OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening is 48. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review	154
Multi-level barriers and opportunities for urban greening and depaving initiatives as climate change adaptation measures: Quebec City case study	148
UAV leaf-on, leaf-off and ALS-aided tree height: A case study on the trees in the vicinity of roads	109
Parks Please! Implementing the 3–30-300 green space rule in developing countries − The case of Surakarta, Indonesia	87
Machine learning-based prediction of tree crown development in competitive urban environments	84
Branching Out: The under examined role of urban tree giveaway programs and urban greening in Florida	83
Identifying causal changes in landscape greenness with very high-resolution airborne multispectral imagery and a panel data model	80
Does intensive cutting regime maintain lowland dry heathlands habitat? The case study of Milano Malpensa airport (Northern Italy)	79
Editorial Board	76
The advantage of mobile technologies in crowdsourcing landscape preferences: Testing a mobile app to inform planning decisions	75
The role of greenspace deprivation in children’s decision-making	73
Urban greenery distribution and its link to social vulnerability	73
Spatio-temporal monitoring of urban street-side vegetation greenery using Baidu Street View images	71
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	71
Bridging the land use gap: Examining tree canopy cover and connectivity by land use in 10 U.S. cities	69
A generative optimization framework for pocket parks supported by mature plant carbon sequestration data	69
New morphological features for urban tree species identification using LiDAR point clouds	68
Turning a new leaf: Social and land use drivers of urban tree canopy change in the Chicago Metropolitan Area 2010–2017	68
Vegetation complexity and greenspace diversity in urban schools	67
Urban green space preferences for various health-related psychological benefits of adolescent pupils, university students and adults	67
Forest type and stand structure influence soil microbial network composition and stability in urban forests: Insights from Beijing, China	65
Visible greenery as my resource? The connection between passive green space exposure and relative deprivation from a self-determination perspective	65
Urbanization weakens mutualisms without affecting antagonisms of a hawkmoth-pollinated plant species	63
The influence of greening management and landscape patterns on plant diversity in urban green spaces in Danzhou, China	62
Demographic, social, and environmental factors predicting Danish children’s greenspace use	61

Eight recommendations to improve the reporting of qualitative social research in urban nature studies	60
An approach to prioritize urban tree planting to mitigate heat and advance equity in New Haven	59
Assessing tree canopy cooling efficiency in different local climate zones: A cost-benefit analysis	59
Structure of an urban green space indirectly affects the distribution of airborne particulate matter: A study based on structural equation modelling	59
City walk or nature walk? Evidence-based psychological and physiological outcomes – A systematic review and meta-analysis	58
Rediscovering circularity in productive urban landscapes	57
Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures	57
Assessing ecological interactions in urban areas using citizen science data: Insights from hummingbird–plant meta-networks in a tropical megacity	57
A three-layer evapotranspiration model considering the vertical structure of urban green spaces	57
Does user-generated content increase the valuation of urban green space? Evidence from China	56
Spatial pattern of urban forest diversity and its potential drivers in a snow climate city, Northeast China	54
Characteristics and influencing factors of taxonomic and functional diversity of butterflies in urban green spaces	54
Estimating aboveground biomass of tropical urban forests with UAV-borne hyperspectral and LiDAR data	53
The relationship between urban green space and social health of individuals: A scoping review	53
Small but powerful? The seasonal and diurnal cooling potential of urban green spaces in Munich, Germany, is moderated by size and vegetation complexity	52
Non-native plants and illegitimate interactions are highly relevant for supporting hummingbird pollinators in the urban environment	51
Climate change threatens carbon storage in Europe’s urban trees	51
Coarse-to-fine segmentation of individual street trees from side-view point clouds	49
Verifying an ENVI-met simulation of the thermal environment of Yanzhong Square Park in Shanghai	49
Climate change-induced heat reduces urban green space use: Insights from mobile phone location big data	49
Greening streets, gaining insights: Unpacking resident perceptions of urban greening	49
Soil water stress at young urban street-tree sites in response to meteorology and site parameters	49
Sniff the urban park: Unveiling odor features and landscape effect on smellscape in Guangzhou, China	48
Quasi-individual-level analysis of urban green space accessibility: Disparities, determinants, and equity across neighborhoods	48