OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Growth and Change is 8. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Can industrial agglomeration improve regional green total factor productivity in China? An empirical analysis based on spatial econometrics	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	38
Can the digital economy promote FinTech development?	38
Spatiotemporal evolution and spatial relevance of urban resilience: Evidence from cities of China	38
Universities as orchestrators of the development of regional innovation ecosystems in emerging economies	37
Unveiling various spatial patterns of determinants of hukou transfer intentions in China: A multi‐scale geographically weighted regression approach	36
Effects and mechanisms of rural E‐commerce clusters on households' entrepreneurship behavior in China	34
The relationship between China's income inequality and transport infrastructure, economic growth, and carbon emissions	29
City economic development, housing availability, and migrants' settlement intentions: Evidence from China	28
The entrepreneurial ecosystem of cultural and creative industries in Porto: A sub‐ecosystem approach	26
Regional industrial restructuring: Asset modification and alignment for digitalization	25
Impact of globalization and governance determinants on economic growth: An empirical analysis of Asian economies	25
Factors influencing farmers’ willingness and behavior choices to withdraw from rural homesteads in China	24
Social media business networks and SME performance: A rural–urban comparative analysis	24
Does household laborer migration promote farmland abandonment in China?	23
Endogenous inclusive development of e‐commerce in rural China: A case study	23
The impact of land finance on urban land use efficiency: A panel threshold model for Chinese provinces	21
The impacts of fiscal decentralization on environmental innovation in China	21
Analyzing the distribution of researchers in China: An approach using multiscale geographically weighted regression	21
Spatial evaluation of knowledge spillover benefits in China’s free trade zone provinces and cities	20
Does industrial agglomeration promote high‐quality development of the Yellow River Basin in China? Empirical test from the moderating effect of environmental regulation	19
Does central environmental protection inspection enhance firms’ environmental disclosure? Evidence from China	19
Happy neighborhoods: Investigating neighborhood conditions and sentiments of a shrinking city with Twitter data	19
The impact of industrial structure upgrades on the urban–rural income gap: An empirical study based on China's provincial panel data	19

Net primary productivity‐based factors of China's carbon intensity: A regional perspective	19
The nexus between urbanization and rural development in China: Evidence from panel data analysis	18
Total factor productivity of urban land use in China	18
Gateways or backdoors to development? Filtering mechanisms and territorial embeddedness in the Chilean copper GPN’s urban system	18
The space‐time evolution and driving forces of county economic growth in China from 1998 to 2015	18
Analysis of green total factor productivity trend and its determinants for the countries along silk roads	18
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
Environmental regulation and the supply efficiency of environmental public services: Evidence from environmental decentralization of 289 cities in China	17
Is environmental regulation a blessing or a curse for China's urban land use efficiency? Evidence from a threshold effect model	17
Impact of Chinese market segmentation on regional collaborative governance of environmental pollution: A new approach to complex system theory	17
Advancing the treatment of human agency in the analysis of regional economic development: Illustrated with three Norwegian cases	17
The Economic Network Resilience of the Guanzhong Plain City Cluster, China: A network analysis from the evolutionary perspective	17
Location choice of industrial land reduction in Metropolitan Area: Evidence from Shanghai in China	15
Is air pollution detrimental to regional innovation? Evidence from Chinese cities	15
Internationalization of SMEs in the Baltic Sea Region: Barriers of cross‐national collaboration considering regional innovation strategies for smart specialization	14
Can government venture capital guidance funds promote urban innovation? Evidence from China	14
Urban ecosystem health assessment and obstacle factor diagnosis using a comprehensive assessment model for Nanjing, China	13
Triple helix relationship research on China's regional university–industry–government collaborative innovation: Based on provincial patent data	13
(Re)thinking smart in rural contexts: A multi‐country study	13
Coupling and coordination analysis of China's regional urban‐rural integration and land‐use efficiency	13
High‐speed railway and urban productivity disparities	13
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
Rural land reforms and villagers' preferences for urban settlement: A case study of Shandong Province, China	12
Is China’s urban–rural difference in population aging rational? An international comparison with key indicators	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
Understanding the spatial polarization pattern of technology transfer network in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay area	12
Beyond the bid‐rent: Two tales of land use transition in contemporary China	12
Individual social capital and migration	12
The effects of three types of China's official turnover on air quality: A regression discontinuity study	11
High‐speed rail and city tourism: Evidence from Tencent migration big data on two Chinese golden weeks	11
University‐industry‐government triple helix relationship and regional innovation efficiency in China	11
One coast, two systems: Regional innovation systems and entrepreneurial discovery in Western Norway	11
Construction land reduction, rural financial development, and industrial structure optimization	11
Road construction, economic growth, and poverty alleviation in China	11
R&D internationalization and innovation performance of Chinese enterprises: The mediating role of returnees and foreign professionals	11
Impact of performance contest on local transformation and development in China: Empirical study of the National Civilized City program	11
Not all peripheries are the same: The importance of relative regional innovativeness in transnational innovation networks	11
Tempo‐spatial variability of urban leisure functional zones: An analysis based on geo‐big data	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
The value of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ecosystem: Evidence from 265 cities in China	10
Rural spatial transformation and governance from the perspective of land development rights: A case study of Fenghe village in Guangzhou	10
Exploring the recent upsurge in productivity disparities among European regions	10
Trends and types of rural residential land use change in China: A process analysis perspective	10
Designing regional innovation systems in transitional economies: A creative ecosystem approach	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
Dynamic interaction between outward foreign direct investment and home country industrial upgrading: Regional differences in China	9

Assessment of environmental governance in disaster vulnerability context of rural Bangladesh	9
World cities and peripheral development: The interplay of gateways and subordinate places in Argentina and Ghana’s upstream oil and gas sector	9
Impact of institutional governance and state determinants on foreign direct investment in Asian economies	9
The effect of resource abundance on Chinese urban green economic growth: A regional heterogeneity perspective	9
Concentrated versus diffused growth assets: agglomeration economies and regional cohesion	9
Active transportation indicators and establishing baseline in a developing country context: A study of Rajshahi, Bangladesh	9
Innovation success in an emerging economy: A comparison of R&D‐oriented companies in Turkey	9
Rural e‐commerce in China: Spatial dynamics of Taobao Villages development in Zhejiang Province	8
Entrepreneurial ecosystems as a bridging concept? A conceptual contribution to the debate on entrepreneurship and regional development	8
Do rural migrants benefit from labor market agglomeration economies? Evidence from Chinese cities	8
Language differences, cultural identity, and innovation	8
Applying the ecosystem model in a new context? The case of business incubation in Oman	8