OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainable Cities and Society is 98. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Coupled simulation of urban water networks and interconnected critical urban infrastructure systems: A systematic review and multi-sector research agenda	438
Model predictive control based optimal operation of smart city	406
Spatially heterogeneous impacts of urban vitality on carbon emissions: A multi-source data-driven mechanistic analysis	339
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	310
Application of structural equation modelling (SEM) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) based approach toward a hybrid urban sustainability assessment system (USAS) of Jordan	242
Measuring heat transfer index (HTI): A new method to quantify the spatial influence of land surface temperature between adjacent urban spaces	230
Assessing annual carbon emissions and its peak year in the Yangtze river economic belt (2021-2035) through land use/land cover analysis	230
Assessing the impact of normative messages in encouraging the use of sustainable mobility. An experimental study	223
Dynamic impacts of vegetation growth and urban development on microclimate and building energy consumption	221
Deep learning and dynamic simulation based progressive decarbonization roadmap in the building sector in Jiangsu Province	217
Effects of sea-land breeze on air pollutant dispersion in street networks with different distances from coast using WRF-CFD coupling method	216
Nature's hand in megacity cluster progress: Integrating SDG11 with ecosystem service dynamics	209
Sustainable design of running friendly streets: Environmental exposures predict runnability by Volunteered Geographic Information and multilevel model approaches	209
Projects as game changers for navigating sustainability transitions in societies: Multi-level effects from micro-level decisions	207
Traffic noise assessment in urban Bulgaria using explainable machine learning	206
Spatially resolved air quality index prediction in megacities with a CNN-Bi-LSTM hybrid framework	195
The impact of dynamic traffic conditions on the sustainability of urban fire service	190
Riding smooth: A cost-benefit assessment of surface quality on Copenhagen’s bicycle network	188
Rethinking Japanese public libraries from the perspective of time	182
Data-driven assessment framework of health cities for elderly individuals in China	178
Assessment of European cities from a smartness perspective: An integrated grey MCDM approach	176
Experimental investigations of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy pile with groundwater seepage	174
Hesitant fuzzy for conflicting criteria in multi-objective deployment of electric vehicle charging stations	172
Multi-agent-based optimal power scheduling of shipboard power systems	171
Wildfire-resilient mechanical ventilation systems for single-detached homes in cities of Western Canada	166

Evaluation of resources and environmental carrying capacity and its spatial-temporal dynamic evolution: A case study in Shandong Province, China	161
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in urban road dust from Tianjin, China: pollution characteristics, sources and health risk assessment	160
FPGA control system technology for integrating the PV/wave/FC hybrid system using ANN optimized by MFO techniques	159
Dynamics of human speech as aerosol transmission sources: Implications for sustainable urban health based on impulsive jet theory	157
The joint health risks of PM2.5 pollution wave and cold spell in eastern China	156
Decision support for improved construction traffic management and planning	156
Enhancing SWMM-UrbanEVA for continuous long-term water balance analysis of green infrastructure	155
Analysing urban local cold air dynamics and climate functional zones using interpretable machine learning: A case study of Tianhe district, Guangzhou	154
Enabling maximum decarbonization from districts in Kyoto through rooftop PVs by integrating with EVs as battery	152
Accessibility assessment and optimization of public charging stations from a categorical perspective: A case study in Nanjing based on charging travel chains	151
Modeling dynamic competition among urban taxis and the impact on carbon emissions	148
Towards urban energy sustainability and resiliency through smart agriculture and effective renewable resource allocation	145
Spatial and social inequality of hierarchical healthcare accessibility in urban system: A case study in Shanghai, China	144
A cascading failure-based approach for assessing the resilience of urban stormwater networks	144
Optimized protection coordination of microgrids considering power quality-based voltage indices incorporating optimal sizing and placement of fault current limiters	143
Systematic review on cooling benefits of landscape strategies for urban thermal environments in the United States	139
Cooling effects of urban green spaces: A systematic review of methods applied in the past two decades	139
Impact of impervious surface spatial morphologies on urban waterlogging: Insights from a cascade modeling chain at catchment scale	138
Integrating morphology and vitality to quantify seasonal contributions of urban functional zones to thermal environment	137
Reconstructing place attachment through social media: A systematic review for sustainable urban governance	136
Passive over active: How low-cost strategies influence urban energy equity	135
Are New Towns Prone to Urban Heat Island Effect? Implications for Planning Form and Function	133
Exploring the complex relationship between metro and shared bikes in the built environment: Competition, connection, and complementation	130
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	130
A new electro-biomembrane integrated renewable-based system to produce power, fresh water and hydrogen for sustainable communities	128
