OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Is High Speed Rail a Geographically Inclusive System? Evidence from some European Countries	41
Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning	34
Italian High-Speed Railway Stations and the Attractivity Index: the Downscaling Potential to Implement Coworking as Service in Station	32
Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Health Outcomes in China: A Life-Course Perspective	31
Gated or Ungated? A Case Study on Walkability Measurement for Urban Communities	30
Why can’t we be friends? The underlying hierarchy of social connections between diverse neighborhoods	27
Digital economy and urban settlement intentions of rural-to-urban migrants in China: Empirical evidence from quasi-natural experiments	21
Research on the Assessment and Drivers of the Coupling Coordination Development between Green Innovation and Digital Economy	20
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Form Change in Developing Africa: The Case of Addis Ababa City	19
A QGIS Plugin for GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis: an Application of Developing Alternative Future Land-Use Scenarios in Ghana	17
A Public Participation GIS for Infrastructure Assessment in Rural Human Settlements	17
Space-time Models and Personal Accessibility to Educational Facilities. Case Study of Space-time Accessibility to Schools in the City of Valencia	16
Earthquake Risk, Flooding Risk and Housing Prices: Evidence from Taichung, Taiwan	15
Innovation Effect and Regional Difference of Related Variety: An Empirical Study Based on Prefecture-level City Data of China	15
Spatio-temporal evolution, driving mechanisms, and simulation of land use and cover in China from 2000 to 2060	14
How COVID-19 Policy Shift Affects Mental Wellbeing? Assessing the Effect Heterogeneity of Urban Water Body Exposures	13
The Impacts of Visible Green Spaces on the Mental well-being of University Students	12
Urban-Rural Disparity in the Relationship Between Geographic Environment and the Health of the Elderly	12
Scientific Evaluation of Fengshui from the Perspective of Geography: Empirical Evidence from the Site Selection of Traditional Hakka Villages	11
The Relationship between Industrial Parks and County Economic Growth in Underdeveloped Areas: Evidence from Gansu Province of China	10
Nocturnal Vs. Diurnal: Relationship between Land Use and Visit Time Patterns in Commercial Areas	10
Modelling Conflict Dynamics: Evidence from Africa: What Do the Data Show via Spatiotemporal Global ACLED Dataset?	10
Lessons from the Criticality of the Spanish High Capacity Road Network on Direct, Representative Democracies and Technocracies	10
Using a Spatial Access Measure to assess the Relationship between Alcohol Outlet Types and Various Violent Crimes in the Bronx, NY	10
Regional Heterogeneities and Socio-economic Determinants of Childhood Undernutrition in India: A Geospatial Analysis	9

Investigating the Determinants of Housing Rents in Hangzhou, China: A Spatial Multilevel Model Approach	9
Greenness and Crime in the City: An Investigation Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Panel Models	9
Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Vacant Houses in a Small Provincial Town in Japan	9
Spatially Varying Intergenerational Changes in the Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Nigeria: Lessons Learnt from a Recent Household Survey	8
Effects of Pandemic Response Measures on Crime Counts in English and Welsh Local Authorities	8
Can Digital Inclusive Finance Promote Urban Ecological Efficiency?—Impact Mechanism and Spatial Effects	8
A Methodological Benchmark in Determining the Urban Growth: Spatiotemporal Projections for Eskişehir, Türkiye	8
Planar vs. Vertical Dominance? A Nonlinear Analysis of the Urban Landscape-Land Surface Temperature Nexus	8
An Empirical Study on the Effects of Fine Dust Concentration on the Utilisation of Shared Bicycles	8
Machine Learning for Sustainable Development: Ranking Villages for Rural Development Initiatives	8
Spatial Analysis of Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Mexico: Implications for Urban Planning to Improve Public Health	8
Evaluating the Improvement of Healthcare Accessibility for Urban Residents via the Construction of New Hospitals: A Case Study of Xi’an, China	8
The Impact of Angular Effects on Nighttime Economy Observations: Determining the Optimal Observation Angle of Nighttime Light Remote Sensing	8
Mapping a Country Image from Global News Reports about COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Integration Failure or Integration risk? Revisiting the Modality of Return Migration in China	8
