OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Maps is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Dual-proxy estimation of Vs30: the case study of the Marche Region (central Italy)	55
Geology, U-Pb dating and 3D visualisation of late-orogenic Klenov Pluton (Pelhřimov Core Complex, Central European Variscides)	51
Internal migration: census data as a gold standard for insight and visualisation	21
Archaeological sites and palaeoenvironments of Pleistocene West Africa	21
Using SaTScan to identify and map nightlife areas in Philadelphia, PA	19
Editorial: summary of activities 2022	16
Visualizing climate targets: mapping the 93 funded E.U. Erasmus+ projects versus SDGs and horizon missions targets	16
Editorial: summary of activities 2024	14
Quaternary morpho-stratigraphic evolution of the eastern Campo Imperatore basin (Gran Sasso range, central Italian Apennines) and tectonic implication	13
Landscape evolution and the karst development in the Ojo Guareña multilevel cave system (Merindad de Sotoscueva, Burgos, Spain)	13
Recovering urban nightlife: COVID-19 insights from Google Places activity trends in Madrid	12
Geomorphology of a recently deglaciated high mountain area in Eastern Anatolia (Turkey)	12
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	11
A drift isopach model for the southwestern Great Slave Lake region, Northwest Territories, Canada	11
Salt diapirism constrained by the stratigraphical record of adjacent basins: the Estopanyà Syncline (South-Central Pyrenees, NE Iberian Peninsula)	11
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)	10
Geohazard features of the Central-Southern Tyrrhenian seamounts	10
Geology of the basement rocks of Andorra, central Pyrenees	10
Geohazard features of the Northern Sardinia	10
Surface and subsurface geology of the Hontomín structure, Western Pyrenees	10
The geographical diversity of Chile’s rural territories: bases for a rural atlas	9
Geology of the Michelangelo quadrangle (H12), Mercury	9
Harmonizing multi-source backscatter data using bulk shift approaches to generate regional seabed maps: Bay of Fundy, Canada	9
Flowmapper.org: a web-based framework for designing origin–destination flow maps	9
Geology of the Bach quadrangle (H15), Mercury	9

Spatial disparities in air conditioning ownership in Florida, United States	9
Glacial geomorphology of the northwest Laurentide Ice Sheet on the northern Interior Plains and western Canadian Shield, Canada	9
Mawrth Vallis, Mars, classified using the NOAH-H deep-learning terrain classification system	9
Structure of a Variscan migmatite-granite transition zone (N Sardinia, Italy)	9
Geomorphology of the Maladeta massif (Central Pyrenees): the traces of the last remaining glaciers	9
Race, rurality and geographic accessibility to medication for opioid use disorder in the U.S.	8
Making a narrative tourism map: the case of Jiaxing’s ‘Red Boat Spirit Map’, China	8
The geology of Sierra Calderona (SE Iberian Cordillera, Spain), a review. Results of a new 1:25.000 scale geological mapping	8
Terrestrial glacial geomorphology of surge-type and non-surge-type glaciers on Svalbard	8
Miocene stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology along the western side of Cerros Cadena de los Zanjones (East Pisco Basin, Peru)	8
PaleoMaps: representations of quaternary paleoenvironments, human–environment interaction and human dispersal	8
Fluid regionalisation of semantic regions: possibilities for visualisation	8
Geology of the Late Carboniferous, Permian and Early Triassic basins of the Eastern Pyrenees	8
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)	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
Geohazard features of the Gulf of Naples and Pontine Islands (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea)	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
Creating a digital historical map of the German-inhabited areas in southern Transylvania (central Romania) in 1848	7
Geohazard features of the western Sardinia	7
Detection of potential illegal environmental activities in Slovakia based on earth observation data	7
Geomorphology of the Cook Islands, tropical South Pacific Ocean	7
Geoparticipation in the Czech municipalities: index based quantitative approach	7
Evolution of stone fish weirs in Jibei area, Penghu Archipelago (eighteenth to twenty-first century)	7
