OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Regional Studies is 29. 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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship	115
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions	114
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks	76
‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology	70
Does lockdown work? A spatial analysis of the spread and concentration of Covid-19 in Italy	69
Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants	66
Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution	65
Mapping the potentials of regions in Europe to contribute to new knowledge production in Industry 4.0 technologies	60
The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe	55
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness	51
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	46
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?	41
The foundational economy and regional development	41
Regions in Covid-19 recovery	41
Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity	41
The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach	39
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development throughchengtouin China	38
Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications	37
The geography of Industry 4.0 technologies across European regions	37
‘Buzz-and-pipeline’ dynamics in Chinese science: the impact of interurban collaboration linkages on cities’ innovation capacity	35
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory: advancing agency-based approaches	35
Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification	34
Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.0	33
Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind	32
Varieties of periphery and local agency in regional development	31

Smart cities and urban inequality	31
Smart cities and sustainable development	30
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city	30
Spatial structure and productivity in European regions	29
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation	29