| 1 | Current trends in Smart City initiatives: Some stylised facts | Cities | 2014 | 1,902 |
| 2 | What are the differences between sustainable and smart cities? | Cities | 2017 | 1,094 |
| 3 | On big data, artificial intelligence and smart cities | Cities | 2019 | 893 |
| 4 | Smart city policies: A spatial approach | Cities | 2014 | 777 |
| 5 | A roster of world cities | Cities | 1999 | 734 |
| 6 | Smart cities: A conjuncture of four forces | Cities | 2015 | 695 |
| 7 | Planning the resilient city: Concepts and strategies for coping with climate change and environmental risk | Cities | 2013 | 625 |
| 8 | Urban planning and quality of life: A review of pathways linking the built environment to subjective well-being | Cities | 2021 | 601 |
| 9 | Outdoor thermal comfort and outdoor activities: A review of research in the past decade | Cities | 2012 | 579 |
| 10 | The trajectories of European cities, 1960–2005 | Cities | 2007 | 508 |
| 11 | Designing, planning, and managing resilient cities: A conceptual framework | Cities | 2013 | 484 |
| 12 | Future smart cities: requirements, emerging technologies, applications, challenges, and future aspects | Cities | 2022 | 473 |
| 13 | Understanding ‘smart cities’: Intertwining development drivers with desired outcomes in a multidimensional framework | Cities | 2018 | 450 |
| 14 | How do we understand smart cities? An evolutionary perspective | Cities | 2017 | 449 |
| 15 | The governance of smart cities: A systematic literature review | Cities | 2018 | 445 |
| 16 | A digital twin smart city for citizen feedback | Cities | 2021 | 428 |
| 17 | The urban sustainable development goal: Indicators, complexity and the politics of measuring cities | Cities | 2017 | 421 |
| 18 | Comparative analysis of standardized indicators for Smart sustainable cities: What indicators and standards to use and when? | Cities | 2019 | 396 |
| 19 | Smart cities with big data: Reference models, challenges, and considerations | Cities | 2018 | 384 |
| 20 | Smart City and information technology: A review | Cities | 2019 | 359 |
| 21 | Urban heat island mitigation strategies: A state-of-the-art review on Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong | Cities | 2017 | 358 |
| 22 | Africa’s urbanisation: Implications for sustainable development | Cities | 2015 | 353 |
| 23 | Transit-oriented development in a high-density city: Identifying its association with transit ridership in Seoul, Korea | Cities | 2011 | 352 |
| 24 | Building up resilience in cities worldwide – Rotterdam as participant in the 100 Resilient Cities Programme | Cities | 2017 | 347 |
| 25 | Building urban resilience with nature-based solutions: How can urban planning contribute? | Cities | 2019 | 345 |
| 26 | Green-space preservation and allocation for sustainable greening of compact cities | Cities | 2004 | 340 |
| 27 | Ecosystem services and valuation of urban forests in China | Cities | 2009 | 334 |
| 28 | Dimensions of the eco-city | Cities | 1997 | 330 |
| 29 | A review on the effects of physical built environment attributes on enhancing walking and cycling activity levels within residential neighborhoods | Cities | 2016 | 330 |
| 30 | Evaluating cities' vitality and identifying ghost cities in China with emerging geographical data | Cities | 2017 | 330 |
| 31 | Can cities become self-reliant in food? | Cities | 2012 | 328 |
| 32 | City branding and the Olympic effect: A case study of Beijing | Cities | 2009 | 326 |
| 33 | Green space benefits for health and well-being: A life-course approach for urban planning, design and management | Cities | 2017 | 321 |
| 34 | Expansion of city scale, traffic modes, traffic congestion, and air pollution | Cities | 2021 | 313 |
| 35 | Rethinking urban transformation: Temporary uses for vacant land | Cities | 2014 | 312 |
| 36 | Compact city, urban sprawl, and subjective well-being | Cities | 2019 | 312 |
| 37 | Ridesourcing, the sharing economy, and the future of cities | Cities | 2018 | 311 |
| 38 | The high-speed rail challenge for big intermediate cities: A national, regional and local perspective | Cities | 2009 | 305 |
| 39 | Efficiency and spatial equity impacts of high-speed rail extensions in urban areas | Cities | 2013 | 304 |
| 40 | The role of urban green infrastructure in offsetting carbon emissions in 35 major Chinese cities: A nationwide estimate | Cities | 2015 | 300 |
| 41 | Smart utopia VS smart reality: Learning by experience from 10 smart city cases | Cities | 2017 | 297 |
| 42 | Solutions applicable by local administrations for urban logistics improvement | Cities | 2005 | 293 |
| 43 | Smart cities: Utopia or neoliberal ideology? | Cities | 2017 | 292 |
| 44 | Smart City implementation and discourses: An integrated conceptual model. The case of Vienna | Cities | 2018 | 291 |
| 45 | Check-in behaviour and spatio-temporal vibrancy: An exploratory analysis in Shenzhen, China | Cities | 2018 | 288 |
| 46 | Perspectives on five decades of the urban greening of Singapore | Cities | 2013 | 286 |
| 47 | Progress of China's new-type urbanization construction since 2014: A preliminary assessment | Cities | 2018 | 286 |
| 48 | Urban resilience and urban sustainability: What we know and what do not know? | Cities | 2018 | 286 |
| 49 | Smart cities | Cities | 1999 | 284 |
| 50 | Land market forces and government's role in sprawl | Cities | 2000 | 284 |
