OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health & Place is 32. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Healthy movement behaviours in children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the role of the neighbourhood environment	145
Objective scoring of streetscape walkability related to leisure walking: Statistical modeling approach with semantic segmentation of Google Street View images	104
Longitudinal analyses of the relationship between development density and the COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates: Early evidence from 1,165 metropolitan counties in the United States	102
Energy poverty and health: Trends in the European Union before and during the economic crisis, 2007–2016	72
Unequable spatial accessibility to hospitals in developing megacities: New evidence from Beijing	57
Spatial variation in socio-ecological vulnerability to Covid-19 in the contiguous United States	55
Exploring the neighbourhood-level correlates of Covid-19 deaths in London using a difference across spatial boundaries method	55
Spatiotemporal transmission dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on critical healthcare capacity	53
The association between socioeconomic status and mobility reductions in the early stage of England's COVID-19 epidemic	52
The need for GIScience in mapping COVID-19	49
Association between density and proximity of tobacco retail outlets with smoking: A systematic review of youth studies	49
Racial/ethnic minority and neighborhood disadvantage leads to disproportionate mortality burden and years of potential life lost due to COVID-19 in Chicago, Illinois	48
The neighborhood effect of exposure to blue space on elderly individuals’ mental health: A case study in Guangzhou, China	48
Role of neighborhood social support in stress coping and psychological wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Hubei, China	48
Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and subsequent health and well-being in older adults: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach	47
Ranking the importance of demographic, socioeconomic, and underlying health factors on US COVID-19 deaths: A geographical random forest approach	45
Who maintains good mental health in a locked-down country? A French nationwide online survey of 11,391 participants	45
Mental health and well-being in times of COVID-19: A mixed-methods study of the role of neighborhood parks, outdoor spaces, and nature among US older adults	45
Understanding the relationships among individual-based momentary measured noise, perceived noise, and psychological stress: A geographic ecological momentary assessment (GEMA) approach	43
COVID-19 testing, case, and death rates and spatial socio-demographics in New York City: An ecological analysis as of June 2020	41
The stationarity bias in research on the environmental determinants of health	41
Older adults’ activity destinations before and during COVID-19 restrictions: From a variety of activities to mostly physical exercise close to home	40
Understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on American public mask wearing in response to COVID–19	40
Dose-response effect of a large-scale greenway intervention on physical activities: The first natural experimental study in China	40
Retailer density reduction approaches to tobacco control: A review	38

Nature in the indoor and outdoor study environment and secondary and tertiary education students’ well-being, academic outcomes, and possible mediating pathways: A systematic review with recommendatio	37
Patterns of COVID-19 related excess mortality in the municipalities of Northern Italy during the first wave of the pandemic	36
Examine the associations between perceived neighborhood conditions, physical activity, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Evaluating the association between urban green spaces and subjective well-being in Mexico city during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Development of a vulnerability index for diagnosis with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Washington State, USA	35
Neighborhood-level COVID-19 hospitalizations and mortality relationships with built environment, active and sedentary travel	34
Green spaces, dementia and a meaningful life in the community: A mixed studies review	33
Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews	32
Positive HABITATS for physical activity: Examining use of parks and its contribution to physical activity levels in mid-to older-aged adults	32
Infection rates from Covid-19 in Great Britain by geographical units: A model-based estimation from mortality data	32
Gentrification pathways and their health impacts on historically marginalized residents in Europe and North America: Global qualitative evidence from 14 cities	32