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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010	106
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions	73
Regional innovation impact of universities	72
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?	61
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development	52
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers	51
Making the Ontario craft beer market	48
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach	47
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India	47
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?	46
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises	46
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	41
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions	41
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China	41
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia	39
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach	39
Studying human agency in regional development	39
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan	38
Uneven innovation: The work of smart cities	38
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions	36
The Covid-19 shock in European regions	34
Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?	34
How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis	33
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events	32
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions	32

Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China	31
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry	31
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market	31
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies	29
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge	29