Regional Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Regional Studies is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010241
Regional innovation impact of universities157
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises126
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach99
Regional economic impacts of the Øresund cross-border fixed link: Cui Bono?64
EU Cohesion Policy: A multidisciplinary approach59
Making the Ontario craft beer market55
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development54
Transcending borders: conceptualising and empirically grasping individual readiness in cross-border collaboration in the Dutch–German borderland53
The geography of artificial intelligence in European regions: innovation, exposure and use53
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 regions52
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?51
Studying human agency in regional development51
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 India50
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia48
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market48
Agglomeration economies and urban mobility in developing countries47
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations47
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions46
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events45
An economic topology of the Brexit vote42
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies38
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups38
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters36
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions36
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China35
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 approach33
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model33
Supporting transformation in Smart Specialisation Strategies: the role of formative evaluation30
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension30
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions30
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions29
Work, places and industries in the post-COVID-19 economy28
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK28
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan27
Environmental sustainability in polycentric urban regions: an urban resilience perspective26
Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country26
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge26
Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England26
Trade liberalization and firms’ productivity in Vietnam: the role of local business environment25
Ethnic minorities, income inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from English local councils24
Ageing places: convergence and the role of the foreign population24
Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions24
The triumph of the placeless24
Sustainable regional value capture by social businesses: a dynamic capability perspective23
Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography23
A map of discontent: economic distress or public service deprivation?23
Interconnected worlds: Global electronics and production networks in East Asia22
The diffusion of COVID-19 across Italian provinces: a spatial dynamic panel data approach with common factors22
Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco22
Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible22
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit: pandemics, cognitive path dependence and regional economic resilience in China22
The urban experience: An interdisciplinary policy perspective,22
Population decline and changes in food store access22
The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations21
Long-term persistence in entrepreneurship: the case of post-socialist Czechia (1930–2011)21
The Routledge handbook on livelihoods in the Global South21
A research agenda for economic geography: Reframing 21st century capitalism21
Universities as strategic navigators: place leadership in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area21
Geography of knowledge collaboration and innovation in Schumpeterian firms21
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation21
Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case of cruise tourism in Nuuk, Greenland20
Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition20
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective20
The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system20
How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times20
Regional house price convergence: implications of monetary policy19
Epidemic–economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies19
Economic growth and Cohesion Policy implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, strategic choices, administrative change19
Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture19
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law19
Redistribution and risk-sharing effects of intergovernmental transfers: an empirical analysis based on Italian municipal data18
Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy18
Administrative capacity and speed of public spending18
Techno-nationalism: How it’s reshaping trade, geopolitics and society18
On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany18
Prioritising public health in mission-oriented industrial strategy18
Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies18
A capability-approach perspective on regional development17
Coworking spaces and regional development: a role for policy17
Does inter-municipal cooperation affect spending vs output? Evidence from Italy16
Global linkages and local institutions: the role of imports and MNEs in the regional diversification into complex products in China16
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities16
Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations16
No county is an island: the rise of interjurisdictional cooperation among counties in China16
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective16
Place leadership in emerging industries: navigating the controversy and complexities of blockchain technology16
Transportation gateways and trade: how accessibility to the border shapes the spatial concentration of commerce16
Contents of volume 5615
