OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Urban Technology is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
From the Editor	68
Of Flying Cars and Pandemic Urbanism: Splintering Urban Society in the Age of Covid-19	47
Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-COVID Era	44
Situated, Yet Silent: Data Relations in Smart Street Furniture	44
Australian Airports and Local Economic Development	37
Resource Ecologies, Urban Metabolisms, and the Provision of Essential Services	35
Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence	31
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	26
From the Editor	25
Infrastructural Heterogeneity: Energy Transition, Power Relations and Solidarity in Kingston, Jamaica	23
SmartnessBeyondthe Network: Water ATMs and Disruptions from below in Mathare Valley, Nairobi	18
Refracting Urbanism: The Multiple Histories (as well as Geographies) of the Networked City	17
Urban Electric Hybridization: Exploring the Politics of a Just Transition in the Western Cape (South Africa)	17
Going Smart in the Brno Metropolitan Area: Local Actors’ Perspectives and Experience	14
Urban Public Health: A Research Toolkit for Practice and Impact	14
Large Language Models in Urban Planning: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework	14
What Makes a City “Smart” and Who Decides? From Vision to Reality in the USDOT Smart City Challenge	14
From the Editor	13
Critical Junctures of Technological Mediation: Infrastructuring a Tracing System Through Commercial Apps in South Korea	13
Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City	12
Unleashing Urban Technology Dynamics: The Interplay of AI Patents, Metropolitan Area Population, and R&D Expenditures in Sustainable Urban Development	12
Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Assessing the Built Environment	11
Coworking Spaces and Well-Being: An Empirical Investigation of Coworkers in Italy	10
Crowdsourcing Pleasantness and Safety Perceptions: An Analysis through Multiple Rankings and Socio-Demographic Groups	10

Governing Hybridized Electricity Systems: The Case of Decentralized Electricity in Lebanon	10
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through	10
Optimizing Sustainability and Performance of Green Roofs in Qeytarieh, Tehran: A Multi-Objective Approach	10
The Role of Psychological-Physical-Physiological Factors in Decision-Making Behavior in Disasters: Insights from an Experimental Study in Gulangyu	10
Mundane Urban Governance and AI Oversight: The Case of Vienna's Intelligent Pedestrian Traffic Lights	9
Artificial Intelligence and the City: An Editorial Perspective	9
The Role of Digital Management and Smart Technologies for Sports Education in a Dynamic Environment: Employment, Green Growth, and Tourism	9
Comparative Analysis of Urban Subjective Well Being (SWB) Among Global Participants: Insights from Behavioral Experiments in Virtual Environments	8
The Times of Splintering Urbanism	8
From the Editor	8
Holistic Sustainability in Urban Gas Stations: Community Engagement, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Impacts	8
Barriers to Developing a Citizen-Centric Smart City in China: From the Perspective of Citizens’ Sense of Gain	7
Personal Spatial Mobilities after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Speculative View	7
From the Editor	7