OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Development Planning Review 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Informal settlement is not a euphemism for ‘slum’: what’s at stake beyond the language?	29
Policy space for informal sector grassroots innovations: towards a ‘bottom-up’ narrative	12
Towards a comparative research agenda on in situ urbanisation and rural governance transformation	11
The inventiveness of informality: an introduction	9
Housing and occupational experiences of rural migrants living in public rental housing in Chongqing, China: job choice, housing location and mobility	9
From gender planning to gender transformation: positionality, theory and practice in cities of the global South	9
‘They say these are places for criminals, but this is our home’: internalising and countering discourses of territorial stigmatisation in Harare’s informal settlements	8
Informality and the branding of creative places: the case of Suci screen-printing kampong in Bandung, Indonesia	8
Electrifying urban Africa: energy access, city-making and globalisation in Nigeria and Benin	7
How can street routines inform state regulation? Learning from informal traders in Baclaran, Metro Manila	7
Urban equality and the SDGs: three provocations for a relational agenda	7
How development corridors interact with the Sustainable Development Goals in East Africa	6
Scholarship and policy on urban densification: perspectives from city experiences	6
Foreign direct investment, enclaves and liveability: a case study of Korean activities in Hanoi, Vietnam	5
Informal rental housing in Colombia: an essential option for low-income households	4
The interplay of tacit and explicit knowledge in the informal economy: the atypical case of a recycling family business in Mexico City	4
The making and unmaking of Tarlabasi, Istanbul: an account of territorial stigmatisation	4
The social regulation of livelihoods in unplanned settlements in Freetown: implications for strategies of formalisation	4
The politics of infrastructural aesthetics: a case of Delhi’s Bus Rapid Transit corridor	3
‘ People don’t like the ultra-poor like me ’: an intersectional approach to gender and participation in urban water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects in Dhaka’s	3
Understanding the structure and complexity of regional greenway governance in China	3
Marginal cities in conflict: emerging geographies of spatial accumulation	3
The self-regulation of informal land uses and tenure through customary land management systems	3
Co-producing the right to fail: resilient grassroot cooperativism in a Chilean informal settlement	3
Multi-dimensional conflict and the resilient urban informal economy in Karachi, Pakistan	3

Labour power, materiality and protests in Ghana’s petroleum and gold mines	2
Transnational marriage networks for intra-Asian circuit of mobilities, investment and development: Vietnamese marriage migrant women’s investments in Vietnam	2
Conceptualising gentrification: relevance of gentrification research in the Indian context	2
Global extractive imperative: from local resistance to unburnable fuels	2
The value of development researchers: structural racism, universities and UK Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)	2
An evaluation of the accessibility of community health facilities under public health emergencies: insights from the floor area ratio in Ningbo, China	2
Adapting to informality: multistorey housing driven by a co-productive process and the People’s Plans in Metro Manila, Philippines	2
Non-metropolitan cities in Latin American urban studies: between ‘trickle-down urban theory’ and ‘singularisation theory’	2
On the ethics of researching informal urbanism	2
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women entrepreneurs in Pakistan	2
Adaptive project management for the civil society sector: towards an academic research agenda	2
Between the village and the city: the in-betweenness of rural young people in East Indonesia	2
(Re)constructing (re)settlement: risk reduction and urban development negotiations in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	2
From a climate–security nexus to conflict-sensitive climate actions for peacebuilding and human security	1
Rethinking the link between climate and violent conflict over water	1
The limits of insulation: the long-term political dynamics of public–private service delivery	1
Climate change, mobility and violent conflict: a typology of interlinked pathways	1
Co-producing urban transport informality: evidence from owner-operator relations in the motor tricycle taxi industry in a Ghanaian town	1
Beyond a standardised urban lexicon: which vocabulary matters?	1
E- musrenbang : a digital framework for local participatory planning at the community level	1
Current water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conditions in selected schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria	1
Globalisation, Western-style malls and consumerism in the Accra-Tema city-region, Ghana	1
Hallyu and FDI: the growth of South Korea’s investment in Indonesia’s cultural content industry	1
Community perception of climate events as a security issue: the case of Hatiya Island, Bangladesh	1
Causal connections between climate change and disaster: the politics of ‘victimhood’ framing and blaming	1
Managing COVID-19 and health vulnerabilities: mHealth user experience, information quality and policy recommendations	1
Are climate and environment- and peace and security-related policy outputs coherent? A policy coherence and awareness analysis for climate security	1
On the governing of ‘gray’ trading spaces in Accra: multiple powers and ambiguous ‘worlding’ practices	1
Overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation policy implementation: insights from Ethiopia	1