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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’	95
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War	87
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?	75
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms	66
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?	63
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters	57
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham	53
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics	42
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign	41
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany	39
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada	38
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes	38
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London	37
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China	36
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140	35
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes	34
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries	34
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective	32
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice	32
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’	31
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities	29
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal	29
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda	29
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits	28
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship	28

Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies	28
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	27