OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Maps is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Internal migration: census data as a gold standard for insight and visualisation	46
Archaeological sites and palaeoenvironments of Pleistocene West Africa	41
Geomorphology of a recently deglaciated high mountain area in Eastern Anatolia (Turkey)	20
Visualizing climate targets: mapping the 93 funded E.U. Erasmus+ projects versus SDGs and horizon missions targets	19
Editorial: summary of activities 2022	19
Quaternary morpho-stratigraphic evolution of the eastern Campo Imperatore basin (Gran Sasso range, central Italian Apennines) and tectonic implication	16
Editorial: summary of activities 2024	16
Geology, U-Pb dating and 3D visualisation of late-orogenic Klenov Pluton (Pelhřimov Core Complex, Central European Variscides)	16
Dual-proxy estimation of Vs30: the case study of the Marche Region (central Italy)	15
Recovering urban nightlife: COVID-19 insights from Google Places activity trends in Madrid	13
A drift isopach model for the southwestern Great Slave Lake region, Northwest Territories, Canada	12
Landscape evolution and the karst development in the Ojo Guareña multilevel cave system (Merindad de Sotoscueva, Burgos, Spain)	12
Salt diapirism constrained by the stratigraphical record of adjacent basins: the Estopanyà Syncline (South-Central Pyrenees, NE Iberian Peninsula)	12
Using SaTScan to identify and map nightlife areas in Philadelphia, PA	12
Structure of a Variscan migmatite-granite transition zone (N Sardinia, Italy)	11
Geohazard features of the Northern Sardinia	11
Harmonizing multi-source backscatter data using bulk shift approaches to generate regional seabed maps: Bay of Fundy, Canada	10
Estimation of the minimum required bus capacity between the hinterland and the centre of a functional urban region – a comparative study of the five largest Serbian cities	10
Mawrth Vallis, Mars, classified using the NOAH-H deep-learning terrain classification system	10
Geohazard features of the Central-Southern Tyrrhenian seamounts	10
Spatial disparities in air conditioning ownership in Florida, United States	10
Geology of the Michelangelo quadrangle (H12), Mercury	9
PaleoMaps: representations of quaternary paleoenvironments, human–environment interaction and human dispersal	9
Geology of the basement rocks of Andorra, central Pyrenees	9
Geohazard features of the Gulf of Naples and Pontine Islands (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea)	9

Home is where my villa is: a machine learning-based predictive suitability map for Roman features in Northern Noricum (ca. 50–500 CE/Lower Austria/AUT)	9
Making a narrative tourism map: the case of Jiaxing’s ‘Red Boat Spirit Map’, China	9
Flowmapper.org: a web-based framework for designing origin–destination flow maps	8
Race, rurality and geographic accessibility to medication for opioid use disorder in the U.S.	8
The Phlegrean Fields volcanological evolution	8
The Quaternary stratigraphy of the São Paulo Basin, southeastern Brazil	8
Maps of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Poreč and Pula (Dioecesis Parentina et Polensis)	8
Glacial geomorphology of the northwest Laurentide Ice Sheet on the northern Interior Plains and western Canadian Shield, Canada	8
Geology of the Northern Apennines nappe stack on eastern Elba (Italy): new insights on the Neogene orogenic evolution of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea	8
Fluid regionalisation of semantic regions: possibilities for visualisation	8
Geomorphology of the Maladeta massif (Central Pyrenees): the traces of the last remaining glaciers	8
Optimal model utilization of arable land with regard to food self-sufficiency and soil protection	8
The geological setting of Matra ore deposit (France): insights from lithostratigraphy and polyphase deformation history	8
Bouguer gravity anomaly in the Colfiorito Quaternary continental basin, northern Apennines, central Italy	7
Miocene stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology along the western side of Cerros Cadena de los Zanjones (East Pisco Basin, Peru)	7
Geoarchaeology of the Cornia river coastal plain (Piombino, southern Tuscany, Italy)	7
The glacial geomorphology of the Cordillera Darwin Icefield, Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America	7
Terrestrial glacial geomorphology of surge-type and non-surge-type glaciers on Svalbard	7
The geology of Sierra Calderona (SE Iberian Cordillera, Spain), a review. Results of a new 1:25.000 scale geological mapping	7
Evolution of stone fish weirs in Jibei area, Penghu Archipelago (eighteenth to twenty-first century)	7
Geology of the Late Carboniferous, Permian and Early Triassic basins of the Eastern Pyrenees	7
Geomorphology of the Cook Islands, tropical South Pacific Ocean	7
High-resolution geological-tectonic of the Caquerelle Anticline and surrounding geological features in the western boundary of the Delémont Basin area, Jura fold-and-thrust belt (Switzerland)	7
Increasing geohydrological instability in a valley of the Italian Central Alps: a study in the Anthropocene	7
Geology of the eastern tip of the El Tordell Fault, Southern Pyrenees	6
Geomorphological slope units of the Himalayas	6
Detection of potential illegal environmental activities in Slovakia based on earth observation data	6
Social perception of the connectivity and quality of sidewalks in the Metropolitan Area of Panama	6
Glacial geomorphology of the Kola Peninsula and Russian Lapland	6
Gravity data on the Central Pyrenees: a step forward to help a better understanding of the Pyrenean structures	6
Subsurface geology of the Torino metropolitan area (Westernmost Po Plain, NW Italy)	6
Palaeochannels of the upper central Murray and lower Goulburn rivers, southeastern Australia	6
