OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Habitat International is 37. 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
Rising South, shrinking North: Paradoxically increased unevenness in the global urban economic system	144
Asian heat stress variations in a changing climate: Implications for disproportionate urban and rural population exposure	130
Comparing the spatial structure of cities in East Africa, Europe and North America	124
Overregulated and Underserved: Regulatory overlap in infrastructure/service provision in Delhi's ‘informal’ settlements	121
Editorial Board	113
Advancing agricultural diversification within rural regions: The dynamic role of interregional rural-rural migration	93
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	86
Long-term trends in urban vegetation greenness and its causal relationship with built-up land expansion: A case study of the Yangtze River Delta, China	80
Producer-oriented and consumer-oriented alternative food networks and rural revitalization in China: Distinct trajectories and variegated impacts	77
Impacts of village consolidation on household livelihood resilience in coal resource-exhausted areas	68
Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?	67
Are there interactions between the urban and rural construction land use transition? Evidence from Jiangsu province in China	61
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China	61
Measuring socio-economic disparities in green space availability in post-socialist cities	59
Relationship between land tenure and land use in unplanned settlements in Lusaka, Zambia	59
The effect of inequality of opportunity (IO) on housing accessibility: Evidence from China	59
Spatial-temporal evolution and driving mechanism of rural production-living-ecological space in Pingtan islands, China	55
Water economies of Bodh Gaya, Bihar: Urban water in rural town	52
The effectiveness of voluntary collective action in China's rural land development	50
Reimaging owner-built housing in the free state, South Africa	49
Identifying counter-urbanisation using Facebook's user count data	49
Unveiling age-friendliness in smart cities: A heterogeneity analysis perspective based on the IAHP-CRITIC-IFCE approach	47
Editorial Board	46
Editorial Board	46
Housing Tenure of Older Asian Minorities in Hong Kong	45

Editorial Board	45
Tracing the informal fringe: A large-scale study of 20th century ‘wild’ settlements in Vienna, Austria	44
Screening and identification: Evaluating the transformation suitability of rural complexes through industrial resource potential in Changsha, China	44
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management	43
Barriers and coping strategies of households with no access to drinking water and waterborne sanitation in two low-income neighbourhoods in Botswana	41
Editorial Board	41
Editorial Board	40
Has China completed the supply-side structural reform of construction land supply? Evidence from 335 cities	39
Does secure tenure alone solve the problem of homelessness? A critical appraisal of the resettlement practices in rural Bangladesh	39
Identifying the critical factors behind the second-hand housing price concession: Empirical evidence from China	39
Land banking and land markets: A literature review	37
Editorial Board	37
Spiraling up: Sense of place with co-creation experiences insights from Crow Island Beach Park, Sri Lanka	37