OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cities is 56. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A digital twin smart city for citizen feedback	209
Future smart cities: requirements, emerging technologies, applications, challenges, and future aspects	195
Urban planning and quality of life: A review of pathways linking the built environment to subjective well-being	177
Deciphering the spatial structure of China's megacity region: A new bay area—The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the making	161
Determinants of broadband access and affordability: An analysis of a community survey on the digital divide	158
Environmental justice in the context of urban green space availability, accessibility, and attractiveness in postsocialist cities	148
Expansion of city scale, traffic modes, traffic congestion, and air pollution	148
Smart cities, big data and urban policy: Towards urban analytics for the long run	128
Emerging study on the transmission of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) from urban perspective: Evidence from China	118
Changes in local travel behaviour before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong	114
Barriers and risks of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) adoption in cities: A systematic review of the literature	102
The spatial integration and coordinated industrial development of urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	100
The politics of multifunctional green infrastructure planning in New York City	100
Collaborative workshop and community participation: A new approach to urban regeneration in China	99
Evaluation of low carbon city pilot policy effect on carbon abatement in China: An empirical evidence based on time-varying DID model	95
Comprehensive evaluation of urban resilience based on the perspective of landscape pattern: A case study of Shenyang city	90
Measuring human perceptions of streetscapes to better inform urban renewal: A perspective of scene semantic parsing	89
A multi-mode Gaussian-based two-step floating catchment area method for measuring accessibility of urban parks	89
How do population inflow and social infrastructure affect urban vitality? Evidence from 35 large- and medium-sized cities in China	89
Quality of life in the urban environment and primary health services for the elderly during the Covid-19 pandemic: An application to the city of Milan (Italy)	88
Can autonomous vehicles enable sustainable mobility in future cities? Insights and policy challenges from user preferences over different urban transport options	87
What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China	87
Whose city? Whose nature? Towards inclusive nature-based solution governance	86
City resilience and recovery from COVID-19: The case of Macao	85
Smart city research: A holistic and state-of-the-art literature review	83

Industrial structure or agency: What affects regional economic resilience? Evidence from resource-based cities in China	80
The impact of land urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions in the Yangtze River Delta, China: A multiscale perspective	80
Urban network externalities, agglomeration economies and urban economic growth	80
Smart city for sustainable environment: A comparison of participatory strategies from Helsinki, Singapore and London	80
COVID-19 and urban planning: Built environment, health, and well-being in Greek cities before and during the pandemic	79
Assessment methods of urban system resilience: From the perspective of complex adaptive system theory	78
Urban regeneration: Community engagement process for vacant land in declining cities	76
Resilience resistance: The challenges and implications of urban resilience implementation	75
Urbanization, transportation infrastructure, ICT, and economic growth: A temporal causal analysis	75
Big data analysis on the spatial networks of urban agglomeration	74
Why garden? – Attitudes and the perceived health benefits of home gardening	71
Urban expansion and the urban–rural income gap: Empirical evidence from China	71
Geographical transformations of urban sprawl: Exploring the spatial heterogeneity across cities in China 1992–2015	69
The impacts of open data initiatives on smart cities: A framework for evaluation and monitoring	69
Urban resilience from the lens of social media data: Responses to urban flooding in Nanjing, China	68
Pandemic and the planning of resilient cities and regions	68
Urban blue spaces and human health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative studies	66
Government-driven urbanisation and its impact on regional economic growth in China	66
Urban–rural construction land transition and its coupling relationship with population flow in China's urban agglomeration region	65
The x-minute city: Measuring the 10, 15, 20-minute city and an evaluation of its use for sustainable urban design	64
Smart assessment and forecasting framework for healthy development index in urban cities	64
The six dimensions of built environment on urban vitality: Fusion evidence from multi-source data	63
A diagnostic tool for supporting policymaking on urban resilience	63
Smart City strategies and new urban development policies in the Polish context	63
How ‘just’ is hybrid governance of urban nature-based solutions?	62
The sense of community revisited in Hankow, China: Combining the impacts of perceptual factors and built environment attributes	60
Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications	60
The spatial analysis of digital economy and urban development: A case study in Hangzhou, China	60
Spread of COVID-19 in China: analysis from a city-based epidemic and mobility model	59
Adapting cities for climate change through urban green infrastructure planning	58
China's new urbanization plan: Progress and structural constraints	58
Impact of continuous Jakarta megacity urban expansion on the formation of the Jakarta-Bandung conurbation over the rice farm regions	56
Rethinking care as alternate infrastructure	56