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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Spatially explicit assessment of the heat-related health risk in the Yangtze River Delta, China, using multisource remote sensing and socioeconomic data	394
A novel building flexibility potential assessment method based on hybrid CNN-GRU-CALDA framework considering consumer psychology	369
Event-independent resilience assessment of the access to care network at the pre-disaster stage using a spatio-temporal analysis	367
AirQFormer: Improving regional air quality forecast with a hybrid deep learning model	321
Exploration of non-linear influence mechanisms of traditional courtyard forms on thermal comfort in winter and summer: A case study of Beijing, China	250
Thermal environment control units for multi-objective urban optimization in territorial spatial planning	232
A method to estimate indoor instantaneous PM2.5 thresholds for air cleaner in Chinese residences	208
Technological progress accelerates CO2 emissions peaking in a megacity: Evidence from Shanghai, China	202
Optimizing pedestrian thermal comfort in urban street canyons for summer and winter: Tree planting or low-albedo pavements?	196
Beyond the last-mile: Environmental and economic assessment of the upcoming drone takeaway delivery system	194
Integrating morphology and vitality to quantify seasonal contributions of urban functional zones to thermal environment	185
CityEL: A web-based platform to support city-scale building energy efficiency based on AutoBPS	184
Multi-objective optimization for optimal placement of shared battery energy storage systems in urban energy communities	183
Traffic noise assessment in urban Bulgaria using explainable machine learning	182
Multi-criteria approach for the energy and environmental impact evaluation in urban districts in the central Mediterranean area	181
Exploring resilient alternatives in community energy systems planning to address parameter and structural hybrid uncertainties	170
Subsurface urban heat islands: From prevalence and drivers to implications for geothermal energy and a proposed new framework based on machine learning	168
Construction of big data comprehensive pilot zones, new quality productive forces and transformation of watershed resource–based cities: Double machine learning approach	167
Review and prediction: Carbon emissions from the materialization of residential buildings in China	161
UBEM-SER: Role of sufficiency, efficiency and renewable in the decarbonization of commercial building stock at city scale	160
Electricity self-sufficiency of off-grid mobile homes as temporary housing: A feasibility study in Japan	157
Traffic prediction and road space optimization for the integration of dockless bike-sharing and subway	156
Inter- and intra-LCZ thermal heterogeneity: The dominant role of external environments in shaping local land surface temperature	154
The impact of urban spatial forms on marine cooling effects in mainland and island regions: A case study of Xiamen, China	153
Paving the path to urban flood resilience by overcoming barriers: A novel grey structure analysis approach	152

Parametric analysis of planting strategies and environmental factors for the thermal and aerodynamic effects of indirect green façades	151
Human-perceived temperature changes linked to local climate zones under extreme hot and cold weathers: A study in the North China Plain	148
Strengthening individual preparedness for extreme cold weather through enhanced messaging, risk perception, and trust	147
Unraveling supply-demand relationship of urban agglomeration's ecosystem services for spatial management zoning: Insights from threshold effects	146
Uncovering key components of semi-public spaces in multi-unit residences for enhancing social sustainability	145
Adapting wind shear coefficients to urban morphology: Unlocking urban wind energy potential	143
Big-data-driven approach and scalable analysis on environmental sustainability of shared micromobility from trip to city level analysis	142
Future hotter summer greatly increases residential electricity consumption in Beijing: A study based on different house layouts and shared socioeconomic pathways	141
Socio-technical challenges towards data-driven and integrated urban water management: A socio-technical network approach	141
Attention enhanced hybrid model for spatiotemporal short-term forecasting of particulate matter concentrations	140
Detection of data-driven blind cyber-attacks on smart grid: A deep learning approach	138
Decision support for improved construction traffic management and planning	138
Inverse identification of a pollutant source in an apartment with multiple rooms by joint multi-zone model and CFD	136
A review of urban resilience literature	133
Smart regulation and efficiency energy system for street lighting with LoRa LPWAN	133
Optimal planning of urban greening system in response to urban microenvironments in a high-density city using genetic algorithm: A case study of Tianjin	132
Hesitant fuzzy for conflicting criteria in multi-objective deployment of electric vehicle charging stations	131
Exploring spatial pattern optimization path of urban building carbon emission based on low-carbon cities analytical framework: A case study of Xi'an, China	131
Investigating pedestrian-level greenery in urban forms in a high-density city for urban planning	130
Assessing local economic impact of urban energy transition through optimized resource allocation in renewable energy	129
The urbanization impacts on potentially toxic metals: the distribution, sources and contamination risks in river situated in typical megacity, China	128
Post-flood disaster damaged houses classification based on dual-view image fusion and Concentration-Based Attention Module	127
The challenge of urban food production and sustainable water use: Current situation and future perspectives of the urban agriculture in Brazil and Italy	126
Contrasting determinants of land surface temperature in three megacities: Implications to cool tropical metropolitan regions	125
