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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How is active travel associated with the scale, measurement of built environment and travel purpose: a GPS trajectory-based approach	56
Can land prices be used to curb urban industrial land expansion? An explanation from the perspective of substitutability of land in production	54
Rigidness of planning law causing fragile grounds for crafting planning tools: neoliberal power and ideology immersed on urban space	39
Multidimensional educational inequality and settlement intentions of internal migrants: the case of China	28
The housing quality impacts on women’s self-efficacy during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Kerman, Iran	28
Housing market, social housing, and fertility: evidence from urban China	25
Does Airbnb raise local rent in Seoul? Spatial 2SLS model approach	23
Changing urban identity of a Mediterranean port city: from consistency to fragmentation	21
Research on institutional frameworks for historic preservation through sustainable management and adaptive reuse: a comparative study in Philadelphia and Seoul	18
How do psychological, habitual and built environment factors influence cycling in a city with a well-connected cycling infrastructure?	18
Equity-based linkages in the evolving process of industry enclaves: a case study of Suzhou Industrial Park, China	17
Examining the impact of bicycle-oriented multimodality on accessibility and transport equity in the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece	16
Redefining urban heritage boundaries for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the World Heritage property of the Hwaseong Fortress, Republic of Korea	15
The spatial spillover effect of technological innovation network in cities: a case of the high-tech industry of Yangtze River Delta	14
The role of cultural amenities in cities for employment growth of industrial clusters: evidence from a panel VAR model	14
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	13
Emergy analysis-based study of the sustainable development of Kunming’s urban eco-economic system	12
The effect of building height regulation in Seoul	10
Smart city as a social transition towards inclusive development through technology: a tale of four smart cities	10
The spatial interlocking of commercial office real estate and advanced producer services: a central flow theory lens	9
Dynamics in the governance of smart cities: insights from South Korean smart cities	9
How to prevent the next pandemic: exploring the relationship between built environment, socioeconomic factors and the pandemic	9
Inclusive policy environment or quality of life: understanding city preferences of young talents based on a discrete choice experiment with university students in China	9
Bridging the top-down and bottom-up approaches to smart urbanization? A reflection on Beijing’s Shuangjing International Sustainable Development Community Pilot	9
Features of the ripple effect in the US regional housing markets: a viewpoint of nonsynchronous trading	8

Transferability of hometown landholdings and rural migrants’ entrepreneurship: evidence from a pilot rural land use reform in China	8
A trajectory data-driven approach for traffic risk prediction: incorporating variable interactions and pre-screening	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
Value of travel time savings of autonomous vehicle commuters: a segmented valuation for local and inter-city travel	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
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
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
Exploring the interrelationship between local employment and income in gateway communities in the US Lake States: empirical evidence from spatial simultaneous equation models	5
Understanding measurement of walkability in urban environments: a systematic review and research agenda	5
Is the gated community really safe? An empirical analysis based on communities with varying degrees of closure	5
The role of spatial structure in driving the pace of structural economic change: empirical evidence from Vietnam	5
A critical review of activity participation decision: a key component of activity-based travel demand models	4
Revisiting inclusion in smart cities: infrastructural hybridization and the institutionalization of citizen participation in Bengaluru’s peripheries	4
The megaregion – forms, functions, and potential? A literature review and proposal for advancing research	4
The inception of housing pathways in urban China: the declining household formation of young adults from 2011 to 2017	4
Impact of solid waste classification on urban ecology and economy in Beijing: A quantitative research	4
Exploration on prior driving modes for automated vehicle collisions	3
Reading an adaptable urban form: Exploring the morphological patterns of the Iranian traditional bazaar	3
Spatial analysis and integrated multi-criteria decision making methods; a model to evaluate justice in the distribution of urban services in Tehran	3
Sustainability-oriented monorail transit construction comprehensive evaluation	3
Communicating particulate matter risk: the effects of empoweredness and trust in government information on protective behaviour	3
Still prefer, but not that much: the premium of subway access on house prices during the COVID-19 pandemic period	3
Using nostalgia to increase tourists’ destination loyalty in heritage cities: from imagined to productive nostalgia	3
Exploring the spatio-temporal driving mechanism of multi-dimensional urbanization on urban residential buildings based on GTWR: a case study of China	3
Sustainability and smartness interplay within city–renewables nexus: a bibliometric analysis from 1992 to 2022	3
Framework for hourly demand forecasting of bike-sharing stations: case study of the four main gate areas in Seoul	3
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	3
Reshuffling city life: spatial and functional dynamics of urban activity in Tokyo during COVID-19	3
Urban governance in an increasingly mobile society: the case of Chinese cities	3
The relationship between residential burglaries and urban environments in Taipei City: a data mining approach	3
Enhancing sustainability and heritage in the Anthropocene epoch: insights from the Seoul metropolitan fora 2024	3
The influencing factors and regional heterogeneity of county-level public services quality in China	2
Dynamic effects of path dependence on regional entrepreneurship in transitional China	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
Measuring ecological effects and policy mechanisms of urban land use transition – a case study of Xi'an, China	2
Surviving the pandemic: COVID-19 and restaurant closures in Suzhou	2
Analysis of urban management information technology systems: Ubiquitous City, Smart City, Metaverse, and Digital Twin	2
Alternative housing priorities for low-income migrants in Jakarta, Indonesia	2
Developmentalist smart cities? the cases of Singapore and Seoul	2
A review of integrating space syntax analysis into heritage impact assessment: a comprehensive framework for sustainable historic urban development	2
The effects of antecedent dry days and land use types on urban runoff quality in a semi-Arid region	2
The deviation characteristics and influencing factors of urban scaling laws in China: industrial and sectoral perspective	2
Revealing the mechanism of urban form affecting energy footprint and carrying capacity: an empirical analysis of Nanjing, China	2
The interaction between smartness and the urban economy	2
Neighbourhood rental market integration and private rent trajectories – evidence from the city of Vienna	2
The cost of working: measuring physical and virtual access to jobs	1
Spillover effects of business improvement districts on residential housing values: a focus on the northern region in Los Angeles county, California	1
Urban vibrancy and air pollution: avoidance behaviour and the built environment	1

An integrated framework for addressing urban challenges in smart cities: transitioning from the V-model to a knowledge-action approach	1
Assessment of residents for CPTED-based crime prevention services in South Korea	1
Coupling mechanism and coupling linkage effect between multiplex city networks – a case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing city cluster	1
Impact of urban pattern on operating costs of public services: quantification through the economic weight of services ‘to property’	1
How do the poor survive in an unaffordable city? – An empirical study of informal housing households living in Hong Kong	1
Modeling the intermodality between public transport and bike-sharing using smartcard trip Chain data	1
The reciprocal relationship between social capital and community development in a Korean Chinese enclave: the case of Daerim 2-dong in Seoul	1
How did travel mode choices change according to Coronavirus Disease 2019? Lessons from Seoul, South Korea	1
Building blocks for smart cities adoption and associated implementation drawbacks in sub-Saharan Africa	1
The nature of urban sprawl in Western Balkan cities	1
The impact of green low-carbon finance on smog reduction and carbon mitigation: evidence from a spatial panel simultaneous equations model	1
Overheated behaviours and spread effects: an analysis of London’s housing market	1
City street landscape strategy with the consideration of urban wind corridors for mitigating traffic-generated PM _2.5 effect in pedestrian spaces	1
Resilient cultural landscapes: adaptive management and social innovation in heritage conservation	1
Designing an intelligent emergency response system to minimize the impacts of traffic incidents: a new approximation queuing model	1
Intercity networks and urban performance: a geographical text mining approach	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