OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Development Planning Review is 2. 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
From gender planning to gender transformation: positionality, theory and practice in cities of the global South	9
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
‘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
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
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

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
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