OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mobilities is 6. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	54
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	38
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	35
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	35
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	32
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	28
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	27
Temporary home: a case study of a rural–urban migrant family’s homemaking practices in Guangzhou, China	27
Questioning mobility ideals – the value of proximity for residents in socially deprived urban areas in Sweden	20
Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley	17
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	17
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	16
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	16
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	16
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	15
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	15
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	14
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	14
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	14
Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping	14
Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873	13
‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city	12
(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance	12
‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States)	12
Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite	12

Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research	11
Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021	11
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	10
Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891	10
Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’	10
Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video	10
Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal	10
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	9
Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging	9
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space	9
Platforms, race, and urban space: the multiplication of unevenness of migrant food couriers’ mobilities	9
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies	9
John Urry Article Prize 2021	9
Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters	9
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	9
Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities	8
Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport	8
‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence	8
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	8
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	8
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	8
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	7
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	7
Sustainable shared mobility as social common capital: conceptual framework and case analysis	7
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	7
Zombie automobility	7
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	7
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	7
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	7
‘Be true to yourself’: Transnational mobility, identity, and the construction of a mobile self by Taiwanese young adults	7
Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2 ^nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)	7
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	7
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	7
The claim to have rights, and the right to have claims − transnational solidarity of Roma in the face of the war in Ukraine	7
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	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
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
List of reviewers	6
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	6
List of reviewers 2024	6
The problem with Pod Man	6
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands	6
Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland	6
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	6
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	6
Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel	6