OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Regional Studies is 30. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Studying human agency in regional development	134
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China	89
Making the Ontario craft beer market	80
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises	60
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions	56
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India	53
Regional innovation impact of universities	53
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?	52
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010	49
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions	48
EU Cohesion Policy: A multidisciplinary approach	46
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?	46
Transcending borders: conceptualising and empirically grasping individual readiness in cross-border collaboration in the Dutch–German borderland	45
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development	45
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach	42
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	41
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters	40
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model	39
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development	38
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach	37
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China	36
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?	36
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market	36
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia	34
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge	33

The Covid-19 shock in European regions	33
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry	33
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?	33
Work, places and industries in the post-COVID-19 economy	33
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France	31