change patterns	87
How do the surrounding areas of national parks work in the context of landscape fragmentation? A case study of 159 protected areas selected in 11 EU countries	86
Land valuation with Best Worst Method in land consolidation projects	85
Response of landscape dynamics to socio-economic development and biophysical setting across the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China and its implications for regional sustainable land management	85
How does mining policy affect rural migration of Mongolia?	84
A comprehensive framework for evaluating ecosystem quality changes and human activity contributions in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, China	83
Classifying innovation districts: Delphi validation of a multidimensional framework	81
Planning, development pressure, and change in green infrastructure quantity and configuration in coastal Texas	81
Thriving in turbulent times: Livelihood resilience and vulnerability assessment of Bolivian Indigenous forest households	79
A multiple models-multiple users group GIS-based decision support system for land use problems	78
An intelligent web-based spatial group decision support system to investigate the role of the opponents’ modeling in urban land use planning	76
Urban agriculture business models and value propositions: Mixed methods approach based on evidence from Polish and Italian case studies	76
Araguaia biodiversity corridor cost benefit analysis: Large scale restoration and sustainable agribusiness in Amazon and Cerrado	75
A village a field? Agronomic evaluation of fruit trees in inhabited space – Lessons for land use policy from a case study in Israel's Sharon Region	74
After legalization: Cannabis, environmental compliance, and agricultural futures	74
Editorial Board	74
A National Park split by an internal border. Analysing the case of Sierra de Guadarrama (Spain)	73
Urban conservation in the public eye: Evaluating the integrity achieved in the rehabilitation plan of Karim-Khan Zand Complex, Shiraz, Iran based on people’s perceptions	71
Norms triumph over self-interest! The role of perceived values and different norms on sustainable agricultural practices	70
Uncertainty in policy transfer across contaminated land management regimes: Examining the Nigerian experience	69
Conservation motivations and willingness to pay for wildlife management areas among recreational user groups	68
Editorial Board	68
How have the land reform, misunderstanding, and dysfunction of modernity led to rural underdevelopment in Iran?	66
Visualisation and dissemination of 3D valuation units and groups – An LADM valuation information compliant prototype	65
Editorial Board	64
Securing tenure for conflict-affected populations: A case study of land titling and fit-for-purpose land administration in post-conflict Sri Lanka	64
Upgrading to 3D cadastre in Morocco: Lessons learned from benchmarking of international 3D cadastral systems	64
The role of UK universities as economic drivers in a localisation agenda: A case study of City Deals	62
Not just sand: The folly of dismantling the environmental protection of dunes in Brazil	62
Editorial Board	62
Trends, motivations, and land use outcomes of municipal annexation: A case of Alberta, Canada	62
The contribution of Gudo forest conservation culture is key to biodiversity conservation the case of Sheka Zone, southwest Ethiopia	62
Payment for ecosystem services and the practices of environmental fieldworkers in policy implementation: The case of Bolsa Floresta in the Brazilian Amazon	62
Factors affecting utilization opportunity of wetlands and their immediate surroundings in abandoned mining sites: A case study for Istanbul	61