OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Climate is 52. 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
Climate policy and inequality in urban areas: Beyond incomes	194
Net impact of London Strand-Aldwych pedestrianisation project on air quality and noise	169
The study of enhancing urban flood management for riverless cities with high external runoff intrusion characteristics	142
Effective street tree and grass designs to cool European neighbourhoods	128
Resilient urbanization assessment framework: A new perspective on urban resilience	127
Impact of refined 2D/3D urban morphology on hourly air temperature across different spatial scales in a snow climate city	124
The independent and joint effects of meteorological factors on influenza: A nationwide time series study in China	117
Impact of trees with varying size on street canyon flow under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions using water channel PIV measurements	105
Correspondence between urbanization and surface wind in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Observations and idealized large-eddy simulation	100
Predicting environmental pollutants in the apartment public space: Evaluating the impact of spatial enclosure and monitoring locations	99
Land-surface-physics-based downscaling versus conventional dynamical downscaling for high-resolution urban climate change information: The case study of two cities	96
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in PM2.5 in the metropolitan zone of Mexico Valley: Impact of air quality management programmes	89
Assessing urban heat island intensity and emissions with compressed natural gas in non-commercial vehicles	89
Measuring shaded bike lanes for heat stress mitigation with deep learning: A case study in Amsterdam, Netherlands	87
Derivation of nonstationary rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves considering the impacts of climate change and urbanization	86
Climate change transformation in built environments – A policy instrument framework	86
The synergistic effects of urbanization and an extreme heatwave event on urban thermal environment in Paris	85
Feminization of surface temperature: Environmental justice and gender inequality among socioeconomic groups	85
Mitigating urban heat stress through green infrastructure: A climate service approach	84
Assessment of pollutant dispersion in deep street canyons under different source positions: Numerical simulation	82
Weighted clustering-based risk assessment on urban rainstorm and flood disaster	81
Assessment of the TsHARP method for spatial downscaling of land surface temperature over urban regions	80
Outdoor ventilation evaluation and optimization based on spatial morphology analysis in Macau	75
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission interferes with real-time regulatory monitoring of ozone in urban atmosphere	75
Thermal perception in outdoor urban spaces under the Mediterranean climate of Annaba, Algeria	74

The influences of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature at the block scale in Chinese megacities	73
Community perceptions of flood risks and their attributes: A case study of rural communities of Khipro, District Sanghar, Pakistan	73
Source apportionment of PM2.5 before and after COVID-19 lockdown in an urban-industrial area of the Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal	68
Exploring socio-environmental effects on community health in Edmonton, Canada to understand older adult and immigrant risk in a changing climate	67
Tropospheric ozone variability in Delhi during pre & post monsoon periods: Decoding influence of seasonal variation, diurnal variation, short-range and long-range transport	65
A geospatial-based framework for rapid simulation of storm-induced flooding and comprehensive risk assessment leveraging GWDD and fuzzy-SWARA	64
Does the spatial configuration of urban parks matter in ameliorating extreme heat?	64
Analysis of decoupling between CO2 emissions and economic growth in China's provincial capital cities: A Tapio model approach	63
Assessing the influence of urban scene characteristics on urban heat island: An interpretable machine learning approach in New York City	63
Collaborative scenario building: Engaging stakeholders to unravel opportunities for urban adaptation planning	63
“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”	61
Estimating urban PM2.5 concentration: An analysis on the nonlinear effects of explanatory variables based on gradient boosted regression tree	59
Comparing universal thermal climate index (UTCI) with selected thermal indices to evaluate outdoor thermal comfort in traditional courtyards with BWh climate	58
Sensitivity study of PBL schemes and soil initialization using the WRF-BEP-BEM model over a Mediterranean coastal city	58
Assessing microclimate and solar potential in courtyard morphologies: A comparative study of European urban blocks	58
Ventilation analysis of urban functional zoning based on circuit model in Guangzhou in winter, China	57
Long-term airborne particle pollution assessment in the city of Coyhaique, Patagonia, Chile	56
Energy savings in buildings applying ASHRAE 55 and regional adaptive thermal comfort models	56
Spatial-temporal evolution of urban form resilience to climate disturbance in adaptive cycle: A case study of Changchun city	56
Urban heat and pollution island in the Moscow megacity: Urban environmental compartments and their interactions	56
Heavy metal pollution in groundwater of urban Delhi environs: Pollution indices and health risk assessment	56
Climatological features of high temporal resolution rainfall over the Hyderabad city, India	55
Comparative performance analysis of photovoltaic modules of different materials for four different climatic zone of India	55
Phthalate esters in urban multi-media in the arid city of Urumqi, Northwest China: Sources, bio-accessibility and health risks	54
Research on the veering wind characteristics in typical suburban terrain based on lidar field measurements	54
Quantitative analysis and evaluation of rainwater absorption and thermal environment for residential design plan with consideration of LID strategies	53
PM10 and PM2.5 chemical source profiles of road dust over China: Composition, spatio-temporal distribution, and source apportionment	53
Assessment of the influences of post-construction facilities on pedestrian-level wind environment: An experimental study in Changsha, China	52
Impact of urbanisation on groundwater vulnerability in shallow aquifer system of Assam: A DRASTIC approach	52
Air pollution dynamics in Fortaleza, Brazil: Exploring the interplay of traffic and high-rise development	52