OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Housing Wellbeing and Settlement Intentions of Skilled Migrants in China: the Effects of Subjective Housing Feelings and Objective Housing Outcomes	39
Why can’t we be friends? The underlying hierarchy of social connections between diverse neighborhoods	39
Urban Structure, Housing Prices and the Double Role of Amenity: A Study of Nanjing, China	29
School-Housing Nexus in Urban China: A Comparative Study of the Effect of School Districts on Commercial and Danwei Housing Prices	28
Beyond Numbers: Mapping Poverty Disparities in Pakistan through a Spatial Lens	26
Correction to: Innovation Effect and Regional Difference of Related Variety: An Empirical Study Based on Prefecture-level City Data of China	25
Sustainable Resilience for Smart Spatial Planning	25
Deprivation in England, 1971–2020	25
Spending and length of stay by tourists flying to the Canary Islands (Spain) using low-cost carriers	20
Geostatistics Approach for Mapping Potential Industry Clusters: Developing Isotropic and Anisotropic Scenarios at Firm Level	17
Gated or Ungated? A Case Study on Walkability Measurement for Urban Communities	16
Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Gas Consumption in England and Wales: Assessing the Residential Sector Using Sequence Analysis	14
Spatial Analysis of Educational Inequalities and Evaluation of its Affecting Factors: the Period of Before and During the COVID-19 Epidemic in Iran	14
The Dynamic Evolution of China's Industrial Green Transformation from 2011–2020: A Comprehensive Study Based on Intertemporal Transition	13
Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Health Outcomes in China: A Life-Course Perspective	13
Application of Spatial Analysis to Identify the Location of Entrepreneurs Supported by the Regional Government in Andalusia (Spain)	12
Harmonising Incompatible Datasets to Enable GIS Use to Study Non-communicable Diseases in Tonga	12
Community-Based Riverine Flood Risk Assessment and Evaluating Its Drivers: Evidence from Rarh Plains of India	12
Using an index of wellbeing for older people in small areas of Australia to assist identifying services required	11
Health Interventions in a Poor Region and Resilience in the Presence of a Pandemic	11
Is High Speed Rail a Geographically Inclusive System? Evidence from some European Countries	11
The Spatial Structure Evolution of China's High-Speed Rail Network and Its Impacts on Real Estate Investment	10
Safer Traffic Recovery from the Pandemic in London – Spatiotemporal Data Mining of Car Crashes	10
Improving Home Insurance Ratemaking with Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression (GWPR) Model: Assessing Water Damage Risk	9
Mapping of Spatial Variance of Family Policy that Could Increase Fertility: Indices for 23 OECD Countries across 21 Year Period	9

Multidimensional Distances and Internal Migration in China: Spatial Patterns, Driving Factors and Regional Heterogeneity	9
Spatial Aspects of Learning Performance and Efficiency of Primary Education in India	9
Mapping Social Vulnerability to Nuclear Accidents: a Comparative Framework Using BWM and AHP Methods	9
Spatial Distribution of Carbon Emissions and Synergistic Evidence for Achieving Climate-Friendly Development in Underdeveloped Area of China	9
Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Provincial High-End Manufacturing Innovation Clusters in China: A Big Data Analysis of Technology-Based Enterprises	8
Examining Rental Housing Market Segmentation in Chinese Megacities: The Case of Beijing	8
Modeling the Influence of Places on Crime Risk Through a Non-Linear Effects Model: a Comparison with Risk Terrain Modeling	7
Italian High-Speed Railway Stations and the Attractivity Index: the Downscaling Potential to Implement Coworking as Service in Station	7
The Influence of High-speed Rail on the Level and Structure of Urban Economic Vitality: An Empirical Study Based on Real GDP Data	7
Characterizing Spatio-Temporal Differences in Homicides and Non-Fatal Shootings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2006–2015	7
Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning	7
Spatial Accessibility to Sports Facilities in Dongguan, China: a Multi-Preference Gaussian Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Method	7
Research on the Assessment and Drivers of the Coupling Coordination Developmentbetween Green Innovation and Digital Economy	6
Coagglomeration of manufacturing and producer services: How does it affect regional innovation in China?	6
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Form Change in Developing Africa: The Case of Addis Ababa City	6
Spatio-temporal evolution, driving mechanisms, and simulation of land use and cover in China from 2000 to 2060	6
Progress Towards Using Linked Population-Based Data For Geohealth Research: Comparisons Of Aotearoa New Zealand And The United Kingdom	6
Spatial Location Optimization of Fire Stations with Traffic Status and Urban Functional Areas	6
The Impacts of City Size and Density on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	6
Fertility Intention for Two or More Children among Childbearing-Age Adults under China’s Changing Fertility Policies and Economic Development from 2010 to 2021	6
