OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Urban Technology is 2. 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
From the Editor	65
Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-COVID Era	58
Situated, Yet Silent: Data Relations in Smart Street Furniture	47
Of Flying Cars and Pandemic Urbanism: Splintering Urban Society in the Age of Covid-19	43
Australian Airports and Local Economic Development	41
Resource Ecologies, Urban Metabolisms, and the Provision of Essential Services	33
Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence	32
Splintering Volumes: Architecture, Engineering, Finance, and Urban Form	30
The Citizen’s Right to the Virtual City: Urban Governance in the Metaverse Through an Exploration of Decentraland	29
From the Editor	26
SmartnessBeyondthe Network: Water ATMs and Disruptions from below in Mathare Valley, Nairobi	25
Urban Electric Hybridization: Exploring the Politics of a Just Transition in the Western Cape (South Africa)	24
Infrastructural Heterogeneity: Energy Transition, Power Relations and Solidarity in Kingston, Jamaica	23
What Makes a City “Smart” and Who Decides? From Vision to Reality in the USDOT Smart City Challenge	19
Urban Public Health: A Research Toolkit for Practice and Impact	17
Refracting Urbanism: The Multiple Histories (as well as Geographies) of the Networked City	17
Large Language Models in Urban Planning: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework	15
Critical Junctures of Technological Mediation: Infrastructuring a Tracing System Through Commercial Apps in South Korea	14
Going Smart in the Brno Metropolitan Area: Local Actors’ Perspectives and Experience	14
From the Editor	14
Unleashing Urban Technology Dynamics: The Interplay of AI Patents, Metropolitan Area Population, and R&D Expenditures in Sustainable Urban Development	13
Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Assessing the Built Environment	13
Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City	12
Governing Hybridized Electricity Systems: The Case of Decentralized Electricity in Lebanon	11
The Role of Psychological-Physical-Physiological Factors in Decision-Making Behavior in Disasters: Insights from an Experimental Study in Gulangyu	11

Coworking Spaces and Well-Being: An Empirical Investigation of Coworkers in Italy	10
Mundane Urban Governance and AI Oversight: The Case of Vienna's Intelligent Pedestrian Traffic Lights	10
Crowdsourcing Pleasantness and Safety Perceptions: An Analysis through Multiple Rankings and Socio-Demographic Groups	10
Optimizing Sustainability and Performance of Green Roofs in Qeytarieh, Tehran: A Multi-Objective Approach	10
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through	10
The Role of Digital Management and Smart Technologies for Sports Education in a Dynamic Environment: Employment, Green Growth, and Tourism	9
Holistic Sustainability in Urban Gas Stations: Community Engagement, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Impacts	9
Artificial Intelligence and the City: An Editorial Perspective	9
The Times of Splintering Urbanism	9
Personal Spatial Mobilities after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Speculative View	8
Barriers to Developing a Citizen-Centric Smart City in China: From the Perspective of Citizens’ Sense of Gain	8
From the Editor	8
Comparative Analysis of Urban Subjective Well Being (SWB) Among Global Participants: Insights from Behavioral Experiments in Virtual Environments	8
Infrastructure Imaginaries, Past, Present, and Future: Living with the Urban Flood in Guwahati, India	7
From the Editor	7
Community Smarts in Grassroots Initiatives to Support Cycling and Walking in Large Urban Areas	6
Divergent Futures in a Damaged Territory: The Rise of Data Centers and Water Conflicts in Santiago de Chile	6
Cyclists as Intelligent Carriers of Space-Time Environmental Information: Crowd-Sourced Sensor Data for Local Air Quality Measurement and Mobility Analysis in the Netherlands	6
Downtime on the Microgrid: Architecture, Electricity, and Smart City Islands	6
From the Editor	6
