OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cities is 52. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban parks as a potential mitigator of suicide rates resulting from global pandemics: Empirical evidence from past experiences in Seoul, Korea	321
Disentangling the comparative roles of multilevel built environment on body mass index: Evidence from China	295
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size	294
Perceptions on barriers and opportunities for integrating urban agri-green roofs: A European Mediterranean compact city case	156
Understanding the impact of the built environment on ride-hailing from a spatio-temporal perspective: A fine-scale empirical study from China	150
Is proximity enough? A critical analysis of a 15-minute city considering individual perceptions	142
Robots are coming to town: A visual experiment on urban belonging and anxiety	134
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?	124
Between pace-making and pace-taking: Urban cycle logistics in an accelerated polity	118
Who changed and who maintained their urban bike-sharing mobility after the COVID-19 outbreak? A within-subjects study	117
Land rights, bases of informal settlements and bogus contract documents as a means of urban fringe legal land transactions in Ethiopia	111
Resolving urban mobility networks from individual travel graphs using massive-scale mobile phone tracking data	107
Solidarity mobilization and citizen participation effectiveness in urban area: The case of community recycling program	105
A project-based view of urban dynamics: Analyzing ‘leapfrogging’ and fringe development in Israel	104
The potential of the research by design method in balancing water problems: An integrated water and space management program for a part of the Warsaw agglomeration	104
Effects of ambient population with different income levels on the spatio-temporal pattern of theft: A study based on mobile phone big data	102
Blockchain for citizens' participation in urban planning: The case of the city of Berlin. A value sensitive design approach	101
Introduction to mobility China	99
Big data insights into urban park use in the pandemic: Changes in visitation patterns and exacerbated social inequalities in the U.S.	98
Effect of local measures on the update of the circulating vehicle fleet and the reduction of associated emissions: 10 years of experience in the city of Madrid	98
Changing associations of built environment with usage of urban space due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	97
Editorial: Autonomous mobility transitions—Socio-spatial dimensions and the role of urban planning and policy	96
Lockdown/locked out – Impact of the pandemic on the unequal geography in German cities	94
Where do temporary urban design interventions fall on the spectrum of public participation? An analysis of global trends	91
“I built it with my own hands:” A method to assess heterogeneity of housing quality in consolidated informal settlements	89

Does income inequality restrain marriage? A longitudinal study from the 35 large and medium-sized cities of China	88
Tourism in net-zero cities	85
From physical space to cyberspace: Recessive gender biases in social media mirror the real world	81
Identity (re)construction, return destination selection and place attachment among Chinese academic returnees: A case study of Guangzhou, China	79
Descriptions of the relationship between human health and green infrastructure in six Nordic comprehensive plans	79
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 2010	78
Three tensions in governing energy demand: A social practice perspective on Nordic urban interventions	78
Decarbonizing megacities: A spatiotemporal analysis considering inter-city travel and the 15-minute city concept	70
Short-term rentals and long-term residence in Amsterdam and Barcelona: A comparative outlook	70
Data-driven contact network models of COVID-19 reveal trade-offs between costs and infections for optimal local containment policies	70
Spatial segregation patterns and association with built environment features in Colombian cities	67
Homevalue misestimation and household leverage: An empirical study of Chinese urban households	66
The role of integration for future urban water systems: Identifying Dutch urban water practitioners' perspectives using Q methodology	64
Examining informal housing supply through rent gap analysis: An empirical study of sub-divided units in Hong Kong	62
Cities as organisms: Urban metabolism of the four main Danish cities	60
A physiology-inspired framework for holistic city simulations	59
An actionable maturity planning model for smart, circular cities	57
What is happening in shrinking medium-sized cities? A correlational analysis and a multiple linear regression model on the case of Spain	57
Nudging spirituality in environmental behavior	56
The metabolic urban network: Urbanisation as hierarchically ordered space of flows	56
School performance and violence: Intra-urban evaluation of an Amazonian metropolis	55
Evolution of urban development and regeneration funding programs in German cities	55
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district	54
Spatiotemporal flow force model of source/sink human mobilities within city	54
Haifa City profile: Emergent binationalism in a settler colonial city	53
Mega-mall, global city and social issues of our times the case of Europacity in Paris	52
Space poverty driving heat stress vulnerability and the adaptive strategy of visiting urban parks	52