OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Regional Studies is 32. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010	241
Regional innovation impact of universities	157
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises	126
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach	99
Regional economic impacts of the Øresund cross-border fixed link: Cui Bono?	64
EU Cohesion Policy: A multidisciplinary approach	59
Making the Ontario craft beer market	55
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development	54
Transcending borders: conceptualising and empirically grasping individual readiness in cross-border collaboration in the Dutch–German borderland	53
The geography of artificial intelligence in European regions: innovation, exposure and use	53
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?	52
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions	52
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	51
Studying human agency in regional development	51
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?	50
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India	50
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market	48
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia	48
Agglomeration economies and urban mobility in developing countries	47
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations	47
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions	46
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events	45
An economic topology of the Brexit vote	42
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	38

Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions	36
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters	36
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China	35
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?	34
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?	33
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach	33
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model	33