OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainable Cities and Society is 95. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Spillover effects of built-environment vulnerability on resilience of businesses in urban crises	487
Modeling NO2 concentrations in real urban areas using computational fluid dynamics: A comparative analysis of methods to assess NO2 concentrations from NOx dispersion results	375
Model predictive control based optimal operation of smart city	290
An event-based model and a map visualization approach for spatiotemporal association relations discovery of diseases diffusion	278
Rethinking Japanese public libraries from the perspective of time	268
Cross-examination of country-specific archetypes generation for urban building energy modelling (UBEM)	249
A cost-effective and high-efficient EV shared fast charging scheme with hierarchical coordinated operation strategy for addressing difficult-to-charge issue in old residential communities	237
FPGA control system technology for integrating the PV/wave/FC hybrid system using ANN optimized by MFO techniques	230
Assessment of European cities from a smartness perspective: An integrated grey MCDM approach	225
Strengthening individual preparedness for extreme cold weather through enhanced messaging, risk perception, and trust	225
Dynamic impacts of vegetation growth and urban development on microclimate and building energy consumption	219
Sequential action-based dynamic decision-support model for urban ecological planning	215
Measuring heat transfer index (HTI): A new method to quantify the spatial influence of land surface temperature between adjacent urban spaces	213
Enabling maximum decarbonization from districts in Kyoto through rooftop PVs by integrating with EVs as battery	207
How to optimize the 2D/3D urban thermal environment: Insights derived from UAV LiDAR/multispectral data and multi-source remote sensing data	200
Optimized protection coordination of microgrids considering power quality-based voltage indices incorporating optimal sizing and placement of fault current limiters	199
Responding to “city cooling action”: Assessing and visualizing community-level urban park cooling service performance in Nanjing, China	198
A comprehensive and comparative study of an innovative constant-pressure compressed air energy storage (CP-CAES) system	198
Enabling effective climate action plans at city level: Insights from India's metropolitan cities	197
The impact of innovation-driven industrial clusters on urban carbon emission efficiency: Empirical evidence from China	191
Integrating morphology and vitality to quantify seasonal contributions of urban functional zones to thermal environment	187
Estimating casualties from urban fires: A focus on building and urban environment information	182
Systematic review on cooling benefits of landscape strategies for urban thermal environments in the United States	172
Dynamics of human speech as aerosol transmission sources: Implications for sustainable urban health based on impulsive jet theory	171
Effects of sea-land breeze on air pollutant dispersion in street networks with different distances from coast using WRF-CFD coupling method	170

Riding smooth: A cost-benefit assessment of surface quality on Copenhagen’s bicycle network	163
Hesitant fuzzy for conflicting criteria in multi-objective deployment of electric vehicle charging stations	162
Deep learning and dynamic simulation based progressive decarbonization roadmap in the building sector in Jiangsu Province	161
From cooling pathways to practical acclimating design: Urban park regulating potentials under Extreme Heat Events	160
Corrigendum to “Research on the Traditional Courtyard Typology and Wind Environment Comfort - A case study of Qingshan Fishing Village in Qingdao, China” [Sustainable Cities and Society 130 (2025) 106	158
A tactical transactive energy scheduling for the electric vehicle-integrated networked microgrids	157
Regulation of blue-green landscape fragmentation on day-night surface urban heat island: A case study of Kunming	153
A cumulative perspective reveals urbanization exacerbates compound extreme heat-air pollution events in China	153
Dynamic simulation of urban agglomeration network resilience under disturbances: An integrated deep learning and agent-based approach – Case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	149
Spatial development indicators as a tool to determine thermal conditions in an urban environment	146
Impact of impervious surface spatial morphologies on urban waterlogging: Insights from a cascade modeling chain at catchment scale	144
Synergistic dynamics of the thermal-energy-carbon nexus in the Yangtze River Delta: Spatiotemporal measurement, mechanisms, and spatial econometric analysis	144
How to improve the environmental friendliness of the thermal power industry: A perspective on constructing cross-regional collaborative emission reduction mechanisms tailored to local conditions	144
Exploration of non-linear influence mechanisms of traditional courtyard forms on thermal comfort in winter and summer: A case study of Beijing, China	143
A cascading failure-based approach for assessing the resilience of urban stormwater networks	138
The impact of dynamic traffic conditions on the sustainability of urban fire service	138
Towards urban energy sustainability and resiliency through smart agriculture and effective renewable resource allocation	136
Assessing carbon emissions and decarbonization potential of urban cold chain transport sector: A case study in Hefei city	135
Diagnosing urban heat vulnerability through multiscale spatial modelling: Evidence from Istanbul for climate-resilient cities	129
Topological and functional vulnerability analysis and mitigation for single-source heating networks based on tree models	129
Nature's hand in megacity cluster progress: Integrating SDG11 with ecosystem service dynamics	129
