OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Habitat International is 42. 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
Editorial Board	163
Editorial Board	148
The humanization of urban neighborhoods; the case of Al-Falah project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	147
Advancing agricultural diversification within rural regions: The dynamic role of interregional rural-rural migration	130
Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?	112
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China	102
Editorial Board	97
Relationship between land tenure and land use in unplanned settlements in Lusaka, Zambia	90
Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania	79
Assessment of spatial interactions in farmland abandonment: A case study of Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea	74
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus: Evidence from Australia	73
Unpacking migrants' social integration: The mediating effect of hierarchical migration in the context of China	72
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management	69
Foreign direct investment and regional integration: The connectivity role of same-origin greenfield investment in the Yangtze River Delta	67
From the arrival cities to affordable cities in China: Seeing through the practices of rural migrants' participation in Guangzhou's urban village regeneration	66
A data-driven perspective for sensing urban functional images: Place-based evidence in Hong Kong	65
Dynamic evaluation and obstacle factor diagnosis of rural human settlements quality in the Dabie mountains old revolutionary Base area under the background of rural revitalization	63
Pre-disaster planning and preparedness for urban seismic Resilience: Evaluating critical influential factors for temporary shelter site selection	63
City-to-city learning processes in the development of sustainable urban food systems: Insights from South American cities	61
Are home-based enterprises (HBEs) an economic lifeline or scenic distortion in Nigeria? Evidence from Ikot Epkene, Akwa Ibom State	59
Does haze aggravate urban sprawl?	58
Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America	57
Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management in Kathmandu city, Nepal – An impact of an incomplete data set	55
The rural human-land relationship transition in Southwest karst mountainous areas based on rural population, agricultural production land, and rural settlement coupling	54
Urban positionality in the regional urban network: Through the lens of alter-based centrality and national-local perspectives	52

Dealing with urban floods within a resilience framework regarding disaster stages	52
Impacts of in situ urbanisation on grain production: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta, China	52
Economic status of waste pickers in Bantar Gebang compared to other workers in Indonesia	48
Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform	48
Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective	46
Impacts of global manufacturing transfer on energy intensity, consumption, and transition: An industry linkage perspective	46
Assessing eco-environmental service quality by integrating monitoring data: A case study of Northeast China	46
Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil.	45
Health service disparity, push-pull effect, and elderly migration in ageing China	45
Urban planning schemes for developing low-carbon cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	45
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs	45
Analysing the rising price of new private housing in the UK: A national accounting approach	45
A novel model for simulating urban expansion under compactness scenarios on a regional scale	45
Optimizing the rural comprehensive land consolidation in China based on the multiple roles of the rural collective organization	44
Understanding the value of retail accessibility in private housing markets: A study from Turin, Italy	44
Urban habitats and food insecurity: Lessons learned throughout a pandemic	43
Assessing the impact of urban amenities on people with disabilities in London: A multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis	43
Urban construction-based social risks assessment in hot arid countries with social network analysis	42