A Public Participation GIS for Infrastructure Assessment in Rural Human Settlements	6
Mapping gendered vulnerability to energy poverty in Romania	6
Density, Division and Distance: Understanding China’s Urban Land-Use Change from an Economic Geography Perspective	6
Rural–Urban Educational Inequalities and Their Spatial Variations in China	6
To determine if changing to white light street lamps improves road safety: A multilevel longitudinal analysis of road traffic collisions during the relighting of Leeds, a UK city	6
Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of Data Mining and Beyond	6
Examining the Effects of the Built Environment on Housing Rents in the Pearl River Delta of China	6
Assessing the Relationship Between Emergency Food Assistance and Social Vulnerability During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
A Cooperative Regional Economic System for Sustainable Resilience Policy	5
Identifying Neighbourhood Change Using a Data Primitive Approach: the Example of Gentrification	5
Geographical Variability of Sex-Specific, Health Related Determinants of Quality of Life in Athens Metropolitan Area: A Spatial Analysis in the Context of the ATTICA Epidemiological Study	5
Investigating Financial Motivators and Demotivators of Urban Sprawl Through the Lens of Municipalities: A Case of the Qom Municipality, Iran	5
Spatio-Temporal Evolution of EIWB and Influencing Factors: An Empirical Study from the Yangtze River Delta	5
Identifying Potential Areas for New Railway Lines across Different Relief Roughness of Austrian Landscapes	5
Firm Location: A Spatial Point Process Approach	5
The Communities Detection of the Tourist Flow Network using Mobile Signaling Data in Nanjing, China	5
Labor Shrinkage and its Driving Forces in China from 1990 to 2015: A Geographical Analysis	5
The Impact of the Real Estate Crisis on a South European Metropolis: From Urban Diffusion to Reurbanisation	5
Paving the Road towards Efficiency: a Case Study of Hangzhou Bay Bridge	5
Spatio-temporal Evolution of Tourism Development Quality under the New Development Pattern of “Double Circulation”	5
Innovation Effect and Regional Difference of Related Variety: An Empirical Study Based on Prefecture-level City Data of China	5
Local Area Estimates and Geographical Patterns of Australia’s Sexual Minority Population	5
Minimum wages, youth employment and spatial spillovers: New evidence for Spain	5
Spatio-Temporal Dependence of Corruption in Vietnam	4
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cyclist Collisions in Germany: Variations in Frequency, Severity of Injury, and Type of Collision in 2019	4
Design and Use of a Spatial Harmful Algal Bloom Vulnerability Index for Informing Environmental Policy and Advancing Environmental Justice	4
Spatio-Temporal Variations and Determinants of Residents’ Leisure Participation in China	4
A Spatial Perspective on the Unexpected Nordic Fertility Decline: The Relevance of Economic and Social Contexts	4
Housing Informality and Labor Informality in Space: In Search of the Missing Links	4
Two Decades of Geospatial Evolution: Tracing the Analytical Journey towards Data-Driven Road Crash Prevention	4

Understanding Housing Price–volume Connectedness: The Case of Housing Markets in Major Megacities of China	4
Assessment of Development Plans for Small Urban Areas of Bangladesh: Remote Sensing and GIS-based Approach	4
50-year Deprivation Trajectories: Local Area Change in England and Wales, 1971–2021	4
Urban-Rural Disparity in the Relationship Between Geographic Environment and the Health of the Elderly	4
Economic Integration, Spatial Interaction and Labour Income Share: Evidence from the EU-13 Countries and the UK	3
Nocturnal Vs. Diurnal: Relationship between Land Use and Visit Time Patterns in Commercial Areas	3
Using a Spatial Access Measure to assess the Relationship between Alcohol Outlet Types and Various Violent Crimes in the Bronx, NY	3
The Impacts of Visible Green Spaces on the Mental well-being of University Students	3
Mapping Multidimensional Poverty: The Case of Cambodia	3
Critical Shelter Analysis Considering Social Vulnerability and Accessibility: A Case Study of Hurricane Michael Track Uncertainty	3
A Sustainable Urban Framework Based on Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services Accounting	3
Geographic Distribution of Economic Inequality and Crime in Indonesia: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Econometrics Approach	3
Greenness and Crime in the City: An Investigation Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Panel Models	3
An Index for Measuring Spatial Graph Dispersion in Socio-Economic Networks	3
The Impact of the Digital Economy on Provincial Carbon Emissions in China	3
Lessons from the Criticality of the Spanish High Capacity Road Network on Direct, Representative Democracies and Technocracies	3
A QGIS Plugin for GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis: an Application of Developing Alternative Future Land-Use Scenarios in Ghana	3
GeoCrime Analytic Framework (G.C.A.F.): A Comprehensive Framework for Dynamic Spatial Temporal Crime Analysis	3
Comparing Intercity Mobility Patterns among Different Holidays in China: a Big Data Analysis	3
The Impact of Innovative Cities Construction on Air Pollution: Evidence from China	3
