OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Studies is 27. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes	232
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany	83
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics	76
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham	70
Book review: Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19: How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better	59
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign	57
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140	50
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London	45
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries	43
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms	42
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War	40
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters	39
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada	36
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?	36
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China	35
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’	35
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?	34
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany	33
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda	33
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg	30
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes	30
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective	29
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations	29
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities	29
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice	29

Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice	28
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development	28
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East: Articulating the smart city in the context of Hungary’s authoritarian state capitalism	27
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal	27
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship	27
Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice	27
Book review: Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy SchwedesOliver, Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2023; 234 pp.; ISBN: 9	27