OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Urban Sciences is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How is active travel associated with the scale, measurement of built environment and travel purpose: a GPS trajectory-based approach	68
Can land prices be used to curb urban industrial land expansion? An explanation from the perspective of substitutability of land in production	67
Rigidness of planning law causing fragile grounds for crafting planning tools: neoliberal power and ideology immersed on urban space	44
Multidimensional educational inequality and settlement intentions of internal migrants: the case of China	30
Housing market, social housing, and fertility: evidence from urban China	29
Does Airbnb raise local rent in Seoul? Spatial 2SLS model approach	22
Changing urban identity of a Mediterranean port city: from consistency to fragmentation	20
The housing quality impacts on women’s self-efficacy during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Kerman, Iran	18
Research on institutional frameworks for historic preservation through sustainable management and adaptive reuse: a comparative study in Philadelphia and Seoul	17
Redefining urban heritage boundaries for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the World Heritage property of the Hwaseong Fortress, Republic of Korea	15
Equity-based linkages in the evolving process of industry enclaves: a case study of Suzhou Industrial Park, China	12
Smart city as a social transition towards inclusive development through technology: a tale of four smart cities	11
Examining the impact of bicycle-oriented multimodality on accessibility and transport equity in the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece	11
The spatial spillover effect of technological innovation network in cities: a case of the high-tech industry of Yangtze River Delta	10
The role of cultural amenities in cities for employment growth of industrial clusters: evidence from a panel VAR model	10
Emergy analysis-based study of the sustainable development of Kunming’s urban eco-economic system	9
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	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	8
The effect of building height regulation in Seoul	8
How to prevent the next pandemic: exploring the relationship between built environment, socioeconomic factors and the pandemic	8
Bridging the top-down and bottom-up approaches to smart urbanization? A reflection on Beijing’s Shuangjing International Sustainable Development Community Pilot	8
The spatial interlocking of commercial office real estate and advanced producer services: a central flow theory lens	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
Dynamics in the governance of smart cities: insights from South Korean smart cities	7
Exploring the spatio-temporal characteristics and driving factors of urban expansion in Xi'an during 1930–2014	6

Does urban rail transit promote the population growth of cities? Empirical evidence from China	6
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	6
Transferability of hometown landholdings and rural migrants’ entrepreneurship: evidence from a pilot rural land use reform in China	6
Value of travel time savings of autonomous vehicle commuters: a segmented valuation for local and inter-city travel	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
Understanding measurement of walkability in urban environments: a systematic review and research agenda	5
A trajectory data-driven approach for traffic risk prediction: incorporating variable interactions and pre-screening	5
Finding the old in the new: Smart cities in the national and local trajectories of urban development	5
The changing spatialities of China’s knowledge economy: introduction to the special issue	5
Evolution of the smart city: three extensions to governance, sustainability, and decent urbanisation from an ICT-based urban solution	5
The role of spatial structure in driving the pace of structural economic change: empirical evidence from Vietnam	5
Is the gated community really safe? An empirical analysis based on communities with varying degrees of closure	4
A study of behavioural characteristics of the elderly based on computer vision technology	4
The inception of housing pathways in urban China: the declining household formation of young adults from 2011 to 2017	4
The megaregion – forms, functions, and potential? A literature review and proposal for advancing research	3
Exploration on prior driving modes for automated vehicle collisions	3
A critical review of activity participation decision: a key component of activity-based travel demand models	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
Framework for hourly demand forecasting of bike-sharing stations: case study of the four main gate areas in Seoul	3
15-minute city, the basis of optimal allocation of land use in urban areas of Tabriz using a new multi-criteria decision making method	3
Impact of solid waste classification on urban ecology and economy in Beijing: A quantitative research	3
Reshuffling city life: spatial and functional dynamics of urban activity in Tokyo during COVID-19	3
Exploring the spatio-temporal driving mechanism of multi-dimensional urbanization on urban residential buildings based on GTWR: a case study of China	3
Enhancing sustainability and heritage in the Anthropocene epoch: insights from the Seoul metropolitan fora 2024	3
Communicating particulate matter risk: the effects of empoweredness and trust in government information on protective behaviour	3
Using nostalgia to increase tourists’ destination loyalty in heritage cities: from imagined to productive nostalgia	3
Still prefer, but not that much: the premium of subway access on house prices during the COVID-19 pandemic period	3
Transformations of smart governance during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Reading an adaptable urban form: Exploring the morphological patterns of the Iranian traditional bazaar	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
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