OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Growth and Change is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Can industrial agglomeration improve regional green total factor productivity in China? An empirical analysis based on spatial econometrics	47
Spatiotemporal evolution and spatial relevance of urban resilience: Evidence from cities of China	42
Can the digital economy promote FinTech development?	42
Analysis of the influence of land finance on haze pollution: An empirical study based on 269 prefecture‐level cities in China	40
Collaborative innovation efficiency: From within cities to between cities—Empirical analysis based on innovative cities in China	39
The relationship between China's income inequality and transport infrastructure, economic growth, and carbon emissions	29
Factors influencing farmers’ willingness and behavior choices to withdraw from rural homesteads in China	26
Impact of globalization and governance determinants on economic growth: An empirical analysis of Asian economies	25
The impact of land finance on urban land use efficiency: A panel threshold model for Chinese provinces	24
Social media business networks and SME performance: A rural–urban comparative analysis	24
The impact of industrial structure upgrades on the urban–rural income gap: An empirical study based on China's provincial panel data	24
Advancing the treatment of human agency in the analysis of regional economic development: Illustrated with three Norwegian cases	22
The nexus between urbanization and rural development in China: Evidence from panel data analysis	22
Does central environmental protection inspection enhance firms’ environmental disclosure? Evidence from China	21
Analyzing the distribution of researchers in China: An approach using multiscale geographically weighted regression	21
The Economic Network Resilience of the Guanzhong Plain City Cluster, China: A network analysis from the evolutionary perspective	20
Happy neighborhoods: Investigating neighborhood conditions and sentiments of a shrinking city with Twitter data	19
Does industrial agglomeration promote high‐quality development of the Yellow River Basin in China? Empirical test from the moderating effect of environmental regulation	19
Gateways or backdoors to development? Filtering mechanisms and territorial embeddedness in the Chilean copper GPN’s urban system	19
Environmental regulation and the supply efficiency of environmental public services: Evidence from environmental decentralization of 289 cities in China	18
Impact of Chinese market segmentation on regional collaborative governance of environmental pollution: A new approach to complex system theory	17
Is environmental regulation a blessing or a curse for China's urban land use efficiency? Evidence from a threshold effect model	17
Spatiotemporal context and firm performance: The mediating effect of strategic interaction	17
Uncharted waters of the entrepreneurial ecosystems research: Comparing Greater Istanbul and Reading ecosystems	17
Road construction, economic growth, and poverty alleviation in China	17

Can government venture capital guidance funds promote urban innovation? Evidence from China	16
Understanding the spatial polarization pattern of technology transfer network in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay area	15
(Re)thinking smart in rural contexts: A multi‐country study	15
Is China’s urban–rural difference in population aging rational? An international comparison with key indicators	14
High‐speed railway and urban productivity disparities	14
Triple helix relationship research on China's regional university–industry–government collaborative innovation: Based on provincial patent data	13
Urban ecosystem health assessment and obstacle factor diagnosis using a comprehensive assessment model for Nanjing, China	13
Coupling and coordination analysis of China's regional urban‐rural integration and land‐use efficiency	13
University‐industry‐government triple helix relationship and regional innovation efficiency in China	12
Rural spatial transformation and governance from the perspective of land development rights: A case study of Fenghe village in Guangzhou	12
Impact of performance contest on local transformation and development in China: Empirical study of the National Civilized City program	12
The patterns and driving forces of uneven regional growth in ASEAN countries: A tale of two Thailands' path toward regional coordinated development	12
Institutional environment, development model transformation and North–South economic disparity in China	12
Assessment of environmental governance in disaster vulnerability context of rural Bangladesh	12
Individual social capital and migration	12
Employment impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic across metropolitan status and size	12
How does machine learning compare to conventional econometrics for transport data sets? A test of ML versus MLE	12
Construction land reduction, rural financial development, and industrial structure optimization	11
Tempo‐spatial variability of urban leisure functional zones: An analysis based on geo‐big data	11
