OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Studies is 28. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Critical Commentary: Cities in a post-COVID world	182
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?	119
Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona	104
Understanding the global ecosystem of city networks	59
Urban resilience	47
Who owns the future city? Phases of technological urbanism and shifts in sovereignty	47
Mind the rent gap: Blackstone, housing investment and the reordering of urban rent surfaces	45
Transnational gentrification: The crossroads of transnational mobility and urban research	43
Urban robotic experimentation: San Francisco, Tokyo and Dubai	38
Life between buildings from a street view image: What do big data analytics reveal about neighbourhood organisational vitality?	38
New directions in transnational gentrification: Tourism-led, state-led and lifestyle-led urban transformations	38
Critical Commentary: Repopulating density: COVID-19 and the politics of urban value	37
Everyday urbanisms and the importance of place: Exploring the elements of the emancipatory smart city	37
New municipalism in action or urban neoliberalisation reloaded? An analysis of governance change, stability and path dependence in Madrid (2015–2019)	36
‘Post-pandemic’ transnational gentrifications: A critical outlook	33
Data-driven governance, smart urbanism and risk-class inequalities: Security and social credit in China	33
Travel guides, urban spatial imaginaries and LGBTQ+ activism: The case of Damron guides	33
Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Extended urbanisation and the agrarian question: Convergences, divergences and openings	32
Platform-mediated short-term rentals and gentrification in Madrid	31
Hidden homes? Uncovering Sydney’s informal housing market	30
From residence to movement: The nature of racial segregation in everyday urban mobility	30
Do the characteristics of new green space contribute to gentrification?	30
Emerging problematics of deregulating the urban: The case of permitted development in England	29
African urbanisation at the confluence of informality and climate change	28

Enclaving: Spatial detachment as an aesthetics of imagination in an urban sub-Saharan African context	28
Government debt, land financing and distributive justice in China	28
Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception	28