Decomposing the Temporal Signature of Nitrogen Dioxide Declines during the COVID-19 Pandemic in UK Urban Areas	8
Examining Multilevel Poverty-Causing Factors in Poor Villages: a Hierarchical Spatial Regression Model	8
Correction to: Mapping Gendered Vulnerability to Energy Poverty in Romania	7
Predicting Crime Across Cities and Regions: A Comparative Analysis of Predictive Modelling in Three Belgian Settings	7
The Spatial Distribution Pattern and Formation Mechanism of the Spatial Agglomeration of Chinese Higher Education Population: A Cross-Province Comparison	7
Assessing Ecosystem Services Provision as a Support for Metropolitan Green Infrastructure Planning: the Case of Three Spanish Metropolitan Areas	7
Correction to: A Bayesian Model for Estimating the Effects of Human Disturbance on Wildlife Habitats Based on Nighttime Light Data and INLA‑SPDE	7
Multifractal Characteristics Analysis of Spatial State of Prefecture-Level Cities in China	7
Measuring Spatial Congruence in the School-Neighborhood Nexus	7
Is the High-Speed Railway Network Narrowing the Urban‒Rural Income Gap?	6
Effect of Working Patterns on Spatial Variation in Outdoor Leisure Activity of Fixed-Location Workers: A Case Study of Nanjing, China	6
The Impact of Innovative Cities Construction on Air Pollution: Evidence from China	6
Characterising Land Cover Change in Brunei Darussalam’s Capital District	6
Harmonising Incompatible Datasets to Enable GIS Use to Study Non-communicable Diseases in Tonga	6
Spatial Distribution of Carbon Emissions and Synergistic Evidence for Achieving Climate-Friendly Development in Underdeveloped Area of China	6
Identifying Neighbourhood Change Using a Data Primitive Approach: the Example of Gentrification	6
Geovisualization and Spatial Modelling of Armed Conflicts in the Great Lake Region of Central and East Africa	6
Urban Night Vitality Measurements and Related Factors Based on Multisource Data: a Case Study of Central Shanghai	6
Digital Inclusive Finance, Spatial Spillover Effects and Relative Rural Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from China	6
Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Provincial High-End Manufacturing Innovation Clusters in China: A Big Data Analysis of Technology-Based Enterprises	6
Examining Rental Housing Market Segmentation in Chinese Megacities: The Case of Beijing	6
Firm Location: A Spatial Point Process Approach	6
Deep Network Capacitated Covering Location Model: Spatial Location-allocation Optimization of Community Healthcare Facilities in Consideration of Public Health Emergencies	6
Optimization of United States Residential Real Estate Investment through Geospatial Analysis and Market Timing	6
Geographic Distribution of Economic Inequality and Crime in Indonesia: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Econometrics Approach	5
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cyclist Collisions in Germany: Variations in Frequency, Severity of Injury, and Type of Collision in 2019	5
The Impacts of POI Data on PM2.5: A Case Study of Weifang City in China	5
Modal Accessibility Gap in Curitiba (Brazil). Dynamic Analysis Considering Time and Spatial Variations	5
Analyzing Rural Community Growth and Shrinkage: Insights from Household Electricity Data in Xinxing County, China	5
Mono-centrism as a Destiny? An Econometric Test of Urban Models Using Building Activity	5
Downscaling Amphibian Species Richness Maps to Explore the Role of Spatial Scale in Conservation	5
To Determine if Changing to White Light Street Lamps Reduces Crime: A Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis of Crime Occurrence during the Relighting of Leeds, a UK City	5
Assessing the Combinational Effects of Access to Urban Amenities on Housing Prices: A Perspective on the “15-Minute City”	5
Evaluation of Municipal Territorial Utilisation Quality in New-Type Urbanisation: A Case Study of Changzhou, China	5
Challenging terrains: socio-spatial analysis of Primary Health Care Access Disparities in West Virginia	5

The Impact of the Digital Economy on Provincial Carbon Emissions in China	5
Mapping gendered vulnerability to energy poverty in Romania	5
Research on Port-Industry-City Integration and its Spatial Spillover Effects: Empirical Evidence from the Bohai Sea Rim Region	5
Critical Shelter Analysis Considering Social Vulnerability and Accessibility: A Case Study of Hurricane Michael Track Uncertainty	5
The Impact of Public Investment on Urban Growth Under Different Scenarios by Using the SLEUTH as a Forecasting Model: The Case of Konya/Turkey	5
Wildlife Crime in China: A Study of Spatial Heterogeneity in Yunnan Province	5
Classifying High-Speed Rail Stations in the Yangtze River Delta, China: The Node-Place Modelling Approach	5