OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainable Cities and Society is 96. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The efficacy of social distance and ventilation effectiveness in preventing COVID-19 transmission	464
Does urbanization redefine the environmental Kuznets curve? An empirical analysis of 134 Countries	367
Convergence of blockchain and artificial intelligence in IoT network for the sustainable smart city	340
Does financial inclusion, renewable and non-renewable energy utilization accelerate ecological footprints and economic growth? Fresh evidence from 15 highest emitting countries	334
Modelling the dynamic linkages between eco-innovation, urbanization, economic growth and ecological footprints for G7 countries: Does financial globalization matter?	329
Fighting against COVID-19: A novel deep learning model based on YOLO-v2 with ResNet-50 for medical face mask detection	315
Deep learning and medical image processing for coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: A survey	310
The impact of energy efficiency on carbon emissions: Evidence from the transportation sector in Chinese 30 provinces	296
SSDMNV2: A real time DNN-based face mask detection system using single shot multibox detector and MobileNetV2	290
COVID-19 cases prediction by using hybrid machine learning and beetle antennae search approach	249
A new distributed architecture for evaluating AI-based security systems at the edge: Network TON_IoT datasets	245
Urbanization, land use change, and carbon emissions: Quantitative assessments for city-level carbon emissions in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	238
Low impact development techniques to mitigate the impacts of climate-change-induced urban floods: Current trends, issues and challenges	231
Examining the association between socio-demographic composition and COVID-19 fatalities in the European region using spatial regression approach	221
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel behavior in Istanbul: A panel data analysis	215
The policy outcomes of low-carbon city construction on urban green development: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment conducted in China	209
Temporary reduction in fine particulate matter due to ‘anthropogenic emissions switch-off’ during COVID-19 lockdown in Indian cities	195
Understanding land surface temperature impact factors based on local climate zones	189
A deep learning-based social distance monitoring framework for COVID-19	184
Multi-scenario simulation and ecological risk analysis of land use based on the PLUS model: A case study of Nanjing	183
COVID-19, internet, and mobility: The rise of telework, telehealth, e-learning, and e-shopping	178
Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review	177
Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) tools: A state-of-the-art review of bottom-up physics-based approaches	168
Influence of urban morphological characteristics on thermal environment	167
Urban heat island mitigation by green infrastructure in European Functional Urban Areas	165

Sociodemographic determinants of COVID-19 incidence rates in Oman: Geospatial modelling using multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR)	160
Can smart city construction facilitate green total factor productivity? A quasi-natural experiment based on China’s pilot smart city	159
Cyber security in smart cities: A review of deep learning-based applications and case studies	156
Low-carbon development quality of cities in China: Evaluation and obstacle analysis	149
Monitoring the effect of urban development on urban heat island based on remote sensing and geo-spatial approach in Kolkata and adjacent areas, India	145
Energy management in microgrids including smart homes: A multi-objective approach	141
An overview of machine learning applications for smart buildings	140
Impact of urban morphology and landscape characteristics on spatiotemporal heterogeneity of land surface temperature	138
Study on city digital twin technologies for sustainable smart city design: A review and bibliometric analysis of geographic information system and building information modeling integration	137
Energy management using non-intrusive load monitoring techniques – State-of-the-art and future research directions	137
The influence of urban form on surface urban heat island and its planning implications: Evidence from 1288 urban clusters in China	137
Surface urban heat island intensity in five major cities of Bangladesh: Patterns, drivers and trends	136
Urban ecological security assessment and forecasting using integrated DEMATEL-ANP and CA-Markov models: A case study on Kolkata Metropolitan Area, India	136
Human mobility behavior in COVID-19: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis	133
Understanding the impact of environmental regulations on green technology innovation efficiency in the construction industry	130
Digitalization and carbon emissions: How does digital city construction affect china's carbon emission reduction?	130
Optimisation of solar/wind/bio-generator/diesel/battery based microgrids for rural areas: A PSO-GWO approach	129
Spatial structure and carbon emission of urban agglomerations: Spatiotemporal characteristics and driving forces	129
Federated learning enabled digital twins for smart cities: Concepts, recent advances, and future directions	128
Adaptive-predictive control strategy for HVAC systems in smart buildings – A review	128
Smartening sustainable development in cities: Strengthening the theoretical linkage between smart cities and SDGs	125
Evaluating the performances of several artificial intelligence methods in forecasting daily streamflow time series for sustainable water resources management	125
