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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Detecting temporal anomalies with pseudo age groups: Homeownership in Canada, 1981 to 2016	78
The narratives of new rural residents in the configuration of the peri‐urban area: From circumstancial constraints to openness	73
Residential mobility in Hong Kong 1991–2016: Demographics, policies and housing market dynamics	64
Cross‐border marriages in pre‐ and post‐handover Hong Kong	42
Residential segregation by nationalities: A global and multilevel approach to Barcelona and Madrid (2008–2018)	39
Who stays in their birthplace? The role of multigenerational local ties in young adults' staying behaviour	30
The School Transition Estimation and Projection (STEP) model: A flexible framework for analysing and projecting school enrolments	30
Places and mechanisms of belonging and exclusion: Intra‐EU academic migration in a comparative perspective	29
Entrepreneurial Back‐to‐Landers: How Neo‐Farmers in Turkey Choose Where to Settle	28
Farming Technologies, Migration and Left‐Behind Women in China: A Socio‐Technical Perspective	28
Population Geographies in China: Future Directions of Travel	26
Motivation and Migration Trajectories of EU Citizens on the Move: Repeat and Multiple Migrants in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain	22
Contributions of Residential and Income Mobility in Different Life Stages to Increasing Low‐Income Rates in Suburban Neighbourhoods	21
Mobility as Capital: A ‘Three‐Step’ Education Pathway of Chinese Transnational Migrant Families in Zimbabwe	18
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Place Attachment and Habitus in a City and Its Suburbs—The Case of Immigrants in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts	16
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Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China	15
Who Stays in Rural Areas? Understanding Gender Differences in Location Decisions Among Millennials in the United States	15
Ethnic context and fertility differential in post‐Soviet Kazakhstan	15
International students' socioeconomic affluence and staying likelihood	14
The wellbeing turn: A necessary consideration in international student mobility	14
Beyond the Country of Origin and the Receiving Society: Differentiated Place Attachments and Homes Among Dominican Immigrants in the Netherlands	13
Exploring rural futures through spatial‐temporal migration balance changes in a North‐Caucasian rural basin	13
Spatial Inequalities in the Completeness of Under Five Deaths: Assessing Vital Registration Data in Türkiye	12

The Refugee Integration Industry: Stakeholder Power, Market Logic, and the (De)Humanisation of Refugee Labour	12
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Urban‐Rural Transformations and Fertility Decline in China: A Distinctive Perspective Within the Second Demographic Transition	12
Linguistic capital and social inequalities: Experiences of international Chinese students in Germany	11
Economic Conditions, Education and Parity‐Specific Fertility: A Sub‐National Regional Study Across 15 Countries in Europe	11
Country context, race and wages: A comparative analysis of Ethiopian immigrant labour market integration in the United States and Israel	11
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Childhood internal migration in Europe: Developments across cohorts and countries	10
Migrants' choices pertaining to informal childcare in Italy and France: A complex relationship between the origin and destination countries	10
Unraveling the Enigma: Exploring the Impact of Migration Trajectories on Stable Settlement Intention Among Chinese Migrants	10
The impact of the new trend of urban‐to‐urban migration on fertility behaviors	10
Internal mobility of international migrants in Europe: A critical literature review and research agenda	10
Identifying the employment effect of county‐city merger in China	10
Corrections to “Determinants of Enforced Return: A Quantitative Analysis of the Spectrum of (In)voluntariness Among Rejected Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands”	9
International and internal migration and the subjective wellbeing of wives left behind in Ghana	9
Mediating Proximate Care in Transnational Families in Sweden and the UK: Language Practices and Institutional Processes	9
Trends in internal migration in Japan, 2012–2020: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
Individual and Spatial Determinants of Mortality During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: The Case of Belgium in 2020	9
Opting out of neighbourhood schools: The role of local education markets in student mobility	9
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Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda	9
The average effectiveness of local migration exchanges	8
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Placing Migration: Towards More‐Than‐Relational Geographical Migration Studies	8
The relationship between migration and the Big Five personality traits: Evidence from probability‐based samples	8
Transregional spouses, parents and children: How gender and family shape return migration in the French overseas	8
Does migration improve the quality of life? The case of Swedish immigrants residing in Portugal	8
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Gender Attitudes, Inequality and Migration Decision‐Making	8
Regional inequalities in life expectancy and lifespan variation by educational attainment in Spain, 2014–2018	8
Childhood neighbourhoods and life‐time fertility in twentieth‐century Southern Sweden: A k‐nearest neighbour approach	8
Spatial poverty dynamics and social mobility in rural America	8
China's place attractivity, population mobility and its mechanisms: Perspectives from a full spectrum of spatial analyses	8
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Spousal absence and well‐being: Evidence from China's internal migration	7
Immigration, spatial inequality and place attractiveness	7
Beyond destinations: Environmental perception and village attachment among stayers, outmigrants and returnees in rural China	7
Aging, (un)certainty and HIV management in South Africa	7
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A biographical approach to understanding irregular Chinese migration to the United Kingdom	7
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on ethnically diverse communities	7
Stability and change in China's geography of intercity migration: A network analysis	7
Involuntary resettlement outcomes following the regeneration of informal communities: The case of Baishizhou urbanizing village in Shenzhen, China	7
An Extension of Migration Effectiveness Indices: Accounting for the Impact of Migration on Population Structure	6
