OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cities is 57. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus	414
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana	203
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi	202
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions	189
Nighttime light derived assessment of regional inequality of socioeconomic development across Taiwan Strait since the 21st century	182
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size	162
Cork City, Ireland: A blueprint for transformation in second-tier urban centres	159
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors	158
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue	151
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis	146
Relationship between POI configurations and environmental benefits of dockless bike-sharing system: A case study of Shenzhen	139
Editorial Board	131
Editorial Board	130
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	128
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	125
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth	115
The attraction gradient of urban functions: How does functional mix at multiple scales predict urban vitality	110
Exploring the impact of under-reported cases on the COVID-19 spatiotemporal distributions using healthcare workers infection data	102
Exploring the linkage between the neighbourhood environment and mental well-being: Mediating roles of stress, physical activity, and neighbourhood satisfaction	96
Economic impacts of shopping malls: The Accra (Ghana) case study	93
After moving back to the nest: The heterogeneous effect of returning to parental home on the employment outcomes by income group	93
Reconciling data-driven crime analysis with human-centered algorithms	92
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks	91
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	91
Measuring urban shrinkage in India using night-light data from DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-NPP satellite sensors	89

Kunz and post-communist geographies of urban poverty in Romania	88
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities	85
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs	77
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments	77
A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities	75
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories	73
Measuring emergency medical service (EMS) accessibility with the effect of city dynamics in a 100-year pluvial flood scenario	73
Does low carbon city pilot promote urban carbon unlocking?—— A heterogeneity analysis based on machine learning	73
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective	72
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities	71
Do the developers need government assistance? The effect of TIF policy on affordable housing construction budgets	69
ICT usage and perceived walkability of older adults: A walk-along study in Singapore	69
Railway diplomacy: China's infrastructure investments and Africa's global connectivity	69
The theory and praxis of mixed-use development - An integrative literature review	69
Barcelona as a case study for the effectiveness of short-term rental market regulations	69
Evolution of China's intercity venture capital network: Preferential attachment vs. path dependence	68
The effects of overwork on rural-to-urban migrant workers' intention to settle in cities: The evidence from China	67
Public acceptability of electric vehicle chargepoint installation in neighbourhoods: A psychometric approach to assess resident reaction	67
Who are the gig workers? Evidence from mapping the residential locations of ride-hailing drivers by a big data approach	66
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions	66
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia	66
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach	66
Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory	65
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data	65
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure	64
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development	62
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district	61
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China	61
Pedaling through the cityscape: Unveiling the association of urban environment and cycling volume through street view imagery analysis	60
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	58
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city	57
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 2010	57
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation	57
Key predictors of greenhouse gas emissions for cities committing to mitigate and adapt to climate change	57
Effects of meteorology on bike-sharing: Cases of 13 cities using non-linear analyses	57