OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Archnet-IJAR International Journal of Architectural Research 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping architectural students’ perception on educational spaces: a guideline toward understanding spatial belonging	27
Revitalisation of urban spaces by women architects: enhancing cultural heritage in the gulf region	19
Knowledge spaces in architecture and urbanism – a preliminary five-year chronicle	19
Designing democratic innovations: a methodological framework for participation in urban planning and governance	19
Reshaping water-related urban places with collaborative participation: a critical examination of the Kabataş waterfront	18
Understanding historic buildings from an environmental perspective: Finsbury Health Centre – as an environmental rhetoric of modernism	18
Spatial intelligence: integration of land use to connectivity in the context of eastern urbanism	16
Nurturing an architect through transformative pedagogy: design studio teaching experience	14
Researching children’s physical environment: a systematic review of research methods	13
Star architecture in online public discourse: exploring Reddit user-generated content on the Vessel, New York, through a text analytics approach	11
Evolving informality as an urban cultural phenomenon: the case of evening food streets in Dhaka, Bangladesh	11
Courtyard configuration to optimize shading, daylight and ventilation in a tropical terrace house using simulation	10
Relationship between environmental indoor conditions of a classroom and the performance of undergraduate students	10
Questioning the phenomenon of void in the built environment through a multidisciplinary perspective	10
Sustainable Development Goals and the future of architectural education – cultivating SDGs-centred architectural pedagogies	9
Architectural learning networks: a study on eliciting the learning agendas of architectural schools	9
The impact of platform affordance on the representation of iconic architecture: a case study of Markthal across visual social media	9
Effects of biophilic design on sustainable behaviors: introducing the use of serious game as a measure of sustainable behavior	9
Affordance-led framework of understanding of BIM adoption	8
Mapping and measuring spatial connectivity of the pathways to home-based businesses within informal urban contexts	8
Cartography of controversy as an approach to inquiry into care and the city: a case study with architecture students	8
Toward a framework for the design of fair shared open spaces case study: Effat University, Jeddah	7
The role of the residential balcony in local context; perception of Cairene women	7
Implications of rapid changes and identity transformation on walkability in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt	7
“You must go here”: architecture, yelp and the tourist gaze	7

Integrating aesthetics and sustainability: evaluating the aesthetic perception of photovoltaic installation on the apartment building façade in Jordan	7
Developing a guiding framework based on sustainable development to alleviate poverty, hunger and disease	7
Defying tradition or maintaining the status quo? Moving towards a new hybrid architecture studio education to support blended learning post-COVID-19	7
Sensory spaces: sensory living – studio teaching the design of autism-friendly adult accommodation	7
Maximizing solar energy generation: guidelines for optimizing photovoltaic panel placement on building facades	7
Viewpoint on what may be considered as evidence and how to obtain it when designing health-promoting and inclusive green spaces	7
Integrating sustainable development goals into architectural design education: a case study in second-year design studio	6
Economic powers encompass the largest cultural buildings: market, culture and equality in Stockholm, Sweden (1918–2023)	6
Balancing complexity and restoration in virtual interior environments: user perceptions of organized complexity in biophilic design	6
Architecture of home in later life: towards a fivefold theoretical model	6
Exploring the restorative environments in Bratislava using EEG and VR: a neuro-urbanism approach	6
Re-establishing traditional stilt structures in contemporary architecture–The possibilities	6
The physical geometries of sacred spaces: methodological challenges in applying practice-based approaches to study sacred shrines	6
Book review	6
Hermeneutic phenomenology for spatial analysis	6
Joyful living labs – pedagogical approach for urban design thinking soft skills	6
Plot-based approach for controlled morphological transformation in urban heritage contexts: the case of New Gourna village, Luxor – Egypt	5
The use of an analytic hierarchy process to evaluate the flexibility and adaptability in architecture	5
Unveiling the missing innovation – an actor–network theory analysis of regulatory efforts towards universal design	5
Predicting and analysing initiator crime environments based on machine learning for improving urban safety	5
Social sustainability in architectural practice: examining experiences of architectural offices in B-Corp certification in the United Kingdom	5
Usability test and implications of an activity allocation mapping in complex organizations: perceptions about a software by emergency room agents	5
Publisher’s Note	5
Beyond the grand narrative of Al Bastakiya: Ayesha Al Bastaki and the Windtower houses of Old Dubai	5
The child as an active participant: enhancing the child's attachment to kindergartens through architectural design	5
Insights on the obstacles, challenges, and complexities of engaging youth in urban planning in Jordan: assessment and recommendations	5
Unveiling architectural and geometric dimensions through a systematic review of Córdoba: insights to UNESCO World Heritage Sites	5
The meaning of the home in the realm of Korean everyday life	5
The influence of urban campus landscape on college students' exercise participation and mental health: an approach using deep learning and street view images	5
Practitioner architects who teach design: evaluative judgement and identity	5
Theorizing architectural research and practice in the metaverse: the meta-context of virtual community engagement	5
Distress, anxiety, boredom, and their relation to the interior spaces under COVID-19 lockdowns	5
The effects of environmental factors on the social interaction of children in need of protection in outdoor living spaces	5
Architectural design research in small practices	5
Design strategies and health planning to improve the primary health care environment: a case study in Brazil	5
The reestablishment of Mosul's city fabric: an approach to computational hybridization	5