OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mobilities 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobilities, design and passenger experiences	57
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	39
Micromobility justice in urban Brazil: the contexts of scooter sharing services	34
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	31
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	28
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	20
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	20
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	18
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	18
Walking versus cycling? Negotiating active travel practices over logics of automobility and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Mobilising safety? Public order and the coordination of security guards in public transport in Stockholm	16
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	15
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	15
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	15
Food warriors: app-based delivery on electric micromobilities	15
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	14
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	14
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	14
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	14
(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance	12
Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research	12
Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873	12
‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States)	12
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	12
Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite	11

Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	10
Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021	10
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	10
‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city	10
Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal	10
Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping	10
Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video	9
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	9
Platforms, race, and urban space: the multiplication of unevenness of migrant food couriers’ mobilities	9
John Urry Article Prize 2021	9
Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891	9
Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging	9
Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport	8
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	8
Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters	8
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies	8
Freedom of speech on the move how motorcycle taxis open up small mobile spaces for political talk in Uganda	7
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	7
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	7
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	7
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	7
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	7
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	7
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	7
‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence	7
Being near the action: bed and breakfast and guesthouse entrepreneurs and the hosting of black South African domestic tourists in the Cape Town townships	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	7
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
The claim to have rights, and the right to have claims − transnational solidarity of Roma in the face of the war in Ukraine	7
Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities	7
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	7
Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2 ^nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)	6
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	6
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	6
Sustainable shared mobility as social common capital: conceptual framework and case analysis	6
The problem with Pod Man	6
Beyond the footpath: grammars of walking and the walking subject in Wordsworth and Shehadeh	6
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	6
How linguistic patterns obscure responsibility in newspaper coverage of traffic crashes in German-speaking countries: an interdisciplinary study	6
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	6
Cycling for net zero transition: diversity, infrastructures and care	5
List of reviewers	5
Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel	5
The unexceptional im/mobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic	5
Governing Petro-(im)mobilities: the making of right-of-way for Uganda’s East African Crude Oil pipeline	5
Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden	5
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	5
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands	5
Gendered and sexualized violence on the move: unravelling collective (im)mobilization in the name of post-Soviet imperial membership	5
Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women’s reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities	5

The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility	5
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	5
Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland	5
List of reviewers 2024	5
Uneven mobilities: the everyday management of app-based delivery work in Germany	5
“Where migrants are, where they gather”: exploring solidarity on the move in Calais after the “jungle”	5
Transactional formats, mediating devices, and the forensics of recognition: ‘waiting time’ calculation and a political imagination of collective autorickshaw circulation	4
The bordering and rebordering of climate mobilities: towards a plurality of relations	4
Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility	4
Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)	4
Mobile places and emplaced mobilities: problematizing the place-mobility nexus	4
Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point	4
Putting the car in context: a call for a situated technopolitical transition in global automobilities	4
Forced or voluntary migrants? Daily and labour market challenges for new Israeli citizens from Ukraine since 2014	4
Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities	4
Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime: defecting, border hopping, and smuggled smartphones in North Korea	4
Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane	4
Mobile constraint: migrant experiences of mass transit in Santiago, Chile	4
Doing digital discipline: how Airbnb hosts engage with the digital platform	4
Understanding the experiences of return and re-adaptation among Polish returnees from long-term international migration: a conceptual framework of re-adaptation	4
Going out and making it home: on the roots, routes and homing of young queer men in Nairobi, Kenya	4
Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands	4
The affects and emotions of everyday commutes in Kolkata: shaping women’s public transport mobility	4
Informal transportation systems in the region of Urabá in Colombia through the lens of everyday forms of resistance	4
Cabecitas Blancas : settler colonialism, racial capitalism and the (im)mobility of borders for Yucatecan migrant families	3
The nexus of (im)mobilities: hyper, compelled, and forced mobile subjects	3
Car-free not care-free – the social practices of parents without cars	3
Informal strategies in transnational mobilities and their implications for European lifestyle migration	3
Mobility injustice and agency: confronting border asymmetries in cross-border commuting under COVID-19 re-bordering policies	3
Homely mobilities: between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ through tiny homes	3
Sacrificing entitlement for self-preservation: ‘privatising vulnerability’ as a cyclist in Dublin	3
Voices of the world: (im)mobility experiences of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Mobility data justice	3
The rhetoric of return: Mingma or the contradictions of development in Nepal*	3
Community-driven mobility practices: implications for designing sustainable mobility interventions	3
2023 John Urry Article Prizewinner	3
Understanding train tourism mobilities: a practice theories perspective	3
Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics	3
Moving camps: ‘refugee villages’ between Denmark and Bosnia, 1992–2017	3
Automating the first and last mile? Reframing the ‘challenges’ of everyday mobilities	3
The mobility biography of things and the climate emergency	3
Cycling as work: mobility and informality in Indian cities	3
Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system	3
Defining motility: the uses, operationalisations and limits of a concept	3
War-induced (im)mobilities and immobilizing effects in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war	3
Walking beyond the city? On the importance of recreational mobilities for landscape planning, urban design, and public policy	3
Driving North/Driving South reprised: Britain’s changing roadscapes, 2000–2020	3
Integration: a tale of two communities	3
The hypermobile and the rest: capital conversion and inclusion/exclusion in an emerging student migration in China	3
Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice: towards reflexive mobilities research	3
Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel	2
‘They want to give us thinking’: the role of filmmaking in creating narratives around mobility and land in the Canton of Ambato, Ecuador	2
From threat to essentially sacrificial: racial capitalism, (im)mobilities, and food delivery workers in New York City during Covid-19	2
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology: an experiment with new e-bike users in Norway	2
Beyond the American dream: unveiling the complexity of young people’s (im)mobility in Governador Valadares, Brazil	2
Beyond respectability? Office taxis and gendered automobility in urban India	2
Situated road safety: uncertain mobility and grassroots road aid infrastructure on Kolyma roads, Russia	2
Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport	2
Navigating belonging: mobilities of Japanese artists in (post) COVID-19 Berlin	2
Correction	2
Data visibility of cyclists: social justice implications of Strava Metro data in transport planning	2
“Travelling for dignity”: navigating (im)mobility regimes in Palestine after 7 October 2023	2
Towards a relational spatial mobility justice of disability as territory	2
Reconfiguring rickshaw mobilities: formalization and exception in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone	2
Automation and aesthetic labour: the micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service	2
The ship as home: homemaking practices amongst Filipino seafarers at sea	2
‘Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo’: efficient transport, exhausted workers	2
Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course	2
Affect, agency and im/mobilities: skills and secrets at the shelter	2
Organising integrated urban mobility: actions, roles and identities in an evolving landscape	2
Border controls and (im)mobilities: experiences from a public transport node	2
The rhythm of place and the place of rhythm: arguments for idiorhythmy	2