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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters	99
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham	94
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics	68
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign	64
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany	59
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes	56
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140	47
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries	43
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?	42
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China	39
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada	38
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?	37
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’	37
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London	36
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents	34
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War	32
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms	32
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes	32
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice	30
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective	30
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship	29
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’	28
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa	27
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda	27
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy	27

Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world	26
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities	26