OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Growth and Change 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The economic effects of passenger transport infrastructure investments in lagging regions. Would the increase in commuting be beneficial for regional development?	50
The geography of the fintech industry in China: An analysis of China’s city‐level patenting	46
How Do Cognitive Proximity and Knowledge Space Position Affect Firms' Innovation? Evidence From Micro and Small Manufacturing Firms in South Africa	42
Fields of change? Actors, institutions and social fields in the green restructuring of the Flåm tourism industry	40
The impacts of highways on firm size distribution: Evidence from China	39
Understanding the contemporary history of urban economic change: The case of entrepreneurial innovation	29
Spatial agglomeration of information services industry and its evolution: Evidence from the Pearl River Delta, China	28
Recognizing the nexus between grid infrastructure, renewable energy, net interregional transmission and carbon emissions: Evidence from China	26
Analysis of the influence of land finance on haze pollution: An empirical study based on 269 prefecture‐level cities in China	24
Toward a more comprehensive shift‐share analysis: An illustration using regional data	24
Cultural diversity and regional innovation: Evidence from China	24
The impact of regional integration on PM_2.5 concentrations—Quasi‐natural experimental evidence from city economic coordination committee	22
Issue Information	20
Migration choices for farming households in rural areas: Why new countryside locations are important for the inhabitants of traditional agricultural areas in central China	19
The evolution of regional spatial structure influenced by passenger rail service: A case study of the Yangtze River Delta	18
The corona blues according to daily life changes by COVID‐19: A partial least squares regression model	17
Rent burden determinants in hot and cold housing markets of Davidson and Shelby counties, Tennessee	16
Location choice and spatial distribution of the electronic information manufacturing industry in China	15
Understanding the traditional mares’ milk industry’s transformation into a creative industry: Empirical evidence from Kazakhstan	15
Identifying resilient industries in Mexico's automotive cluster: Policy lessons from the great recession to surmount the crisis caused by COVID 19	14
How do China's villages self‐organize collective land use under the background of rural revitalization? A multi‐case study in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guizhou provinces	14
Empirical regional economics: Economic base theory, models and applications. By Richard S.Conway Jr. Springer Texts in Business and Economics, Springer. 2022. 275 pp. ISBN 978‐3‐030‐76645‐0	14
High‐speed rail and city tourism: Evidence from Tencent migration big data on two Chinese golden weeks	13
The impact of transportation development on land price differences between cities: Widening or narrowing?—A case study based on the provincial level of Mainland China	13
The longer‐term labor market impacts of paid parental leave	13

The Economic Network Resilience of the Guanzhong Plain City Cluster, China: A network analysis from the evolutionary perspective	12
What drives people to repost social media messages during the COVID‐19 pandemic? Evidence from the Weibo news microblog	12
On the impact of knowledge and institutional spillovers on RIS efficiency. Evidence from Italian regional level	12
On the synchronization of the business cycles of Mexican states and its relationship to their economic complexity, 2000–2014	12
Triple helix relationship research on China's regional university–industry–government collaborative innovation: Based on provincial patent data	12
How does machine learning compare to conventional econometrics for transport data sets? A test of ML versus MLE	12
Impact of performance contest on local transformation and development in China: Empirical study of the National Civilized City program	11
The variations in individual consumption change and the substitution effect under the shock of COVID‐19: Evidence from payment system data in China	11
The innovation effect of low‐carbon technology transfer from the perspective of carbon emission reduction demand: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China	11
Revisiting a place‐based policy: Transformations in Northeast Brazil	11
Construction land reduction, rural financial development, and industrial structure optimization	11
Can the urban spatial structure accelerate urban employment growth? Evidence from China	11
Issue Information	10
What matters for lagging regions? The role of self‐employment and industrial diversity in distressed areas	10
