OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Geographical Sciences is 12. 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
Intercity connections and a world city network based on international sport events: Empirical studies on the Beijing, London, and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games	124
Energy dissipation caused by boundary resistance in a typical reach of the lower Yellow River and the implications for riverbed stability	98
Comprehensive evaluation and influencing factors of healthy cities in China’s urban agglomerations	82
The impact of economic development on urban livability: Evidence from 40 large and medium-sized cities of China	63
Land consolidation and eco-environmental sustainability in Loess Plateau: A study of Baota district, Shaanxi province, China	59
Regional ecosystem services relationships and their potential driving factors in the Yellow River Basin, China	56
Population evolution at the prefecture-level city scale in China: Change patterns and spatial correlations	53
Relocation for improved ecosystem service and human wellbeing? Evidence from Fuping, Hebei, China	53
Chemical fertilizer rate, use efficiency and reduction of cereal crops in China, 1998–2018	51
Characterization and projection of spatial and temporal changes in habitat quality of Sanjiangyuan based on land use change	50
Effects of water level variations on the water quality of Huayang Lakes, China	49
Long-term glacier variations and the response to climate fluctuation in Qilian Mountains, China	49
Assessment of hydraulic performance changes of Dongting Lake after the Three Gorges Reservoir impoundment by a novel semi-empirical approach	45
Glacier service value and influence on human well-being in Qilian Mountains	44
Uncovering differences in the spatial structure of intercity interactive networks described by multi-source migration flow: From the multi-hierarchical perspective	40
Imbalance of inter-provincial forest carbon sequestration rate from 2010 to 2060 in China and its regulation strategy	39
Spatial scaling effects of gully erosion in response to driving factors in southern China	39
Distribution of prehistoric human land use in the Liaohe River Valley as related to climate change	38
Polycentric urban development with state-led administrative division adjustment: A policy insight for urban spatial transformation	38
Transnational technology transfer network in China: Spatial dynamics and its determinants	37
Geographical features and development models of estuarine cities	36
Dynamics and interactions of water-related ecosystem services in the Yellow River Basin, China	34
Influence mechanism of the flow of high-skilled talents on technological evolution in emerging countries	32
Land-use planning in China: Past, present, and future	32
China’s food security situation and key questions in the new era: A perspective of farmland protection	31

Assessment on the sustainability of water resources utilization in Central Asia based on water resources carrying capacity	31
Examining spatio-temporal variations in carbon budget and carbon compensation zoning in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration based on major functional zones	30
Glacier area changes in the Nujiang-Salween River Basin over the past 45 years	28
Geomorphology of mega-dunes in the eastern Taklimakan Desert	27
Adjustment of thalweg longitudinal profiles in response to sediment silting in cascade reservoirs: A case study of the lower Jinsha River	27
Climate change impacts on the architectural adaptation in ancient China during the 3rd–6th centuries	27
Model construction of urban agglomeration expansion simulation considering urban flow and hierarchical characteristics	26
Measuring glacier changes in the Tianshan Mountains over the past 20 years using Google Earth Engine and machine learning	26
Spatiotemporal heterogeneities in vegetation phenophase responses to climate extremes in arid mountains of Central Asia	26
Linkage between riverbed scouring or deposition and the evolution of central bars: Case study in the Yangzhong reach of the Yangtze River	25
Adjustment of flood discharge capacity with varying boundary conditions in a braided reach of the Lower Yellow River	25
Automatic mapping and pattern analysis of retrogressive thaw slumps on the central Tibetan Plateau using deep learning	24
Evolution of rural multifunction and its natural and socioeconomic factors in coastal China	24
The segmentation of debris-flow fans based on local features and spatial attention mechanism	24
Multi-scale analysis of trade-off/synergistic effects of forest ecosystem services in the Funiu Mountain Region, China	23
Quantitative relationship between channels and bars in a tidal reach of the lower Yangtze River: Implications for river management	23
Urban economic efficiency under the interactive effect of urban hierarchy and connection networks in China	23
Glacier changes in the Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve of China during 2000–2018	22
Quantum harmonic oscillator model for simulation of intercity population mobility	22
Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem services under multiple future scenarios to assess the progress of Sustainable Development Goals implementation	22
Classification and detection of dominant factors in geospatial patterns of traditional settlements in China	22
