OpenStreetMap

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Names searched for: OpenStreetMap

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 250 archived papers mentioned OpenStreetMap in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (13).
OpenStreetMap was mentioned in 10 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #26 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: Operations Research (6) and Economics (4).
Most of them appeared in Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (2), Land Use Policy (2) and Public Transport (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), OpenStreetMap was mentioned in 280 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (134), economics (55) and AI (54).
76 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Technical University of Munich (12), ETH Zurich (10) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (9).
The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (22), Transportation (20) and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (18).
The most-cited of them is “Spatial information and the legibility of urban form: Big data in urban morphology” (International Journal of Information Management, 2019), with 150 citations.
Papers use OpenStreetMap most often with GTFS transit feeds (21), Eurostat (16) and Wikipedia (16); it has 26 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

Mentions over 36 months#

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
Trend	Nov 23–Oct 24	Nov 24–Oct 25	Nov 25–Oct 26	36 months
	72	78	100	250

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Operations Research	1	1	1	1	0	0	6	41	37	46
Economics	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	16	14	15
AI	1	0	2	1	2	1	5	12	15	15
Information Systems	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	5	3	4
Tourism and Hospitality	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	3
Statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	1
Management	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	2
Finance	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Higher Education and Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All categories	2	1	5	2	2	4	23	78	76	87

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	22
2	Transportation	20
3	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	18
4	European Journal of Operational Research	10
5	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	8
6	Networks and Spatial Economics	8
7	Expert Systems with Applications	7
8	Transport Policy	7
9	Research in Transportation Business & Management	7
10	OR Spectrum	6

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Technical University of Munich	12
2	ETH Zurich	10
3	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	9
4	Beijing Jiaotong University	7
5	Delft University of Technology	6
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	6
7	University of Leeds	6
8	University of Twente	6
9	Institute for Transport Planning and Systems	5
10	Monash University	5

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Germany	57
2	China	36
3	United Kingdom	35
4	United States	31
5	Italy	28
6	Netherlands	23
7	Spain	21
8	Switzerland	18
9	France	18
10	Australia	13

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	OpenStreetMap	21
2	agent-based modeling	10
3	vehicle routing	10
4	active travel	8
5	facility location	8
6	modal shift	8
7	public transport	8
8	regional disparities	8
9	walking	8
10	last-mile delivery	7

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	150	1.8	Spatial information and the legibility of urban form: Big data in urban morphology	International Journal of Information Management	2019-10-10	Geoff Boeing
2	142	4.4	A Survey on Global LiDAR Localization: Challenges, Advances and Open Problems	International Journal of Computer Vision	2024-03-06	Huan Yin, Xuecheng Xu, Sha Lu et al.
3	69	2.3	Sustainable last-mile distribution with autonomous delivery robots and public transportation	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	2024-04-25	Annarita De Maio, Gianpaolo Ghiani, Demetrio Laganà et al.
4	64	1.9	Integrating shared e-scooters as the feeder to public transit: A comparative analysis of 124 European cities	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	2024-01-31	Aoyong Li, Kun Gao, Pengxiang Zhao et al.
5	57	1.6	Energy poverty prediction and effective targeting for just transitions with machine learning	Energy Economics	2023-10-24	Constantine Spandagos, Miguel Angel Tovar Reaños, Muireann Á. Lynch

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use OpenStreetMap most often with GTFS transit feeds (21), Eurostat (16) and Wikipedia (16); it has 26 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy…. The whole network →

What papers use OpenStreetMap together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
GTFS transit feeds	Dataset	21	39.9
Eurostat	Dataset	16	1.9
Wikipedia	Dataset	16	2.7
Sentinel / Copernicus	Dataset	14	8.7
Twitter / X	Dataset	14	0.5
Facebook	Dataset	9	0.5
Night-time lights (VIIRS, DMSP)	Dataset	8	4.0
ImageNet	Dataset	7	0.5
International Energy Agency (IEA)	Dataset	7	1.3
Traffic (PeMS, METR-LA)	Dataset	7	5.5
Airbnb	Dataset	6	1.3
Landsat	Dataset	6	5.5

Papers mentioning OpenStreetMap in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-22	Evaluating transit accessibility to education and the effects of operational delays in Japanese regional cities: a case study of Matsumoto City	Public Transport	Itsuki Sato, Kiyoshi Takami, Giancarlos Parady	The University of Tokyo
2026-10-22	Measuring the state of open science in transportation using large language models	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	Junyi Ji, Ruth Lu, Linda Belkessa et al.	Vanderbilt University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Université Gustave Eiffel; …
2026-10-21	Exploring inequalities in 15-minute walkable neighborhoods: A typology of perceived accessibility-preference mismatch	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Kunbo Shi, Lingkun Meng, Yang Hu et al.	Beijing Jiaotong University; University of Hong Kong; Nanjing University; …
2026-10-21	Cityndex: an active accessibility indicator based on effort and distance	Transport Policy	Filipe Pais, Nuno Sousa, Luís Alçada‐Almeida et al.	Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers; Universidade Aberta; University of Coimbra; …
2026-10-21	The economic geography of Churches: housing market effects in Stockholm	Journal of Cultural Economics	Mats Wilhelmsson	KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2026-10-20	A carbon-sensitive heterogeneous fleet framework for time-critical urban quick-commerce delivery with synchronised drone integration	Research in Transportation Business & Management	Gülseli İşler, Harun Reşit Yazg̈an, Muhammed Sever	Sakarya University
2026-10-15	Metropolis-scale resilient and trustworthy traffic flow inference using multi-source data	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	Qishen Zhou, Yifan Zhang, Michail Makridis et al.	Jilin University; City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan); …
2026-10-10	Scale and space in industrial policy implementation: Geospatial evidence from urban Ethiopia	Land Use Policy	Dejene Tesema Bulti, Anteneh Lemmi Eshete	Adama Science and Technology University
2026-10-10	Optimal driving assignment strategies for plug-in hybrid electric heavy duty trucks	Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain	Javier Jareño, Bernabè Dorronsoro, P. Ruiz	Universidad de Cádiz
2026-10-06	From coast to cost: Mispricing and reform scenarios in Italy’s coastal concession system	Land Use Policy	Emanuele Caggiano, Stefano d’Addona, Filippo Maurici et al.	Roma Tre University

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). OpenStreetMap. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/openstreetmap

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {OpenStreetMap},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/openstreetmap}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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