Language differences, cultural identity, and innovation	10
Correction to “The Changing Geography of Innovation: Comparing Urban, Suburban and Rural Areas” Published in the Journal Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy	10
Official Turnover and Embodied Carbon Emissions: Evidence From Industrial Linkages in China's Prefecture‐Level Cities	10
Spatiotemporal evolution and spatial relevance of urban resilience: Evidence from cities of China	10
Between Prosperity and Preservation: An Empirical Analysis of the Interaction Between Economic Development and Environmental Awareness	10
Forms of Innovation and the Core‐Periphery Divide: (Non‐) Technological Innovation and Geo‐Remoteness in Israel	9
Using big data to study small places: Small‐town voting patterns in the 2020 U.S. presidential election	9
Industry 4.0 and the Importance of an Ecosystem‐Based Approach: An Empirical Investigation Based on a Mixed‐Method Analysis	9
The complex association between migrants’ residential community choice and subjective well‐being: Evidence from urban China	9
Rethinking Gender Norms: A Review of Richard Reeve’s Book, Of Boys and Men. By RichardReeves, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2022. $28.99 (hardcover), $19.95 (paperback), $16.95 (audio	9
Provincial income convergence clubs in Indonesia: Identification and conditioning factors	8
Reducing urban sprawl by optimizing housing production	8
All lives matter. An analysis of internationals' living conditions in Seoul, Korea, using an extended image–satisfaction–loyalty mechanism	8
Quantifying the impacts of suburbanization without growth on central city housing vacancy	8
Issue Information	7
Recent intra‐metropolitan patterns of spatial mismatch: Implications for black suburbanization and the changing geography of mismatch	7
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Pushed out: Contested development and rural gentrification in the US West. By RyannePilgeram, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. 2021. pp. 210. $30 (paperback); $105 (Hardcover). ISBN: 97802	7
Analysis of spatiotemporal variations and effects of regional functions in rural China	7
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Issue Information	7
Spatiotemporal evolution of production cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries: An analysis based on the input–output technique	7
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The characteristics of urban governance in China: Evidence from best practices in the Yangtze River Delta Region	7
Internet development and the spatial optimization of regional productivity: Evidence from China	7
The Changing Geography of Innovation: Comparing Urban, Suburban and Rural Areas	6
Foreign Aid, Infrastructure, and the Inclusive Growth Agenda in Sub‐Saharan Africa	6
Innovation success in an emerging economy: A comparison of R&D‐oriented companies in Turkey	6
The evolution patterns of tourism integration driven by regional tourism‐economic linkages—Taking Poyang Lake region, China, as an example	6
Revitalizing Cities: The 5R Framework Approach to Urban Retrofitting and Big Data Insights	6
Correction to “Trajectory and Cluster Resilience Elements: The Case of the Brazilian Wine Cluster of the Serra Gaúcha”	6
How Have American Migration Patterns Changed in the COVID Era?	6
Agglomeration externalities and the non‐linear performance of environmental regulation: Evidence from China	6
Issue Information	6
The economic hierarchy, linkage, and directions between the three northeastern provinces of China and Russian Far East	6

The higher‐ranking local officials and local economic growth: Evidence from China	5
Innovation and wage inequalities: Evidence from Brazilian regions	5
Exurban growth inside the urban growth boundary? An examination of development in Oregon cities	5
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One coast, two systems: Regional innovation systems and entrepreneurial discovery in Western Norway	5
High‐speed railway and urban productivity disparities	5
A comparative assessment of migrant and indigenous entrepreneurs on regional development: A case of Odisha, India	5
Regional diversification in Brazil: The role of relatedness and complexity	5
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	5
Are foreign companies a blessing or a curse for local development in Brazil? It depends on the home country and host region's institutions	5
Estimating the economic effects of US state and local fiscal policy: A synthetic control method matching‐regression approach	5
Fertility divergence across large and small areas	5
Balancing cropland gain and desert vegetation loss: The key to rural revitalization in Xinjiang, China	5