OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Urban Sciences is 1. 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
Rigidness of planning law causing fragile grounds for crafting planning tools: neoliberal power and ideology immersed on urban space	120
Changing urban identity of a Mediterranean port city: from consistency to fragmentation	119
The housing quality impacts on women’s self-efficacy during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Kerman, Iran	40
Housing market, social housing, and fertility: evidence from urban China	36
Multidimensional educational inequality and settlement intentions of internal migrants: the case of China	18
Does Airbnb raise local rent in Seoul? Spatial 2SLS model approach	18
How is active travel associated with the scale, measurement of built environment and travel purpose: a GPS trajectory-based approach	16
Redefining urban heritage boundaries for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the World Heritage property of the Hwaseong Fortress, Republic of Korea	15
Geospatial perspective on low-carbon city pilot and urban green transition: empirical insights from China	15
Exploring the synergy between regional cooperation and transport connectivity for sustainable regional development: an empirical study of the pearl river delta (PRD) mega- city cluster, China	13
Equity-based linkages in the evolving process of industry enclaves: a case study of Suzhou Industrial Park, China	12
Research on institutional frameworks for historic preservation through sustainable management and adaptive reuse: a comparative study in Philadelphia and Seoul	12
Emergy analysis-based study of the sustainable development of Kunming’s urban eco-economic system	11
Examining the impact of bicycle-oriented multimodality on accessibility and transport equity in the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece	11
Relationship between the degree and spatial pattern of urban shrinkage based on nighttime light data: a case study of the old industrial area in Northeast China	10
The role of cultural amenities in cities for employment growth of industrial clusters: evidence from a panel VAR model	10
The spatial spillover effect of technological innovation network in cities: a case of the high-tech industry of Yangtze River Delta	10
Does smart city policy promote sustainable cities? Exploring the co-benefits of smart city policy on carbon reduction, pollution mitigation and economic growth	9
The spatial interlocking of commercial office real estate and advanced producer services: a central flow theory lens	9
Study on smart city in League of Arab States (LAS): status and trend in 2024	9
How to prevent the next pandemic: exploring the relationship between built environment, socioeconomic factors and the pandemic	9
The effect of building height regulation in Seoul	9
Smart city as a social transition towards inclusive development through technology: a tale of four smart cities	9
Spatial cognition and emotion simulation in urban interior environments using agent-based modelling	8
A data-driven urban regeneration index utilising ahp and fuzzy logic for sustainable redevelopment planning	8

Inclusive policy environment or quality of life: understanding city preferences of young talents based on a discrete choice experiment with university students in China	8
A machine learning analysis of density structure and public health risk from the perspective of urban agglomerations a case study of Seoul and Busan	7
The question of sustainability through reuse in the case of the population-exchange heritage: a critical look at the reuse types and conservation status of the Bursa churches	7
The impact of retirement-age extension on young adult unemployment and urban economic stability	7
Does urban rail transit promote the population growth of cities? Empirical evidence from China	7
Are the poor getting poorer by connecting to the core? Exploring the impact of high-speed rail on the growth of small and medium-sized cities	7
Transferability of hometown landholdings and rural migrants’ entrepreneurship: evidence from a pilot rural land use reform in China	7
A trajectory data-driven approach for traffic risk prediction: incorporating variable interactions and pre-screening	6
Assessing public open spaces in high density urban areas using a structural equation modelling approach: a case study of Chennai metropolitan city, India	6
Understanding measurement of walkability in urban environments: a systematic review and research agenda	6
Value of travel time savings of autonomous vehicle commuters: a segmented valuation for local and inter-city travel	6
The role of spatial structure in driving the pace of structural economic change: empirical evidence from Vietnam	6
Finding the old in the new: Smart cities in the national and local trajectories of urban development	6
Exploring the spatio-temporal characteristics and driving factors of urban expansion in Xi'an during 1930–2014	6
Evolution of the smart city: three extensions to governance, sustainability, and decent urbanisation from an ICT-based urban solution	6
The changing spatialities of China’s knowledge economy: introduction to the special issue	6
A study of behavioural characteristics of the elderly based on computer vision technology	6
How does new quality of productivity drive urban low-carbon transition? – evidence from 169 prefecture-level cities in China	5
Impact of solid waste classification on urban ecology and economy in Beijing: A quantitative research	5
Exploring the interrelationship between local employment and income in gateway communities in the US Lake States: empirical evidence from spatial simultaneous equation models	5
Exploration on prior driving modes for automated vehicle collisions	5
The evolving role of urban designers in generative AI-assisted urban design: mini-block Izmir, Turkey	5
The inception of housing pathways in urban China: the declining household formation of young adults from 2011 to 2017	5
