OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Population Space and Place is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Detecting temporal anomalies with pseudo age groups: Homeownership in Canada, 1981 to 2016	69
Mobility as Capital: A ‘Three‐Step’ Education Pathway of Chinese Transnational Migrant Families in Zimbabwe	64
Entrepreneurial Back‐to‐Landers: How Neo‐Farmers in Turkey Choose Where to Settle	55
Residential mobility in Hong Kong 1991–2016: Demographics, policies and housing market dynamics	54
Cross‐border marriages in pre‐ and post‐handover Hong Kong	36
The School Transition Estimation and Projection (STEP) model: A flexible framework for analysing and projecting school enrolments	34
Residential segregation by nationalities: A global and multilevel approach to Barcelona and Madrid (2008–2018)	29
The narratives of new rural residents in the configuration of the peri‐urban area: From circumstancial constraints to openness	26
Places and mechanisms of belonging and exclusion: Intra‐EU academic migration in a comparative perspective	26
Urban sustainability and the subjective well‐being of migrants: The role of risks, place attachment, and aspirations	25
Farming Technologies, Migration and Left‐Behind Women in China: A Socio‐Technical Perspective	22
Population Geographies in China: Future Directions of Travel	22
Contributions of Residential and Income Mobility in Different Life Stages to Increasing Low‐Income Rates in Suburban Neighbourhoods	21
Who stays in their birthplace? The role of multigenerational local ties in young adults' staying behaviour	20
Motivation and Migration Trajectories of EU Citizens on the Move: Repeat and Multiple Migrants in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain	19
Issue Information	17
International students' socioeconomic affluence and staying likelihood	16
Ethnic context and fertility differential in post‐Soviet Kazakhstan	16
Spatial Inequalities in the Completeness of Under Five Deaths: Assessing Vital Registration Data in Türkiye	16
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Beyond the Country of Origin and the Receiving Society: Differentiated Place Attachments and Homes Among Dominican Immigrants in the Netherlands	15
Urban‐Rural Transformations and Fertility Decline in China: A Distinctive Perspective Within the Second Demographic Transition	15
Exploring rural futures through spatial‐temporal migration balance changes in a North‐Caucasian rural basin	14
Explaining cross‐national differences in leaving home	14
Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China	14

The wellbeing turn: A necessary consideration in international student mobility	14
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Migrants' choices pertaining to informal childcare in Italy and France: A complex relationship between the origin and destination countries	13
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Unraveling the Enigma: Exploring the Impact of Migration Trajectories on Stable Settlement Intention Among Chinese Migrants	13
Identifying the employment effect of county‐city merger in China	12
Stepwise migration: What drives the relocation of migrants upon return?	12
The impact of the new trend of urban‐to‐urban migration on fertility behaviors	12
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Childhood internal migration in Europe: Developments across cohorts and countries	11
Linguistic capital and social inequalities: Experiences of international Chinese students in Germany	10
Internal mobility of international migrants in Europe: A critical literature review and research agenda	10
Trends in internal migration in Japan, 2012–2020: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
Country context, race and wages: A comparative analysis of Ethiopian immigrant labour market integration in the United States and Israel	10
Long‐term trends in intergenerational proximity: Evidence from a grandchild design	9
Issue Information	9
Childhood neighbourhoods and life‐time fertility in twentieth‐century Southern Sweden: A k‐nearest neighbour approach	9
Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda	9
The average effectiveness of local migration exchanges	9
Does migration improve the quality of life? The case of Swedish immigrants residing in Portugal	9
Opting out of neighbourhood schools: The role of local education markets in student mobility	9
Regional inequalities in life expectancy and lifespan variation by educational attainment in Spain, 2014–2018	8
Individual and Spatial Determinants of Mortality During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: The Case of Belgium in 2020	8
Transregional spouses, parents and children: How gender and family shape return migration in the French overseas	8
International and internal migration and the subjective wellbeing of wives left behind in Ghana	8
Spousal absence and well‐being: Evidence from China's internal migration	8
Mediating Proximate Care in Transnational Families in Sweden and the UK: Language Practices and Institutional Processes	8
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Issue Information	7
Placing Migration: Towards More‐Than‐Relational Geographical Migration Studies	7
Stability and change in China's geography of intercity migration: A network analysis	7
Aging, (un)certainty and HIV management in South Africa	7
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Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on ethnically diverse communities	7
China's place attractivity, population mobility and its mechanisms: Perspectives from a full spectrum of spatial analyses	7
Immigration, spatial inequality and place attractiveness	7
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Spatial poverty dynamics and social mobility in rural America	7
The relationship between migration and the Big Five personality traits: Evidence from probability‐based samples	7
Beyond destinations: Environmental perception and village attachment among stayers, outmigrants and returnees in rural China	6
Population decline and public attitudes toward multicultural immigration policies in South Korea	6
Moving up and down the urban hierarchy: Age‐specific internal migration patterns in Japan based on the 2020 census	6
The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural‐urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966−2018	6
