Regional Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Regional Studies is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010106
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions73
Regional innovation impact of universities72
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?61
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development52
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers51
Making the Ontario craft beer market48
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India47
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach47
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises46
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?46
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions41
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China41
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?41
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach39
Studying human agency in regional development39
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia39
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan38
Uneven innovation: The work of smart cities38
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions36
The Covid-19 shock in European regions34
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 crisis33
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events32
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions32
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry31
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market31
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China31
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies29
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge29
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions28
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions28
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups28
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters27
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France27
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model27
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development27
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?26
Dualism and payroll shares across US states26
An economic topology of the Brexit vote25
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK25
Diversity in brokerage cities: the evolution of urban positionality in China’s financial system25
Correction24
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation24
Trade liberalization and firms’ productivity in Vietnam: the role of local business environment24
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension24
Correction24
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?24
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations24
Ageing places: convergence and the role of the foreign population23
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues23
Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country23
Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions22
Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England22
Regions beyond Industry 4.022
Do firms in rural regions lack access to credit? Local variation in small business loans and firm growth21
Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms21
Multi-source strategic interaction in China’s public services: a spatial econometric analysis21
The contribution of interregional and inter-field knowledge spillovers to regional Smart Specialisation20
Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography20
The triumph of the placeless20
Ethnic minorities, income inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from English local councils20
Learning from the past: a machine-learning approach for predicting the resilience of locked-in regions after a natural shock20
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job20
Regional Studies 2021 Awards19
How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times19
The infrastructured state: Territoriality and the national infrastructure system19
The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations18
Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco18
Defining ‘centres’ in analyses of polycentric urban regions: the case of the Yangtze River Delta18
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies18
The diffusion of COVID-19 across Italian provinces: a spatial dynamic panel data approach with common factors18
Immigration and regional housing markets: prices, rents, price-to-rent ratios and disequilibrium18
Creating planning visions for fragmented post-socialist city-regions18
The urban experience: An interdisciplinary policy perspective,18
Interconnected worlds: Global electronics and production networks in East Asia18
Long-term persistence in entrepreneurship: the case of post-socialist Czechia (1930–2011)18
The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system17
Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case of cruise tourism in Nuuk, Greenland17
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective16
Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible16
Regions in Covid-19 recovery16
Population decline and changes in food store access16
The impact of metropolitan technology on the non-metropolitan labour market: evidence from US patents16
A trade hierarchy of cities based on transport cost thresholds16
Geography of knowledge collaboration and innovation in Schumpeterian firms16
Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?16
The spatial impact of entrepreneurial zones: firm, city and inter-city evidence16
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation16
Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition16
Regional house price convergence: implications of monetary policy15
Economic growth and Cohesion Policy implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, strategic choices, administrative change15
Epidemic–economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies15
Regional Studies 2022 Awards15
Mimetic isomorphism, offshore outsourcing and backshoring decisions among micro and small enterprises15
The Routledge handbook of regional design15
On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany15
Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture14
Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy14
Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies14
Mysteries of the trade? Skill-specific local agglomeration economies14
Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy14
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law14
Coworking spaces and regional development: a role for policy14
Oxford and Grenoble: multiple anchors, strong dyadic relationships and national policy in fostering cluster architectures14
Redistribution and risk-sharing effects of intergovernmental transfers: an empirical analysis based on Italian municipal data14
Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone14
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal14
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities13
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective13
Industry 4.0 in industrial districts: regional innovation policy for the Toy Valley district in Spain13
A capability-approach perspective on regional development13
Transportation gateways and trade: how accessibility to the border shapes the spatial concentration of commerce13
No county is an island: the rise of interjurisdictional cooperation among counties in China13
Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy13
Global linkages and local institutions: the role of imports and MNEs in the regional diversification into complex products in China13
Medical institutions in the geography of innovation: evidence from public tertiary hospitals and biotech start-ups in Chinese cities13
Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations12
Place leadership in emerging industries: navigating the controversy and complexities of blockchain technology12
Economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions: evidence from Wuhan’s lockdown in China12
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation12
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia12
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions12
