OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening is 49. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The advantage of mobile technologies in crowdsourcing landscape preferences: Testing a mobile app to inform planning decisions	131
Spatio-temporal monitoring of urban street-side vegetation greenery using Baidu Street View images	126
Rediscovering circularity in productive urban landscapes	123
Does intensive cutting regime maintain lowland dry heathlands habitat? The case study of Milano Malpensa airport (Northern Italy)	102
Eight recommendations to improve the reporting of qualitative social research in urban nature studies	100
Editorial Board	96
Editorial Board	91
Book Review	81
Review on the multi-scale interactions of urban forests and atmospheric particles: Affecting factors are scale-dependent among tree, stand and region	78
Coarse-to-fine segmentation of individual street trees from side-view point clouds	76
UAV leaf-on, leaf-off and ALS-aided tree height: A case study on the trees in the vicinity of roads	76
Parks Please! Implementing the 3–30-300 green space rule in developing countries − The case of Surakarta, Indonesia	73
Machine learning-based prediction of tree crown development in competitive urban environments	71
Greening streets, gaining insights: Unpacking resident perceptions of urban greening	71
Identifying causal changes in landscape greenness with very high-resolution airborne multispectral imagery and a panel data model	71
Sniff the urban park: Unveiling odor features and landscape effect on smellscape in Guangzhou, China	71
Spatial pattern of urban forest diversity and its potential drivers in a snow climate city, Northeast China	69
Characteristics and influencing factors of taxonomic and functional diversity of butterflies in urban green spaces	68
A three-layer evapotranspiration model considering the vertical structure of urban green spaces	65
Climate change-induced heat reduces urban green space use: Insights from mobile phone location big data	65
Bridging the land use gap: Examining tree canopy cover and connectivity by land use in 10 U.S. cities	64
Soil water stress at young urban street-tree sites in response to meteorology and site parameters	63
Assessing ecological interactions in urban areas using citizen science data: Insights from hummingbird–plant meta-networks in a tropical megacity	63
Climate change threatens carbon storage in Europe’s urban trees	62
Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures	61

The relationship between urban green space and social health of individuals: A scoping review	61
Estimating aboveground biomass of tropical urban forests with UAV-borne hyperspectral and LiDAR data	60
A systematic review of the relationship between urban forest quality and socioeconomic status or race	59
More than green: Tree structure and biodiversity patterns differ across canopy change regimes in Baltimore’s urban forest	59
Structure of an urban green space indirectly affects the distribution of airborne particulate matter: A study based on structural equation modelling	59
Verifying an ENVI-met simulation of the thermal environment of Yanzhong Square Park in Shanghai	58
Demographic, social, and environmental factors predicting Danish children’s greenspace use	58
Non-native plants and illegitimate interactions are highly relevant for supporting hummingbird pollinators in the urban environment	57
The influence of greening management and landscape patterns on plant diversity in urban green spaces in Danzhou, China	57
Urban greenery distribution and its link to social vulnerability	55
Dependence of urban park visits on thermal environment and air quality	55
The role of greenspace deprivation in children’s decision-making	54
The role of urban parks in affecting health outcomes and the differences between vulnerable groups: Evidence from the central city of Beijing	54
City walk or nature walk? Evidence-based psychological and physiological outcomes – A systematic review and meta-analysis	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	53
Choosing the right nature-based solutions to meet diverse urban challenges	53
New morphological features for urban tree species identification using LiDAR point clouds	52
Vegetation complexity and greenspace diversity in urban schools	52
Assessing tree canopy cooling efficiency in different local climate zones: A cost-benefit analysis	52
Editorial Board	51
Editorial Board	51
Urban green space preferences for various health-related psychological benefits of adolescent pupils, university students and adults	51
The nose cooperates with the eyes: The independent and interactive effects of vision and olfaction on the perceived restorativeness of a Metasequoia walkway	50
Urban soil respiration patterns: An analysis of Quercus robur vs. Quercus rubra in parks and streets of Karlsruhe, Germany	50
Mapping the urban landscape at multiple ecological scales	49
Research on the horizontal reduction effect of urban roadside green belt on atmospheric particulate matter in a semi-arid area	49
Assessing accessibility and environmental equity in the context of sustained aging: Pathways for age-friendly urban park planning	49