OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cities is 60. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus	457
Decoding the built environment-behavior nexus at residential boundaries: A multi-dimensional analysis of 85 street segments in Dalian	219
Understanding the dialectical relationship between governance and governance outcomes in the context of urban (re)development: A critical review	218
Public acceptability of electric vehicle chargepoint installation in neighbourhoods: A psychometric approach to assess resident reaction	215
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue	208
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis	180
Cork City, Ireland: A blueprint for transformation in second-tier urban centres	179
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions	170
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi	162
Nighttime light derived assessment of regional inequality of socioeconomic development across Taiwan Strait since the 21st century	146
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data	143
Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory	139
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure	130
Editorial Board	119
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana	117
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth	104
Economic impacts of shopping malls: The Accra (Ghana) case study	101
Do the developers need government assistance? The effect of TIF policy on affordable housing construction budgets	100
Exploring the impact of under-reported cases on the COVID-19 spatiotemporal distributions using healthcare workers infection data	98
From complaints to insights: A geographical analysis of illegal dumping by citizen sensor data	97
How do cities foster autonomous planning practices despite top-down control?	96
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments	95
Examining the non-linear association between the built environment around residence and the risk of obesity among children and adolescents at different school stages in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China	94
A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities	92
Railway diplomacy: China's infrastructure investments and Africa's global connectivity	88

The effect of a multi-school zoning policy on the capitalization of educational resources: A quasi-natural experiment in Beijing	86
Joint optimal pricing strategy of shared autonomous vehicles and road congestion pricing: A regional accessibility perspective	81
Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends	80
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district	80
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories	79
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 2010	79
How does commuting influence time use and domain and life satisfaction? Evidence from dual-earner couples with school-age children in a small Chinese city	78
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia	78
Pedaling through the cityscape: Unveiling the association of urban environment and cycling volume through street view imagery analysis	77
Does digital inclusive finance affect urban carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 285 cities in China	76
Revealing the impact patterns of urban morphology on land surface temperature in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China	76
The relation between circuity and mobility cultures: A study of 41 European cities	76
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach	75
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs	75
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case	73
Deep learning meets urban design: Assessing streetscape aesthetic and design quality through AI and cluster analysis	72
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city	71
Measuring urban shrinkage in India using night-light data from DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-NPP satellite sensors	71
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy	70
Spatial concentration of gambling opportunities: An urban scale perspective	70
Urban quantum leap: A comprehensive review and analysis of quantum technologies for smart cities	70
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities	69
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks	68
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation	67
ICT usage and perceived walkability of older adults: A walk-along study in Singapore	66
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China	63
Intra-urban relocation patterns and correlation with built environment factors of population by age groups: A case study of Wuhan	63
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions	63
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development	62
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors	62
Editorial Board	61
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size	60
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?	60
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective	60
Green gentrification and who will benefit from green infrastructure regeneration? A quasi-experimental study in China	60
How do urban function and development level effect construction level of green infrastructure? A case study of 110 built-up areas of cities in the Yangtze River Economic Zone	60