OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cities is 61. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the dialectical relationship between governance and governance outcomes in the context of urban (re)development: A critical review	479
Public acceptability of electric vehicle chargepoint installation in neighbourhoods: A psychometric approach to assess resident reaction	246
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis	236
Reconciling data-driven crime analysis with human-centered algorithms	233
An investigation into the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of older women living in nursing homes in Iran with particular reference to physical activity	228
After moving back to the nest: The heterogeneous effect of returning to parental home on the employment outcomes by income group	196
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data	195
Editorial Board	180
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana	173
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth	149
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories	137
Urban food shopping trends: An analysis of Istanbul's grocery preferences via multi group structural equation model	127
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case	120
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities	113
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size	107
From complaints to insights: A geographical analysis of illegal dumping by citizen sensor data	106
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure	105
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks	104
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions	102
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development	99
Editorial Board	99
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective	97
How do urban function and development level effect construction level of green infrastructure? A case study of 110 built-up areas of cities in the Yangtze River Economic Zone	95
Intra-urban relocation patterns and correlation with built environment factors of population by age groups: A case study of Wuhan	93
City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’	92

The determinants of national city size distributions: A BMA approach	88
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China	86
Distance decay as a measure of city attractiveness: Insights from migration flows in China	85
Times and spaces of crime in the Historic Centre of Porto: Evidence from official data	83
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs	81
Kunz and post-communist geographies of urban poverty in Romania	80
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia	80
Are Barcelona's climate shelters accessible to vulnerable residents? A mobility justice analysis	79
Beyond urban parks: Integrating residential greenspaces to address greenspace inequality	79
Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory	79
Joint optimal pricing strategy of shared autonomous vehicles and road congestion pricing: A regional accessibility perspective	79
The relation between circuity and mobility cultures: A study of 41 European cities	78
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy	77
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 2010	75
Key predictors of greenhouse gas emissions for cities committing to mitigate and adapt to climate change	75
The effect of a multi-school zoning policy on the capitalization of educational resources: A quasi-natural experiment in Beijing	74
Developing circular cities in emerging economies: Investigating circular economy initiatives in the urban food system of two Indonesian cities	74
How do cities foster autonomous planning practices despite top-down control?	73
Cork City, Ireland: A blueprint for transformation in second-tier urban centres	73
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus	71
ICT usage and perceived walkability of older adults: A walk-along study in Singapore	70
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi	68
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue	67
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district	67
Measuring urban shrinkage in India using night-light data from DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-NPP satellite sensors	65
Do the developers need government assistance? The effect of TIF policy on affordable housing construction budgets	65
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city	65
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach	65
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?	64
Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends	64
A pathway towards resilient cities: National resilience knowledge networks	64
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities	63
How does commuting influence time use and domain and life satisfaction? Evidence from dual-earner couples with school-age children in a small Chinese city	62
Green impact of climate resilient city development: New evidence from China	62
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments	62
The effects of overwork on rural-to-urban migrant workers' intention to settle in cities: The evidence from China	61
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation	61