OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Studies is 27. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents	105
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters	85
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes	67
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140	62
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada	60
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign	51
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics	49
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries	42
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China	41
No child to call: Lived experiences of childless older adults from the Baby Boomer generation with functional limitations in urban senior living facilities	41
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London	39
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?	37
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?	37
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany	36
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham	36
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms	35
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’	34
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective	34
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes	33
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice	31
Book review: Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy SchwedesOliver, Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2023; 234 pp.; ISBN: 9	31
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits	30
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’	30
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies	29
Urban state venturism as state entrepreneurialism: Conceptualizing the risk-taking dynamics of industrial upgrading in Hefei, China	27

Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok	27
The intersectional right to the city: Non-binary and trans people navigating gender, race, and class in Barcelona	27