OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Regional Studies is 28. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship	110
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions	107
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks	76
Does lockdown work? A spatial analysis of the spread and concentration of Covid-19 in Italy	69
Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution	62
Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants	61
Mapping the potentials of regions in Europe to contribute to new knowledge production in Industry 4.0 technologies	60
‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology	57
Digital economy in the UK: regional productivity effects of early adoption	52
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness	51
The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe	45
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?	41
Contextualizing agency in new path development: how system selectivity shapes regional reconfiguration capacity	41
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	40
The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach	39
Regions in Covid-19 recovery	38
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development throughchengtouin China	38
The geography of Industry 4.0 technologies across European regions	37
Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications	37
The foundational economy and regional development	36
‘Buzz-and-pipeline’ dynamics in Chinese science: the impact of interurban collaboration linkages on cities’ innovation capacity	35
Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.0	33
Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification	33
Legitimation, institutions and regional path creation: a cross-national study of offshore wind	32
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory: advancing agency-based approaches	32

(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city	30
Smart cities and sustainable development	30
Spatial structure and productivity in European regions	29
Varieties of periphery and local agency in regional development	28
Legitimation dynamics in industrial path development: new-to-the-world versus new-to-the-region industries	28