OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Studies is 25. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Critical Commentary: Cities in a post-COVID world	202
Urban resilience	62
Mind the rent gap: Blackstone, housing investment and the reordering of urban rent surfaces	59
Everyday urbanisms and the importance of place: Exploring the elements of the emancipatory smart city	52
Is urbanisation in the Global South fundamentally different? Comparative global urban analysis for the 21st century	48
Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic	48
Critical Commentary: Repopulating density: COVID-19 and the politics of urban value	47
From residence to movement: The nature of racial segregation in everyday urban mobility	43
Do the characteristics of new green space contribute to gentrification?	43
African urbanisation at the confluence of informality and climate change	40
Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception	37
Smart cities: Between worlding and provincialising	36
Performing the ecological fix under state entrepreneurialism: A case study of Taihu New Town, China	33
Urban scaling in rapidly urbanising China	33
Does better job accessibility help people gain employment? The role of public transport in Great Britain	33
Racial composition and trajectories of gentrification in the United States	32
Spatial and social disparities in the decline of activities during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greater London	31
The impact of immediate urban environments on people’s momentary happiness	30
The cities we need: Towards an urbanism guided by human needs satisfaction	29
New spatialities of work in the city	28
Rescaling of the land regime in the making of city-regions: A case study of China’s Pearl River Delta	28
The refugees’ right to the centre of the city: City branding versus city commoning in Athens	28
Policing gentrification or policing displacement? Testing the relationship between order maintenance policing and neighbourhood change in Los Angeles	26
A posteriori comparisons, repeated instances and urban policy mobilities: What ‘best practices’ leave behind	25
Critical Commentary: The city and the virus	25