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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	48
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	36
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	34
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	32
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	29
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	28
Temporary home: a case study of a rural–urban migrant family’s homemaking practices in Guangzhou, China	26
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	24
Questioning mobility ideals – the value of proximity for residents in socially deprived urban areas in Sweden	24
Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley	19
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	17
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	16
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	15
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	15
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	15
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	14
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	14
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	14
Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research	13
Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite	13
Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping	12
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	12
(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance	11
Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873	11
‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States)	11

Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video	10
Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891	10
‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city	10
Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021	10
Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging	9
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	9
Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities	9
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	9
Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’	9
‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence	9
Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal	9
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	9
John Urry Article Prize 2021	9
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	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
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	8
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space	7
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	7
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	7
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	7
Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport	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
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	7
Zombie automobility	7
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	7
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	7
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	6
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	6
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	6
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	6
List of reviewers 2024	6
‘Be true to yourself’: Transnational mobility, identity, and the construction of a mobile self by Taiwanese young adults	6
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	6
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	6
The problem with Pod Man	6
Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: migrant youth’s visits to Ghana	6
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	6
The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility	5
Civility and its discontents: Subway Etiquette, Civic Values, and Political Subjectivity in Global Taiwan	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
“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	5
Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities	5
Anti–racism Muslim mobilities in the San Francisco Bay Area	5
List of reviewers	5
Critical antagonisms: cycling and territory	5

Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland	5
Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility	5
The bordering and rebordering of climate mobilities: towards a plurality of relations	5
Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands	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
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands	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
Understanding the experiences of return and re-adaptation among Polish returnees from long-term international migration: a conceptual framework of re-adaptation	5
Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)	5
Uneven mobilities: the everyday management of app-based delivery work in Germany	5