OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Urban Sciences 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 impact on city and region: what’s next after lockdown?	61
Urban mobility and public transport: future perspectives and review	51
Smart city technologies for pandemic control without lockdown	37
Who is hardest hit by a pandemic? Racial disparities in COVID-19 hardship in the U.S.	30
Smart city as a social transition towards inclusive development through technology: a tale of four smart cities	23
Driving effects of urbanization on city-level carbon dioxide emissions: from multiple perspectives of urbanization	18
The urban data deluge: challenges for smart urban planning in the third data revolution	18
How did travel mode choices change according to Coronavirus Disease 2019? Lessons from Seoul, South Korea	16
The prospects of artificial intelligence in urban planning	16
What do people want in a smart city? Exploring the stakeholders’ opinions, priorities and perceived barriers in a medium-sized city in the United States	16
Local affordable housing dynamics in two global cities: patterns and possible lessons?	15
Analysis of road traffic speed in Kunming plateau mountains: a fusion PSO-LSTM algorithm	15
Types of urbanization and economic growth	15
Dynamics in the governance of smart cities: insights from South Korean smart cities	14
Are Millennials leaving town? Reconciling peak Millennials and youthification hypotheses	12
Examining the long term impacts of COVID-19 using an integrated transport and land-use modelling system	11
Activity Participation and wellbeing during the covid-19 lockdown in Spain	11
Developmentalist smart cities? the cases of Singapore and Seoul	10
Introduction to the special issue of the Global crisis in housing affordability	10
Evolution of the smart city: three extensions to governance, sustainability, and decent urbanisation from an ICT-based urban solution	10
A study on street network resilience in urban areas by urban network analysis: comparative study of old, new and middle fabrics in shiraz	10
Factors influencing environmental performance: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	9
A study on emission and fuel consumption of motorcycles in idle mode and the impacts on air quality in Hanoi, Vietnam	9
Is travel behaviour an equity issue? Using GPS location data to assess the effects of income and supermarket availability on travel reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
The impact of density, distance and division on intellectual property rights protection: the case of Huaihai Economic Zone, China	8

Implementing the smart city: who has a say? Some insights from Hong Kong	8
Spatial dimension of climate change vulnerability and urbanization relationship in Nigeria	7
Economic and land use impacts of net zero-emission target in New Zealand	7
Estimation of land surface temperature in response to land use/land cover transformation in Kolkata city and its suburban area, India	7
Mexico’s housing crisis: vacancy, limited access & Deaf policy responses	7
Examining the evolving structures of intercity knowledge networks: the case of scientific collaboration in China	6
In situ urbanization-driven industrial activities: the Pringapus enclave on the rural-urban fringe of Semarang Metropolitan Region, Indonesia	6
Reduction and reallocation of bus use under COVID-19: an analysis of bus card data of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea	6
International tourists’ destination choice differences according to Plog’s personality types: analyzing the case of Mongolia based on the recreation opportunity spectrum	6
Reframing deindustrialization	5
Emergy analysis-based study of the sustainable development of Kunming’s urban eco-economic system	5
Distribution dynamics of China’s regional housing price disparity	5
Divergent approaches to affordable housing supply in a devolved policy system: Scotland and England after 2010	5
Bridging the top-down and bottom-up approaches to smart urbanization? A reflection on Beijing’s Shuangjing International Sustainable Development Community Pilot	5
Revisiting inclusion in smart cities: infrastructural hybridization and the institutionalization of citizen participation in Bengaluru’s peripheries	5
How do the poor survive in an unaffordable city? – An empirical study of informal housing households living in Hong Kong	5
The geography of the emergence of online peer-to-peer lending platforms in China: an evolutionary economic geography perspective	5
A matter of value: assessing the scope and effects of Tanzania’s national housing corporation’s development strategy on Dar es Salaam’s urban neighbourhoods	5
How different patterns of urbanization affect regional innovation? Evidence from Russia	4
Flood risk awareness and property values: evidences from Seoul, South Korea	4
Exploration on prior driving modes for automated vehicle collisions	4
ERAM as a complementary method of Spatial Syntax: comparison of methodologies by linking spatial analysis with income-producing efficiency for a retail outlet in South Korea	4
Exploring the spatio-temporal characteristics and driving factors of urban expansion in Xi'an during 1930–2014	4
Development of crash modification factors for intersections in Toowoomba city	4
How do psychological, habitual and built environment factors influence cycling in a city with a well-connected cycling infrastructure?	4
Designing an intelligent emergency response system to minimize the impacts of traffic incidents: a new approximation queuing model	4
Factors influencing fatal vehicle-involved crash consequence metrics at spatio-temporal hotspots in South Korea: application of GIS and machine learning techniques	4
Unequal welfare costs of staying at home across socioeconomic and demographic groups	4
Relationships between socio-demographic structure and spatio-temporal distribution patterns of COVID-19 cases in Istanbul, Turkey	4
How (Un)affordable is housing in developing Asia?	4
Congestion pricing with Genetic Algorithm for delay reduction on urban road network	3
Realizing housing justice through comprehensive housing policy reform	3
Housing affordability, borrowing constraints and tenure choice in Korea	3
Reality of compact development in a developing country: focusing on perceived quality of life in Jakarta, Indonesia	3
Geopolitics and economic geography: a commentary on Andy Pike’s geographical political economy	3
The spatial spillover effect of technological innovation network in cities: a case of the high-tech industry of Yangtze River Delta	3
Recommending taxi routes with an advance reservation – a multi-criteria route planner	3
Is geographical political economy the only/right framework for understanding and explaining deindustrialization in the regions of the Global North and South?	3
Complementing mobile measurements with Walking Interviews: a case study on personal exposure of commuters in Chennai, India	3
Features of the ripple effect in the US regional housing markets: a viewpoint of nonsynchronous trading	3
Federalism and urban primacy: political dimensions that influence the city–country divide in Australia	3
Planning for urban redevelopment: a transaction cost approach	3
The effects of antecedent dry days and land use types on urban runoff quality in a semi-Arid region	3
From moments to durations: the impact of Israeli checkpoints on Palestinian everyday life in Jerusalem	2
Impact of urban pattern on operating costs of public services: quantification through the economic weight of services ‘to property’	2
The effects of ‘sanctuary city’ policies on the local economy: empirical evidence from US counties	2
The spatial characteristics of bicycle-to-person collisions: a focus on bicycle paths of the Han River Park in Seoul, Korea	2
Meta-synthesis of COVID-19 lessons: charting sustainable management of future pandemics	2
Property ownership and resettlement options in Vietnam: the case of District 8, Ho Chi Minh City	2
Planning and technological innovation: the governance challenges faced by English local authorities in adopting planning technologies	2

Alternative housing priorities for low-income migrants in Jakarta, Indonesia	2
Spatiotemporal change in duration of households with every member out-of-home: a case in Kumamoto, Japan	2
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	2
Reshuffling city life: spatial and functional dynamics of urban activity in Tokyo during COVID-19	2
Evaluating the walking accessibility of Cook County’s public schools to use as open space	2
Residential segregation and employment stability among China’s migrant population, and related intergenerational differences—analysis based on propensity score matching	2
An organizational ecology approach to new food marts in New York City neighbourhoods	2
Value of travel time savings of autonomous vehicle commuters: a segmented valuation for local and inter-city travel	2
National borders transcended: the impact of geographical proximity on the growth of global innovation networks among cities in East Asia	2
Creating a state strategic innovation space: the development of the Zhangjiang Science City in Shanghai	2
Neighbourhood rental market integration and private rent trajectories – evidence from the city of Vienna	2