OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Urban Economics 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	126
JUE Insight: How do cities change when we work from home?	85
JUE Insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities	81
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	79
Housing markets in a pandemic: Evidence from historical outbreaks	71
Metropolitan areas in the world. Delineation and population trends	70
JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States	61
JUE Insight: The determinants of the differential exposure to COVID-19 in New York city and their evolution over time	59
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles	57
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	51
The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index	49
Measuring urban economic density	48
JUE Insight: College student travel contributed to local COVID-19 spread	43
Building(s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm	42
Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies	39
The congestion costs of Uber and Lyft	33
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light	32
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	32
The Cost of Traffic: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge	32
Information value of property description: A Machine learning approach	30
Urban growth shadows	30
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	30
Do political connections help or hinder urban economic growth? Evidence from 1,400 industrial parks in China	29
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	27
The impact of public employment: Evidence from Bonn	27

Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting	26
National transportation networks, market access, and regional economic growth	26