A new electro-biomembrane integrated renewable-based system to produce power, fresh water and hydrogen for sustainable communities	127
Reconstructing place attachment through social media: A systematic review for sustainable urban governance	125
Uncovering key components of semi-public spaces in multi-unit residences for enhancing social sustainability	125
Renewable energy technology innovation and urbanization: Insights from China	123
Analysing urban local cold air dynamics and climate functional zones using interpretable machine learning: A case study of Tianhe district, Guangzhou	122
Passive over active: How low-cost strategies influence urban energy equity	120
Sustainable design of running friendly streets: Environmental exposures predict runnability by Volunteered Geographic Information and multilevel model approaches	119
Activity space compactness index from the viewpoint of trip arrival point by lifestyle activity purpose in a mature conurbation	119
Unveiling hidden allergenic hotspots: A fine-scale, parameter-optimized approach for spatiotemporal mapping of urban allergenicity assessments	118
Enhancing SWMM-UrbanEVA for continuous long-term water balance analysis of green infrastructure	113
Morphological and functional polycentric structure assessment of megacity: An integrated approach with spatial distribution and interaction	112
Two birds with one stone: Can digital transformation of companies help address climate change while improving air quality?	111
Parametric analysis of planting strategies and environmental factors for the thermal and aerodynamic effects of indirect green façades	111
Towards flood risk mapping based on multi-tiered decision making in a densely urbanized metropolitan city of Istanbul	110
Fuzzy Q-learning-based approach for real-time energy management of home microgrids using cooperative multi-agent system	110
Accessibility and Public Transport Mobility for a Smart(er) Island: Evidence from Sardinia (Italy)	110
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in urban road dust from Tianjin, China: pollution characteristics, sources and health risk assessment	110
Data-driven assessment framework of health cities for elderly individuals in China	108
Quantifying the potential uncertainty and development suitability of sandstone porous geothermal reservoirs for urban heating in northwestern Shandong plain, China	107
The joint health risks of PM2.5 pollution wave and cold spell in eastern China	107
Framework for unified municipal solid waste management using centralized and decentralized facilities: Case study of Nashik city in India	106
Projects as game changers for navigating sustainability transitions in societies: Multi-level effects from micro-level decisions	106
Spatially heterogeneous impacts of urban vitality on carbon emissions: A multi-source data-driven mechanistic analysis	105
Exploring the complex relationship between metro and shared bikes in the built environment: Competition, connection, and complementation	105
Challenges, drivers, and benefits to integrated infrastructure management of water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation systems	104
Spatial and social inequality of hierarchical healthcare accessibility in urban system: A case study in Shanghai, China	104
Coupled simulation of urban water networks and interconnected critical urban infrastructure systems: A systematic review and multi-sector research agenda	104
Developing indicators for sustainable urban regeneration in historic urban areas: Delphi method and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)	103
Assessing the impact of normative messages in encouraging the use of sustainable mobility. An experimental study	102

Spatially resolved air quality index prediction in megacities with a CNN-Bi-LSTM hybrid framework	102
Evaluating the association between morphological characteristics of urban land and pluvial floods using machine learning methods	102
Decision support for improved construction traffic management and planning	101
Commercial urban agriculture: A review for sustainable development	101
Are New Towns Prone to Urban Heat Island Effect? Implications for Planning Form and Function	100
Assessing annual carbon emissions and its peak year in the Yangtze river economic belt (2021-2035) through land use/land cover analysis	100
Sustainability-oriented maintenance management of highway bridge networks based on Q-learning	99
Modeling dynamic competition among urban taxis and the impact on carbon emissions	99
Embodied energy in existing buildings as a tool for sustainable intervention on urban heritage	98
Application of structural equation modelling (SEM) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) based approach toward a hybrid urban sustainability assessment system (USAS) of Jordan	98
Cooling effects of urban green spaces: A systematic review of methods applied in the past two decades	98
Analyzing the cooling effect, thermal comfort, and energy consumption of integrated arrangement of high-rise buildings and green spaces on urban heat island	97
Evaluation of resources and environmental carrying capacity and its spatial-temporal dynamic evolution: A case study in Shandong Province, China	97
Impacts of digital economy agglomeration on carbon emission: A two-tier stochastic frontier and spatial decomposition analysis of China	97
Unveiling fine-scale urban third places for remote work using mobile phone big data	97
Dynamics of cool surface performance on urban microclimate: A full-scale experimental study in Singapore	96
Exploring diurnal spatiotemporal heterogeneity in urban heat exposure: A novel perspective from urban form-function coupling	96
Assessing Nature-based solutions in the face of urban vulnerabilities: A multi-criteria decision approach	95
Global investigation of 2D and 3D urbanization-induced impacts on urban extreme heat	95
Toward a societal smart city: Clarifying the social justice dimension of smart cities	95