OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is 8. 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
Predicting short-term PM _2.5 concentrations at fine temporal resolutions using a multi-branch temporal graph convolutional neural network	98
GPU-accelerated parallel all-pair shortest path routing within stochastic road networks	71
Scene-GCN: a time-series prediction method in complex monitoring environments through spatial–temporal knowledge graph (ST-KG)	58
Incorporating multimodal context information into traffic speed forecasting through graph deep learning	55
Capturing spatial heterogeneity of population-level human mobility via a prior-guided graph neural network	43
Reasoning over higher-order qualitative spatial relations via spatially explicit neural networks	41
A probabilistic framework with the gradient-based method for multi-objective land use optimization	41
STAGE: a spatiotemporal-knowledge enhanced multi-task generative adversarial network (GAN) for trajectory generation	40
There’s no best model! Addressing limitations of land-use scenario modelling through multi-model ensembles	39
Geospatial foundation models for image analysis: evaluating and enhancing NASA-IBM Prithvi’s domain adaptability	37
The influence of uncertainty visualization on cognitive load in a safety- and time-critical decision-making task	36
A new two-step estimation approach for retrieving surface urban heat island intensity and footprint based on urban-rural temperature gradients	34
A linearization for stable and fast geographically weighted Poisson regression	33
A hierarchical deep reinforcement learning method for solving urban route planning problems under large-scale customers and real-time traffic conditions	32
Children’s walking to urban services: an analysis of pedestrian access to social infrastructures and its relationship with land use	32
A novel approach for cluster detection in trajectory data with low cluster-to-noise density ratio	32
A mobile phone-based multilevel localization framework for field scenes	31
A streamlined approach to uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for models with spatial outputs with an example from geodiversity assessment	31
Fine-grained geographic named entity recognition with few-shot learning	31
A multi-hierarchical method to extract spatial network structures from large-scale origin-destination flow data	30
Context-aware movement analysis in ecology: a systematic review	30
MNCD-KE: a novel framework for simultaneous attribute- and interaction-based geographical regionalization	30
Next location prediction using heterogeneous graph-based fusion network with physical and social awareness	29
Simplification of contour lines, based on axial splines, with high-quality results	28
Efficient matrix algebra encoding for urban solar irradiation simulation: fine-grid ground-level estimation with vector data	27

Discovering source areas of disease outbreaks based on ring-shaped hotspot detection in road network space	26
HMLPA: a hierarchical multi-target LPA pathfinding algorithm designed for dynamic indoor path network	26
Exploring geospatial digital twins: a novel panorama-based method with enhanced representation of virtual geographic scenes in Virtual Reality (VR)	25
An explainable spatial interpolation method considering spatial stratified heterogeneity	25
Toward urban traffic scenarios and more: a spatio-temporal analysis empowered low-rank tensor completion method for data imputation	24
Statistical tests for the local spatial variance	24
Online map-matching assisted by object-based classification of driving scenario	23
Vision-HD: road change detection and registration using images and high-definition maps	21
Trend surface analysis of geographic flows	21
Simulation of urban perforation after random vacant plot generation: application of the thinning point process	21
Lane extraction from trajectories at road intersections based on Graph Transformer Network	20
Developing an integrated approach to validate 3D ownership spaces in complex multistorey buildings	20
Filling gaps of cartographic polylines by using an encoder–decoder model	20
Automatic measurement of building setbacks and streetscape widths and their spatial variability along streets and in plots: integration of streetscape skeletons and plot geometry	20
A backfitting maximum likelihood estimator for hierarchical and geographically weighted regression modelling, with a case study of house prices in Beijing	20
A normative model to estimate the number of persons not social distancing in a 3D complex built space	20
A topography-aware approach to the automatic generation of urban road networks	20
Detecting road network errors from trajectory data with partial map matching and bidirectional recurrent neural network model	19
Dynamic mode decomposition and short-time prediction of PM _2.5 using the graph Neural Koopman network	19
Enhancing drive-by sensing power in urban hotspots through multi-objective vehicle selection optimization	18
Efficient cell navigation methods and applications of an aperture 4 hexagonal discrete global grid system	18
Exploring the vertical dimension of street view image based on deep learning: a case study on lowest floor elevation estimation	18
On ignoring the heterogeneity in spatial autocorrelation: consequences and solutions	17
A reinforcement learning-based routing algorithm for large street networks	17
Integrating hydrological knowledge into deep learning for DEM super-resolution	16
SEMINT: an LLM-empowered long-term vessel trajectory prediction framework	16
