OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cities is 55. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Future smart cities: requirements, emerging technologies, applications, challenges, and future aspects	257
Urban planning and quality of life: A review of pathways linking the built environment to subjective well-being	257
A digital twin smart city for citizen feedback	253
Determinants of broadband access and affordability: An analysis of a community survey on the digital divide	185
Environmental justice in the context of urban green space availability, accessibility, and attractiveness in postsocialist cities	178
Expansion of city scale, traffic modes, traffic congestion, and air pollution	172
Deciphering the spatial structure of China's megacity region: A new bay area—The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the making	167
Smart cities, big data and urban policy: Towards urban analytics for the long run	146
Evaluation of low carbon city pilot policy effect on carbon abatement in China: An empirical evidence based on time-varying DID model	134
Changes in local travel behaviour before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong	124
Measuring human perceptions of streetscapes to better inform urban renewal: A perspective of scene semantic parsing	122
Barriers and risks of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) adoption in cities: A systematic review of the literature	118
What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China	110
Industrial structure or agency: What affects regional economic resilience? Evidence from resource-based cities in China	107
A multi-mode Gaussian-based two-step floating catchment area method for measuring accessibility of urban parks	103
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)	98
The x-minute city: Measuring the 10, 15, 20-minute city and an evaluation of its use for sustainable urban design	97
Whose city? Whose nature? Towards inclusive nature-based solution governance	97
Can autonomous vehicles enable sustainable mobility in future cities? Insights and policy challenges from user preferences over different urban transport options	97
Urban expansion and the urban–rural income gap: Empirical evidence from China	97
Urban network externalities, agglomeration economies and urban economic growth	96
Smart city for sustainable environment: A comparison of participatory strategies from Helsinki, Singapore and London	96
The impact of land urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions in the Yangtze River Delta, China: A multiscale perspective	95
Urbanization, transportation infrastructure, ICT, and economic growth: A temporal causal analysis	95
Smart city research: A holistic and state-of-the-art literature review	95

City resilience and recovery from COVID-19: The case of Macao	93
Assessment methods of urban system resilience: From the perspective of complex adaptive system theory	93
COVID-19 and urban planning: Built environment, health, and well-being in Greek cities before and during the pandemic	91
The 15-minute city: Urban planning and design efforts toward creating sustainable neighborhoods	90
The six dimensions of built environment on urban vitality: Fusion evidence from multi-source data	90
The impacts of open data initiatives on smart cities: A framework for evaluation and monitoring	82
Why garden? – Attitudes and the perceived health benefits of home gardening	81
Urban blue spaces and human health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative studies	81
Smart assessment and forecasting framework for healthy development index in urban cities	79
Geographical transformations of urban sprawl: Exploring the spatial heterogeneity across cities in China 1992–2015	76
Government-driven urbanisation and its impact on regional economic growth in China	76
The spatial analysis of digital economy and urban development: A case study in Hangzhou, China	75
Adapting cities for climate change through urban green infrastructure planning	75
Pandemic and the planning of resilient cities and regions	75
How ‘just’ is hybrid governance of urban nature-based solutions?	75
Urban resilience from the lens of social media data: Responses to urban flooding in Nanjing, China	74
Impact of continuous Jakarta megacity urban expansion on the formation of the Jakarta-Bandung conurbation over the rice farm regions	71
Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications	69
Smart City strategies and new urban development policies in the Polish context	68
Smart city trends: A focus on 5 countries and 15 companies	67
Spread of COVID-19 in China: analysis from a city-based epidemic and mobility model	66
The sense of community revisited in Hankow, China: Combining the impacts of perceptual factors and built environment attributes	63
Examining the association between the built environment and pedestrian volume using street view images	63
Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of shrinking cities in urbanizing China: A novel approach based on time-series nighttime light data	62
Autonomous vehicles and employment: An urban futures revolution or catastrophe?	59
Evaluating the disparity between supply and demand of park green space using a multi-dimensional spatial equity evaluation framework	59
The adoption of urban digital twins	57
Study of COVID-19 pandemic in London (UK) from urban context	57
Spatial distribution of ride-hailing trip demand and its association with walkability and neighborhood characteristics	56
Dockless bike sharing alleviates road congestion by complementing subway travel: Evidence from Beijing	55
The impact of land urbanization on ecosystem health in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomerations, China	55