OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mobilities is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	57
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	39
Mobilities, design and passenger experiences	36
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	34
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	31
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	29
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	27
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	21
Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley	20
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	18
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	17
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	17
Food warriors: app-based delivery on electric micromobilities	16
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	16
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	15
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	15
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	15
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	15
Walking versus cycling? Negotiating active travel practices over logics of automobility and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	13
Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873	13
Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research	12
Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping	12
Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite	12
‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States)	12

(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance	12
‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city	12
Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021	11
Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal	10
Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’	10
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	10
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	9
Platforms, race, and urban space: the multiplication of unevenness of migrant food couriers’ mobilities	9
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	9
Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters	9
Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging	9
John Urry Article Prize 2021	9
‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence	9
Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891	9
Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video	9
Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities	9
Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport	8
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	8
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies	8
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space	8
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	8
Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2 ^nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)	7
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	7
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	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
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	7
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	7
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	7
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	7
Sustainable shared mobility as social common capital: conceptual framework and case analysis	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
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	7
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	7
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	6
Beyond the footpath: grammars of walking and the walking subject in Wordsworth and Shehadeh	6
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	6
How linguistic patterns obscure responsibility in newspaper coverage of traffic crashes in German-speaking countries: an interdisciplinary study	6
The problem with Pod Man	6
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	6
List of reviewers 2024	6
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	6
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	6
Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel	6
List of reviewers	6
Uneven mobilities: the everyday management of app-based delivery work in Germany	5
“Where migrants are, where they gather”: exploring solidarity on the move in Calais after the “jungle”	5
Understanding the experiences of return and re-adaptation among Polish returnees from long-term international migration: a conceptual framework of re-adaptation	5
Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland	5

Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden	5
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	5
Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility	5
Governing Petro-(im)mobilities: the making of right-of-way for Uganda’s East African Crude Oil pipeline	5
Cycling for net zero transition: diversity, infrastructures and care	5
The unexceptional im/mobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic	5
The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility	5
Transactional formats, mediating devices, and the forensics of recognition: ‘waiting time’ calculation and a political imagination of collective autorickshaw circulation	5
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands	5
Gendered and sexualized violence on the move: unravelling collective (im)mobilization in the name of post-Soviet imperial membership	5