OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Studies is 28. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes	238
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany	85
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham	81
Book review: Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19: How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better	70
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign	62
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140	58
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries	53
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War	51
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters	44
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?	43
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?	42
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’	38
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London	37
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada	36
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics	36
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China	35
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms	34
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda	33
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes	33
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg	32
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective	31
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities	31
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice	30
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy	30
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development	30

Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice	29
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship	29
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations	29
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits	28