Earthquake Risk, Flooding Risk and Housing Prices: Evidence from Taichung, Taiwan	3
Geographic and Temporal Access to Basic Banking Services Offered through Post Offices in Wales	3
Correction to: Why can’t we be friends? The underlying hierarchy of social connections between diverse neighborhoods	3
The Spatial Distribution of Religious Organizations in the United States and their Socioeconomic Characteristics	3
Spatial Autocorrelation Methods in Identifying Migration Patterns: Case Study of Slovakia	3
Assessing the Combinational Effects of Access to Urban Amenities on Housing Prices: A Perspective on the “15-Minute City”	3
Space-time Models and Personal Accessibility to Educational Facilities. Case Study of Space-time Accessibility to Schools in the City of Valencia	3
Scientific Evaluation of Fengshui from the Perspective of Geography: Empirical Evidence from the Site Selection of Traditional Hakka Villages	3
Evaluating Spatial Accessibility to COVID-19 Vaccination Sites based on Fine-Scale Population Distributions and Heterogeneous Travel Modes: A Case Study in Xiangtan, China	3
Challenging terrains: socio-spatial analysis of Primary Health Care Access Disparities in West Virginia	2
Evaluation of Municipal Territorial Utilisation Quality in New-Type Urbanisation: A Case Study of Changzhou, China	2
Classifying High-Speed Rail Stations in the Yangtze River Delta, China: The Node-Place Modelling Approach	2
Homeownership-based segregation and urban amenity differentiation in Shanghai	2
Exploring the Spatially-Varying Effects of Human Capital on Urban Innovation in China	2
Downscaling Amphibian Species Richness Maps to Explore the Role of Spatial Scale in Conservation	2
The Relationship between Industrial Parks and County Economic Growth in Underdeveloped Areas: Evidence from Gansu Province of China	2
Modelling Conflict Dynamics: Evidence from Africa: What Do the Data Show via Spatiotemporal Global ACLED Dataset?	2
Inter-relationships between geographical scale, socio-economic data suppression and population homogeneity	2
Temperature Rise Amplifies Environmental Inequities? Europe’s North-South Divide	2
Changes in Spatiotemporal Patterns of Crimes During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Atlanta, Georgia	2
Modal Accessibility Gap in Curitiba (Brazil). Dynamic Analysis Considering Time and Spatial Variations	2
The Urban Facilities Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Spatial Association Patterns Mining in Wuhan, China	2
Understanding the City Networks: An Analysis from China’s Inter-city Population Migration	2
Could the ‘District-to-County’ Policy Suppress Economic Growth? – A Case Study of Yichun, China	2
Characteristics of Population Shrinkage in Inner Urban China and Correlations with Urban Growth Patterns	2
Investigating the Determinants of Housing Rents in Hangzhou, China: A Spatial Multilevel Model Approach	2
Correction to: How Does Administrative Data Compare with Census Data for the Measurement of Internal Migration? The Case of Northern Ireland, 2001–2011	2
No Country for Old Men. Assessing Socio-Spatial Relationships Between Air Quality Perceptions and Exposures in Southern Chile	2
New Evolutionary Features of the Urban Scale Distribution in China: Based on the Seventh Census Data	2
The Impacts of POI Data on PM2.5: A Case Study of Weifang City in China	2
Spatial Dynamics Regarding Geographical Concentration of Economic Activities. Italian NUTS-3 Analysis	2
Human Capital and Labour Market Resilience: A Regional Analysis for Portugal	2
Multiscale Contextual Poverty in the Netherlands: Within and Between-Municipality Inequality	2
Transit Ridership Modeling at the Bus Stop Level: Comparison of Approaches Focusing on Count and Spatially Dependent Data	2
The Mobility of Construction Workers in Canada: Insights from Administrative Data	2
Identifying the Spatial–Temporal Patterns of Vulnerability to Re-Poverty and its Determinants in Rural China	2
Accessibility and Optimization of Rural Healthcare Facilities From the Perspective of the Rural Living Circle	2
Wildlife Crime in China: A Study of Spatial Heterogeneity in Yunnan Province	2
Contemporary Applications For Spatially Integrated Social Science	2
Spatial Pattern Characteristics of the Financial Service Industry: Evidence from Nanjing, China	2
Research on Port-Industry-City Integration and its Spatial Spillover Effects: Empirical Evidence from the Bohai Sea Rim Region	2
Geographic Transformation and its Determinants of China’s Interprovincial Skilled Migration from 2005 to 2015	2
Early Warning of Vulnerability to Re-Poverty in China: Integrating Regional and Household Perspectives	2
Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Vacant Houses in a Small Provincial Town in Japan	2
The Spatiotemporal Patterns of Community Vulnerability in the U.S. Mobile Bay from 2000–2020	2
Measuring the exposure of Black, Asian and other ethnic groups to COVID-infected neighbourhoods in English towns and cities	2
Analyzing Effect of WASH Practices and District-Level Spatial Effects on Acute Respiratory Infections and Diarrhoea Among Under-Five Children in India	2
The Impact of Public Investment on Urban Growth Under Different Scenarios by Using the SLEUTH as a Forecasting Model: The Case of Konya/Turkey	2