The megaregion – forms, functions, and potential? A literature review and proposal for advancing research	5
Understanding social innovation and governance in urban redevelopment: systematic literature review	5
Is the gated community really safe? An empirical analysis based on communities with varying degrees of closure	5
The examination of the relationship between Internet use at home, on the move and trip frequencies of public transport and private vehicle before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Electric vehicle charging infrastructure for extreme climates: case study of taxis in Jakarta, Indonesia	4
Economic value of neighbourhood perception on housing price: applications of unstructured multimodal big data and deep learning techniques	4
Evaluating inclusivity and efficiency in university open spaces: a user-centric approach	4
Enhancing sustainability and heritage in the Anthropocene epoch: insights from the Seoul metropolitan fora 2024	4
Transformations of smart governance during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Reading an adaptable urban form: Exploring the morphological patterns of the Iranian traditional bazaar	4
15-minute city, the basis of optimal allocation of land use in urban areas of Tabriz using a new multi-criteria decision making method	4
Still prefer, but not that much: the premium of subway access on house prices during the COVID-19 pandemic period	4
Non-spatial AI modeling to estimate traffic volume measures on local roadways	4
Using nostalgia to increase tourists’ destination loyalty in heritage cities: from imagined to productive nostalgia	4
Evaluation of architectural colour comfort and harmony based on street view images: a case study of Caidian	4
A critical review of activity participation decision: a key component of activity-based travel demand models	4
Reshuffling city life: spatial and functional dynamics of urban activity in Tokyo during COVID-19	4
What influences DRT Service to be satisfied and preferred? Evidence from an empirical study in the city of Gwacheon, Korea	4
A spatio-temporal analysis of single-family home values in the greater Orlando region	4
The relationship between residential burglaries and urban environments in Taipei City: a data mining approach	3
Sustainability-oriented monorail transit construction comprehensive evaluation	3
Spatial, mobility, or socio-economic inequity? A district level job accessibility evaluation in Jakarta, Indonesia	3
Dissecting the actors and actions undermining urban transformation: evidence from legal disputes	3
Sustainability and smartness interplay within city–renewables nexus: a bibliometric analysis from 1992 to 2022	3
Urbanization and health: the mediation role of slums	3
Exploring the spatio-temporal driving mechanism of multi-dimensional urbanization on urban residential buildings based on GTWR: a case study of China	3
Surviving the pandemic: COVID-19 and restaurant closures in Suzhou	3

Alternative housing priorities for low-income migrants in Jakarta, Indonesia	3
Communicating particulate matter risk: the effects of empoweredness and trust in government information on protective behaviour	3
Spatial analysis and integrated multi-criteria decision making methods; a model to evaluate justice in the distribution of urban services in Tehran	3
From environmental concern to industrial change: the economic mechanisms linking air pollution and robot adoption in China	3
Analysing the relationship between space quality and place attachment in urban coasts using structural equation modelling: the Antalya Konyaaltı case	3
Framework for hourly demand forecasting of bike-sharing stations: case study of the four main gate areas in Seoul	3
Stability in the urban center and volatility in the periphery: travel patterns over time in Metropolitan Barcelona	2
Infrastructural violence and slow urbicide: the case of bypass road 60 in the occupied West Bank	2
Optimal traffic signal control for an atypical isolated intersection using composite AI model	2
Social capital of public housing residents across mixed-income housing types and configurations	2
Analysis of urban management information technology systems: Ubiquitous City, Smart City, Metaverse, and Digital Twin	2
The deviation characteristics and influencing factors of urban scaling laws in China: industrial and sectoral perspective	2
Socio-spatial differentiation in a Latin American metropolis: urban structure, residential mobility, and real estate in the high-income cone of Santiago de Chile	2
Examining safe urban mobility for the improved welfare and wellbeing of older people in smart cities	2
Exploring the spatial heterogeneity and nonlinear impacts of TOD on housing prices using osp-GNNW-XGBoost model	2
Measuring ecological effects and policy mechanisms of urban land use transition – a case study of Xi'an, China	2
Driving mechanism of green travel behaviour: application of the Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour	2
Localizing SDGs at urban micro-scale: a comprehensive assessment tool for project decision makers	2
Dynamic effects of path dependence on regional entrepreneurship in transitional China	2
The influencing factors and regional heterogeneity of county-level public services quality in China	2
The effects of antecedent dry days and land use types on urban runoff quality in a semi-Arid region	2
The homeownership effect: understanding short- and long-term impacts on life satisfaction	2
Sustainable assessment and management of ‘Urban diseases’: a case study of Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration, China	2
Chinese urban villagers’ self-actualization: critical cosmopolitanism unpacked through modification of dwellings	2
Unveiling ‘population concentration-economic growth’ mismatch in the urbanization process: evidence from the Yangtze River Delta region in China	2