Decision making in urban development: The application of a hybrid evaluation method for a critical area in the city of Turin (Italy)	125
Comprehensively assessing seasonal variations in the impact of urban greenspace morphology on urban heat island effects: A multidimensional analysis	123
Influence of the built environment on social capital and physical activity in Singapore: A structural equation modelling analysis	123
Spatiotemporal interactions and influencing factors for carbon emission efficiency of cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	122
Assessing and mapping urban ecological resilience using the loss-gain approach: A case study of Tehran, Iran	120
Urban building energy modeling from geo-referenced energy performance certificate data: Development, calibration, and validation	119
Potential grading refrigeration system? Based on urban agglomeration thermal environment analysis perspective	118
Uncertainty method and sensitivity analysis for assessment of energy consumption of underground metro station	117
A System Dynamics Model of Urban Rainstorm and Flood Resilience to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals	116
Enhancing water management and urban flood resilience using Hazard Capacity Factor Design (HCFD) model: Case study of Eco-Delta city, Busan	115
The creation of multi-level urban ecological cooling network to alleviate the urban heat island effect	115
Assessing the sustainability of urbanization at the sub-national level: The Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity accounts of the Budapest Metropolitan Region, Hungary	114
Are New Towns Prone to Urban Heat Island Effect? Implications for Planning Form and Function	114
Regional disparities and evolution trend of city-level carbon emission intensity in China	112
Multi-perspective evaluation framework of three-dimensional cooling and energy saving potential of urban parks based on numerical simulation	110
Application of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks and multi-sources data on urban functional zones identification, A case study of Changchun, China	110
A novel method for quantifying the harmonious balance of human-water relationship	110
Analyzing the cooling effect, thermal comfort, and energy consumption of integrated arrangement of high-rise buildings and green spaces on urban heat island	110
High spatio-temporal and continuous monitoring of outdoor thermal comfort in urban areas: A generic and modular sensor network and outreach platform	109
Towards informed decision-making: A comprehensive statistical study of economic and financing models for sustainable energy transition in urban environments	108
Analyzing the impact of various factors on leaf surface temperature based on a new tree-scale canopy energy balance model	107
POINT: Partially Observable Imitation Network for Traffic Signal Control	107
Assessing the electric demand-side management potential of Helsinki's public service building stock in ancillary markets	107
Schools as levers of change in urban transformation: Practical strategies to promote the sustainability of climate action educational programs	105
Sizing renewable energy systems with energy storage systems based microgrids for cost minimization using hybrid shuffled frog-leaping and pattern search algorithm	105
Modeling NO2 concentrations in real urban areas using computational fluid dynamics: A comparative analysis of methods to assess NO2 concentrations from NOx dispersion results	103

Optimizing building spatial morphology to alleviate human thermal stress	103
Exploring the social metabolism of urban wastewater reuse: Analysis framework and a case study in South-Central Chile	103
Revolutionizing affordable housing in Africa: A comprehensive technical and sustainability study of 3D-printing technology	102
Long‒term trends in surface thermal environment and its potential drivers along the urban development gradients in rapidly urbanizing regions of China	102
An integrated, multi-scale approach for modelling urban metabolism changes as a means for assessing urban sustainability	100
How does urban thermal environmental factors impact diurnal cycle of land surface temperature? A multi-dimensional and multi-granularity perspective	100
The study of air distribution quality in the summer section of Iranian dry climate houses equipped with wind tower	100
The impact of plug-in behavior on the spatial–temporal flexibility of electric vehicle charging load	100
Towards the principles of life cycle sustainability assessment: An integrative review for the construction and building industry	99
Assessment of European cities from a smartness perspective: An integrated grey MCDM approach	99
Transboundary impacts on SDG progress across Chinese cities: A spatial econometric analysis	99
The nonlinear relationship between the active travel behavior of older adults and built environments: A comparison between an inner-city area and a suburban area	98
A systematic literature review of the smart city transformation process: The role and interaction of stakeholders and technology	98
Optimal peak-shaving for dynamic demand response in smart Malaysian commercial buildings utilizing an efficient PV-BES system	98
A comprehensive and comparative study of an innovative constant-pressure compressed air energy storage (CP-CAES) system	98
A multi-criteria design framework for sustainable electric vehicles stations	97
A new framework quantifying the effect of morphological features on urban temperatures	97
Dynamic simulation for carbon emission reduction effects of the prefabricated building supply chain under environmental policies	96
The contrasting trend of global urbanization-induced impacts on day and night land surface temperature from a time-series perspective	95
Spatio-temporal patterns of heat index and heat-related Emergency Medical Services (EMS)	95
An integrated price- and incentive-based demand response program for smart residential buildings: A robust multi-objective model	95