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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	49
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	37
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	35
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	32
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	32
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	26
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	25
Questioning mobility ideals – the value of proximity for residents in socially deprived urban areas in Sweden	25
Temporary home: a case study of a rural–urban migrant family’s homemaking practices in Guangzhou, China	20
Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley	17
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	16
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	15
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	15
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	15
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	15
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	15
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	14
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	14
Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research	13
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	12
Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873	12
Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite	12
Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping	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	11

Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal	10
Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021	10
‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States)	10
Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video	9
Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging	9
Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters	9
Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891	9
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	9
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies	9
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	9
John Urry Article Prize 2021	9
Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’	9
Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport	8
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	8
‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence	8
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	8
Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities	8
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	8
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	7
Zombie automobility	7
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	7
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	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
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	7
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	7
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space	7
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	7
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	7
Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2 ^nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)	6
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	6
The problem with Pod Man	6
List of reviewers 2024	6
Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: migrant youth’s visits to Ghana	6
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	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
‘Be true to yourself’: Transnational mobility, identity, and the construction of a mobile self by Taiwanese young adults	6
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	6
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	6
Going out and making it home: on the roots, routes and homing of young queer men in Nairobi, Kenya	5
Critical antagonisms: cycling and territory	5
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands	5
Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden	5
Transactional formats, mediating devices, and the forensics of recognition: ‘waiting time’ calculation and a political imagination of collective autorickshaw circulation	5
Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities	5
Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)	5
The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility	5
Doing digital discipline: how Airbnb hosts engage with the digital platform	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
Governing Petro-(im)mobilities: the making of right-of-way for Uganda’s East African Crude Oil pipeline	5
List of reviewers	5
“Where migrants are, where they gather”: exploring solidarity on the move in Calais after the “jungle”	5
The bordering and rebordering of climate mobilities: towards a plurality of relations	5
Forced or voluntary migrants? Daily and labour market challenges for new Israeli citizens from Ukraine since 2014	5
Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands	5
Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility	5
The unexceptional im/mobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic	5
Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland	5
Uneven mobilities: the everyday management of app-based delivery work in Germany	5
Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel	5
Understanding the experiences of return and re-adaptation among Polish returnees from long-term international migration: a conceptual framework of re-adaptation	5
Mobile constraint: migrant experiences of mass transit in Santiago, Chile	5