OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Growth and Change is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Improving Locally While Competing Globally: Network Effects on Innovation Performance in Cities	22
Territorial Servitization and Manufacturing Productivity Growth in Mexico: A Spatial Panel Data Approach	22
Official Turnover and Embodied Carbon Emissions: Evidence From Industrial Linkages in China's Prefecture‐Level Cities	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
Creative Economy and Slum Incidence in Developing Countries: Effect and Channels	14
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The corona blues according to daily life changes by COVID‐19: A partial least squares regression model	13
Toward a more comprehensive shift‐share analysis: An illustration using regional data	13
Distance‐Based Agglomeration Externalities and the Survival of Logistics Firms: Evidence From a Publicly Developed Logistics Park	12
Regional Economic Resilience: The Cases of Brazil, Chile and Colombia	12
The higher‐ranking local officials and local economic growth: Evidence from China	12
Urban Concentration and Economic Growth: The Role of Second‐Tier Cities	12
Institutional varieties, governance quality, and firm‐level innovation in emerging economies: Case of India	11
Family business and regional development. By RodrigoBasco, RogerStough, and LechSuwala (Eds.), London: UK: Routledge. 2021. 300 pages. Available open access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058097	11
Does diversified environmental regulation effect the foreign direct investment inflows and technological innovation? A three‐stage least square approach	11
Innovation Ecosystems in Catalonia: Exploring Location Patterns of High‐Tech Firms	10
Spiky Metropolitan Landscapes: An Urbanometric Analysis of Growing Agglomerations	10
The Role of Urban Public Service Inclusivity in Promoting Migrant Entrepreneurship: Evidence From Chinese Cities	9
Are College Towns Really Recession Proof?	9
Intangible Capital as a Driver of Labor Productivity in Regions and Industries: Evidence of the Spanish Case	9
Regional Specializations in Green Incumbents and Green Start‐ups in the German Transport Sector	9
The Role of Career Stages and Skills in the Internal Migration Patterns of Shrinking Regions in Korea: A Spatial Shift‐Share Analysis	8
High‐Speed Railway, Knowledge Complexity and Regional Inequalities	8
Analysing governance‐led infrastructural development nexus in sub‐Saharan Africa: Does the moderating role of institutional quality matter?	8
The Administrative Mechanism Behind Sustainable Waste Disposal Practices: Evidence From State‐Level Specific Authorities in Nigeria	8

Playing by the Rules: Is Business Formality Driving Economic Growth? Evidence From Colombia's Capital Cities	8
Survival of new and small retail businesses facing mega‐retailers in non‐metropolitan areas—The case of Walmart in the province of Quebec	8
Do female labor‐migrated households have lower productivity? Empirical evidence from rural rice farms in Bangladesh	7
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Does Transportation Infrastructure Alleviate Urbanization Imbalance: The Perspective of Urban Spatial Structure	6
Is There a Solow Productivity Paradox in China’s Manufacturing Industry: Threshold Effect of Factor Expansion Constraint	6
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How does industrial agglomeration affect regional innovation? A spatial econometric analysis	6
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Legal land transfer rights, labor migration and urban–rural income disparity: Evidence from the implementation of China's Rural Land Contracting Law in 2003	6
Did the U.S. Fracking Boom Shale‐Shock Regional Patenting?	5
Assessing the effects of the large‐scale road construction on the ethnic disparities of accessibility in Tibet from 2010 to 2020	5
Unlocking Regional Economic Resilience With Technological Network Robustness: Evidence From China	5
Growth of Green Total Factor Productivity in China: “Structural Dividend” or “Reform Dividend”?	5
Developing a typology of daily travelers based on transportation attitudes: Application of latent class analysis using a survey of millennials and older adults in Hamilton, Ontario	5
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	5
Socio‐Economic Development Performance and Convergence Among Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies in Ghana	5
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Does Resource Industry Dependence Undermine Urban Resilience? Evidence From China	5
Disentangling Regional Diversification: Identifying Theoretical and Empirical Challenges Through Complex Networks	5
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Human Capital and Regional Resilience: Nevada Computable General Equilibrium Approach	4
Estimating the economic effects of US state and local fiscal policy: A synthetic control method matching‐regression approach	4
Green Borrowed Size: A Crucial Mechanism to Promote Green Innovation in Peripheral Cities	4
The Duet of Ice and Snow: How the Ice‐Snow Economy Is Reshaping China's Urban Network?	4
Exploring the Role of Digital Economy in Reducing Natural Resource Dependence: An Empirical Study From Resource‐Based Cities in China	4
Agglomeration, resource reallocation and domestic value‐added ratio in exports	4
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What Causes Housing Price Decline? A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis Based on 267 Prefecture‐Level Cities in China	4
The Places We'll Go: Who Moves to Rural Canada?	4
Digital Technology Adoption and Subjective Well‐Being in China: Evidence of Heterogeneous Effects Across Urban and Rural Contexts	3
How do university‐industry collaborations benefit innovation? Direct and indirect outcomes of different collaboration types	3
Do high housing prices inhibit entrepreneurial activity?—Evidence from Yangtze River Delta cities, China	3
Addressing Food Security in Sub‐Saharan African Region: The Role of Financial Sector Development and Informality	3
A Social Approach to Environmental Sustainability: The Nexus Well‐Being , Tourism, Digitalization and Renewable Energy in Scandinavian Countries	3
Understanding the Catch‐Up Innovation in China: A Perspective of Local Government Competition	3
How Have American Migration Patterns Changed in the COVID Era?	3
Driving Factors of Urban Growth: A Systematic Review*	3
Impact of Cohesion Funds on Convergence Club's Economic Growth	3
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All lives matter. An analysis of internationals' living conditions in Seoul, Korea, using an extended image–satisfaction–loyalty mechanism	3
Regional development policy in Galilee periphery in Israel	3
Serving Innovation: Exploring Patent Agency Service Networks in China	3
Migration Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A New York City Case Study of Legacy Routes, Migration Histories and Class Difference	3
Non‐Linear Effects of Industrial Relocation on Regional Development: Green Growth or Pollution Leakage?	3
Do governmental policy interventions help urban economic recovery? Experimental evidence from China's provinces governance amid the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
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