Multi-hierarchical spatial clustering for characteristic towns in China: An Orange-based framework to integrate GIS and Geodetector	22
Post-suburbanization in Qingpu New Town: Process and formation mechanism	22
Exploring the historical evolution of tourism-environment interaction in protected area: A case study of Mt. Bogda	21
Evolution of vegetation phenology and its response to urbanisation in Shaanxi province, China: A fine-scale perspective	21
Have China’s drylands become wetting in the past 50 years?	20
Flow resistance adjustments of channel and bars in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in response to the operation of the Three Gorges Dam	20
Green roofs for a greener future: Quantifying carbon sequestration and oxygen production potential in Chinese cities	20
Evaluation, simulation, and optimization of land use spatial patterns for high-quality development: A case study of Zhengzhou city, China	20
Global and regional changes in working-age population exposure to heat extremes under climate change	20
Evaluation of geopolitical environment along the Belt and Road routes	20
Comparative analysis of different machine learning algorithms for urban footprint extraction in diverse urban contexts using high-resolution remote sensing imagery	19
Zoning framework and policy implications of sustainable development by coupling multilevel in Beijing, China	19
Morphological evolution of the channel-shoal system in the South Channel of the Changjiang Estuary during 1958–2018: Causes and future trends	19
Land cover change and its response to water level around Tonle Sap Lake in 1988–2020	18
Influencing factors of manufacturing agglomeration in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region based on enterprise big data	18
Regulation factors driving vegetation changes in China during the past 20 years	18
Quantitative assessment of fire occurrence Dead Fuel Index threshold and spatio-temporal variation in different grassland types of China-Mongolia border area	18
Geographical big data and data mining: A new opportunity for “water-energy-food” nexus analysis	18
Spatial heterogeneity of the economic growth pattern and influencing factors in formerly destitute areas of China	18
Global submarine cable network and digital divide	18
Dynamics of the eco-environmental quality in response to land use changes in rapidly urbanizing areas: A case study of Wuhan, China from 2000 to 2018	17
Morphometric analyses of a deltaic strandplain inferred from LiDAR data and old maps: A contribution to the coastal risk mapping of the Tiber Delta (Italy)	17
Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the normalized difference vegetation index of desertified areas in northern China	17
City size and employment dynamics in China: Evidence from recruitment website data	17
How geographic accessibility and rural governance mitigate the impact of multiple risks on rural households’ well-being: Evidence from the Dabie Mountains in China	17
Nonlinear relationship between urban form and transport CO2 emissions: Evidence from Chinese cities based on machine learning	17
The study of artificial intelligence for predicting land use changes in an arid ecosystem	17
Evidence of Middle Pleistocene hominin migration in the Qinling Mountains (central China) from the Miaokou Paleolithic site	17
Evaluation system and influencing paths for the integration of culture and tourism in traditional villages	16

Relationship between potential waterway depth improvement and evolution of the Jingjiang Reach of the Yangtze River in China	16
The effects of Taobao villages’ spatiotemporal agglomeration on urbanization: A case study of Quanzhou, Fujian	16
Climate change and human activities on runoff in northern Shaanxi: Based on Budyko framework analysis	16
Divergent effects of climate change on cropland ecosystem water use efficiency at different elevations in southwestern China	16
Understanding the multidimensional poverty in South Asia	16
An influencing mechanism for ecological asset gains and losses and its optimization and promotion pathways in China	16
Spatiotemporal evolution of national development zones and their impact on urban land growth in China	16
Lake surface water-heat flux variation and its correlations with meteorological factors on multiscale in the Yamzhog Yumco, south Tibet	16
Chronology of the urban evolution of Ancient Loulan City	15
Characteristics of the iron mineralogy of farmland and red soils in eastern Guangdong and their pedogenetic implications	15
Housing tenure and type choices of urban migrants in China	15
Spatiotemporal variations of eco-environment in the Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone based on remote sensing ecological index and granular computing	15
Touristic urbanization and greening of coastal dune fields: A long-term assessment of a temperate sandy barrier of Argentina	14
Moving towards synergistic reductions on PM2.5 and CO2 and its mechanism: A case study of Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	14
How does the coupling coordination relationship between high-quality urbanization and land use evolve in China? New evidence based on exploratory spatiotemporal analyses	14
Traffic accessibility and the coupling degree of ecosystem services supply and demand in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, China	14
