OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening is 50. 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	311
Assessing tree canopy cooling efficiency in different local climate zones: A cost-benefit analysis	141
Assessing the performance of centralized blue-green infrastructure in dynamic stormwater storage and runoff assignment	120
Bridging the land use gap: Examining tree canopy cover and connectivity by land use in 10 U.S. cities	113
Urbanization affects population connectivity, reproductive success and phenotypic traits in the Mediterranean cliff species Brassica incana (Brassicaceae)	99
It’s not easy being cool: Residents’ perceived cooling ability in relation to different types of green infrastructure in their neighbourhood	97
Impacts of 2D/3D building morphology on vegetation greening trends in Hong Kong: An urban-rural contrast perspective	93
Two decades of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: Taking stock and looking forward	90
Perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices in urban greenspaces: Insights from a shrinking city	89
Characteristics and influencing factors of taxonomic and functional diversity of butterflies in urban green spaces	87
Global approaches for ecological restoration in urban environments: A PRISMA review	85
Leveraging nature for just cities: Planning nature-based solutions in Greece	78
How objective and subjective greenspace, combined with air and noise pollution, impacts mental health through the mediation of physical activity	77
Urban coastal parks: What does the public want and what are the effects of priming and socio-demographic background?	75
Morphological influence of sub-scale urban vegetation structures on canopy ventilation and scalar transport based on empirical mode decomposition	73
Deciphering popular routes in urban parks: The impact of environmental factors on the amount, intensity and diversity of physical activity	72
City walk or nature walk? Evidence-based psychological and physiological outcomes – A systematic review and meta-analysis	71
The influence of greening management and landscape patterns on plant diversity in urban green spaces in Danzhou, China	68
Impact of urban green spaces and maintenance regimes on flora and fauna diversity	67
Urban green spaces and stress during COVID-19 lockdown: A case study for the city of Madrid	65
Malaysians’ perception on the contribution of urban green spaces to the UN sustainable development goals	65
Hydric vegetation communities across rural, peri-urban, and urban zones within the Prairie Pothole Region	65
Nature at work: The effects of day-to-day nature contact on workers’ stress and psychological well-being	64
Estimating aboveground biomass of tropical urban forests with UAV-borne hyperspectral and LiDAR data	64
Book Review	64

Support for a new credential in urban forestry: Results from a survey of urban forest professionals	63
Editorial Board	62
Bioreceptivity of living walls: Interactions between building materials and substrates, and effect on plant growth	61
Detection of unfavourable urban areas with higher temperatures and lack of green spaces using satellite imagery in sixteen Spanish cities	59
Eight recommendations to improve the reporting of qualitative social research in urban nature studies	59
Editorial Board	59
Editorial Board	57
Identifying causal changes in landscape greenness with very high-resolution airborne multispectral imagery and a panel data model	57
Editorial Board	57
Editorial Board	57
Suitability of a single imager multispectral sensor for tree health analysis	57
Editorial Board	56
Using big data to analyze how and why users value urban blue spaces in Spain	55
Spatiotemporal fluctuations in urban park spatial vitality determined by on-site observation and behavior mapping: A case study of three parks in Zhengzhou City, China	54
Editorial Board	54
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on green space use in Turkey: Is closing green spaces for use a solution?	54
Visitor mood, restorativeness and connectedness to nature across four unmanaged urban outdoor swimming sites of varying naturalness	54
Tree species composition, growing space and management in Hong Kong’s commercial sky gardens	53
Estimating the alignment of tree species composition with foraging practice in Philadelphia's urban forest: Toward a rapid assessment of provisioning services	53
Diversity and structure in California’s urban forest: What over six million data points tell us about one of the world's largest urban forests	52
Advancing social equity in urban tree planting: Lessons learned from an integrative review of the literature	52
Does intensive cutting regime maintain lowland dry heathlands habitat? The case study of Milano Malpensa airport (Northern Italy)	52
Urban transitions towards Nature-based Solutions	52
Book Review	51
Assessing challenges and opportunities for schools’ access to nature in England	51
Exploring socio-ecological inequalities in heat by multiple and composite greenness metrics: A case study in Belfast, UK	50
Perceptions of stakeholders on nature-based solutions in urban planning: A thematic analysis in six European cities	50