OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mobilities is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobilities, design and passenger experiences	58
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	40
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	36
Micromobility justice in urban Brazil: the contexts of scooter sharing services	31
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	28
Every time it rains: navigating everyday flood hazards and mobility disruptions in Accra’s periphery	20
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	20
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	20
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	19
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	19
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	16
Food warriors: app-based delivery on electric micromobilities	16
Mobilising safety? Public order and the coordination of security guards in public transport in Stockholm	16
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	15
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	15
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	15
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	14
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	14
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	14
Walking versus cycling? Negotiating active travel practices over logics of automobility and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
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
Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite	12
(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance	12

Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping	11
‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city	10
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	10
Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal	9
Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging	9
Platforms, race, and urban space: the multiplication of unevenness of migrant food couriers’ mobilities	9
Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video	9
Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891	9
Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021	9
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	9
Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters	8
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	8
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	8
‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence	8
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies	8
Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport	8
John Urry Article Prize 2021	8
The morphing subject: analyzing the agency of mobile construction workers in the Alberta oil sands	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	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
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	7
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	7
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	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
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	7
Freedom of speech on the move how motorcycle taxis open up small mobile spaces for political talk in Uganda	7
The claim to have rights, and the right to have claims − transnational solidarity of Roma in the face of the war in Ukraine	6
Sustainable shared mobility as social common capital: conceptual framework and case analysis	6
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	6
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	6
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	6
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	6
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	6
Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2 ^nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)	6
Mobilities, commodification of Soviet memories and affective power of items: connecting souvenir bazaars in Georgia and Armenia	6
The problem with Pod Man	6
Beyond the footpath: grammars of walking and the walking subject in Wordsworth and Shehadeh	6
How linguistic patterns obscure responsibility in newspaper coverage of traffic crashes in German-speaking countries: an interdisciplinary study	5
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands	5
Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland	5
Gendered and sexualized violence on the move: unravelling collective (im)mobilization in the name of post-Soviet imperial membership	5
List of reviewers	5
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	5
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	5
Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel	5
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	5
List of reviewers 2024	5
Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden	5

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