OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Development Planning Review 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Informal settlement is not a euphemism for ‘slum’: what’s at stake beyond the language?	29
Investigating community constructed rural water systems in Northwest Cameroon: leadership, gender and exclusion	22
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
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
Childcare and academia: an intervention	4
Informal rental housing in Colombia: an essential option for low-income households	4
Co-producing the right to fail: resilient grassroot cooperativism in a Chilean informal settlement	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
‘ 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

Multi-dimensional conflict and the resilient urban informal economy in Karachi, Pakistan	3
The politics of infrastructural aesthetics: a case of Delhi’s Bus Rapid Transit corridor	3