OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Habitat International is 45. 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
Foreign direct investment and regional integration: The connectivity role of same-origin greenfield investment in the Yangtze River Delta	176
Editorial Board	160
Pre-disaster planning and preparedness for urban seismic Resilience: Evaluating critical influential factors for temporary shelter site selection	159
From the arrival cities to affordable cities in China: Seeing through the practices of rural migrants' participation in Guangzhou's urban village regeneration	140
A data-driven perspective for sensing urban functional images: Place-based evidence in Hong Kong	120
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	105
Assessment of spatial interactions in farmland abandonment: A case study of Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea	85
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China	82
Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania	82
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management	81
The humanization of urban neighborhoods; the case of Al-Falah project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	76
Editorial Board	73
Relationship between land tenure and land use in unplanned settlements in Lusaka, Zambia	72
Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?	69
Unpacking migrants' social integration: The mediating effect of hierarchical migration in the context of China	67
City-to-city learning processes in the development of sustainable urban food systems: Insights from South American cities	67
Advancing agricultural diversification within rural regions: The dynamic role of interregional rural-rural migration	65
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus: Evidence from Australia	65
Assessing eco-environmental service quality by integrating monitoring data: A case study of Northeast China	63
Impacts of global manufacturing transfer on energy intensity, consumption, and transition: An industry linkage perspective	63
Are home-based enterprises (HBEs) an economic lifeline or scenic distortion in Nigeria? Evidence from Ikot Epkene, Akwa Ibom State	62
Analysing the rising price of new private housing in the UK: A national accounting approach	59
Does haze aggravate urban sprawl?	59
Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform	58
Economic status of waste pickers in Bantar Gebang compared to other workers in Indonesia	57

The rural human-land relationship transition in Southwest karst mountainous areas based on rural population, agricultural production land, and rural settlement coupling	54
Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil.	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	51
Impacts of in situ urbanisation on grain production: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta, China	50
Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective	50
Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America	49
Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management in Kathmandu city, Nepal – An impact of an incomplete data set	49
Urban construction-based social risks assessment in hot arid countries with social network analysis	49
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs	49
Urban habitats and food insecurity: Lessons learned throughout a pandemic	49
Urban planning schemes for developing low-carbon cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	49
Optimizing the rural comprehensive land consolidation in China based on the multiple roles of the rural collective organization	48
Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China	48
Understanding the spatial distribution patterns and dominant determinants of farmland abandonment in China	48
Ice and snow tourism in China's ecological civilization era: The Altay, Xinjiang experience	46
Externality impacts of “Not in My Backyard” facilities on property values: Evidence from the Hangzhou waste sorting and reduction complex projects	46
A novel model for simulating urban expansion under compactness scenarios on a regional scale	46
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty in secondary cities: Implications for urban sustainability in African cities	46
Land marketization and urban innovation capability: Evidence from China	46