OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Studies is 29. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Critical Commentary: Cities in a post-COVID world	189
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?	122
Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona	106
Understanding the global ecosystem of city networks	62
Urban resilience	49
Who owns the future city? Phases of technological urbanism and shifts in sovereignty	49
Mind the rent gap: Blackstone, housing investment and the reordering of urban rent surfaces	46
Transnational gentrification: The crossroads of transnational mobility and urban research	45
Life between buildings from a street view image: What do big data analytics reveal about neighbourhood organisational vitality?	41
Everyday urbanisms and the importance of place: Exploring the elements of the emancipatory smart city	40
New directions in transnational gentrification: Tourism-led, state-led and lifestyle-led urban transformations	40
Urban robotic experimentation: San Francisco, Tokyo and Dubai	38
Critical Commentary: Repopulating density: COVID-19 and the politics of urban value	37
New municipalism in action or urban neoliberalisation reloaded? An analysis of governance change, stability and path dependence in Madrid (2015–2019)	36
Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic	35
‘Post-pandemic’ transnational gentrifications: A critical outlook	35
Data-driven governance, smart urbanism and risk-class inequalities: Security and social credit in China	33
Travel guides, urban spatial imaginaries and LGBTQ+ activism: The case of Damron guides	33
From residence to movement: The nature of racial segregation in everyday urban mobility	32
Do the characteristics of new green space contribute to gentrification?	32
Extended urbanisation and the agrarian question: Convergences, divergences and openings	32
Hidden homes? Uncovering Sydney’s informal housing market	32
African urbanisation at the confluence of informality and climate change	31
Platform-mediated short-term rentals and gentrification in Madrid	31
Enclaving: Spatial detachment as an aesthetics of imagination in an urban sub-Saharan African context	30

Is urbanisation in the Global South fundamentally different? Comparative global urban analysis for the 21st century	30
Developing urban growth and urban quality: Entrepreneurial governance and urban redevelopment projects in Copenhagen and Hamburg	30
Emerging problematics of deregulating the urban: The case of permitted development in England	30
Government debt, land financing and distributive justice in China	29