A geographical perspective on the Xia culture: Evidence from ancient phenology and paleoclimate simulation	14
Literature review of accessibility measures and models used in land use and transportation planning in last 5 years	14
On integrated urban and rural development	14
Different trajectories of livelihood transformations in response to the trans-Eurasian exchange in agricultural, pastoral, and agro-pastoral regions of north China during the late Neolithic and Bronze	14
Divergent responses of Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) to recent warming along elevational gradients in the central Qilian Mountains, Northwest China	14
Extraction and spatiotemporal evolution analysis of tidal flats in the Bohai Rim during 1984–2019 based on remote sensing	14
Tourism development potential and obstacle factors of cultural heritage: Evidence from traditional music in Xiangxi	14
Spatio-temporal variation prediction on Cd content in the rice grains from Northern Zhejiang Plain during 2014–2019 based on high-precision soil geochemical data	14
Temperature trends in some major countries from the 1980s to 2019	14
The (geo)politics of the marine knowledge production and evolution in the South China Sea: The case of Genglubu	14
Land use change and its influencing factors along railways in Africa: A case study of the Ethiopian section of the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway	14
Nonlinear effects of the urban built environment on urban vitality: A case study of Hangzhou, China	13
Relational characteristics and dynamics between high-tech firms in the Pearl River Delta and the empowerment for technological innovation by Hong Kong	13
Dynamic evolution trend of comprehensive transportation green efficiency in China: From a spatio-temporal interaction perspective	13
Developing socio-hydrology: Research progress, opportunities and challenges	13
Glacier wastage and its vulnerability in the Qilian Mountains	13
Progress on spatial prediction methods for soil particle-size fractions	13
Assessing Common Era impacts of Asian dust on tropical cyclone changes in the Northwestern Pacific	13
Evolution characteristics of ecosystem functional stability and ecosystem functional zoning on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	13
Spatiotemporal distribution of sea-island prehistoric dune sites, Holocene sea levels, and aeolian sand activities in Fujian Province, China	13
Evolution and obstacle factors of high-quality industrial development in the π-shaped Curve Area of the Yellow River basin in China	13
Bank and point bar morphodynamics in the Lower Jingjiang Reach of the Yangtze River in response to the Three Gorges Project	13
The spatial pattern and governance of Zhongyuan Urban-Rural System in its development trajectory	13
Regional differences and formation mechanisms of watershed territorial space patterns evolution: A case study of the critical areas in the Pearl River Basin	13
Geopolitics of the energy transition	12
Residents’ urbanized landscape preferences in rural areas reveal the importance of naturalness-livability contrast	12
How does land consolidation affect rural development transformation?	12
Thalweg migration under the collaborative changes in the hydro-sediment regime and erosion base level in the Xiaobeiganliu reach of the Middle Yellow River	12
Unearthing the impact of urban sprawl on transport carbon dioxide emissions: Fresh evidence from 274 Chinese cities	12
Evaluation of cropland suitability and key potential areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	12
Combinatorial knowledge dynamics, innovative performance, and transition studies	12
Climate-driven changes in drought metrics across the Yellow River Basin based on Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6	12
The location choice of Chinese investment in the United States: Industrial agglomeration, ethnic networks and firm heterogeneity	12
A 1000-year history of cropland cover change along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in China	12
Multi-scale coupling analysis of urbanization and ecosystem services supply-demand budget in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China	12
The optimal explanatory power of soil erosion and water yield in karst mountainous areas	12
The meliorization process of urban green spaces: Integrating landsense creation for sustainable development	12
Estimation of maize yield incorporating the synergistic effect of climatic and land use change in Jilin, China	12
Temporal and spatial laws and simulations of erosion and deposition in the Lower Yellow River since the operation of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir	12
Provincial anthropogenic emission inventory of carbonyl sulfide (COS) in China from 2015 to 2021	12
Lithic miniaturization in South China since the terminal Pleistocene: A multivariate analysis of lithic reduction from Fodongdi, Fulin and Xiqiaoshan	12
Tracing the agro-pastoral ecotone transition in northern China from the human-Earth system perspective	12
Development vs. conservation in limited urban sprawl: An integrated framework for resolving the urban boundary dilemma in China	12
The long-term environmental evolution of an urban lake in the highly developed Yangtze River Delta	12
Differential depression of the glacier equilibrium-line altitudes in the Yarlung Zangbo Downstream Basin in the Last Glacial Maximum compared to the pre-industrial era	12