OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Regional Studies is 31. 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
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010	208
Regional innovation impact of universities	136
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	109
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions	86
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises	61
Transcending borders: conceptualising and empirically grasping individual readiness in cross-border collaboration in the Dutch–German borderland	59
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development	59
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach	59
Regional economic impacts of the Øresund cross-border fixed link: Cui Bono?	55
EU Cohesion Policy: A multidisciplinary approach	52
Making the Ontario craft beer market	50
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?	49
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?	49
Studying human agency in regional development	45
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market	44
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India	44
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia	42
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model	40
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation	40
Work, places and industries in the post-COVID-19 economy	40
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations	39
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK	39
An economic topology of the Brexit vote	39
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups	38
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies	37

Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions	37
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions	36
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters	35
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?	34
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China	34
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach	31
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events	31
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge	31