OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainable Cities and Society is 95. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
How do time-bound practices initiate local sustainability pathways?	454
An event-based model and a map visualization approach for spatiotemporal association relations discovery of diseases diffusion	409
Challenges, drivers, and benefits to integrated infrastructure management of water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation systems	372
Application of structural equation modelling (SEM) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) based approach toward a hybrid urban sustainability assessment system (USAS) of Jordan	327
Rethinking Japanese public libraries from the perspective of time	253
Data-driven assessment framework of health cities for elderly individuals in China	249
Topological and functional vulnerability analysis and mitigation for single-source heating networks based on tree models	241
Enabling effective climate action plans at city level: Insights from India's metropolitan cities	231
Spillover effects of built-environment vulnerability on resilience of businesses in urban crises	224
Towards urban energy sustainability and resiliency through smart agriculture and effective renewable resource allocation	221
Commercial urban agriculture: A review for sustainable development	218
Assessment of European cities from a smartness perspective: An integrated grey MCDM approach	218
Assessing the impact of normative messages in encouraging the use of sustainable mobility. An experimental study	212
A cascading failure-based approach for assessing the resilience of urban stormwater networks	205
Decision support for improved construction traffic management and planning	200
Accessibility assessment and optimization of public charging stations from a categorical perspective: A case study in Nanjing based on charging travel chains	200
Deep learning and dynamic simulation based progressive decarbonization roadmap in the building sector in Jiangsu Province	196
Corrigendum to “Research on the Traditional Courtyard Typology and Wind Environment Comfort - A case study of Qingshan Fishing Village in Qingdao, China” [Sustainable Cities and Society 130 (2025) 106	191
Assessing the electric demand-side management potential of Helsinki's public service building stock in ancillary markets	187
The joint health risks of PM2.5 pollution wave and cold spell in eastern China	185
Evaluation of resources and environmental carrying capacity and its spatial-temporal dynamic evolution: A case study in Shandong Province, China	185
Spatially heterogeneous impacts of urban vitality on carbon emissions: A multi-source data-driven mechanistic analysis	182
Measuring heat transfer index (HTI): A new method to quantify the spatial influence of land surface temperature between adjacent urban spaces	180
Embodied energy in existing buildings as a tool for sustainable intervention on urban heritage	175
Strengthening individual preparedness for extreme cold weather through enhanced messaging, risk perception, and trust	171

Parametric analysis of planting strategies and environmental factors for the thermal and aerodynamic effects of indirect green façades	170
Wildfire-resilient mechanical ventilation systems for single-detached homes in cities of Western Canada	170
Projects as game changers for navigating sustainability transitions in societies: Multi-level effects from micro-level decisions	170
Enabling maximum decarbonization from districts in Kyoto through rooftop PVs by integrating with EVs as battery	165
Energy efficient behavior modeling for demand side recommender system in solar microgrid applications using multi-agent reinforcement learning model	165
Fault detection and diagnosis for chiller based on feature-recognition model and Kernel Discriminant Analysis	160
Model predictive control based optimal operation of smart city	160
How to improve the environmental friendliness of the thermal power industry: A perspective on constructing cross-regional collaborative emission reduction mechanisms tailored to local conditions	155
A new electro-biomembrane integrated renewable-based system to produce power, fresh water and hydrogen for sustainable communities	153
Unveiling fine-scale urban third places for remote work using mobile phone big data	153
Enhancing SWMM-UrbanEVA for continuous long-term water balance analysis of green infrastructure	150
Urban form centrality and thermal environment: An empirical study of Chinese megacities	148
Urban-Rural Disparity in Community Resilience: A Multilevel Analysis of the Relief Progress after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake	144
Spatially resolved air quality index prediction in megacities with a CNN-Bi-LSTM hybrid framework	143
Impact of impervious surface spatial morphologies on urban waterlogging: Insights from a cascade modeling chain at catchment scale	141
Experimental investigations of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy pile with groundwater seepage	140
Systematic review on cooling benefits of landscape strategies for urban thermal environments in the United States	139
Spatial development indicators as a tool to determine thermal conditions in an urban environment	139
Street vitality and built environment features: A data-informed approach from fourteen Chinese cities	138
Coupled simulation of urban water networks and interconnected critical urban infrastructure systems: A systematic review and multi-sector research agenda	136
Evaluating the association between morphological characteristics of urban land and pluvial floods using machine learning methods	135
Socially sustainable mobility: Strategic analysis to identify accessibility barriers	134
Sustainable design of running friendly streets: Environmental exposures predict runnability by Volunteered Geographic Information and multilevel model approaches	130
