OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cities is 56. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A digital twin smart city for citizen feedback	199
Future smart cities: requirements, emerging technologies, applications, challenges, and future aspects	180
Urban planning and quality of life: A review of pathways linking the built environment to subjective well-being	162
Deciphering the spatial structure of China's megacity region: A new bay area—The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the making	157
Determinants of broadband access and affordability: An analysis of a community survey on the digital divide	153
Environmental justice in the context of urban green space availability, accessibility, and attractiveness in postsocialist cities	146
Expansion of city scale, traffic modes, traffic congestion, and air pollution	141
Smart cities, big data and urban policy: Towards urban analytics for the long run	123
Emerging study on the transmission of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) from urban perspective: Evidence from China	117
Changes in local travel behaviour before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong	111
Barriers and risks of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) adoption in cities: A systematic review of the literature	102
The spatial integration and coordinated industrial development of urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	99
The politics of multifunctional green infrastructure planning in New York City	95
Collaborative workshop and community participation: A new approach to urban regeneration in China	95
Transport's historical, contemporary and future role in shaping urban development: Re-evaluating transit oriented development	93
Comprehensive evaluation of urban resilience based on the perspective of landscape pattern: A case study of Shenyang city	89
Evaluation of low carbon city pilot policy effect on carbon abatement in China: An empirical evidence based on time-varying DID model	88
Can autonomous vehicles enable sustainable mobility in future cities? Insights and policy challenges from user preferences over different urban transport options	87
A multi-mode Gaussian-based two-step floating catchment area method for measuring accessibility of urban parks	85
How do population inflow and social infrastructure affect urban vitality? Evidence from 35 large- and medium-sized cities in China	85
What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China	83
Whose city? Whose nature? Towards inclusive nature-based solution governance	83
Quality of life in the urban environment and primary health services for the elderly during the Covid-19 pandemic: An application to the city of Milan (Italy)	82
City resilience and recovery from COVID-19: The case of Macao	81
Measuring human perceptions of streetscapes to better inform urban renewal: A perspective of scene semantic parsing	80

Smart city research: A holistic and state-of-the-art literature review	78
Spatial patterns and determinant factors of population flow networks in China: Analysis on Tencent Location Big Data	78
COVID-19 and urban planning: Built environment, health, and well-being in Greek cities before and during the pandemic	77
Industrial structure or agency: What affects regional economic resilience? Evidence from resource-based cities in China	77
Urban network externalities, agglomeration economies and urban economic growth	76
Smart city for sustainable environment: A comparison of participatory strategies from Helsinki, Singapore and London	76
The impact of land urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions in the Yangtze River Delta, China: A multiscale perspective	75
Resilience resistance: The challenges and implications of urban resilience implementation	73
Urbanization, transportation infrastructure, ICT, and economic growth: A temporal causal analysis	73
Urban regeneration: Community engagement process for vacant land in declining cities	72
Big data analysis on the spatial networks of urban agglomeration	71
Assessment methods of urban system resilience: From the perspective of complex adaptive system theory	71
Urban expansion and the urban–rural income gap: Empirical evidence from China	71
The impacts of open data initiatives on smart cities: A framework for evaluation and monitoring	69
The varying patterns of rail transit ridership and their relationships with fine-scale built environment factors: Big data analytics from Guangzhou	69
First-and-last mile solution via bicycling to improving transit accessibility and advancing transportation equity	68
Geographical transformations of urban sprawl: Exploring the spatial heterogeneity across cities in China 1992–2015	68
Visualizing and exploring POI configurations of urban regions on POI-type semantic space	66
Urban resilience from the lens of social media data: Responses to urban flooding in Nanjing, China	65
Pandemic and the planning of resilient cities and regions	65
Why garden? – Attitudes and the perceived health benefits of home gardening	65
Urban blue spaces and human health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative studies	64
Smart City strategies and new urban development policies in the Polish context	62
Government-driven urbanisation and its impact on regional economic growth in China	62
A diagnostic tool for supporting policymaking on urban resilience	61
Urban–rural construction land transition and its coupling relationship with population flow in China's urban agglomeration region	60
Factors influencing the consideration of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) for smart city projects: Evidence from Hong Kong	60
The sense of community revisited in Hankow, China: Combining the impacts of perceptual factors and built environment attributes	59
How ‘just’ is hybrid governance of urban nature-based solutions?	59
Spread of COVID-19 in China: analysis from a city-based epidemic and mobility model	57
China's new urbanization plan: Progress and structural constraints	57
The x-minute city: Measuring the 10, 15, 20-minute city and an evaluation of its use for sustainable urban design	56