Planning First, Tools Second: Evaluating the Evolving Roles of Planning Support Systems in Urban Planning	6
Sustainable Construction Technologies: Are Construction Firms Ready for Sustainable Cities?	6
Does Mobility Experience Matter? Insights from a Model-Oriented Practice in Zaragoza, Spain	5
The Infrastructural Imagination	5
Investigating Digitally Inflected Intercity Cycle Commuting	5
Smart Cities Indicators: How Regional Context and Its Stakeholders Are Essential to Name “The” Smart City	5
Solar Rooftop Systems and the Urban Transition: Shall the Twain Ever Meet? Interrogations from Rewari, India	5
Planning for Urban Livability: Integrating Socio-Spatial Indicators in City-Making	5
Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements	5
Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process Method to Evaluate Mobility as a Service ( MaaS ) Applications	4
Aerial Video Surveillance in a Megacity: A Case Study in Santiago, Chile	4
All That Is Urban Melts into Data: Circulations of Matter, Energy, and Data in the Digital City	4
Can Smart Cities Be Sustainable? An Emerging Field of Research	4
How do Cyber-Risks Vary Across Smart City Technologies?	4
Splintering by Proxy: A Reflection on the Spatial Impacts and Distributed Agency of Platform Urbanism	4
Sensing Lights: The Challenges of Transforming Street Lights into an Urban Intelligence Platform	4
Of Bloatware and Spreadsheets: Nairobi, Chinese Phones, and the Limits of Data Coloniality	4
Hacking Corporate Smart Cities Under COVID-19: Towards a Smart Governance Approach	4
Uncertainty in Market-Mediated Technology Transfer and Geographical Diffusion: Evidence from Chinese Technology Flow	3
Mini-Grids at the Interface: The Deployment of Mini-Grids in Urbanizing Localities of the Global South	3
“Danger Zones,” “Death Zones,” and Paradoxes of Infrastructural Space-Making in Manila	3
The Post-Networked Condition in the Urbanized Periphery: Transforming Water Supply and Sanitation Services in a Southern European Metropolis	3
The Neuro-Cognitive Approach to Urban Planning: Wayfinding Behavior Analysis and its Effect on Urban Planning	3
A Scientist's Warning on Smart Cities: Rethinking Urban Sustainability for More-than-Human Futures	3
In the Excess of Splintering Urbanism: The Racialized Political Economy of Infrastructure	3
Interspecies Cyber-Governance: BeeDAO and the Artistic Imaginaries of Blockchain for Planetary Regeneration	3
Incorporating Planning Intelligence into Deep Learning: A Planning Support Tool for Street Network Design	3
Enabling Seamless Interoperability of Digital Systems in Smart Cities Using API: A Systematic Literature Review	3
Immigrants Living in Smart Cities: A Systematic Review of Their Digital Technology Adoption and an Empirical Study on the Adoption of Smart City Applications	3
Mining the Sequence Pattern of Functional Zones to Analyze the Spatial Layout of Port Cites in Coastal Zones	2

Informational Modeling of Cities: Method and Challenges for Institutional Implementation	2
Exploring Urban Parking Patterns: A Deep Learning Approach to Utilization Prediction Based on Parking Time	2
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from the Threshold Effect of Absorptive Capacity	2
Gray to Green Communities: A Call to Action on the Housing and Climate Crises	2
Embodied Precariat and Digital Control in the “Gig Economy”: The Mobile Labor of Food Delivery Workers	2
Mapping Roof Materials in Cities for Food, Water, and Energy Production: A Mediterranean Metropolitan Area Case Study	2
Smart Technologies for Urban Energy Systems	2
Splintering Urbanismand Climate Breakdown	2
Autonomous Vehicles as Public Transport: Perceptions of Risks and Opportunities for Mobility, the Environment, and Society	2
Splintering Urbanism @ 20: Reengaging Contradiction, Confinement, and Consumption	2
Competency Checklists and Education Recommender Programs: Training Smart City Managers	2
A Common Management Framework for European Smart Cities? The Case of the European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities Six Nations Forum	2