OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Urban Technology is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
From the Editor	41
Australian Airports and Local Economic Development	40
Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence	33
The Citizen’s Right to the Virtual City: Urban Governance in the Metaverse Through an Exploration of Decentraland	26
From the Editor	26
Urban Electric Hybridization: Exploring the Politics of a Just Transition in the Western Cape (South Africa)	16
Infrastructural Heterogeneity: Energy Transition, Power Relations and Solidarity in Kingston, Jamaica	15
What Makes a City “Smart” and Who Decides? From Vision to Reality in the USDOT Smart City Challenge	15
Going Smart in the Brno Metropolitan Area: Local Actors’ Perspectives and Experience	15
Large Language Models in Urban Planning: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework	13
Unleashing Urban Technology Dynamics: The Interplay of AI Patents, Metropolitan Area Population, and R&D Expenditures in Sustainable Urban Development	13
Critical Junctures of Technological Mediation: Infrastructuring a Tracing System Through Commercial Apps in South Korea	13
The Role of Psychological-Physical-Physiological Factors in Decision-Making Behavior in Disasters: Insights from an Experimental Study in Gulangyu	13
From the Editor	13
Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Assessing the Built Environment	12
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through	12
Crowdsourcing Pleasantness and Safety Perceptions: An Analysis through Multiple Rankings and Socio-Demographic Groups	10
The Role of Digital Management and Smart Technologies for Sports Education in a Dynamic Environment: Employment, Green Growth, and Tourism	10
Governing Hybridized Electricity Systems: The Case of Decentralized Electricity in Lebanon	10
Mundane Urban Governance and AI Oversight: The Case of Vienna's Intelligent Pedestrian Traffic Lights	10
Coworking Spaces and Well-Being: An Empirical Investigation of Coworkers in Italy	10
Optimizing Sustainability and Performance of Green Roofs in Qeytarieh, Tehran: A Multi-Objective Approach	10
Holistic Sustainability in Urban Gas Stations: Community Engagement, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Impacts	9
Artificial Intelligence and the City: An Editorial Perspective	9
From the Editor	8

Comparative Analysis of Urban Subjective Well Being (SWB) Among Global Participants: Insights from Behavioral Experiments in Virtual Environments	7
From the Editor	7
Barriers to Developing a Citizen-Centric Smart City in China: From the Perspective of Citizens’ Sense of Gain	7
From the Editor	7
Sustainable Construction Technologies: Are Construction Firms Ready for Sustainable Cities?	6
Infrastructure Imaginaries, Past, Present, and Future: Living with the Urban Flood in Guwahati, India	6
From the Editor	6
Adoption of Deep Generative Models in Architectural and Urban-Form Generation	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
Community Smarts in Grassroots Initiatives to Support Cycling and Walking in Large Urban Areas	6