Spatial spillover effect of green innovation on economic development quality in China: Evidence from a panel data of 270 prefecture-level and above cities	124
Investigating changes in noise pollution due to the COVID-19 lockdown: The case of Dublin, Ireland	124
A framework for addressing urban heat challenges and associated adaptive behavior by the public and the issue of willingness to pay for heat resilient infrastructure in Chongqing, China	124
Exploring the causal relationship between urbanization and air pollution: Evidence from China	123
Using the internet of things in smart energy systems and networks	122
Towards the sustainable development of smart cities through mass video surveillance: A response to the COVID-19 pandemic	122
Automated cognitive health assessment in smart homes using machine learning	121
Implementation of solar energy in smart cities using an integration of artificial neural network, photovoltaic system and classical Delphi methods	121
Landfill location selection for healthcare waste of urban areas using hybrid BWM-grey MARCOS model based on GIS	121
Data-driven dynamic clustering framework for mitigating the adverse economic impact of Covid-19 lockdown practices	119
Secure and resilient demand side management engine using machine learning for IoT-enabled smart grid	119
Prediction of seasonal urban thermal field variance index using machine learning algorithms in Cumilla, Bangladesh	119
Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities	114
A deep learning approach for prediction of air quality index in a metropolitan city	113
A home energy management system with an integrated smart thermostat for demand response in smart grids	113
Public participation and city sustainability: Evidence from Urban Garbage Classification in China	113
Applications of ML/DL in the management of smart cities and societies based on new trends in information technologies: A systematic literature review	111
Urban resilience: A vague or an evolutionary concept?	110
Exploring spatiotemporal effects of the driving factors on COVID-19 incidences in the contiguous United States	108
The role of built and social environmental factors in Covid-19 transmission: A look at America’s capital city	108
Are high-density districts more vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic?	107
Night-time light data based decoupling relationship analysis between economic growth and carbon emission in 289 Chinese cities	106
Globalization, electricity consumption and ecological footprint: An autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) approach	106
Predicting future urban waterlogging-prone areas by coupling the maximum entropy and FLUS model	106
Urban Transportation Networks Resilience: Indicators, Disturbances, and Assessment Methods	105
Assessing the contribution of urban green spaces in green infrastructure strategy planning for urban ecosystem conditions and services	105
Self-scheduling model for home energy management systems considering the end-users discomfort index within price-based demand response programs	105
RETRACTED: Robust optimization of renewable-based multi-energy micro-grid integrated with flexible energy conversion and storage devices	103

Socioeconomic drivers of urban heat island effect: Empirical evidence from major Chinese cities	102
Inundation risk assessment based on G-DEMATEL-AHP and its application to Zhengzhou flooding disaster	102
Smart energy systems: A critical review on design and operation optimization	102
Effective ventilation and air disinfection system for reducing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection risk in office buildings	101
Built environment and early infection of COVID-19 in urban districts: A case study of Huangzhou	100
Explainable heat-related mortality with random forest and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) models	100
The evaluation and obstacle analysis of urban resilience from the multidimensional perspective in Chinese cities	99
COVID-19 recovery for the Nigerian construction sites: The role of the fourth industrial revolution technologies	99
Zero emission neighbourhoods and positive energy districts – A state-of-the-art review	99
Thermal performance of the building envelope integrated with phase change material for thermal energy storage: an updated review.	99
Exploring the spatial heterogeneity of urban heat island effect and its relationship to block morphology with the geographically weighted regression model	99
Presence and mobility of the population during the first wave of Covid-19 outbreak and lockdown in Italy	99
Congestion prediction for smart sustainable cities using IoT and machine learning approaches	98
Predictions of electricity consumption in a campus building using occupant rates and weather elements with sensitivity analysis: Artificial neural network vs. linear regression	98
E-scooters and sustainability: Investigating the relationship between the density of E-scooter trips and characteristics of sustainable urban development	98
Modeling air quality prediction using a deep learning approach: Method optimization and evaluation	97
Influencing factors and their influencing mechanisms on urban resilience in China	97
Energy poverty indicators: A systematic literature review and comprehensive analysis of integrity	97
Shared mobility in post-COVID era: New challenges and opportunities	96
Development of integrated sustainability performance indicators for better management of smart cities	96
IoTBoT-IDS: A novel statistical learning-enabled botnet detection framework for protecting networks of smart cities	96