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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A geographical political economy response to commentaries on ‘Coping with deindustrialization in the global North and South’	38
Housing market, social housing, and fertility: evidence from urban China	28
Building blocks for smart cities adoption and associated implementation drawbacks in sub-Saharan Africa	25
Finding the old in the new: Smart cities in the national and local trajectories of urban development	22
Green infrastructure modelling for UHI control to urban thermal comfort: a case study of Temanggung urban area	20
State-led smart city with Chinese characteristics: the case of Xiong’an New Area, China	17
Artificial intelligence and smart decision making in smart cities: a parallel moderated mediation approach	17
Does Airbnb raise local rent in Seoul? Spatial 2SLS model approach	17
Does inequality exist in attaining sustainable development goals within a city? A case study in Pune city, India	15
Designing an intelligent emergency response system to minimize the impacts of traffic incidents: a new approximation queuing model	14
A fine-grained investigation on the predictors of urban green space growth in Nanjing	14
The geography of intercity technological proximity: evidence from China	13
A machine learning application to Google Maps Reviews as a participatory planning tool	11
The impact of right-to-work legislation on foreign manufacturing employment in the United States	11
The construction of smart city community environment under the application of animation immersion technology integrated into southern Fujian Folk Culture	11
Impact of urban pattern on operating costs of public services: quantification through the economic weight of services ‘to property’	10
Alternative housing priorities for low-income migrants in Jakarta, Indonesia	10
The changing spatialities of China’s knowledge economy: introduction to the special issue	10
Surviving the pandemic: COVID-19 and restaurant closures in Suzhou	9
Can land prices be used to curb urban industrial land expansion? An explanation from the perspective of substitutability of land in production	9
Understanding measurement of walkability in urban environments: a systematic review and research agenda	8
How is active travel associated with the scale, measurement of built environment and travel purpose: a GPS trajectory-based approach	7
A study on street network resilience in urban areas by urban network analysis: comparative study of old, new and middle fabrics in shiraz	6
Residential segregation and employment stability among China’s migrant population, and related intergenerational differences—analysis based on propensity score matching	6
The effects of antecedent dry days and land use types on urban runoff quality in a semi-Arid region	6

Planning and technological innovation: the governance challenges faced by English local authorities in adopting planning technologies	6
The promotion of Shanghai’s position and function in the global container shipping network	6
The role of spatial structure in driving the pace of structural economic change: empirical evidence from Vietnam	6
The housing quality impacts on women’s self-efficacy during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Kerman, Iran	5
Examining the impact of bicycle-oriented multimodality on accessibility and transport equity in the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece	5
The spatial effects of housing prices on innovation in cities: evidence from the Yangtze river economic belt in China	5
Revisiting inclusion in smart cities: infrastructural hybridization and the institutionalization of citizen participation in Bengaluru’s peripheries	5
Rigidness of planning law causing fragile grounds for crafting planning tools: neoliberal power and ideology immersed on urban space	5
The use of gamification for participatory smart city planning of Indonesia's new capital	4
How do psychological, habitual and built environment factors influence cycling in a city with a well-connected cycling infrastructure?	4
Visualization of urban heat and light at the pedestrian level	4
Intercity networks and urban performance: a geographical text mining approach	4
Urban life cycle and long-run violence: Colombia 1938–2018	4
Equity-based linkages in the evolving process of industry enclaves: a case study of Suzhou Industrial Park, China	4
Housing tenure of young people through a multilevel strategy: differences according to living arrangements	4
How did travel mode choices change according to Coronavirus Disease 2019? Lessons from Seoul, South Korea	4
Relationships between socio-demographic structure and spatio-temporal distribution patterns of COVID-19 cases in Istanbul, Turkey	4
The origin of industrial workers and rural in situ urbanization in Temanggung Regency, Indonesia	3
The inception of housing pathways in urban China: the declining household formation of young adults from 2011 to 2017	3
Is the gated community really safe? An empirical analysis based on communities with varying degrees of closure	3
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on characteristic of bike-sharing systems near metro and bus stations	3
Analysis of urban management information technology systems: Ubiquitous City, Smart City, Metaverse, and Digital Twin	3
Research on institutional frameworks for historic preservation through sustainable management and adaptive reuse: a comparative study in Philadelphia and Seoul	3
The influencing factors and regional heterogeneity of county-level public services quality in China	3
Federalism and urban primacy: political dimensions that influence the city–country divide in Australia	3
Traditional or alternative wine packaging: a study of consumer choices and perceptions	3