OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Land Use Science 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
Agroecological initiatives in the Mekong Region: a systematic literature review and mapping reveals their implications for transitioning to sustainable food systems	37
Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instruments	32
Gender and authorship patterns in urban land science	23
Agricultural commercialization in the Mekong region: A meta-narrative review and policy implications	19
Review of counterfactual land change modeling for causal inference in land system science	18
Geographic similarity analysis for Land System Science: opportunities and tools to facilitate knowledge integration and transfer	17
Landscape-scale effects of farmers’ restoration decision making and investments in central Malawi: an agent-based modeling approach	16
A comparative analysis on the use of a cellular automata Markov chain versus a convolutional LSTM model in forecasting urban growth using sentinel 2A images	15
An embeddedness perspective on family farm development in the Carpathian Mountains	14
As cities grow larger, they may also become less green	13
Arctic cruise tourism and social license to operate: exploring social acceptance and trust in cruise tourism	13
Exploring land use conflicts arising from economic activities and their impacts on local communities in the European Arctic	12
Deforestation and agricultural fires in South-West Pará, Brazil, under political changes from 2014 to 2020	12
Powers of exclusion: A case study of state-led large scale rubber development in Vietnam’s north-western region	11
Land system governance shapes tick-related public and animal health risks	11
How does the effect of urban growth management change over time and across urban land uses? Evidence from China’s construction land quotas	11
Transportation in urban land change models: a systematic review and future directions	10
Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation	10
Editorial introduction: women in land science	10
How to combine socioeconomic assessment and remote sensing methods to recover and group farm plots at risk of abandonment	9
Strategic land-use planning instruments in tropical regions: state of the art and future research	9
Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa	8
Strengthening climate resilience of rural communities by co-producing landscape-specific integrated farming systems in Cambodia	8
‘Education is the land I give them’ – mothers’ investments in children’s future livelihoods amid growing land competition in rural Uganda	8
Quantifying oil palm expansion in Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2015: A data fusion approach	7

The recognition and formalization of customary tenure in the forest landscapes of the Mekong region: a Polanyian perspective	7
Agricultural households in times of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic, livelihoods and land-use decisions	6
Uncertainty evaluation approach based on Shannon entropy for upscaled land use/cover maps	6
Is the ‘Protected Designation of Origin’ an indicator for sustainable landscape management? Insights from pasture-based animal husbandry in five EU countries	6
Forest Transitions in the United States, France and Austria: dynamics of forest change and their socio- metabolic drivers	6
Assessing farmers’ income vulnerability to vanilla and clove export economies in northeastern Madagascar using land-use change modelling	6
Institutional Change and Compliance in Forest Landscape Restoration Governance: Insights from the Western Highlands of Cameroon	6
Harmonization of land-cover data to assess agricultural land transformation patterns in the peri-urban Spanish Mediterranean Huertas	6
Human activities affecting lesser flamingo ( Phoeniconaias minor ) habitat in Momella lakes, Tanzania	6
Declining potential of local food supplies to satisfy urban demand during 1990‒2015 and the resulting implications for urban food security	5
Legal policy preference for coal mining over other land use alternatives jeopardizes sustainability in Indonesia	5
Correction	5
Advancing the study of driving forces of landscape change	5
The manifestation of institutional bricolage and community forest management outcomes: insights from four socio-ecological settings in Nepal	5
Critical overview of the expansion of Hass avocado plantations in Salamina, northern Caldas, Colombia	5
Spatiotemporal trajectories of invasive tree species reveal the importance of collective action for successful invasion management	5
Positionality, ‘the field,’ and implications for knowledge production and research ethics in land change science	4
Identifying, projecting, and evaluating informal urban expansion spatial patterns	4
Stakeholder perspectives on farmers’ resistance towards urban land-use changes in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia	4
Gold, friction and resistance in a globalised land system: the case of Tanzania	4
Assessment of land use relations and the sustainability of agricultural systems: considering different views to foster social learning	4
More than surface temperature: mitigating thermal exposure in hyper-local land system	4
Urban sprawl containment by the urban growth boundary: the case of the Regulatory Plan of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago of Chile	4
Towards pro-poor and voluntary PES: assessment of willingness to pay and willingness to accept PES contract in central Vietnam	4
Land cover conversion and land use change combine to reduce grazing	4
Community-based forest management institutions in Cameroon: dynamics and compliance determinants	4