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions15
Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy15
(Other) temporary populations and the rise of platform-mediated medium-term rentals15
The equity–efficiency trade-off and the intensity of COVID-19 pandemic government responses: evidence from US states15
Brexit’s ripple effect: transformations in European interregional trade15
The case for place-based policy: economic divergence, governance integrity and climate change mitigation15
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement15
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers15
Medical institutions in the geography of innovation: evidence from public tertiary hospitals and biotech start-ups in Chinese cities15
Hyper-commodified housing products and the triple crisis: regulating the symptom or rethinking housing provision?15
Missions as relational scales of agency: urban leverage for transformative change15
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China14
Analysing polycentricity: challenges and a roadmap14
Entrepreneurship at the edge: Arctic entrepreneurs in Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory, Canada14
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK14
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster14
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective14
Regional and individual determinants of creative industry networks: an analysis of Chinese singers14
Predicting the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on household location preferences: the rise of red giant and white dwarf cities14
Housing submarket spillovers and COVID-19: the increasing influence of Australia’s regional cities13
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme13
Contents of volume 5713
Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation13
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU1513
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?13
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region13
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France13
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade13
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia13
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence13
Technology transfer, knowledge spillover and industrial green transformation from the perspective of externalities13
Regional Studies13
Equity analysis of public service delivery among regions from temporal and spatial perspectives13
Lagging regions in the European Union: Structural, productivity and efficiency aspects13
Extra-territorial business and tax effects of constructing public infrastructures on the interregional fiscal balances13
Transforming inter-organisational collaboration dynamics in regional networks through digitalisation12
Environmental regulation promotes green technological diversification: evidence from Chinese cities12
The effect of R&D co-location on innovation activities in Great Britain12
Income segregation in France: a geographical decomposition across and within urban areas12
Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas 12
Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals12
Determinants of regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth path performance: insights from Canada12
The paradox of smart cities: exploring the interaction between youth migration and urban exclusion12
Regional Studies12
Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe12
Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization12
Mapping regional disparities in labour market risk and exposure to automation in Canada12
Beer, brewing, and regional studies12
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity12
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late12
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics12
Regulating short-term rentals in Istanbul: legislative pathways, regulatory design and early effects11
Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces11
Housing versus home sharing: the causal impact of short-term rental regulation on residential rents11
Territorial governance of just transition? – A case study of Just Transition Fund (JTF) process in Finland11
Understanding leadership in city and regional development: towards multiple perspectives of sub-national (place) leadership11
Enhancing objectivity and decision relevance: a better framework for evaluating EU cohesion policies11
Governing regional affordability: rethinking the production of affordable spaces across the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (MRA)11
Understanding the interconnectedness of house prices between cities and regions during COVID-19: evidence from Australia11
Social trust and productivity: evidence from European NUTS-2 regions11
Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions11
Protected areas and local economic development11
Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles11
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems11
Medical reterritorialisation: the spatial interests of healthcare, financialisation and hospitals in a city-region11
Turning challenges into opportunities? Implementing transformative innovation policies in Nordic industrial regions11
By choice or by necessity? Spatial disparities of student mobility in the Italian higher education system11
Can more housing supply improve affordability? A subnational perspective from Portugal10
India from Latin America: Peripherisation, statebuilding, and demand-led growth10
Brewing at the time of COVID: the impact of the pandemic crisis on UK craft breweries and its implications for the sector and local economies10
Higher education institutions and innovative entrepreneurship: a regional analysis10
Trading borders: the importance of interregional integration and economy size for the impact of secession10
Natural disasters and regional industrial production efficiency: evidence from pre-war Japan10
Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives10
What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions10
Does geographical decentralisation harm the total factor productivity of firms in China?10
Can territorial cooperation improve regional development? Evidence from Zhejiang’s Mountain-Sea Cooperation10
Territorial market power as a source of inequalities in the automation era10
The role of FDI-focused business and technology parks in promoting local employment growth10
Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent10
Evolving regional economies: Resources, specialization, globalization10
Forging a sustainable future together: Cohesion Policy at its defining moment10
Correction10
Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation?10
Can urban agglomeration policy improve the innovation efficiency of cities in China?9
Are EU low-carbon Structural Funds efficient in reducing emissions?9
Directionality and subsidiarity: sustainability challenges in regional development policy9
Productivity slowdown across European regions: does non-standard work matter?9
On the employment and health impact of the COVID-19 shock on Italian regions: a value chain approach9
Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile9
Place-based leadership: advancing feminist, intersectional and anti-racist approaches9
Setting local economic growth targets: does it mitigate nationwide policy uncertainty?9
The long and winding road to find the impact of EU funds on regional growth: IV and spatial analyses9
Teaching regions: do we need a regional pedagogy or a pedagogy of regions?9
Smart cities and sustainable development9
Correction9
Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies9
What draws investment to special economic zones? Lessons from developing countries9
Institutional path dependence in European short-term rental regulation9
Regional patterns and drivers of green, digital and twin technological diversification in China9
Sub-ecosystem coupling in Sherbrooke’s entrepreneurial ecosystem: a network perspective9
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions9
Regulation theory, space, and uneven development: Conversations and challenges9
The horizontal and vertical coordination of policy mixes for industrial upgrading in China: an ambidexterity perspective9
Regional informal institutions, local governance and internal migration in Vietnam9
Correction8
Towards a Marshall-based theory of research and technology organisations: the role of regional policy to address the varieties of knowledge8
Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country8
Transformative and cooperative leadership in city-regional development: conceptualising the early stages of place-based leadership8
Digital platforms and regional development8
Rent as a regional asset: rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand8
Orchestrating place-based micro-missions: the grand challenge of decarbonisation at Shoreham Port8
The source of heterogeneous externalities: evidence from foreign multinationals in the UK8
Persistence and change in regional entrepreneurship performance: a three-economy comparison8
Examining the effects of beer excise taxation on cross-border sales in border regions of the Baltic States8
Decentralisation, unfunded mandates and the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic8
Working remotely in the city? Regional embeddedness of online platform workers in Indonesia’s secondary cities8
The role of universities in regional knowledge base renewal8
Urban innovation structures and economic productivity of Chinese cities8
The impact of mayors’ gender dissimilarity on budgetary stability in the EU: the case of Spanish municipalities8
Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China8
A regional perspective on the privatisation of Chinese state-owned firms8
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-198
Place-based sustainable urban mobility: a conceptual framework to spark local designs8
City strategic coupling in practice: regional cooperation under the Greater Bay Area8
Is the creative class a shock absorber against an economic recession? Spatial labour market resilience in Romania8
New region, new chances: does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?7
Old habits die hard: pushing the frontiers of entrepreneurship persistence since 19267
Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces: how to bridge vision and reality7
Innovation for the masses: how to share the benefits of the high-tech economy7
Short term rental regulations in Vienna – enforcement versus deterrence?7
The prevalence of a bonding strategy in COVID-19 response networks: explaining intermunicipal partnering in the Santiago metropolitan region, Chile7
Formation of new start-ups: does business diversity in existing start-ups matter?7
Zoning and urban restructuring: long-term change in the location of manufacturing in industrialised city-regions7
Americana without America: rhetorical geography as a source of competitive advantage7
How administrative degradation affects middle-sized cities: lessons from Poland's 1998 regional reform7
Highways and local development: insights from two decades of investments7
Extreme events, decentralisation and the effective number of parties7
Motorways, local economic activity and commuting7
Return to skills and labour market size7
A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy : lessons for ‘place-based’ policy7
Location of Hungarian microbreweries: an exploratory analysis7
Constrained opportunities for path development: how misaligned agencies and structures shape Southern regional value chains7
Community capitals and economic resilience: insights from the Great Lakes Region post-Great Recession7
The rural enterprise economy7
Industry diversification in industrial districts: is it about embedded regional or firm-level capabilities?7
Public expenditure in India: Policies and development outcomes7
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment7
Exploring the mechanisms of platform empowered cluster development: evidence from the case of Taobao villages in rural China7
Territories, environments, politics: Explorations in territoriology7
Enhancing the inventive capacity of European regions through interregional collaboration7
Same goal, different paths: regional transformative innovation policies and coal phase-out (down) in China7
Role of universities in early graduate entrepreneurship: enablers or constrainers of ‘missing’ entrepreneurs?7
City-level institutions and perceived entrepreneurial ecosystem’s growth orientation7
The spatial footprint of COVID-19 and local policy answers7
Inclusive innovation in cities: from buzzword to policy7
Does terroir size matter? Protected geographical areas and prices of European hams6
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