OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Urban Sciences is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing urban identity of a Mediterranean port city: from consistency to fragmentation	83
Rigidness of planning law causing fragile grounds for crafting planning tools: neoliberal power and ideology immersed on urban space	82
Can land prices be used to curb urban industrial land expansion? An explanation from the perspective of substitutability of land in production	32
Does Airbnb raise local rent in Seoul? Spatial 2SLS model approach	31
How is active travel associated with the scale, measurement of built environment and travel purpose: a GPS trajectory-based approach	28
Multidimensional educational inequality and settlement intentions of internal migrants: the case of China	22
The housing quality impacts on women’s self-efficacy during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Kerman, Iran	21
Housing market, social housing, and fertility: evidence from urban China	17
Redefining urban heritage boundaries for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the World Heritage property of the Hwaseong Fortress, Republic of Korea	16
Exploring the synergy between regional cooperation and transport connectivity for sustainable regional development: an empirical study of the pearl river delta (PRD) mega- city cluster, China	13
Equity-based linkages in the evolving process of industry enclaves: a case study of Suzhou Industrial Park, China	13
Research on institutional frameworks for historic preservation through sustainable management and adaptive reuse: a comparative study in Philadelphia and Seoul	12
Relationship between the degree and spatial pattern of urban shrinkage based on nighttime light data: a case study of the old industrial area in Northeast China	11
Examining the impact of bicycle-oriented multimodality on accessibility and transport equity in the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece	11
The spatial spillover effect of technological innovation network in cities: a case of the high-tech industry of Yangtze River Delta	10
Emergy analysis-based study of the sustainable development of Kunming’s urban eco-economic system	10
The role of cultural amenities in cities for employment growth of industrial clusters: evidence from a panel VAR model	10
Inclusive policy environment or quality of life: understanding city preferences of young talents based on a discrete choice experiment with university students in China	9
How to prevent the next pandemic: exploring the relationship between built environment, socioeconomic factors and the pandemic	9
Smart city as a social transition towards inclusive development through technology: a tale of four smart cities	9
Bridging the top-down and bottom-up approaches to smart urbanization? A reflection on Beijing’s Shuangjing International Sustainable Development Community Pilot	8
Are the poor getting poorer by connecting to the core? Exploring the impact of high-speed rail on the growth of small and medium-sized cities	8
The effect of building height regulation in Seoul	8
Dynamics in the governance of smart cities: insights from South Korean smart cities	8
The spatial interlocking of commercial office real estate and advanced producer services: a central flow theory lens	8

The question of sustainability through reuse in the case of the population-exchange heritage: a critical look at the reuse types and conservation status of the Bursa churches	7
Transferability of hometown landholdings and rural migrants’ entrepreneurship: evidence from a pilot rural land use reform in China	7
Value of travel time savings of autonomous vehicle commuters: a segmented valuation for local and inter-city travel	6
Evolution of the smart city: three extensions to governance, sustainability, and decent urbanisation from an ICT-based urban solution	6
Does urban rail transit promote the population growth of cities? Empirical evidence from China	6
Exploring the spatio-temporal characteristics and driving factors of urban expansion in Xi'an during 1930–2014	6
The role of spatial structure in driving the pace of structural economic change: empirical evidence from Vietnam	5
A trajectory data-driven approach for traffic risk prediction: incorporating variable interactions and pre-screening	5
Exploring the interrelationship between local employment and income in gateway communities in the US Lake States: empirical evidence from spatial simultaneous equation models	5
Finding the old in the new: Smart cities in the national and local trajectories of urban development	5
The changing spatialities of China’s knowledge economy: introduction to the special issue	5
Understanding measurement of walkability in urban environments: a systematic review and research agenda	5
The inception of housing pathways in urban China: the declining household formation of young adults from 2011 to 2017	4
The megaregion – forms, functions, and potential? A literature review and proposal for advancing research	4
Still prefer, but not that much: the premium of subway access on house prices during the COVID-19 pandemic period	4
Impact of solid waste classification on urban ecology and economy in Beijing: A quantitative research	4
A study of behavioural characteristics of the elderly based on computer vision technology	4
Exploration on prior driving modes for automated vehicle collisions	4
A critical review of activity participation decision: a key component of activity-based travel demand models	4
15-minute city, the basis of optimal allocation of land use in urban areas of Tabriz using a new multi-criteria decision making method	4
Is the gated community really safe? An empirical analysis based on communities with varying degrees of closure	4