How to optimize the 2D/3D urban thermal environment: Insights derived from UAV LiDAR/multispectral data and multi-source remote sensing data	128
Impacts of digital economy agglomeration on carbon emission: A two-tier stochastic frontier and spatial decomposition analysis of China	127
Nature's hand in megacity cluster progress: Integrating SDG11 with ecosystem service dynamics	126
Cross-examination of country-specific archetypes generation for urban building energy modelling (UBEM)	125
Assessing carbon emissions and decarbonization potential of urban cold chain transport sector: A case study in Hefei city	124
Enhancing water management and urban flood resilience using Hazard Capacity Factor Design (HCFD) model: Case study of Eco-Delta city, Busan	123
Two birds with one stone: Can digital transformation of companies help address climate change while improving air quality?	123
Responding to “city cooling action”: Assessing and visualizing community-level urban park cooling service performance in Nanjing, China	121
Developing indicators for sustainable urban regeneration in historic urban areas: Delphi method and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)	121
Exploration of non-linear influence mechanisms of traditional courtyard forms on thermal comfort in winter and summer: A case study of Beijing, China	121
Fuzzy Q-learning-based approach for real-time energy management of home microgrids using cooperative multi-agent system	121
Integrating morphology and vitality to quantify seasonal contributions of urban functional zones to thermal environment	120
Assessing annual carbon emissions and its peak year in the Yangtze river economic belt (2021-2035) through land use/land cover analysis	120
Activity space compactness index from the viewpoint of trip arrival point by lifestyle activity purpose in a mature conurbation	119
Data-driven prediction of energy consumption of district cooling systems (DCS) based on the weather forecast data	118
The impact of innovation-driven industrial clusters on urban carbon emission efficiency: Empirical evidence from China	117
Unveiling hidden allergenic hotspots: A fine-scale, parameter-optimized approach for spatiotemporal mapping of urban allergenicity assessments	116
Reconstructing place attachment through social media: A systematic review for sustainable urban governance	116
Cooling effects of urban green spaces: A systematic review of methods applied in the past two decades	116
Passive over active: How low-cost strategies influence urban energy equity	115
Effects of sea-land breeze on air pollutant dispersion in street networks with different distances from coast using WRF-CFD coupling method	115
Towards flood risk mapping based on multi-tiered decision making in a densely urbanized metropolitan city of Istanbul	114
A tactical transactive energy scheduling for the electric vehicle-integrated networked microgrids	114
Traffic noise assessment in urban Bulgaria using explainable machine learning	114
Riding smooth: A cost-benefit assessment of surface quality on Copenhagen’s bicycle network	112
Dynamics of human speech as aerosol transmission sources: Implications for sustainable urban health based on impulsive jet theory	111
Exploring the complex relationship between metro and shared bikes in the built environment: Competition, connection, and complementation	111

The impact of dynamic traffic conditions on the sustainability of urban fire service	110
A multi-objective probabilistic approach for smart voltage control in wind-energy integrated networks considering correlated parameters	110
Hesitant fuzzy for conflicting criteria in multi-objective deployment of electric vehicle charging stations	110
A comprehensive and comparative study of an innovative constant-pressure compressed air energy storage (CP-CAES) system	109
Dynamic impacts of vegetation growth and urban development on microclimate and building energy consumption	108
Modeling NO2 concentrations in real urban areas using computational fluid dynamics: A comparative analysis of methods to assess NO2 concentrations from NOx dispersion results	108
Sustainability-oriented maintenance management of highway bridge networks based on Q-learning	107
Dynamic effects of frequent step changes in outdoor microclimate environments on thermal sensation and dissatisfaction of pedestrian during summer	104
Toward a societal smart city: Clarifying the social justice dimension of smart cities	102
A cost-effective and high-efficient EV shared fast charging scheme with hierarchical coordinated operation strategy for addressing difficult-to-charge issue in old residential communities	101
Identifying up-to-date urban land-use patterns with visual and semantic features based on multisource geospatial data	101
Assessing Nature-based solutions in the face of urban vulnerabilities: A multi-criteria decision approach	99
Accessibility and Public Transport Mobility for a Smart(er) Island: Evidence from Sardinia (Italy)	99
Spatial and social inequality of hierarchical healthcare accessibility in urban system: A case study in Shanghai, China	99
Optimized protection coordination of microgrids considering power quality-based voltage indices incorporating optimal sizing and placement of fault current limiters	98
Renewable energy technology innovation and urbanization: Insights from China	97
Influence of the built environment on social capital and physical activity in Singapore: A structural equation modelling analysis	97
Uncovering key components of semi-public spaces in multi-unit residences for enhancing social sustainability	96
UBEM-SER: Role of sufficiency, efficiency and renewable in the decarbonization of commercial building stock at city scale	95
Analysing urban local cold air dynamics and climate functional zones using interpretable machine learning: A case study of Tianhe district, Guangzhou	95
Estimating casualties from urban fires: A focus on building and urban environment information	95