OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Urban Economics 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data	117
Do short-term rental platforms affect housing markets? Evidence from Airbnb in Barcelona	100
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	99
Urban revival in America	80
JUE Insight: How do cities change when we work from home?	73
JUE Insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities	72
Housing markets in a pandemic: Evidence from historical outbreaks	68
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	64
Social connectedness in urban areas	61
JUE Insight: The determinants of the differential exposure to COVID-19 in New York city and their evolution over time	56
JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States	54
Metropolitan areas in the world. Delineation and population trends	51
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles	47
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	47
JUE Insight: College student travel contributed to local COVID-19 spread	41
Accounting for central neighborhood change, 1980–2010	40
Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies	33
Building(s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm	33
Measuring urban economic density	32
The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index	32
The capitalization of energy efficiency: Evidence from the housing market	28
Information value of property description: A Machine learning approach	27
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	27
The Cost of Traffic: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge	26
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light	25

The congestion costs of Uber and Lyft	25
Urban growth shadows	25