OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainable Cities and Society is 97. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing the electric demand-side management potential of Helsinki's public service building stock in ancillary markets	420
Coupled simulation of urban water networks and interconnected critical urban infrastructure systems: A systematic review and multi-sector research agenda	405
Multi-agent-based optimal power scheduling of shipboard power systems	403
Rethinking Japanese public libraries from the perspective of time	313
Evaluation of resources and environmental carrying capacity and its spatial-temporal dynamic evolution: A case study in Shandong Province, China	286
Assessing the impact of normative messages in encouraging the use of sustainable mobility. An experimental study	227
Accessibility and Public Transport Mobility for a Smart(er) Island: Evidence from Sardinia (Italy)	225
Finding unrevealed landslide hazard area induced by climate change and topography - Case study for Inje-gun, Gangwon-do, ROK -	225
Strengthening individual preparedness for extreme cold weather through enhanced messaging, risk perception, and trust	216
Exploring the complex relationship between metro and shared bikes in the built environment: Competition, connection, and complementation	208
Urban form centrality and thermal environment: An empirical study of Chinese megacities	205
Enabling effective climate action plans at city level: Insights from India's metropolitan cities	200
Renewable energy technology innovation and urbanization: Insights from China	198
A multi-objective probabilistic approach for smart voltage control in wind-energy integrated networks considering correlated parameters	198
How do time-bound practices initiate local sustainability pathways?	195
Topological and functional vulnerability analysis and mitigation for single-source heating networks based on tree models	186
Identifying up-to-date urban land-use patterns with visual and semantic features based on multisource geospatial data	183
Assessment of European cities from a smartness perspective: An integrated grey MCDM approach	183
Data-driven assessment framework of health cities for elderly individuals in China	180
Optimized protection coordination of microgrids considering power quality-based voltage indices incorporating optimal sizing and placement of fault current limiters	176
Parametric analysis of planting strategies and environmental factors for the thermal and aerodynamic effects of indirect green façades	174
Systematic review on cooling benefits of landscape strategies for urban thermal environments in the United States	169
The joint health risks of PM2.5 pollution wave and cold spell in eastern China	168
Decision support for improved construction traffic management and planning	163
Integrating morphology and vitality to quantify seasonal contributions of urban functional zones to thermal environment	158

Traffic noise assessment in urban Bulgaria using explainable machine learning	157
Urban-Rural Disparity in Community Resilience: A Multilevel Analysis of the Relief Progress after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake	153
An event-based model and a map visualization approach for spatiotemporal association relations discovery of diseases diffusion	151
Activity space compactness index from the viewpoint of trip arrival point by lifestyle activity purpose in a mature conurbation	151
Sequential action-based dynamic decision-support model for urban ecological planning	150
Towards urban energy sustainability and resiliency through smart agriculture and effective renewable resource allocation	149
Dynamics of human speech as aerosol transmission sources: Implications for sustainable urban health based on impulsive jet theory	148
Nature's hand in megacity cluster progress: Integrating SDG11 with ecosystem service dynamics	147
Influence of the built environment on social capital and physical activity in Singapore: A structural equation modelling analysis	147
Evaluating the association between morphological characteristics of urban land and pluvial floods using machine learning methods	146
Wildfire-resilient mechanical ventilation systems for single-detached homes in cities of Western Canada	145
Investigating the spatial distribution of resident’s outdoor heat exposure across neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania using urban microclimate modeling	144
An energy consumption model for the Algerian residential building's stock, based on a triangular approach: Geographic Information System (GIS), regression analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis	144
Embodied energy in existing buildings as a tool for sustainable intervention on urban heritage	143
Spatial development indicators as a tool to determine thermal conditions in an urban environment	140
Measuring heat transfer index (HTI): A new method to quantify the spatial influence of land surface temperature between adjacent urban spaces	139
Dynamic impacts of vegetation growth and urban development on microclimate and building energy consumption	137
The impact of dynamic traffic conditions on the sustainability of urban fire service	136
Assessment of the food-water-energy nexus suitability of rooftops. A methodological remote sensing approach in an urban Mediterranean area	133
Passive over active: How low-cost strategies influence urban energy equity	131
Strategies and scenarios to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emission in the urban, rural and sustainable neighbourhoods	131
Uncovering key components of semi-public spaces in multi-unit residences for enhancing social sustainability	131
Effects of sea-land breeze on air pollutant dispersion in street networks with different distances from coast using WRF-CFD coupling method	130
Spillover effects of built-environment vulnerability on resilience of businesses in urban crises	130