A matrix factorization model with local and global consistency for flow prediction in bike-sharing systems	16
Enhanced scan statistic with tightened window for detecting irregularly shaped hotspots	16
Uncertainty analysis of geodata derived from digital map processing	15
Fractal evolution of urban street networks in form and structure: a case study of Hong Kong	15
Addressing the fixed effects in gravity model based on higher-order origin-destination pairs	15
Multi-agent reinforcement learning to unify order-matching and vehicle-repositioning in ride-hailing services	14
Using vertices of a triangular irregular network to calculate slope and aspect	14
STICC: a multivariate spatial clustering method for repeated geographic pattern discovery with consideration of spatial contiguity	14
Geospatiality: the effect of topics on the presence of geolocation in English text data	14
An entity alignment approach coupling NGBoost and SHAP for constructing spatio-temporal evolution knowledge graph from historical atlases	14
A hexagon-based method for polygon generalization using morphological operators	14
A multi-view bidirectional spatiotemporal graph network for urban traffic flow imputation	14
Analytically articulating the effect of buffer size on urban green space exposure measures	13
Integration of Internet search data to predict tourism trends using spatial-temporal XGBoost composite model	13
Efficient inference of large-scale air quality using a lightweight ensemble predictor	13
Extracting geographic relations from large social media text data	13
A skeleton extraction method for large-scale spatial interaction networks considering spatial distribution characteristics	13
Discovering co-location patterns in multivariate spatial flow data	13
Scheduling distributed multiway spatial join queries: optimization models and algorithms	13
Unsupervised domain adaptation for cross-style, cross-year land use understanding from historical maps	12
A cost-effective algorithm for calibrating multiscale geographically weighted regression models	12
Deconstructing rurality to better “place” health data	12
SIMPLINET: a transmission network simplification method for spatiotemporal epidemic modelling	12
Alleviating the resolution limit problem in spatial community detection: a local network structure-based method	11

Visit probability and accessibility within space–time prism of activity program	11
An evaluation of geo-located Twitter data for measuring human migration	11
Exploring the integration of auxiliary modal information from remote sensing images for DEM super-resolution	11
Micromobility systems and disease transmission: a spatially explicit agent-based approach	10
Multiscale cooperative optimization in multiscale geographically weighted regression models	10
Automatic extraction of building geometries based on centroid clustering and contour analysis on oblique images taken by unmanned aerial vehicles	10
A multi-glimpse deep learning architecture to estimate socioeconomic census metrics in the context of extreme scope variance	10
A structural catalogue of the settlement morphology in refugee and IDP camps	10
How good is TanDEM-X 50 m forest/non-forest map? Product validation using temporally corrected geo-browser supplied imagery through Collect Earth	10
Measuring accessibility of hierarchical healthcare facilities from the spatio-sentimental perspective	10
Global GNSS PDOP calculation method based on hexagonal discrete grid	10
Estimating urban noise along road network from street view imagery	10
A narrative analysis of the 2SFCA and i2SFCA methods	10
Is the radial distance really a distance? An analysis of its properties and interest for the matching of polygon features	10
A local encryption method for large-scale vector maps based on spatial hierarchical index and 4D hyperchaotic system	10
A novel aggregation strategy for producing population density surfaces using poll tax data: the case of Vyborg in 1880	9
HiPerMovelets: high-performance movelet extraction for trajectory classification	9
Geographically and temporally weighted co-location quotient: an analysis of spatiotemporal crime patterns in greater Manchester	9
Urban traffic flow prediction: a dynamic temporal graph network considering missing values	9
Observing the dynamic community structure of urban travel networks based on navigation data	9
Deriving map images of generalised mountain roads with generative adversarial networks	9
Automatic sketch map creation from labeled planar graph	9
GeoAI in urban analytics	8
Detecting synthetic population bias using a spatially-oriented framework and independent validation data	8
Act2Loc: a synthetic trajectory generation method by combining machine learning and mechanistic models	8
Fuzzy Bayesian inference for mapping vague and place-based regions: a case study of sectarian territory	8
MapReader: a framework for learning a visual language model for map analysis	8
GALLOC: a GeoAnnotator for Labeling LOCation descriptions from disaster-related text messages	8
The fewer predefined parameters, the better? A comparative analysis of urban delineation methods using building footprint data in the Netherlands	8
A Siamese neural network for learning the similarity metrics of linear features	8
Enhancing the accessibility of regionalization techniques through large language models: a case study in conversational agent guidance	8
Urban-EPR: a universal model for simulating individual human mobility within intra-urban areas	8
On the local modeling of count data: multiscale geographically weighted Poisson regression	8
GANmapper: geographical data translation	8