OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainable Cities and Society is 96. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing the electric demand-side management potential of Helsinki's public service building stock in ancillary markets	411
Coupled simulation of urban water networks and interconnected critical urban infrastructure systems: A systematic review and multi-sector research agenda	400
Multi-agent-based optimal power scheduling of shipboard power systems	389
Projects as game changers for navigating sustainability transitions in societies: Multi-level effects from micro-level decisions	297
Rethinking Japanese public libraries from the perspective of time	278
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	223
Model predictive control based optimal operation of smart city	222
Assessment of the food-water-energy nexus suitability of rooftops. A methodological remote sensing approach in an urban Mediterranean area	219
Enhancing SWMM-UrbanEVA for continuous long-term water balance analysis of green infrastructure	210
Spillover effects of built-environment vulnerability on resilience of businesses in urban crises	208
A tactical transactive energy scheduling for the electric vehicle-integrated networked microgrids	198
Systematic review on cooling benefits of landscape strategies for urban thermal environments in the United States	192
Estimating casualties from urban fires: A focus on building and urban environment information	189
Enhancing water management and urban flood resilience using Hazard Capacity Factor Design (HCFD) model: Case study of Eco-Delta city, Busan	188
Optimized protection coordination of microgrids considering power quality-based voltage indices incorporating optimal sizing and placement of fault current limiters	185
Commercial urban agriculture: A review for sustainable development	180
Uncovering key components of semi-public spaces in multi-unit residences for enhancing social sustainability	178
Parametric analysis of planting strategies and environmental factors for the thermal and aerodynamic effects of indirect green façades	178
Challenges, drivers, and benefits to integrated infrastructure management of water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation systems	176
Application of structural equation modelling (SEM) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) based approach toward a hybrid urban sustainability assessment system (USAS) of Jordan	175
A multi-objective probabilistic approach for smart voltage control in wind-energy integrated networks considering correlated parameters	171
Assessing Nature-based solutions in the face of urban vulnerabilities: A multi-criteria decision approach	171
How do time-bound practices initiate local sustainability pathways?	167
Topological and functional vulnerability analysis and mitigation for single-source heating networks based on tree models	161
Assessment of European cities from a smartness perspective: An integrated grey MCDM approach	159

A clustering method for measuring accessibility and equity in public transportation service: Case study of Melbourne	155
Street vitality and built environment features: A data-informed approach from fourteen Chinese cities	153
Dynamic impacts of vegetation growth and urban development on microclimate and building energy consumption	152
UBEM-SER: Role of sufficiency, efficiency and renewable in the decarbonization of commercial building stock at city scale	152
Strengthening individual preparedness for extreme cold weather through enhanced messaging, risk perception, and trust	148
Exploring the complex relationship between metro and shared bikes in the built environment: Competition, connection, and complementation	147
Identifying up-to-date urban land-use patterns with visual and semantic features based on multisource geospatial data	144
Evaluation of resources and environmental carrying capacity and its spatial-temporal dynamic evolution: A case study in Shandong Province, China	143
Accessibility and Public Transport Mobility for a Smart(er) Island: Evidence from Sardinia (Italy)	142
Socially sustainable mobility: Strategic analysis to identify accessibility barriers	142
Fuzzy Q-learning-based approach for real-time energy management of home microgrids using cooperative multi-agent system	141
Embodied energy in existing buildings as a tool for sustainable intervention on urban heritage	140
Effects of sea-land breeze on air pollutant dispersion in street networks with different distances from coast using WRF-CFD coupling method	138
Finding unrevealed landslide hazard area induced by climate change and topography - Case study for Inje-gun, Gangwon-do, ROK -	138
Developing indicators for sustainable urban regeneration in historic urban areas: Delphi method and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)	138
Renewable energy technology innovation and urbanization: Insights from China	136
Traffic noise assessment in urban Bulgaria using explainable machine learning	136
Enabling effective climate action plans at city level: Insights from India's metropolitan cities	135
Dynamics of cool surface performance on urban microclimate: A full-scale experimental study in Singapore	135
Spatial development indicators as a tool to determine thermal conditions in an urban environment	133
Spatial and social inequality of hierarchical healthcare accessibility in urban system: A case study in Shanghai, China	130
Wildfire-resilient mechanical ventilation systems for single-detached homes in cities of Western Canada	128
Urban form centrality and thermal environment: An empirical study of Chinese megacities	128
Data-driven assessment framework of health cities for elderly individuals in China	127
Spatially resolved air quality index prediction in megacities with a CNN-Bi-LSTM hybrid framework	126
