OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Habitat International is 39. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Relationship between land tenure and land use in unplanned settlements in Lusaka, Zambia	146
Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?	135
Editorial Board	127
Editorial Board	126
Advancing agricultural diversification within rural regions: The dynamic role of interregional rural-rural migration	118
A data-driven perspective for sensing urban functional images: Place-based evidence in Hong Kong	97
Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania	86
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management	83
Unpacking migrants' social integration: The mediating effect of hierarchical migration in the context of China	80
Assessment of spatial interactions in farmland abandonment: A case study of Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea	72
City-to-city learning processes in the development of sustainable urban food systems: Insights from South American cities	69
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China	63
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	62
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus: Evidence from Australia	62
From the arrival cities to affordable cities in China: Seeing through the practices of rural migrants' participation in Guangzhou's urban village regeneration	62
Addressing the macroeconomic and hedonic determinants of housing prices in Beijing Metropolitan Area, China	59
Does haze aggravate urban sprawl?	58
Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil.	56
Assessing eco-environmental service quality by integrating monitoring data: A case study of Northeast China	53
Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform	52
Urban positionality in the regional urban network: Through the lens of alter-based centrality and national-local perspectives	49
Analysing the rising price of new private housing in the UK: A national accounting approach	49
Are home-based enterprises (HBEs) an economic lifeline or scenic distortion in Nigeria? Evidence from Ikot Epkene, Akwa Ibom State	49
Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management in Kathmandu city, Nepal – An impact of an incomplete data set	48
Urban planning schemes for developing low-carbon cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	47

Dealing with urban floods within a resilience framework regarding disaster stages	46
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs	46
Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective	45
Impacts of in situ urbanisation on grain production: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta, China	45
Economic status of waste pickers in Bantar Gebang compared to other workers in Indonesia	44
Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America	43
Understanding the spatial distribution patterns and dominant determinants of farmland abandonment in China	42
Understanding the value of retail accessibility in private housing markets: A study from Turin, Italy	41
Land marketization and urban innovation capability: Evidence from China	41
Governance transformation among urbanization in China: From hierarchical model to contract-based exploration	40
Optimizing the rural comprehensive land consolidation in China based on the multiple roles of the rural collective organization	40
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty in secondary cities: Implications for urban sustainability in African cities	39
Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China	39
Health service disparity, push-pull effect, and elderly migration in ageing China	39