Deep learning and dynamic simulation based progressive decarbonization roadmap in the building sector in Jiangsu Province	129
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	128
Application of structural equation modelling (SEM) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) based approach toward a hybrid urban sustainability assessment system (USAS) of Jordan	126
Fuzzy Q-learning-based approach for real-time energy management of home microgrids using cooperative multi-agent system	125
Spatially heterogeneous impacts of urban vitality on carbon emissions: A multi-source data-driven mechanistic analysis	123
Sustainability-oriented maintenance management of highway bridge networks based on Q-learning	121
Model predictive control based optimal operation of smart city	120
Data-driven prediction of energy consumption of district cooling systems (DCS) based on the weather forecast data	119
A tactical transactive energy scheduling for the electric vehicle-integrated networked microgrids	117
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in urban road dust from Tianjin, China: pollution characteristics, sources and health risk assessment	116
Challenges, drivers, and benefits to integrated infrastructure management of water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation systems	116
A clustering method for measuring accessibility and equity in public transportation service: Case study of Melbourne	114
Energy efficient behavior modeling for demand side recommender system in solar microgrid applications using multi-agent reinforcement learning model	114
Toward a societal smart city: Clarifying the social justice dimension of smart cities	112
Spatial and social inequality of hierarchical healthcare accessibility in urban system: A case study in Shanghai, China	112
Enhancing SWMM-UrbanEVA for continuous long-term water balance analysis of green infrastructure	112
Modeling dynamic competition among urban taxis and the impact on carbon emissions	112
Enabling maximum decarbonization from districts in Kyoto through rooftop PVs by integrating with EVs as battery	111
Assessing annual carbon emissions and its peak year in the Yangtze river economic belt (2021-2035) through land use/land cover analysis	111
Sustainable design of running friendly streets: Environmental exposures predict runnability by Volunteered Geographic Information and multilevel model approaches	111
How to optimize the 2D/3D urban thermal environment: Insights derived from UAV LiDAR/multispectral data and multi-source remote sensing data	111
Unveiling fine-scale urban third places for remote work using mobile phone big data	110
Hesitant fuzzy for conflicting criteria in multi-objective deployment of electric vehicle charging stations	110
Spatially resolved air quality index prediction in megacities with a CNN-Bi-LSTM hybrid framework	109
FPGA control system technology for integrating the PV/wave/FC hybrid system using ANN optimized by MFO techniques	109
Analysing urban local cold air dynamics and climate functional zones using interpretable machine learning: A case study of Tianhe district, Guangzhou	107

Responding to “city cooling action”: Assessing and visualizing community-level urban park cooling service performance in Nanjing, China	106
Impacts of digital economy agglomeration on carbon emission: A two-tier stochastic frontier and spatial decomposition analysis of China	106
Morphological and functional polycentric structure assessment of megacity: An integrated approach with spatial distribution and interaction	105
Dynamic effects of frequent step changes in outdoor microclimate environments on thermal sensation and dissatisfaction of pedestrian during summer	105
Dynamics of cool surface performance on urban microclimate: A full-scale experimental study in Singapore	104
Assessing Nature-based solutions in the face of urban vulnerabilities: A multi-criteria decision approach	103
Socially sustainable mobility: Strategic analysis to identify accessibility barriers	103
Commercial urban agriculture: A review for sustainable development	102
Developing indicators for sustainable urban regeneration in historic urban areas: Delphi method and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)	102
The impact of innovation-driven industrial clusters on urban carbon emission efficiency: Empirical evidence from China	102
CFD simulations of wind flow and pollutant dispersion in a street canyon with traffic flow: Comparison between RANS and LES	102
Projects as game changers for navigating sustainability transitions in societies: Multi-level effects from micro-level decisions	102
Enhancing water management and urban flood resilience using Hazard Capacity Factor Design (HCFD) model: Case study of Eco-Delta city, Busan	101
Experimental investigations of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy pile with groundwater seepage	101
Analyzing the cooling effect, thermal comfort, and energy consumption of integrated arrangement of high-rise buildings and green spaces on urban heat island	101
Urban mobility scenarios until the 2030s	101
Synergies or trade-offs between surface urban heat island and hot extreme: Distinct responses in urban environments	100
Estimating casualties from urban fires: A focus on building and urban environment information	100
Comprehensively assessing seasonal variations in the impact of urban greenspace morphology on urban heat island effects: A multidimensional analysis	98
Towards flood risk mapping based on multi-tiered decision making in a densely urbanized metropolitan city of Istanbul	98
Street vitality and built environment features: A data-informed approach from fourteen Chinese cities	97
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	97
Accessibility Assessment and Optimization of Public Charging Stations from a Categorical Perspective: A Case Study in Nanjing Based on Charging Travel Chains	97