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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Infrastructural citizenship: (de)constructing state–society relations	25
Informal settlement is not a euphemism for ‘slum’: what’s at stake beyond the language?	24
Investigating community constructed rural water systems in Northwest Cameroon: leadership, gender and exclusion	21
Nature Based Solutions for urban water management in Asian cities: integrating vulnerability into sustainable design	13
Splintering disaster: relocating harm and remaking nature after the 2011 floods in Bangkok	13
‘Marginalised formalisation’: an analysis of the in/formal binary through shifting policy and everyday experiences of ‘poor’ housing in South Africa	12
Policy space for informal sector grassroots innovations: towards a ‘bottom-up’ narrative	10
The inventiveness of informality: an introduction	8
‘They say these are places for criminals, but this is our home’: internalising and countering discourses of territorial stigmatisation in Harare’s informal settlements	7
How can street routines inform state regulation? Learning from informal traders in Baclaran, Metro Manila	7
Towards a comparative research agenda on in situ urbanisation and rural governance transformation	7
Scholarship and policy on urban densification: perspectives from city experiences	6
Electrifying urban Africa: energy access, city-making and globalisation in Nigeria and Benin	6
Keeping the business going: SMEs and urban floods in Asian megacities	6
From gender planning to gender transformation: positionality, theory and practice in cities of the global South	5
Informality and the branding of creative places: the case of Suci screen-printing kampong in Bandung, Indonesia	5
Urban equality and the SDGs: three provocations for a relational agenda	5
‘Bastard children’: unacknowledged consulting companies in development cooperation	5
Hydrosocial practice in an urbanising floodplain: local management and dilemmas of beneficial flooding	4
Foreign direct investment, enclaves and liveability: a case study of Korean activities in Hanoi, Vietnam	4
Housing and occupational experiences of rural migrants living in public rental housing in Chongqing, China: job choice, housing location and mobility	4
Adapting to informality: multistorey housing driven by a co-productive process and the People’s Plans in Metro Manila, Philippines	4
The interplay of tacit and explicit knowledge in the informal economy: the atypical case of a recycling family business in Mexico City	3
Childcare and academia: an intervention	3
The resurgence of national development planning: how did we get back here?	3

Informal rental housing in Colombia: an essential option for low-income households	3
The making and unmaking of Tarlabasi, Istanbul: an account of territorial stigmatisation	3
How development corridors interact with the Sustainable Development Goals in East Africa	3
The social regulation of livelihoods in unplanned settlements in Freetown: implications for strategies of formalisation	3
Co-producing the right to fail: resilient grassroot cooperativism in a Chilean informal settlement	2
Social differentiation and access to clean water: a case study from Bac Ninh, Vietnam	2
Understanding the structure and complexity of regional greenway governance in China	2
The politics of infrastructural aesthetics: a case of Delhi’s Bus Rapid Transit corridor	2
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women entrepreneurs in Pakistan	2
‘ 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	2
Conceptualising gentrification: relevance of gentrification research in the Indian context	2
Non-metropolitan cities in Latin American urban studies: between ‘trickle-down urban theory’ and ‘singularisation theory’	2
Policymaking in data poor countries: measuring the Lebanese political agenda in a new data set	2
Adaptive project management for the civil society sector: towards an academic research agenda	2
‘Water when you need it’: drawing lessons from practices in Hubli-Dharwad, India	2
Urban development as a marionette? Oil income and urban development in post-revolutionary Iran	2
(Re)constructing (re)settlement: risk reduction and urban development negotiations in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	1
Co-producing urban transport informality: evidence from owner-operator relations in the motor tricycle taxi industry in a Ghanaian town	1
Labour power, materiality and protests in Ghana’s petroleum and gold mines	1
Between the village and the city: the in-betweenness of rural young people in East Indonesia	1
Current water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conditions in selected schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria	1
The self-regulation of informal land uses and tenure through customary land management systems	1
Beyond a standardised urban lexicon: which vocabulary matters?	1
E- musrenbang : a digital framework for local participatory planning at the community level	1
Multi-dimensional conflict and the resilient urban informal economy in Karachi, Pakistan	1
Global extractive imperative: from local resistance to unburnable fuels	1
Hallyu and FDI: the growth of South Korea’s investment in Indonesia’s cultural content industry	1
Knowledge and innovative spaces: a framework for assessment of the cultural—educational precinct in Tehran	1
Marginal cities in conflict: emerging geographies of spatial accumulation	1
The limits of insulation: the long-term political dynamics of public–private service delivery	1