Evaluating Housing Policy Effects on Childbirth Intentions in South Korea: Preferences, Benefits, and Policy Implications	6
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
Between the inclusion and exclusion of immigrants in a peripheral European country: Housing inequality in Portugal	6

Influences of origin and destination on migrant fertility in Europe	6
The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural‐urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966−2018	6
Not going out during the Covid‐19 pandemic? A multilevel geographical analysis of UK Google Mobility Reports, February 2020–December 2021	6
Life‐course trajectories and spatial segregation in older age	6
Moving up and down the urban hierarchy: Age‐specific internal migration patterns in Japan based on the 2020 census	6
Lifestyle migrants as Eliasian ‘outsiders’: The case of Swedish emigrants to Portugal	6
Classical Gentrification in a Formerly Working‐Class Neighbourhood: Karlín as a Forerunner of Inner‐City Migration Trends in Prague	6
How families affect aspirational migration amidst political insecurity: The case of Hong Kong	6
China's provincial optimum population sizes under SSP‐RCP scenarios	6
Urban residence as a driver of wealth differentials: New evidence from Norway	6
Population decline and public attitudes toward multicultural immigration policies in South Korea	6
Address‐ Versus Postcode‐Based Building Blocks for the Creation of Small Area Statistical Geographies: Some Lessons From the 1911 British Population Census	6
Destination‐to‐origin differences and settlement intentions of Chinese internal migrants: A birth cohort analysis	6
Internal migration in the time of Covid: Who moves out of the inner city of Stockholm and where do they go?	6
Changing patterns and determinants of China's interprovincial migration: Evidence from the 2020 census	5
Israeli‐Jewish immigrants in Germany: An assessment of the destination‐language acquisition model and the role of Holocaust memory	5
Blurring the boundaries of home: Community eldercare centres as institutional homes in urban China	5
Does the Development Level of the Origin Country of International Students Influence Where They Enrol? A Case Study of the Netherlands	5
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Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and COVID‐19 in Nanjing, China	5
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The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets	5
Life in Rural Spain as an Immigrant Domestic Care Worker: Diverse Testimonies From Teruel	5
Infrastructuring arrival and homemaking in COVID‐19 times: Experiences of newcomer Chinese students in Dutch cities	5
Are younger adults becoming less residentially mobile? A decomposition analysis of British trends, 1997–2019	5
Age‐distributed composition of the Indigenous population in Australia	5
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Get out of life on the edge: The role of urban public health services on migrants’ social integration in China	5
Subjective well‐being and school outcomes among children of immigrants and natives in Italy	5
The ethnic composition and population dynamics of local communities in Australia	5
Understanding patterns of internal migration during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Spain	5
Interaction of ancestry and agency: Challenges, constraints and options for second‐generation Albanian youth relocating from Greece	5
Introducing the role of the municipality of residence in studying the secondary migration of international migrants. Evidence from Lombardy (Italy)	5
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Union formation of the children of immigrants: Does the ethnic composition of the childhood neighbourhood matter?	5
From strict socialism to social evils: Changing childhoods over three generations in urban Vietnam	5
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Time, temporality, and (im)mobility: Unpacking the temporal experiences among Chinese international students during the COVID‐19	5
The impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on demographic changes	5
Beyond brokering for recruitment: Education agents in Armenia	5
Changes in mixed ethnicity households and neighbourhood transitions in England and Wales	5
Redefining family structures: Births out of wedlock in 21st century 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
Social bonding strategies in the context of retirement migration to nonmetropolitan areas in the United States—Insights from Michigan and North Carolina	5
Tell me who's your neighbour and I'll tell you how much time you've got: The spatiotemporal consequences of residential segregation	4
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Horizontal or Vertical? A Tale of Geographical Proximity in Italian Kinship Networks	4
Patterns and Motivations of Intra‐Urban Residential Mobility in a Southern European Metropolis. The Case of Filipino Migrants in Rome	4
The estimation of age and sex profiles for international migration amongst countries in the Asia‐Pacific region	4
Declining internal migration? Patterns, causes and prospects	4
Editorial introduction: Social and spatial inequalities in health and mortality: The analysis of longitudinal register data from selected European countries	4
How Do Summer Temperatures Affect Domestic Migrants' Settlement Intention? Evidence From China	4
Experiences of Losing and Re‐Establishing a ‘Sense of Place’: Insights From Forced Resettlement in Myanmar	4
From rural exodus to repopulation in Mexico's Mixteca Alta? Analyzing differential trends	4
Exploring the impact of depopulation on a country's population geography: Lessons learned from Japan	4
Parenting in place: Young children's living arrangement and migrants' sleep health in South Africa	4
Emerging in‐migration of urban young adults engaging in rural tourism in China	4
The role of non‐resident family ties in rural staying	4
Residential segregation by educational status in Turkey, 2013: Examining the association with political preferences	4
International graduates on temporary post‐graduation visas in Australia: Employment experiences and outcomes	4
Migration Infrastructure, Digital Connectivity and Porous Borders: Vietnamese Migration to Australia	4
Same‐sex marriage and neighbourhood landscape overlap—A revised understanding of the spatial distribution of gay men and lesbians	4
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Re‐imagining belonging to Brazil: Active immobility in times of crisis	4
Migrant subjectivities and temporal flexibility of East‐Central European labour migration to the United Kingdom	4
Family structure of migrant workers and long‐term local settlement intention in China	4
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The evolution of Catholic/Protestant unemployment inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983–2016	4