OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cities is 66. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	541
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth	352
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development	323
The determinants of national city size distributions: A BMA approach	318
Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory	233
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus	224
An investigation into the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of older women living in nursing homes in Iran with particular reference to physical activity	178
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors	154
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?	152
ICT usage and perceived walkability of older adults: A walk-along study in Singapore	140
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure	136
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs	132
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size	129
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks	129
Decoding the built environment-behavior nexus at residential boundaries: A multi-dimensional analysis of 85 street segments in Dalian	119
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis	116
Beyond urban parks: Integrating residential greenspaces to address greenspace inequality	114
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China	112
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach	111
Times and spaces of crime in the Historic Centre of Porto: Evidence from official data	111
Understanding interdependencies in urban pluvial flood risk management: Insights from Amsterdam and Rotterdam	109
Spatial concentration of gambling opportunities: An urban scale perspective	107
Are Barcelona's climate shelters accessible to vulnerable residents? A mobility justice analysis	104
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation	103
Key predictors of greenhouse gas emissions for cities committing to mitigate and adapt to climate change	101

A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities	100
Distance decay as a measure of city attractiveness: Insights from migration flows in China	98
Flow-based fractal dimensions of urban road networks: Insights from 135 global cities	97
The uneven power of the platform: Variations in E-commerce entrepreneurial behaviours in urban, suburban, and rural contexts	95
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective	92
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue	92
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case	89
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia	87
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 2010	87
Prestige competition: Inter-city striving for excellence and the low-carbon transition in residential energy use	86
Investigating immigrants' work-life balance in metropolitan areas: A latent class modeling approach	86
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy	84
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city	84
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions	82
The relation between circuity and mobility cultures: A study of 41 European cities	82
Housing wealth and mental health in urban China: Evidence from 10 years of longitudinal data	81
Climate and socio-economic drivers of urban tree abundance, richness and composition in Australian cities	81
Understanding the dialectical relationship between governance and governance outcomes in the context of urban (re)development: A critical review	81
Joint optimal pricing strategy of shared autonomous vehicles and road congestion pricing: A regional accessibility perspective	80
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data	79
Darker nights, happier lives? The impact of urban green space night-time accessibility on residents' subjective happiness: A case study of the main urban area of Hangzhou	79
A pathway towards resilient cities: National resilience knowledge networks	79
Who are the gig workers? Evidence from mapping the residential locations of ride-hailing drivers by a big data approach	79
Measuring urban shrinkage in India using night-light data from DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-NPP satellite sensors	78
The effects of overwork on rural-to-urban migrant workers' intention to settle in cities: The evidence from China	77
Relationship between POI configurations and environmental benefits of dockless bike-sharing system: A case study of Shenzhen	77
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district	76
Urban food shopping trends: An analysis of Istanbul's grocery preferences via multi group structural equation model	76
The effect of a multi-school zoning policy on the capitalization of educational resources: A quasi-natural experiment in Beijing	76
Does digital inclusive finance affect urban carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 285 cities in China	74
Barcelona as a case study for the effectiveness of short-term rental market regulations	74
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories	72
Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends	71
Effects of meteorology on bike-sharing: Cases of 13 cities using non-linear analyses	71
City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’	71
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana	69
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities	69
From complaints to insights: A geographical analysis of illegal dumping by citizen sensor data	68
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi	67
The synergistic effect between highway traffic flow and potential economic connectivity under network space in the megacity region	67
The attraction gradient of urban functions: How does functional mix at multiple scales predict urban vitality	66