Geoparticipation in the Czech municipalities: index based quantitative approach	6
Geohazard features of the western Sardinia	6
Geology of the area of the Piuro 1618 event (Val Bregaglia, Italian Central Alps): the setting of a catastrophic historical landslide	6
Geomorphology of the Liera catchment (Dolomites, NE Italy): understanding landscape response to an extreme event	6
Morphological mapping of mountains on a global scale: combining topographic representation with tectonic features	6
Economic resilience of agriculture in England and Wales: a spatial analysis	6
Creating a digital historical map of the German-inhabited areas in southern Transylvania (central Romania) in 1848	6
Prague Squared	6
Geoheritage of the Sila National Park and surrounding areas (Northern Calabria, Italy)	6
Landscape planning-addressed regional-scale mapping of geolithological units: an example from Southern Italy	5
Bottom water masses on the European continental margins	5
Historical damaging geo-hydrological events affecting the Catanzaro municipality (Calabria, Southern Italy), 1830–2023	5
Mapping urban land type with multi-source geospatial big data: a case study of Shenzhen, China	5
‘My Sweet Little Village’: Central Settlement System in Socialist Central Bohemia	5
Geomorphology of the Clarion Clipperton Zone, tropical North Pacific Ocean	5
Morphostructural mapping of Borealis Planitia, Mercury	5
The naïve map of the sixteenth century roads in Spain	5
The influence of soil parameters on the price of agricultural land in Slovakia	5

Soluble phosphorus content of Lake Balaton sediments	5
Administrative and ethno-linguistic boundaries of Western Tigray (Ethiopia) since 1683	5
Geomorphology and geotourism for a sustainable development of the Daunia Mts, Southern Italy	5
The Albeşti Limestone: a geoheritage and cultural heritage in Romania	5
The Alpine settlement system: capturing relevance beyond size	5
Geological study of the seafloor applied to marine renewable energies	5
Delimitation of rural and urban areas from spatial data in statistical grids: the province of Jaén (Spain) as a case study	5
Geohydrologic units of Ischia Island (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)	5
Salt sheet extrusion and emplacement within the South-Central Pyrenean fold-and-thrust belt: the Les Avellanes Diapir case-of-study	5
Submerged coastal systems along the western Sardinian shelf (Mediterranean Sea)	5
Seismotectonics and landslides of the NE border of the Calabrian Arc (Southern Italy)	4
The geography of Oxia Planum	4
Correction	4
A GIS-based multiscale mapping framework to assess and visualize complex and polygenetic geomorphic systems – A novel ‘Geomorphic Entities’ approach	4
A fragmented world: mapping the global extent of Anthropogenic Landscape Fragmentation	4
Map of tectonic shortening structures in Chryse Planitia and Arabia Terra, Mars	4
Landslide inventory of Puerto Plata, Santiago de los Caballeros and Jarabacoa (Dominican Republic)	4
Glacial geomorphology of Newfoundland, Canada	4
Geological hazards of the Gerecse Hills (Hungary)	4
Geology of the contact area between the Internal and External Nappe Zone of the Sardinian Variscan Belt (Italy): new insights on the complex polyphase deformation occurring in the hinterland-foreland	4
Exploring the public bus ridership loss and recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic: a spatiotemporal analysis using smart card data	4
Landslide susceptibility assessment on a large scale in the Podsljeme area, City of Zagreb (Croatia)	4
Geohazard features of the Eastern Sardinia	4
Landscape and geology as controls on Bronze Age human dispersal: a case study from Sardinia (Italy)	4
Glacial geomorphology of the central and southern Chilotan Archipelago (42.2°S–43.5°S), northwestern Patagonia	4
Supernatural beings of Pomerania: postmodern mapping of folkloristic sources	4
Geology of the Derain quadrangle (H10), Mercury	4
Landslide susceptibility of Rwanda (Central Africa)	4
The glacial geomorphology of the Mackenzie Mountains region, Canada	4
The pattern of brittle deformation in Central America for an assessment of the seismo-tectonic framework	4
Geology of Montecastelli Pisano (inner Northern Apennines, Italy): normal and transfer fault zones affecting a dismantled ophiolite bearing orogenic wedge	4
Late Pleistocene to Holocene glacial, periglacial, and paraglacial geomorphology of the upper Río Limarí basin (30–31° S) in the Andes of central Chile	4
Landslides and predisposing factors of the Southern Apennines, Italy	4
Global distribution of canali on Venus	4
Tectonics of the Iberian continental margins and abyssal plains	4
Impacts of sea-level rise on prehistoric coastal communities: land use and risk perception during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in central Mediterranean Spain	4
A user-centered mapping design for geomorphological hazard thematic map	4
Bringing micro to the macro: how citizen science data enrich geospatial visualizations to advance health equity	4
Mining tailings dumps and socio-territorial inequalities in Chile: an exploratory study	4
Geomorphology of the Central Kurdistan Region of Iraq: landscapes of the Erbil Plain between the Great Zab and Little Zab Rivers	4
Mapping of functional areas in Spain based on mobile phone data during different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Potential priority areas for forest-dwelling species in Spain based on the degree of forest fragmentation	4
Icings in the Selenga River basin	4
International Retirement Migration: mapping the spatio-temporal growth of foreign-owned properties in Cotacachi, Ecuador	4
Geology of the polyphase Olympica – Jovis Fossae channel system	4
Editorial: summary of activities 2023	4