OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Habitat International is 39. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	149
Editorial Board	133
Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania	131
Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?	120
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management	101
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China	88
Addressing the macroeconomic and hedonic determinants of housing prices in Beijing Metropolitan Area, China	87
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	83
Unpacking migrants' social integration: The mediating effect of hierarchical migration in the context of China	73
City-to-city learning processes in the development of sustainable urban food systems: Insights from South American cities	70
Advancing agricultural diversification within rural regions: The dynamic role of interregional rural-rural migration	65
Editorial Board	65
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus: Evidence from Australia	63
From the arrival cities to affordable cities in China: Seeing through the practices of rural migrants' participation in Guangzhou's urban village regeneration	63
A data-driven perspective for sensing urban functional images: Place-based evidence in Hong Kong	60
Relationship between land tenure and land use in unplanned settlements in Lusaka, Zambia	58
Assessment of spatial interactions in farmland abandonment: A case study of Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea	57
Does haze aggravate urban sprawl?	55
Assessing eco-environmental service quality by integrating monitoring data: A case study of Northeast China	54
Are home-based enterprises (HBEs) an economic lifeline or scenic distortion in Nigeria? Evidence from Ikot Epkene, Akwa Ibom State	54
Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America	52
Analysing the rising price of new private housing in the UK: A national accounting approach	50
Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management in Kathmandu city, Nepal – An impact of an incomplete data set	49
Urban positionality in the regional urban network: Through the lens of alter-based centrality and national-local perspectives	49
Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective	48

Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil.	48
Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform	47
Impacts of in situ urbanisation on grain production: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta, China	46
Urban planning schemes for developing low-carbon cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	45
Economic status of waste pickers in Bantar Gebang compared to other workers in Indonesia	44
Dealing with urban floods within a resilience framework regarding disaster stages	44
Understanding the value of retail accessibility in private housing markets: A study from Turin, Italy	43
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs	43
Governance transformation among urbanization in China: From hierarchical model to contract-based exploration	42
Urban construction-based social risks assessment in hot arid countries with social network analysis	41
Urban habitats and food insecurity: Lessons learned throughout a pandemic	40
A novel model for simulating urban expansion under compactness scenarios on a regional scale	40
Analyzing the impact of land expropriation program on farmers' livelihood in urban fringes of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia	40
Health service disparity, push-pull effect, and elderly migration in ageing China	39
Understanding the spatial distribution patterns and dominant determinants of farmland abandonment in China	39
Assessing the effects of the new-type urbanization policy on rural settlement evolution using a multi-agent model	39
Externality impacts of “Not in My Backyard” facilities on property values: Evidence from the Hangzhou waste sorting and reduction complex projects	39