The glacial geomorphology of the Cordillera Darwin Icefield, Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America	7
Prague Squared	7
Geoheritage of the Sila National Park and surrounding areas (Northern Calabria, Italy)	7
Social perception of the connectivity and quality of sidewalks in the Metropolitan Area of Panama	7
Geoarchaeology of the Cornia river coastal plain (Piombino, southern Tuscany, Italy)	7
Bouguer gravity anomaly in the Colfiorito Quaternary continental basin, northern Apennines, central Italy	7
Geology of the eastern tip of the El Tordell Fault, Southern Pyrenees	6
Geology of the area of the Piuro 1618 event (Val Bregaglia, Italian Central Alps): the setting of a catastrophic historical landslide	6
Morphological mapping of mountains on a global scale: combining topographic representation with tectonic features	6
Morphostructural mapping of Borealis Planitia, Mercury	6
Delimitation of rural and urban areas from spatial data in statistical grids: the province of Jaén (Spain) as a case study	6
The Alpine settlement system: capturing relevance beyond size	6
Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas	6
Economic resilience of agriculture in England and Wales: a spatial analysis	6
Gravity data on the Central Pyrenees: a step forward to help a better understanding of the Pyrenean structures	6
The Albeşti Limestone: a geoheritage and cultural heritage in Romania	6
Submerged coastal systems along the western Sardinian shelf (Mediterranean Sea)	6
Palaeochannels of the upper central Murray and lower Goulburn rivers, southeastern Australia	6
Increasing geohydrological instability in a valley of the Italian Central Alps: a study in the Anthropocene	6
Geomorphology of the Liera catchment (Dolomites, NE Italy): understanding landscape response to an extreme event	6
Subsurface geology of the Torino metropolitan area (Westernmost Po Plain, NW Italy)	6
Historical damaging geo-hydrological events affecting the Catanzaro municipality (Calabria, Southern Italy), 1830–2023	6
The influence of soil parameters on the price of agricultural land in Slovakia	6
Mapping of functional areas in Spain based on mobile phone data during different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Landscape planning-addressed regional-scale mapping of geolithological units: an example from Southern Italy	5

Geology of Montecastelli Pisano (inner Northern Apennines, Italy): normal and transfer fault zones affecting a dismantled ophiolite bearing orogenic wedge	5
The glacial geomorphology of the Mackenzie Mountains region, Canada	5
Potential priority areas for forest-dwelling species in Spain based on the degree of forest fragmentation	5
The Jurassic structure of the northern sector of Foligno mountains (Central Italy)	5
‘My Sweet Little Village’: Central Settlement System in Socialist Central Bohemia	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
The naïve map of the sixteenth century roads in Spain	5
Landslide susceptibility of Rwanda (Central Africa)	5
Geological hazards of the Gerecse Hills (Hungary)	5
The pattern of brittle deformation in Central America for an assessment of the seismo-tectonic framework	5
Icings in the Selenga River basin	5
Geomorphology of the Clarion Clipperton Zone, tropical North Pacific Ocean	5
Administrative and ethno-linguistic boundaries of Western Tigray (Ethiopia) since 1683	5
Bottom water masses on the European continental margins	5
Mining tailings dumps and socio-territorial inequalities in Chile: an exploratory study	5
Geological study of the seafloor applied to marine renewable energies	5
Landslide inventory of Puerto Plata, Santiago de los Caballeros and Jarabacoa (Dominican Republic)	5
Geomorphology and geotourism for a sustainable development of the Daunia Mts, Southern Italy	5
Glacial geomorphology of Newfoundland, Canada	5
Exploring the public bus ridership loss and recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic: a spatiotemporal analysis using smart card data	5
Mapping urban land type with multi-source geospatial big data: a case study of Shenzhen, China	5
Glacial and periglacial geomorphology of the Drang Drung, Haskira, and Pensilungpa glaciers, Trans-Himalayan Ladakh, India	5
Soluble phosphorus content of Lake Balaton sediments	5
Geomorphological slope units of the Himalayas	5