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Parental migration, children and family reunification in China	6
Away from home and excluded from local solidarity networks: Undocumented Afghan migrant men in Istanbul	6
Lifestyle migrants as Eliasian ‘outsiders’: The case of Swedish emigrants to Portugal	6
Between the inclusion and exclusion of immigrants in a peripheral European country: Housing inequality in Portugal	6
Evaluating Housing Policy Effects on Childbirth Intentions in South Korea: Preferences, Benefits, and Policy Implications	6
Urban residence as a driver of wealth differentials: New evidence from Norway	6

A biographical approach to understanding irregular Chinese migration to the United Kingdom	6
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Life‐course trajectories and spatial segregation in older age	6
Involuntary resettlement outcomes following the regeneration of informal communities: The case of Baishizhou urbanizing village in Shenzhen, China	6
Destination‐to‐origin differences and settlement intentions of Chinese internal migrants: A birth cohort analysis	6
Influences of origin and destination on migrant fertility in Europe	6
Does the Development Level of the Origin Country of International Students Influence Where They Enrol? A Case Study of the Netherlands	5
Interaction of ancestry and agency: Challenges, constraints and options for second‐generation Albanian youth relocating from Greece	5
Intergenerational Care in Local, Long‐Distance, and Transnational Families: The Role of Geographical Distance and Cross‐Border Separation on Subjective Care Burden	5
Understanding patterns of internal migration during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Spain	5
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The ethnic composition and population dynamics of local communities in Australia	5
Internal migration in the time of Covid: Who moves out of the inner city of Stockholm and where do they go?	5
The impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on demographic changes	5
China's provincial optimum population sizes under SSP‐RCP scenarios	5
How families affect aspirational migration amidst political insecurity: The case of Hong Kong	5
Issue Information	5
Social bonding strategies in the context of retirement migration to nonmetropolitan areas in the United States—Insights from Michigan and North Carolina	5
Infrastructuring arrival and homemaking in COVID‐19 times: Experiences of newcomer Chinese students in Dutch cities	5
The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets	5
Not going out during the Covid‐19 pandemic? A multilevel geographical analysis of UK Google Mobility Reports, February 2020–December 2021	5
Redefining family structures: Births out of wedlock in 21st century Greece	5
Seeking (desperately) for gentrification? Population change, immigration and economic recovery in a Mediterranean city	5
Changes in mixed ethnicity households and neighbourhood transitions in England and Wales	5
Issue Information	5
How Do Summer Temperatures Affect Domestic Migrants' Settlement Intention? Evidence From China	4
The estimation of age and sex profiles for international migration amongst countries in the Asia‐Pacific region	4
Tell me who's your neighbour and I'll tell you how much time you've got: The spatiotemporal consequences of residential segregation	4
Same‐sex marriage and neighbourhood landscape overlap—A revised understanding of the spatial distribution of gay men and lesbians	4
Declining internal migration? Patterns, causes and prospects	4
The evolution of Catholic/Protestant unemployment inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983–2016	4
Are younger adults becoming less residentially mobile? A decomposition analysis of British trends, 1997–2019	4
Experiences of Losing and Re‐Establishing a ‘Sense of Place’: Insights From Forced Resettlement in Myanmar	4
Union formation of the children of immigrants: Does the ethnic composition of the childhood neighbourhood matter?	4
The spatio‐temporal ordering of migrant detention: Exclusion, hierarchy, and human disposal	4
Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and COVID‐19 in Nanjing, China	4
Age‐distributed composition of the Indigenous population in Australia	4
Blurring the boundaries of home: Community eldercare centres as institutional homes in urban China	4
Family structure of migrant workers and long‐term local settlement intention in China	4
Patterns and Motivations of Intra‐Urban Residential Mobility in a Southern European Metropolis. The Case of Filipino Migrants in Rome	4
Issue Information	4
International graduates on temporary post‐graduation visas in Australia: Employment experiences and outcomes	4
Changing patterns and determinants of China's interprovincial migration: Evidence from the 2020 census	4
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From strict socialism to social evils: Changing childhoods over three generations in urban Vietnam	4
The mobilities and immobilities of rural gentrification: Staying put or moving on?	4
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Get out of life on the edge: The role of urban public health services on migrants’ social integration in China	4
Issue Information	4
Editorial introduction: Social and spatial inequalities in health and mortality: The analysis of longitudinal register data from selected European countries	4
Residential segregation by educational status in Turkey, 2013: Examining the association with political preferences	4
From rural exodus to repopulation in Mexico's Mixteca Alta? Analyzing differential trends	4
Emerging in‐migration of urban young adults engaging in rural tourism in China	4
Time, temporality, and (im)mobility: Unpacking the temporal experiences among Chinese international students during the COVID‐19	4
Migration Infrastructure, Digital Connectivity and Porous Borders: Vietnamese Migration to Australia	4
Israeli‐Jewish immigrants in Germany: An assessment of the destination‐language acquisition model and the role of Holocaust memory	4
Subjective well‐being and school outcomes among children of immigrants and natives in Italy	4
Beyond brokering for recruitment: Education agents in Armenia	4
Introducing the role of the municipality of residence in studying the secondary migration of international migrants. Evidence from Lombardy (Italy)	4