An indicator-based model to assess urban mobility to build a common understanding for all stakeholders: MobiVal4all	2
Housing price dynamics within an integrated urban model: testing the spatial and temporal transferability	2
Building blocks for smart cities adoption and associated implementation drawbacks in sub-Saharan Africa	1
How are urban design qualities associated with perceived walkability? An AI approach using street view images and deep learning	1
Exploring the characteristics shaping internal migration type of young adults in South Korea: a focus on the primary, onward, short-return, and return migration	1
The origin of industrial workers and rural in situ urbanization in Temanggung Regency, Indonesia	1
Modeling the intermodality between public transport and bike-sharing using smartcard trip Chain data	1
Spatial analysis of urban shrinkage: a scoping review of methodological and analytical gaps	1
Refined conflict prediction: improving traffic safety and efficiency simultaneously by fully considering the benefits of connected vehicles	1
The prospects of artificial intelligence in urban planning	1
A review of integrating space syntax analysis into heritage impact assessment: a comprehensive framework for sustainable historic urban development	1
Spillover effects of business improvement districts on residential housing values: a focus on the northern region in Los Angeles county, California	1
The intensity of telecommuting and spatial location decisions in a monocentric city model: using London as a case study	1
Creating a state strategic innovation space: the development of the Zhangjiang Science City in Shanghai	1
An integrated framework for addressing urban challenges in smart cities: transitioning from the V-model to a knowledge-action approach	1
Individual trip prediction on multi-mode transit system by identifying transit mode and trip regularity using smart card data	1
The impact of green low-carbon finance on smog reduction and carbon mitigation: evidence from a spatial panel simultaneous equations model	1
The liveability of school-district housings within a 15-minute life circle: a case study of Hohhot in western China	1
GIS-based assessment of transit-oriented and joint development in urban historical cores: a case study	1
A joint model of residential mobility and location choice decisions	1
The reciprocal relationship between social capital and community development in a Korean Chinese enclave: the case of Daerim 2-dong in Seoul	1
Analysis of the factors influencing the spatial distribution of religious places: case study of Rui'an City, Zhejiang Province, China	1
The interaction between smartness and the urban economy	1
Scalable origin-destination travel demand prediction using stratified graph convolutional network	1
City street landscape strategy with the consideration of urban wind corridors for mitigating traffic-generated PM _2.5 effect in pedestrian spaces	1
Traditional or alternative wine packaging: a study of consumer choices and perceptions	1
Comparison and driving factors of policy content reproduction across government tiers: A case study of the Role Model City for Safe Development policy in China	1
Do national urban agglomeration policies reduce regional disparity? Evidence from nineteen urban agglomerations in China	1
Revealing the mechanism of urban form affecting energy footprint and carrying capacity: an empirical analysis of Nanjing, China	1
Does ‘low-carbon city pilot’ improve urban sustainability? Evidence from China	1
A systematic review of the 15-minute city framework: implications for environmental heritage preservation in the Anthropocene	1
The evolution of urban innovation space and its spatial relationships with talents’ living demands: evidence from Hangzhou, China	1
The effects of proximities on the evolving structure of intercity innovation networks in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area: comparison between scientific and technology knowledge	1
Evaluating the walking accessibility of Cook County’s public schools to use as open space	1
Assessment of residents for CPTED-based crime prevention services in South Korea	1
Bridging the gap in urban studies: combining topic modeling and discourse theory in big data analysis	1
Investigating factors influencing mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) adoption: an integrated technology acceptance model (TAM)-task-technology fit (TTF) perspective	1
Performance-based evaluation on egress safety of disabled welfare facilities	1
Overheated behaviours and spread effects: an analysis of London’s housing market	1
Coupling mechanism and coupling linkage effect between multiplex city networks – a case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing city cluster	1
Evaluating transfer efficiency between public transportation and bike sharing for Mobility as a Service (MaaS)	1
Intercity networks and urban performance: a geographical text mining approach	1
Urban vibrancy and air pollution: avoidance behaviour and the built environment	1
Spatial–temporal heterogeneous analysis of the coupling coordination between new urbanization and urban ecological resilience	1
Neighbourhood rental market integration and private rent trajectories – evidence from the city of Vienna	1
A critical review of social housing commodification in England	1
Resilient cultural landscapes: adaptive management and social innovation in heritage conservation	1
State’s role in shaping the smart city industry development	1
Does low-carbon city pilot lead to adaptation? Empirical research from 267 prefecture-level cities in China	1
The cost of working: measuring physical and virtual access to jobs	1
Multi-criteria evaluation of urban leisure sports parks from a spatial justice perspective: Three Parks in	1
The nature of urban sprawl in Western Balkan cities	1
Reading Pyongyang’s apartments through a modernist lens: socialist urbanization and its distinctiveness	1