OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Studies is 26. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents	105
Rethinking employee housing: An evaluation of an old tool for tackling recent challenges in urban development	77
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany	73
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries	69
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140	63
No child to call: Lived experiences of childless older adults from the Baby Boomer generation with functional limitations in urban senior living facilities	56
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham	51
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London	48
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?	48
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign	46
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes	43
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada	41
Slowing down: Degrowth and the limits to urban mobility	40
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms	37
Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison	37
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?	35
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics	35
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China	34
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes	32
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective	32
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	32
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda	31
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice	29
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance	28
Urban state venturism as state entrepreneurialism: Conceptualizing the risk-taking dynamics of industrial upgrading in Hefei, China	28

Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship	28
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies	26
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world	26