OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Urban Sciences is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Housing market, social housing, and fertility: evidence from urban China	55
Building blocks for smart cities adoption and associated implementation drawbacks in sub-Saharan Africa	50
Finding the old in the new: Smart cities in the national and local trajectories of urban development	37
Multidimensional educational inequality and settlement intentions of internal migrants: the case of China	26
Green infrastructure modelling for UHI control to urban thermal comfort: a case study of Temanggung urban area	25
Artificial intelligence and smart decision making in smart cities: a parallel moderated mediation approach	23
State-led smart city with Chinese characteristics: the case of Xiong’an New Area, China	21
Changing urban identity of a Mediterranean port city: from consistency to fragmentation	19
Does Airbnb raise local rent in Seoul? Spatial 2SLS model approach	17
Does inequality exist in attaining sustainable development goals within a city? A case study in Pune city, India	17
A machine learning application to Google Maps Reviews as a participatory planning tool	16
A fine-grained investigation on the predictors of urban green space growth in Nanjing	16
The construction of smart city community environment under the application of animation immersion technology integrated into southern Fujian Folk Culture	13
The impact of right-to-work legislation on foreign manufacturing employment in the United States	13
Alternative housing priorities for low-income migrants in Jakarta, Indonesia	12
Impact of urban pattern on operating costs of public services: quantification through the economic weight of services ‘to property’	12
Understanding measurement of walkability in urban environments: a systematic review and research agenda	11
How is active travel associated with the scale, measurement of built environment and travel purpose: a GPS trajectory-based approach	10
The geography of intercity technological proximity: evidence from China	10
Residential segregation and employment stability among China’s migrant population, and related intergenerational differences—analysis based on propensity score matching	10
A geographical political economy response to commentaries on ‘Coping with deindustrialization in the global North and South’	9
Planning and technological innovation: the governance challenges faced by English local authorities in adopting planning technologies	9
Can land prices be used to curb urban industrial land expansion? An explanation from the perspective of substitutability of land in production	9
The promotion of Shanghai’s position and function in the global container shipping network	8
The role of spatial structure in driving the pace of structural economic change: empirical evidence from Vietnam	8

Designing an intelligent emergency response system to minimize the impacts of traffic incidents: a new approximation queuing model	7
The effects of antecedent dry days and land use types on urban runoff quality in a semi-Arid region	7
The changing spatialities of China’s knowledge economy: introduction to the special issue	6
Rigidness of planning law causing fragile grounds for crafting planning tools: neoliberal power and ideology immersed on urban space	6
Surviving the pandemic: COVID-19 and restaurant closures in Suzhou	6
A study on street network resilience in urban areas by urban network analysis: comparative study of old, new and middle fabrics in shiraz	5
Federalism and urban primacy: political dimensions that influence the city–country divide in Australia	5
The housing quality impacts on women’s self-efficacy during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Kerman, Iran	5
The origin of industrial workers and rural in situ urbanization in Temanggung Regency, Indonesia	5
Intercity networks and urban performance: a geographical text mining approach	4
Urban life cycle and long-run violence: Colombia 1938–2018	4
Visualization of urban heat and light at the pedestrian level	4
Enabling infrastructure: seeing infrastructure as the urban commons	4
The spatial effects of housing prices on innovation in cities: evidence from the Yangtze river economic belt in China	4
How did travel mode choices change according to Coronavirus Disease 2019? Lessons from Seoul, South Korea	4
Housing tenure of young people through a multilevel strategy: differences according to living arrangements	4
Coupling mechanism and coupling linkage effect between multiplex city networks – a case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing city cluster	3
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on characteristic of bike-sharing systems near metro and bus stations	3
Equity-based linkages in the evolving process of industry enclaves: a case study of Suzhou Industrial Park, China	3
Identifying walkability factors for urban metro station areas toward transit-oriented development	3
The inception of housing pathways in urban China: the declining household formation of young adults from 2011 to 2017	3
The use of gamification for participatory smart city planning of Indonesia's new capital	3
Influences of COVID-19 pandemic on travel patterns across past, present, and future	3
Exploring the interrelationship between local employment and income in gateway communities in the US Lake States: empirical evidence from spatial simultaneous equation models	3
The influencing factors and regional heterogeneity of county-level public services quality in China	3
Relationships between socio-demographic structure and spatio-temporal distribution patterns of COVID-19 cases in Istanbul, Turkey	3
How are urban design qualities associated with perceived walkability? An AI approach using street view images and deep learning	3
Do national urban agglomeration policies reduce regional disparity? Evidence from nineteen urban agglomerations in China	3