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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries	104
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham	100
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters	75
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes	61
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’	57
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms	53
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?	44
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China	43
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140	40
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany	38
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?	37
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign	37
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London	35
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada	35
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents	34
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective	32
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics	32
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes	30
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance	30
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice	29
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany	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	28
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’	28
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations	28
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits	27

Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East: Articulating the smart city in the context of Hungary’s authoritarian state capitalism	26
The regeneration path not taken further: An experiment in urban densification and state entrepreneurialism in a resettlement neighborhood in Suzhou, China	26
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies	26
Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok	26