OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Planning Education and Research is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Daring to Stop: Challenging Program-Level Learning Outcome Measurement in Urban Planning Accreditation	61
Moving to Online Planning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Assessment of Zoom and the Impact of ICT on Planning Boards’ Discussions	30
A Bus Home: Homelessness in U.S. Transit Environments	18
Erratum for “A Bus Home: Homelessness in U.S. Transit Environments”	17
Racial and Ethnic Change in Floodplain Buyout Neighborhoods: Twenty-Five Years of Evidence from Houston	17
Place-Making or Place-Taking? The Relationship between Goal Tension and System Performance of U.S. Modern-Era Streetcar Systems	16
Cycling in a Crisis: Employing Quasi-Experimental Designs to Estimate the Effects of Provisional Bicycle Infrastructure	15
Natural Experiments in Planning Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions	15
Unpacking the Association of Multiple Urban Infrastructures with Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of Three Measures	14
Institutional Designs for Procedural Justice and Inclusion in Urban Climate Change Adaptation	13
Can Self-Understanding Foster Feelings of Professional Responsibility among Planning Students?	12
Urban Built Environment and Flood Ramifications: Evidence from Insurance Claims Data in Miami, Florida	12
Where Do I Go from Here? Evaluating Professional Development in Undergraduate Planning Education	12
Sustainable Urban Form and the Creative Class: Insights from Southern California	12
Taught in America I: How Does an American Planning Education Serve Mainland Chinese Students?	11
The Influence of Institutional Single-Family Rental Investors on Homeownership: Who Gets Targeted and Pushed Out of the Local Market?	10
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 2021: Bish Sanyal	9
Relationships between Transportation Expenditures and Built Environment in the United States: Insights from Interpretable Machine-Learning Approach	9
Scaling Down from the Neighborhood in Urban Planning Research and Practice: The Potential Benefits of a Micro-Scale Focus	9
Decolonizing Urban Planning Research in Global South: A Call for Shifting the Gaze	9
Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Breaking Down Barriers through Comprehensive Educational Frameworks	8
Review: Critical Planning Futures: New Directions in Planning Theory , by Allmendinger, Philip, Mark Tewdwr-Jones, and Matthew Wargent, eds AllmendingerP	8
Transfer of Development Rights for Coastal Adaptation: Conceptual Design and Practical Applications in the United States	8
Introduction from New Editors-in-Chief	8
Analysis of Strategic Plans from Accredited Graduate Planning Programs: A Rubric for Manifesting Equity and Justice Values	8

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: The Publicly Owned Variety of Community Land Trust	8
A Comparison of Value-Weight-Elicitation Methods for Accurate and Accessible Participatory Planning	8
Planning Education for Sustainability: Lessons From Higher Education for Sustainable Development	8
Lessons from a Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Approach for Identifying Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Savannah, Georgia	7
Street Vitality: What Predicts Pedestrian Flows and Stationary Activities on Predominantly Residential Chinese Streets, at the Mesoscale?	7
Review: Turf War: How a Band of Activists Saved New York from Donald Trump’s “Masterpiece”—An Insider’s Account , by Robinson, Steven RobinsonSteven. Tur	7
A Typology of Informal Housing in the United States: Lessons for Planners	7
Engaged Research: Inviting Residents into the Scientific Process	7
Municipal-Indigenous Collaboration in Canadian Climate Action Plans	7
Causal Effect of New Bus Rapid Transit on Non-Work-Related Activities	7
Planning for Climate Leadership	7
Flood Risk Reduction through Floodplain Zoning	7
Envisioning Healthy Soil Futures: Planning and Policy Inertia in Addressing Soil Contamination in a Postindustrial City	7
Moving, Mapping, Imagining: Youth-Centered Methods for Understanding and Envisioning Mobility	6
Satisfied Enough to Take Action? The Role of Neighborhood Perceptions on Disaster Preparedness Behaviors in the United States	6
No Longer Seat-Less in Seattle: The Role of Coordinated Transportation and Land Use Planning in Sustaining Transit Ridership through the Pandemic Recovery Period	6
Planning the “Ruralopolis” in India: Circular Migration, Survival Entrepreneurship, and the Subversive Non-Farm Economy	6
Review: Placemaking With Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities by V. Derr, L. Chawla, and M. Mintzer	6
Review: Artificial Intelligence for Urban Planning , by Sanchez, Thomas SanchezThomas.2026. Artificial Intelligence for Urban Planning. New York: Routled	6
Transit-Induced Gentrification: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of New U.S. Rapid-Transit Stations Opened 2000–2009	6
Teaching Students How to Read and Assess Plan Content	6
Liminality of COVID-19: Knowledge to Action	6
Do Priorities for Developing Livable Cities Change Over Time?	6
Visitor Profile-oriented Urban Park Categorization: Analyzing Home-to-park Trip Characteristics Using Mobile Phone Data	5
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 2019: Elizabeth Deakin	5
Who Drives Neighborhood Income Growth? An Analysis of New Versus Long-Term Residents in the Northern California Megaregion	5
Impact of Light Rail: A Spatial-Temporal Assessment of Neighboring Residential Property Values in Los Angeles	5
Digital Twin or Digital Kin: Misunderstandings and Myths about Urban Simulation, and Directions for Change	5
Evaluating the Oregon Experiential Learning Model: Findings from Clients, Students, and Alumni	5
The Local and Network Effects of Rail Transit Network Expansion on Retail Property Values	5
Integrating Digital PPGIS With Qualitative Research Methods: A Framework for Complementary Mixed-Methods Research Design in Participatory Planning	5
Corrigendum to “A Buyout Displacement Index for Uncovering the Effects of Disinvestment in Greater Houston Watersheds”	5
Review: Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Third Edition , by National Association of City Transportation Officials National Association of City Transportation	5
The Demise of “Advocacy Planning” in Community Design? A Content Analysis of the Mission Statements of Community Design Centers (CDCs) in the United States	5
Towards State Entrepreneurialism? Exploring Heritage-Led Governance and Urban (Re)development Practices in Xi’an, China	5
Planning Education and Transformative Capacity for Climate-Neutral Cities	5
Evaluating Urban Heat Mitigation across Networks of Plans	5
Bus Rapid Transit Impact on Property Prices: Comparing Two Natural Experiments in El Paso, TX	4
Planning Students’ Experiences of Interdisciplinary Near-Peer Research Mentoring	4
Contemplating Reparations of Indigenous Peoples	4
Pedestrianizing “School Streets” in Paris: Field Collection and Remote-Sensing Analysis of a Massive Street-Reclamation Project	4
Segregation and Housing Market Dynamics in a Shrinking City: Evidence from Cleveland, Ohio	4
Making Vulnerability Invisible: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Use of Public Space in Hong Kong	4
Great in Theory, but . . .: Planner’s Perceptions of Queensland’s Performance-Based System	4
Conceptualizing Location Efficiency: A Narrative Review and Scale-Based Consolidated Definition	4
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 2013: Raymond J. Burby, III	4
Review: Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Gentrification in the City of Light , by Stangler, Cole ColeStangler. 2023. Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Gentrificat	4
Why American City Planning Needs a More Entrepreneurial Practice Modality	4
Evaluating Citizen Participation in Local Public Meetings: Exploring a Large Language Model Approach Using Transcripts from the United States	4