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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Rethinking employee housing: An evaluation of an old tool for tackling recent challenges in urban development	141
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140	87
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?	85
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes	72
No child to call: Lived experiences of childless older adults from the Baby Boomer generation with functional limitations in urban senior living facilities	61
Slowing down: Degrowth and the limits to urban mobility	53
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms	51
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign	48
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries	44
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics	39
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany	39
Estimating a CPI-based regional price parity index for US cities	38
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada	38
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham	38
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China	37
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents	37
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?	36
Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison	35
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London	34
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes	33
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice	32
The regeneration path not taken further: An experiment in urban densification and state entrepreneurialism in a resettlement neighborhood in Suzhou, China	32
Urban state venturism as state entrepreneurialism: Conceptualizing the risk-taking dynamics of industrial upgrading in Hefei, China	32
Analyzing teen drivers’ exposure to crash risk: An activity space-based approach	31
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	31

Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok	30
The intersectional right to the city: Non-binary and trans people navigating gender, race, and class in Barcelona	29
‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania	29
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective	28
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies	28