One coast, two systems: Regional innovation systems and entrepreneurial discovery in Western Norway	11
Not all peripheries are the same: The importance of relative regional innovativeness in transnational innovation networks	11
High‐speed rail and city tourism: Evidence from Tencent migration big data on two Chinese golden weeks	11
R&D internationalization and innovation performance of Chinese enterprises: The mediating role of returnees and foreign professionals	11
Rural e‐commerce in China: Spatial dynamics of Taobao Villages development in Zhejiang Province	10
Achieving rural revitalization in China: A suitable framework to understand the coordination of material and social space quality of rural residential areas in the plain	10
The value of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ecosystem: Evidence from 265 cities in China	10
Polycentricity and the evolution of metropolitan spatial structure	10
Are foreign companies a blessing or a curse for local development in Brazil? It depends on the home country and host region's institutions	10
Trends and types of rural residential land use change in China: A process analysis perspective	10
The effect of resource abundance on Chinese urban green economic growth: A regional heterogeneity perspective	10
Language differences, cultural identity, and innovation	10
Dynamic interaction between outward foreign direct investment and home country industrial upgrading: Regional differences in China	9
Innovation success in an emerging economy: A comparison of R&D‐oriented companies in Turkey	9
Comparing China’s urban aviation and innovation networks	9
Impact of institutional governance and state determinants on foreign direct investment in Asian economies	9
Legal land transfer rights, labor migration and urban–rural income disparity: Evidence from the implementation of China's Rural Land Contracting Law in 2003	8
An input–output analysis of transportation equipment manufacturing industrial transfer: Evidence from Beijing‐Tianjin‐Hebei region, China	8
Applying the ecosystem model in a new context? The case of business incubation in Oman	8
Identification of freight generating industry complexes: A descriptive spatial analysis	8
A new model to investigate the impact of innovative IT services on smart urban growth: The mediating role of urban planners’ knowledge	7
The effects of environmental regulation on chemical industry location: Evidence from the region along the Yangtze River, China	7
Is there a nonlinear economic threshold effect of financial development on the efficiency of sci‐tech innovation? An empirical test from the Yangtze River Economic Belt	7
Provincial income convergence clubs in Indonesia: Identification and conditioning factors	7
Coal exploitation and income inequality: Testing the resource curse with econometric analyses of household survey data from northwestern China	7
Development conditions for creative clusters in Poland in view of institutional environment factors	7
From the United States to China? A trade perspective to reveal the structure and dynamics of global electronic‐telecommunications	7
Seven super urban agglomerations, governments’ debt risk, and land leasing, China	7
Unveiling the local determinants of population growth in the European Union	7
Establishing tourism sustainability in a globally important agricultural heritage system in China: A case of social and eco‐system recovery	7
Quantifying reshoring at the macro‐level—Measurement and applications	7

Understanding spatial and compositional dynamics of employment centers in urban China: Empirical evidence from Nanjing	7
The evolution patterns of tourism integration driven by regional tourism‐economic linkages—Taking Poyang Lake region, China, as an example	7
A quasi‐natural experiment research regarding the impact of regional integration expansion in the Yangtze River Delta on foreign direct investment	6
Built‐up land expansion simulation with combination of naive Bayes and cellular automaton model—A case study of the Shanghai‐Hangzhou Bay agglomeration	6
Spatiotemporal spread characteristics and influencing factors of COVID‐19 cases: Based on big data of population migration in China	6
Uncoordinated urbanization and economic growth—The moderating role of natural resources	6
Avoiding the middle‐income trap: The spatial–temporal effects of human capital on regional economic growth in Northeast China	6
Development zones and urban economic performance in China: Direct impact and channel effects	6
Effects of air pollution on regional innovation and the mediator role of health: Evidence from China	6
The heterogeneity of agglomeration effect: Evidence from Chinese cities	6
Impact of foreign direct investment on the haze pollution in various cities: Evidence from China	6
Beyond technological relatedness: An evolutionary pro‐growth coalition and industrial transformation in Kunshan, China	6
The variations in individual consumption change and the substitution effect under the shock of COVID‐19: Evidence from payment system data in China	6