Topological and functional vulnerability analysis and mitigation for single-source heating networks based on tree models	127
Estimating casualties from urban fires: A focus on building and urban environment information	126
Spillover effects of built-environment vulnerability on resilience of businesses in urban crises	125
How do time-bound practices initiate local sustainability pathways?	121
Street vitality and built environment features: A data-informed approach from fourteen Chinese cities	121
Commercial urban agriculture: A review for sustainable development	121
Energy efficient behavior modeling for demand side recommender system in solar microgrid applications using multi-agent reinforcement learning model	119
A multi-objective probabilistic approach for smart voltage control in wind-energy integrated networks considering correlated parameters	119
Accessibility and Public Transport Mobility for a Smart(er) Island: Evidence from Sardinia (Italy)	118
A tactical transactive energy scheduling for the electric vehicle-integrated networked microgrids	118
Embodied energy in existing buildings as a tool for sustainable intervention on urban heritage	118
How to optimize the 2D/3D urban thermal environment: Insights derived from UAV LiDAR/multispectral data and multi-source remote sensing data	117
Influence of the built environment on social capital and physical activity in Singapore: A structural equation modelling analysis	116
Spatial development indicators as a tool to determine thermal conditions in an urban environment	115
Impacts of digital economy agglomeration on carbon emission: A two-tier stochastic frontier and spatial decomposition analysis of China	115
Enabling effective climate action plans at city level: Insights from India's metropolitan cities	114
Synergies or trade-offs between surface urban heat island and hot extreme: Distinct responses in urban environments	114
Identifying up-to-date urban land-use patterns with visual and semantic features based on multisource geospatial data	114
A comprehensive and comparative study of an innovative constant-pressure compressed air energy storage (CP-CAES) system	113
Unveiling fine-scale urban third places for remote work using mobile phone big data	113
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	111
An event-based model and a map visualization approach for spatiotemporal association relations discovery of diseases diffusion	111
Finding unrevealed landslide hazard area induced by climate change and topography - Case study for Inje-gun, Gangwon-do, ROK -	110
Socially sustainable mobility: Strategic analysis to identify accessibility barriers	108
Urban-Rural Disparity in Community Resilience: A Multilevel Analysis of the Relief Progress after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake	108

An energy consumption model for the Algerian residential building's stock, based on a triangular approach: Geographic Information System (GIS), regression analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis	108
Data-driven prediction of energy consumption of district cooling systems (DCS) based on the weather forecast data	107
Toward a societal smart city: Clarifying the social justice dimension of smart cities	107
Fault detection and diagnosis for chiller based on feature-recognition model and Kernel Discriminant Analysis	107
Assessing the electric demand-side management potential of Helsinki's public service building stock in ancillary markets	107
Challenges, drivers, and benefits to integrated infrastructure management of water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation systems	106
Effective ventilation and air disinfection system for reducing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection risk in office buildings	106
Morphological and functional polycentric structure assessment of megacity: An integrated approach with spatial distribution and interaction	105
Renewable energy technology innovation and urbanization: Insights from China	105
Towards flood risk mapping based on multi-tiered decision making in a densely urbanized metropolitan city of Istanbul	105
Sequential action-based dynamic decision-support model for urban ecological planning	105
CFD simulations of wind flow and pollutant dispersion in a street canyon with traffic flow: Comparison between RANS and LES	105
Exploring the nexus between social vulnerability, built environment, and the prevalence of COVID-19: A case study of Chicago	105
Activity space compactness index from the viewpoint of trip arrival point by lifestyle activity purpose in a mature conurbation	104
Fuzzy Q-learning-based approach for real-time energy management of home microgrids using cooperative multi-agent system	104
Dynamic effects of frequent step changes in outdoor microclimate environments on thermal sensation and dissatisfaction of pedestrian during summer	104
Sustainability-oriented maintenance management of highway bridge networks based on Q-learning	103
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
Responding to “city cooling action”: Assessing and visualizing community-level urban park cooling service performance in Nanjing, China	101
Exploration of non-linear influence mechanisms of traditional courtyard forms on thermal comfort in winter and summer: A case study of Beijing, China	101
Uncovering key components of semi-public spaces in multi-unit residences for enhancing social sustainability	100
Strengthening individual preparedness for extreme cold weather through enhanced messaging, risk perception, and trust	99
Parametric analysis of planting strategies and environmental factors for the thermal and aerodynamic effects of indirect green façades	98
UBEM-SER: Role of sufficiency, efficiency and renewable in the decarbonization of commercial building stock at city scale	98