OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Climate is 55. 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
The study of enhancing urban flood management for riverless cities with high external runoff intrusion characteristics	220
Net impact of London Strand-Aldwych pedestrianisation project on air quality and noise	184
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission interferes with real-time regulatory monitoring of ozone in urban atmosphere	148
Community perceptions of flood risks and their attributes: A case study of rural communities of Khipro, District Sanghar, Pakistan	145
Spatial-temporal evolution of urban form resilience to climate disturbance in adaptive cycle: A case study of Changchun city	132
Urban heat and pollution island in the Moscow megacity: Urban environmental compartments and their interactions	127
Resilient urbanization assessment framework: A new perspective on urban resilience	113
Effective street tree and grass designs to cool European neighbourhoods	112
A geospatial-based framework for rapid simulation of storm-induced flooding and comprehensive risk assessment leveraging GWDD and fuzzy-SWARA	105
Assessing microclimate and solar potential in courtyard morphologies: A comparative study of European urban blocks	104
Analysis of decoupling between CO2 emissions and economic growth in China's provincial capital cities: A Tapio model approach	102
Assessing the influence of urban scene characteristics on urban heat island: An interpretable machine learning approach in New York City	99
Predicting environmental pollutants in the apartment public space: Evaluating the impact of spatial enclosure and monitoring locations	97
Land-surface-physics-based downscaling versus conventional dynamical downscaling for high-resolution urban climate change information: The case study of two cities	96
Mitigating urban heat stress through green infrastructure: A climate service approach	96
The independent and joint effects of meteorological factors on influenza: A nationwide time series study in China	95
Energy savings in buildings applying ASHRAE 55 and regional adaptive thermal comfort models	87
Source apportionment of PM2.5 before and after COVID-19 lockdown in an urban-industrial area of the Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal	87
Correspondence between urbanization and surface wind in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Observations and idealized large-eddy simulation	86
Measuring shaded bike lanes for heat stress mitigation with deep learning: A case study in Amsterdam, Netherlands	85
Impact of trees with varying size on street canyon flow under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions using water channel PIV measurements	84
“Investigating and mapping day-night urban heat island and its driving factors using Sentinel/MODIS data and Google Earth Engine. Case study: Greater Cairo, Egypt”	82
Impact of refined 2D/3D urban morphology on hourly air temperature across different spatial scales in a snow climate city	80
Assessment of pollutant dispersion in deep street canyons under different source positions: Numerical simulation	80
Long-term airborne particle pollution assessment in the city of Coyhaique, Patagonia, Chile	77

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in PM2.5 in the metropolitan zone of Mexico Valley: Impact of air quality management programmes	76
Does the spatial configuration of urban parks matter in ameliorating extreme heat?	75
Climate change transformation in built environments – A policy instrument framework	75
Ventilation analysis of urban functional zoning based on circuit model in Guangzhou in winter, China	74
Exploring socio-environmental effects on community health in Edmonton, Canada to understand older adult and immigrant risk in a changing climate	73
Estimating urban PM2.5 concentration: An analysis on the nonlinear effects of explanatory variables based on gradient boosted regression tree	72
Outdoor ventilation evaluation and optimization based on spatial morphology analysis in Macau	71
Tropospheric ozone variability in Delhi during pre & post monsoon periods: Decoding influence of seasonal variation, diurnal variation, short-range and long-range transport	69
Assessing urban heat island intensity and emissions with compressed natural gas in non-commercial vehicles	68
Comparing universal thermal climate index (UTCI) with selected thermal indices to evaluate outdoor thermal comfort in traditional courtyards with BWh climate	67
Climate policy and inequality in urban areas: Beyond incomes	67
Assessment of the TsHARP method for spatial downscaling of land surface temperature over urban regions	67
The divergent effects of spatial structure of urban agglomerations on carbon emission reduction capacity	67
Feminization of surface temperature: Environmental justice and gender inequality among socioeconomic groups	66
The synergistic effects of urbanization and an extreme heatwave event on urban thermal environment in Paris	65
Heavy metal pollution in groundwater of urban Delhi environs: Pollution indices and health risk assessment	65
The influences of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature at the block scale in Chinese megacities	62
Introducing evaporating water channels in urban canyons: Assessment of ventilation and thermal effects through Large-Eddy Simulation	62
Towards climate-responsive communities: Exploring the nonlinear relationship between residential morphology and land surface temperature	60
Collaborative scenario building: Engaging stakeholders to unravel opportunities for urban adaptation planning	60
Derivation of nonstationary rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves considering the impacts of climate change and urbanization	60
Investigation of landslide hazard areas in the municipality of Cunha (Brazil) and climate projections from 2024 to 2040	59
Predicting the impact of the urban texture on the Urban Heat Island intensity using Machine Learning: The case for the Iberian Peninsula	59
Synergistic effects of compound temperature-humidity extremes and urban heat-moisture islands: An observational study in high-density humid subtropical twin cities	58
Dual carbon and sulfur isotopes as tracers of PM1 pollution sources after COVID-19 confinement in Vilnius, Lithuania	58
Dynamics of water-soluble inorganic ions in Qinhuangdao: Particle size association and influences of environmental conditions	57
Street-level surface and air temperatures in the Urban Center of Málaga, Spain	57
Satellite image analysis of thermal comfort for a sustainable urban ecology of Winneba, Ghana	57
The canopy cooling effect of roof mitigation strategies in a subtropical urban agglomeration	56
Increasing importance of regional emission controls for further reduction of PM2.5 in Beijing	56
The associations of cold spells with human mortality in Shanghai, China	55
Investigating 2D/3D factors influencing surface urban heat islands in mountainous cities using explainable machine learning	55
A comprehensive spatiotemporal approach to mapping air quality distribution and prediction in desert region	55