OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Morphology is 1. 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
Bridging the gaps: urban morphology 20 years on	64
Reading and understanding the built environment of Quebec (Canada): the result of thirty years of research	21
A little prehistory of Urban Morphology	20
On the form and function of grid plans	19
How we view cities: a green-space enigma?	16
Architectural typology and urban morphology: towards a typological reading of urban housing buildings	14
The relationship between urban form and land-use regulation in China: the case of Nanjing	13
Mental maps of urban morphology	7
From rural plots to urban superblocks A. A. Kantarek, K. Kwiatkowski and I. Samuels	5
Overcoming anglophone squint	5
Large-scale urban development and the possibility of new models in fringe-belt studies: the question of the ‘umbrella fringe belt’	5
Time as a significant dimension in urban form research	4
The changing face of urban morphology: achievements and challenges	4
2 Reports	4
Jan Nijman (2020) Amsterdam's canal district: origins, evolution, and future prospects	4
Unmasking an urban morphologist	3
[Book notes, PDF]	3
Urban form and the activities of daily life: implications for sustainability. Towards an ISUF agenda for the study of suburbs	3
Comparing studies of urban form	3
Il faut tourner la page	3
Mapping the conceptual system of an urban theory and its evolution: a text analysis of space syntax conference papers over 20 years	2
Recent changes in urban morphology	2
[Book notes, PDF]	2
The concept of the morphological region: developments and prospects	2
The study of urban form in Lithuania during the second half of the twentieth century	2

Urban morphology, smart sustainability and space colonization	2
Obituary: Antony D. King (1931-2022)	2
Practical aspects of morphological research in urban renewal projects	2
Making connections	2
[Book notes, PDF]	2
Urban morphogenesis and fractal pattern: scaling invariance of traditional Islamic cities in Algeria	2
Completing the foundations	1
On the form and function of grid plans	1
An intellectual legacy for ISUF	1
Towards a more integrated approach	1
Obituary: J. W. R. Whitehand (1938–2021)	1
Review article: A new urban historical atlas: viewing the best of the past	1
Urban landscapes as ensembles	1
Thinking cross-culturally	1
Agents of change, power, and resistance in the patterns of change of an industrial heritage district: the case of Bellavista, Chile (1970‒2019)	1
4 Reports	1
A century of urban morphology?	1
Seeking an integrated approach to urban form: tasks ahead	1
Assessing a quarter-century of Urban Morphology	1
5 Reports	1
Mapping trends and hotspots of urban morphology research in the past 55 years: a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer and Bibliometrix	1
Urban morphology and computers	1
Looking East: urban morphology in China, Japan and Korea	1
Brazilian urban morphology S. de A.P. Costa	1
Urban morphology and policy: bridging the gap	1
Conservation, heritage and urban morphology	1
Vítor Oliveira (2021) Morphological research in planning, urban design and architecture	1