OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Studies is 26. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai	222
From communal places to comfort zones: Familiar stranger encounters in everyday life as a form of belonging	81
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning	71
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system	69
Private ordering of public processes: How contracts structure participatory processes in urban development in Amsterdam and Hamburg	57
Book review: Curtain Up: City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance	55
A hima traditional ecological knowledge perspective of the sustainability goals in AlUla’s journey through time masterplan	49
(In-)formal settlement to whom? Archaeology and old urban agendas for sustainability transitions in Ethiopia	42
What if autonomous vehicles had been introduced into cities? A counterfactual analysis	41
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign	40
Forthcoming special issues in Urban Studies	38
By yourself, yet not alone: Making space for loneliness	37
Proptech and the private rental sector: New forms of extraction at the intersection of rental properties and platform rentierisation	35
Do ethnic integration policies also improve socio-economic integration? A study of residential segregation in Singapore	34
Book review: Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa	33
Book review: The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods	33
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey	32
Book review: The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions	32
Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability	30
Seoul’s nocturnal urbanism: An emergent night-time economy of substitute driving and fast deliveries	29
Caring and commoning in political society: Insights from the Scugnizzo Liberato of Naples	29
Book review: Tremor	29
Book review: Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere	27
Land use disadvantages in Germany: A matter of ethnic income inequalities?	27
Age segregation and housing unaffordability: Generational divides in housing opportunities and spatial polarisation in England and Wales	27

Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence	26
To move forward, we must look back: White supremacy at the base of urban studies	26
Bottom-up cluster branding through boundary spanners: The case of the Jingdezhen ceramics cluster in China	26
Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities	26
Book review: Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies	26