Analyzing the cooling effect, thermal comfort, and energy consumption of integrated arrangement of high-rise buildings and green spaces on urban heat island	124
Sustainability-oriented maintenance management of highway bridge networks based on Q-learning	124
Are New Towns Prone to Urban Heat Island Effect? Implications for Planning Form and Function	123
Towards flood risk mapping based on multi-tiered decision making in a densely urbanized metropolitan city of Istanbul	123
Riding smooth: A cost-benefit assessment of surface quality on Copenhagen’s bicycle network	118
CFD simulations of wind flow and pollutant dispersion in a street canyon with traffic flow: Comparison between RANS and LES	117
Hesitant fuzzy for conflicting criteria in multi-objective deployment of electric vehicle charging stations	116
An event-based model and a map visualization approach for spatiotemporal association relations discovery of diseases diffusion	114
Modeling NO2 concentrations in real urban areas using computational fluid dynamics: A comparative analysis of methods to assess NO2 concentrations from NOx dispersion results	113
Sequential action-based dynamic decision-support model for urban ecological planning	112
Towards urban energy sustainability and resiliency through smart agriculture and effective renewable resource allocation	112
The impact of dynamic traffic conditions on the sustainability of urban fire service	110
Responding to “city cooling action”: Assessing and visualizing community-level urban park cooling service performance in Nanjing, China	110
Nature's hand in megacity cluster progress: Integrating SDG11 with ecosystem service dynamics	110
Assessing the impact of normative messages in encouraging the use of sustainable mobility. An experimental study	109
Fault detection and diagnosis for chiller based on feature-recognition model and Kernel Discriminant Analysis	108
Exploring the nexus between social vulnerability, built environment, and the prevalence of COVID-19: A case study of Chicago	108
Dynamics of human speech as aerosol transmission sources: Implications for sustainable urban health based on impulsive jet theory	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	107
Passive over active: How low-cost strategies influence urban energy equity	107
Investigating the spatial distribution of resident’s outdoor heat exposure across neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania using urban microclimate modeling	106
Influence of the built environment on social capital and physical activity in Singapore: A structural equation modelling analysis	106
Spatially heterogeneous impacts of urban vitality on carbon emissions: A multi-source data-driven mechanistic analysis	106
The joint health risks of PM2.5 pollution wave and cold spell in eastern China	105
Integrating morphology and vitality to quantify seasonal contributions of urban functional zones to thermal environment	105

How to optimize the 2D/3D urban thermal environment: Insights derived from UAV LiDAR/multispectral data and multi-source remote sensing data	105
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in urban road dust from Tianjin, China: pollution characteristics, sources and health risk assessment	105
Morphological and functional polycentric structure assessment of megacity: An integrated approach with spatial distribution and interaction	105
The impact of innovation-driven industrial clusters on urban carbon emission efficiency: Empirical evidence from China	103
Assessing annual carbon emissions and its peak year in the Yangtze river economic belt (2021-2035) through land use/land cover analysis	103
Measuring heat transfer index (HTI): A new method to quantify the spatial influence of land surface temperature between adjacent urban spaces	102
Modeling dynamic competition among urban taxis and the impact on carbon emissions	102
Urban mobility scenarios until the 2030s	102
Urban-Rural Disparity in Community Resilience: A Multilevel Analysis of the Relief Progress after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake	101
Activity space compactness index from the viewpoint of trip arrival point by lifestyle activity purpose in a mature conurbation	101
Data-driven prediction of energy consumption of district cooling systems (DCS) based on the weather forecast data	100
Dynamic effects of frequent step changes in outdoor microclimate environments on thermal sensation and dissatisfaction of pedestrian during summer	100
Analysing urban local cold air dynamics and climate functional zones using interpretable machine learning: A case study of Tianhe district, Guangzhou	100
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	99
Effective ventilation and air disinfection system for reducing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection risk in office buildings	98
Exploration of non-linear influence mechanisms of traditional courtyard forms on thermal comfort in winter and summer: A case study of Beijing, China	98
Strategies and scenarios to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emission in the urban, rural and sustainable neighbourhoods	98
Experimental investigations of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy pile with groundwater seepage	98
Synergies or trade-offs between surface urban heat island and hot extreme: Distinct responses in urban environments	97
FPGA control system technology for integrating the PV/wave/FC hybrid system using ANN optimized by MFO techniques	96
A comprehensive and comparative study of an innovative constant-pressure compressed air energy storage (CP-CAES) system	96
Sustainable design of running friendly streets: Environmental exposures predict runnability by Volunteered Geographic Information and multilevel model approaches	96