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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus	465
Understanding the dialectical relationship between governance and governance outcomes in the context of urban (re)development: A critical review	230
Public acceptability of electric vehicle chargepoint installation in neighbourhoods: A psychometric approach to assess resident reaction	229
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis	222
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi	217
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data	190
From complaints to insights: A geographical analysis of illegal dumping by citizen sensor data	185
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development	179
Editorial Board	168
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions	152
Editorial Board	148
Do the developers need government assistance? The effect of TIF policy on affordable housing construction budgets	146
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana	133
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth	124
Economic impacts of shopping malls: The Accra (Ghana) case study	120
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories	104
Railway diplomacy: China's infrastructure investments and Africa's global connectivity	104
Kunz and post-communist geographies of urban poverty in Romania	103
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia	102
How do cities foster autonomous planning practices despite top-down control?	101
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size	101
Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory	97
Joint optimal pricing strategy of shared autonomous vehicles and road congestion pricing: A regional accessibility perspective	96
Urban food shopping trends: An analysis of Istanbul's grocery preferences via multi group structural equation model	94
Spatial concentration of gambling opportunities: An urban scale perspective	88

Exploring the impact of under-reported cases on the COVID-19 spatiotemporal distributions using healthcare workers infection data	87
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities	86
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case	85
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors	82
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks	81
ICT usage and perceived walkability of older adults: A walk-along study in Singapore	79
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation	79
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective	79
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	78
Intra-urban relocation patterns and correlation with built environment factors of population by age groups: A case study of Wuhan	78
Rethinking urban density, vitality and healthy environment in the post-pandemic city: The case of Istanbul	78
Developing circular cities in emerging economies: Investigating circular economy initiatives in the urban food system of two Indonesian cities	77
Distance decay as a measure of city attractiveness: Insights from migration flows in China	77
The determinants of national city size distributions: A BMA approach	76
City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’	75
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China	74
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure	73
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	72
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs	72
Barcelona as a case study for the effectiveness of short-term rental market regulations	71
Reconciling data-driven crime analysis with human-centered algorithms	71
After moving back to the nest: The heterogeneous effect of returning to parental home on the employment outcomes by income group	68
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	67
The effects of overwork on rural-to-urban migrant workers' intention to settle in cities: The evidence from China	65
Urban quantum leap: A comprehensive review and analysis of quantum technologies for smart cities	64
Revealing the impact patterns of urban morphology on land surface temperature in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China	64
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions	64
Does public space have to be green to improve well-being? An analysis of public space across Greater London and its association to subjective well-being	63
Green gentrification and who will benefit from green infrastructure regeneration? A quasi-experimental study in China	62
Evolution of China's intercity venture capital network: Preferential attachment vs. path dependence	62
Times and spaces of crime in the Historic Centre of Porto: Evidence from official data	62
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 2010	61
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach	61
A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities	60
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments	60
The relation between circuity and mobility cultures: A study of 41 European cities	60
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city	60
Exploring the linkage between the neighbourhood environment and mental well-being: Mediating roles of stress, physical activity, and neighbourhood satisfaction	60