OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Habitat International is 43. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	188
City-to-city learning processes in the development of sustainable urban food systems: Insights from South American cities	131
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management	112
Foreign direct investment and regional integration: The connectivity role of same-origin greenfield investment in the Yangtze River Delta	89
The humanization of urban neighborhoods; the case of Al-Falah project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	88
Editorial Board	87
Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?	81
Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania	80
Assessment of spatial interactions in farmland abandonment: A case study of Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea	78
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus: Evidence from Australia	76
Does poverty alleviation through relocation increase relative deprivation? Evidence from Pingjiang county, China	76
Unpacking migrants' social integration: The mediating effect of hierarchical migration in the context of China	73
Exploring spatio-temporal behavior patterns of Chinese urban overtime workers using mobile signaling data: a case study from Beijing	72
Dynamic evaluation and obstacle factor diagnosis of rural human settlements quality in the Dabie mountains old revolutionary Base area under the background of rural revitalization	70
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China	68
Relationship between land tenure and land use in unplanned settlements in Lusaka, Zambia	67
Advancing agricultural diversification within rural regions: The dynamic role of interregional rural-rural migration	64
Pre-disaster planning and preparedness for urban seismic Resilience: Evaluating critical influential factors for temporary shelter site selection	63
From the arrival cities to affordable cities in China: Seeing through the practices of rural migrants' participation in Guangzhou's urban village regeneration	62
Are home-based enterprises (HBEs) an economic lifeline or scenic distortion in Nigeria? Evidence from Ikot Epkene, Akwa Ibom State	62
A data-driven perspective for sensing urban functional images: Place-based evidence in Hong Kong	62
Economic status of waste pickers in Bantar Gebang compared to other workers in Indonesia	62
Assessing eco-environmental service quality by integrating monitoring data: A case study of Northeast China	57
Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform	57
Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective	55

Impacts of in situ urbanisation on grain production: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta, China	55
Impacts of global manufacturing transfer on energy intensity, consumption, and transition: An industry linkage perspective	55
Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America	54
Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil.	52
Dealing with urban floods within a resilience framework regarding disaster stages	52
Analysing the rising price of new private housing in the UK: A national accounting approach	52
Urban planning schemes for developing low-carbon cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	51
Does haze aggravate urban sprawl?	51
Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management in Kathmandu city, Nepal – An impact of an incomplete data set	51
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs	51
Urban positionality in the regional urban network: Through the lens of alter-based centrality and national-local perspectives	51
The rural human-land relationship transition in Southwest karst mountainous areas based on rural population, agricultural production land, and rural settlement coupling	49
A novel model for simulating urban expansion under compactness scenarios on a regional scale	48
Ice and snow tourism in China's ecological civilization era: The Altay, Xinjiang experience	47
Governance transformation among urbanization in China: From hierarchical model to contract-based exploration	46
Analyzing the impact of land expropriation program on farmers' livelihood in urban fringes of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia	46
‘Displace, Dump and Cage?’: Contested logics of formalization of street trading in Harare and Kumasi	44
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty in secondary cities: Implications for urban sustainability in African cities	43
Assessing the impact of urban amenities on people with disabilities in London: A multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis	43