OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mobilities is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobilities, design and passenger experiences	58
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	40
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	36
Micromobility justice in urban Brazil: the contexts of scooter sharing services	31
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	28
Every time it rains: navigating everyday flood hazards and mobility disruptions in Accra’s periphery	20
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	20
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	20
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	19
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	19
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	16
Food warriors: app-based delivery on electric micromobilities	16
Mobilising safety? Public order and the coordination of security guards in public transport in Stockholm	16
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	15
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	15
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	15
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	14
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	14
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	14
Walking versus cycling? Negotiating active travel practices over logics of automobility and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite	12
(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance	12
Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research	12
Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873	12
‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States)	12

Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping	11
‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city	10
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	10
Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal	9
Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging	9
Platforms, race, and urban space: the multiplication of unevenness of migrant food couriers’ mobilities	9
Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video	9
Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891	9
Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021	9
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	9
Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters	8
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	8
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	8
‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence	8
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies	8
Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport	8
John Urry Article Prize 2021	8
The morphing subject: analyzing the agency of mobile construction workers in the Alberta oil sands	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	7
Being near the action: bed and breakfast and guesthouse entrepreneurs and the hosting of black South African domestic tourists in the Cape Town townships	7
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	7
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	7
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	7
Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities	7
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	7
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	7
Freedom of speech on the move how motorcycle taxis open up small mobile spaces for political talk in Uganda	7
The problem with Pod Man	6
Beyond the footpath: grammars of walking and the walking subject in Wordsworth and Shehadeh	6
The claim to have rights, and the right to have claims − transnational solidarity of Roma in the face of the war in Ukraine	6
Sustainable shared mobility as social common capital: conceptual framework and case analysis	6
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	6
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	6
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	6
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	6
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	6
Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2 ^nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)	6
Mobilities, commodification of Soviet memories and affective power of items: connecting souvenir bazaars in Georgia and Armenia	6
How linguistic patterns obscure responsibility in newspaper coverage of traffic crashes in German-speaking countries: an interdisciplinary study	5
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands	5
Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland	5
Gendered and sexualized violence on the move: unravelling collective (im)mobilization in the name of post-Soviet imperial membership	5
List of reviewers	5
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	5
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	5
Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel	5
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	5
List of reviewers 2024	5
Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden	5

Cycling for net zero transition: diversity, infrastructures and care	5
Transactional formats, mediating devices, and the forensics of recognition: ‘waiting time’ calculation and a political imagination of collective autorickshaw circulation	4
Doing digital discipline: how Airbnb hosts engage with the digital platform	4
Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities	4
Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands	4
The bordering and rebordering of climate mobilities: towards a plurality of relations	4
Putting the car in context: a call for a situated technopolitical transition in global automobilities	4
Uneven mobilities: the everyday management of app-based delivery work in Germany	4
“Where migrants are, where they gather”: exploring solidarity on the move in Calais after the “jungle”	4
Educational journeys: understanding how women commuter students’ daily mobilities can shape their higher education experience	4
Forced or voluntary migrants? Daily and labour market challenges for new Israeli citizens from Ukraine since 2014	4
Mobile constraint: migrant experiences of mass transit in Santiago, Chile	4
Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime: defecting, border hopping, and smuggled smartphones in North Korea	4
The unexceptional im/mobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic	4
Governing Petro-(im)mobilities: the making of right-of-way for Uganda’s East African Crude Oil pipeline	4
Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility	4
Understanding the experiences of return and re-adaptation among Polish returnees from long-term international migration: a conceptual framework of re-adaptation	4
Going out and making it home: on the roots, routes and homing of young queer men in Nairobi, Kenya	4
Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)	4
The affects and emotions of everyday commutes in Kolkata: shaping women’s public transport mobility	4
Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women’s reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities	4
Techno-aesthetic gendered bicycle-cyclist assemblages in Brussels: qualitative interviews, situated statistics and multifactor analysis	4
Automating the first and last mile? Reframing the ‘challenges’ of everyday mobilities	3
Driving North/Driving South reprised: Britain’s changing roadscapes, 2000–2020	3
Walking beyond the city? On the importance of recreational mobilities for landscape planning, urban design, and public policy	3
Understanding train tourism mobilities: a practice theories perspective	3
Informal strategies in transnational mobilities and their implications for European lifestyle migration	3
Community-driven mobility practices: implications for designing sustainable mobility interventions	3
The rhetoric of return: Mingma or the contradictions of development in Nepal*	3
Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice: towards reflexive mobilities research	3
Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics	3
Homely mobilities: between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ through tiny homes	3
Sacrificing entitlement for self-preservation: ‘privatising vulnerability’ as a cyclist in Dublin	3
Mobile places and emplaced mobilities: problematizing the place-mobility nexus	3
Moving camps: ‘refugee villages’ between Denmark and Bosnia, 1992–2017	3
Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system	3
Defining motility: the uses, operationalisations and limits of a concept	3
2023 John Urry Article Prizewinner	3
The hypermobile and the rest: capital conversion and inclusion/exclusion in an emerging student migration in China	3
War-induced (im)mobilities and immobilizing effects in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war	3
Voices of the world: (im)mobility experiences of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane	3
Informal transportation systems in the region of Urabá in Colombia through the lens of everyday forms of resistance	3
Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point	3
Integration: a tale of two communities	3
The nexus of (im)mobilities: hyper, compelled, and forced mobile subjects	3
Car-free not care-free – the social practices of parents without cars	3
The mobility biography of things and the climate emergency	3
Reconfiguring mobility in a time of confinement: social, existential and sensory mobility among women refugees	3
Mobility injustice and agency: confronting border asymmetries in cross-border commuting under COVID-19 re-bordering policies	3
Border controls and (im)mobilities: experiences from a public transport node	2
The rhythm of place and the place of rhythm: arguments for idiorhythmy	2
Mobility data justice	2
Navigating belonging: mobilities of Japanese artists in (post) COVID-19 Berlin	2
Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel	2
Beyond the American dream: unveiling the complexity of young people’s (im)mobility in Governador Valadares, Brazil	2
Data visibility of cyclists: social justice implications of Strava Metro data in transport planning	2
“Travelling for dignity”: navigating (im)mobility regimes in Palestine after 7 October 2023	2
Situated road safety: uncertain mobility and grassroots road aid infrastructure on Kolyma roads, Russia	2
Cycling as work: mobility and informality in Indian cities	2
Cabecitas Blancas : settler colonialism, racial capitalism and the (im)mobility of borders for Yucatecan migrant families	2
‘Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo’: efficient transport, exhausted workers	2
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology: an experiment with new e-bike users in Norway	2
Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course	2
Affect, agency and im/mobilities: skills and secrets at the shelter	2
Reconfiguring rickshaw mobilities: formalization and exception in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone	2
Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport	2
The ship as home: homemaking practices amongst Filipino seafarers at sea	2
Beyond respectability? Office taxis and gendered automobility in urban India	2
From threat to essentially sacrificial: racial capitalism, (im)mobilities, and food delivery workers in New York City during Covid-19	2
Correction	2
Automation and aesthetic labour: the micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service	2
‘They want to give us thinking’: the role of filmmaking in creating narratives around mobility and land in the Canton of Ambato, Ecuador	2