OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Habitat International is 43. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Foreign direct investment and regional integration: The connectivity role of same-origin greenfield investment in the Yangtze River Delta	178
Editorial Board	143
Pre-disaster planning and preparedness for urban seismic Resilience: Evaluating critical influential factors for temporary shelter site selection	122
Assessment of spatial interactions in farmland abandonment: A case study of Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea	108
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management	87
Unpacking migrants' social integration: The mediating effect of hierarchical migration in the context of China	86
The humanization of urban neighborhoods; the case of Al-Falah project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	84
Editorial Board	79
Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?	76
Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania	75
Does poverty alleviation through relocation increase relative deprivation? Evidence from Pingjiang county, China	73
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China	73
From the arrival cities to affordable cities in China: Seeing through the practices of rural migrants' participation in Guangzhou's urban village regeneration	71
A data-driven perspective for sensing urban functional images: Place-based evidence in Hong Kong	68
Advancing agricultural diversification within rural regions: The dynamic role of interregional rural-rural migration	67
Relationship between land tenure and land use in unplanned settlements in Lusaka, Zambia	67
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus: Evidence from Australia	66
City-to-city learning processes in the development of sustainable urban food systems: Insights from South American cities	63
Impacts of global manufacturing transfer on energy intensity, consumption, and transition: An industry linkage perspective	62
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	62
Are home-based enterprises (HBEs) an economic lifeline or scenic distortion in Nigeria? Evidence from Ikot Epkene, Akwa Ibom State	61
Analysing the rising price of new private housing in the UK: A national accounting approach	59
Economic status of waste pickers in Bantar Gebang compared to other workers in Indonesia	58
Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform	56
Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management in Kathmandu city, Nepal – An impact of an incomplete data set	55

Does haze aggravate urban sprawl?	54
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs	53
Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil.	53
Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America	52
The rural human-land relationship transition in Southwest karst mountainous areas based on rural population, agricultural production land, and rural settlement coupling	52
Impacts of in situ urbanisation on grain production: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta, China	51
Assessing eco-environmental service quality by integrating monitoring data: A case study of Northeast China	51
Urban planning schemes for developing low-carbon cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	50
Urban construction-based social risks assessment in hot arid countries with social network analysis	50
Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective	50
Urban positionality in the regional urban network: Through the lens of alter-based centrality and national-local perspectives	50
Dealing with urban floods within a resilience framework regarding disaster stages	50
Ice and snow tourism in China's ecological civilization era: The Altay, Xinjiang experience	49
A novel model for simulating urban expansion under compactness scenarios on a regional scale	47
Urban habitats and food insecurity: Lessons learned throughout a pandemic	46
Trust and land Lease: The role of informal institutions in land market in rural China	46
Understanding the value of retail accessibility in private housing markets: A study from Turin, Italy	45
Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China	44
Analyzing the impact of land expropriation program on farmers' livelihood in urban fringes of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia	43
Assessing the impact of urban amenities on people with disabilities in London: A multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis	43