Contents of volume 5611
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France11
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU1511
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective11
The equity–efficiency trade-off and the intensity of COVID-19 pandemic government responses: evidence from US states11
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers11
Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: explaining regional employment divergence11
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement11
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK11
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city11
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence11
Correction11
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?10
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region10
Equity analysis of public service delivery among regions from temporal and spatial perspectives10
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia10
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster10
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China10
Regional Studies10
Determinants of regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth path performance: insights from Canada10
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments10
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme10
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis10
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade10
Transforming inter-organisational collaboration dynamics in regional networks through digitalisation10
Contents of volume 5710
Governing regional affordability: rethinking the production of affordable spaces across the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (MRA)9
Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India9
Beer, brewing, and regional studies9
Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation9
Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization9
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late9
Protected areas and local economic development9
Historical roots of innovative entrepreneurial culture: the case of Italian regions9
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity9
Income segregation in France: a geographical decomposition across and within urban areas9
Municipal tax restrictions and economic efficiency: an analysis of Australian local councils9
Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe9
The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies9
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics9
Regional Studies9
Wage inequality, entrepreneurship and creative people in regional labour markets9
Student regional origins and student entrepreneurship9
Machine learning and the identification of Smart Specialisation thematic networks in Arctic Scandinavia9
Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas 9
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems8
Urban competitiveness in developing economies8
New path creation in the artificial intelligence industry: regional preconditions, new actors and their collective actions, and policies8
Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives8
Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces8
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies8
Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles8
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy8
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda8
Brewing at the time of COVID: the impact of the pandemic crisis on UK craft breweries and its implications for the sector and local economies8
Evolving regional economies: Resources, specialization, globalization8
The foundational economy and regional development8
What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions8
Rethinking asset modification in regional industrial path development: toward a conceptual framework8
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market8
Volume index, 20218
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain8
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem8
Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent8
Understanding the interconnectedness of house prices between cities and regions during COVID-19: evidence from Australia8
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts8
Resilience and vulnerability of regional labour markets: principal component analysis of labour market efficiency in the EU8
Sustainable futures. An agenda for action8
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies8
Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation?7
Can urban agglomeration policy improve the innovation efficiency of cities in China?7
Smart cities and sustainable development7
Productivity slowdown across European regions: does non-standard work matter?7
Strategic intelligence for the future of places: enabling inclusive economic growth through the Opportunity Areas Analysis Tool7
Correction7
India from Latin America: Peripherisation, statebuilding, and demand-led growth7
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China7
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions7
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context7
Does geographical decentralisation harm the total factor productivity of firms in China?7
Natural disasters and regional industrial production efficiency: evidence from pre-war Japan7
The long and winding road to find the impact of EU funds on regional growth: IV and spatial analyses7
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning7
What draws investment to special economic zones? Lessons from developing countries7
Trading borders: the importance of interregional integration and economy size for the impact of secession7
Universal Basic Income as an instrument of regional development policy: a micro–macroeconomic analysis for Scotland7
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies6
Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts6
Correction6
Regional informal institutions, local governance and internal migration in Vietnam6
Re-imagining the future: city-region foresight and visioning in an era of fragmented governance6
Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China6
Public expenditure in India: Policies and development outcomes6
Highways and local development: insights from two decades of investments6
On the employment and health impact of the COVID-19 shock on Italian regions: a value chain approach6
Regulation theory, space, and uneven development: Conversations and challenges Regulation theory, space, and uneven development: Conversations and challenges , edited by6
Setting local economic growth targets: does it mitigate nationwide policy uncertainty?6
The impact of mayors’ gender dissimilarity on budgetary stability in the EU: the case of Spanish municipalities6
Rent as a regional asset: rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand6
New region, new chances: does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?6
The horizontal and vertical coordination of policy mixes for industrial upgrading in China: an ambidexterity perspective6
Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile6
Split realities – dilemmas for rural/gastro tourism in territorial development6
Diversity in brokerage: how do gateway cities interlink their hinterlands?6
Place-based sustainable urban mobility: a conceptual framework to spark local designs6
Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies6
Is the creative class a shock absorber against an economic recession? Spatial labour market resilience in Romania6
A regional perspective on the privatisation of Chinese state-owned firms6
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-196
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions6
Zoning and urban restructuring: long-term change in the location of manufacturing in industrialised city-regions5
The spatial footprint of COVID-19 and local policy answers5
Depoliticizing urban futures: visionary planning and the politics of city-regional growth5
Motorways, local economic activity and commuting5
Enhancing the inventive capacity of European regions through interregional collaboration5
City-level institutions and perceived entrepreneurial ecosystem’s growth orientation5
Examining the roles of universities in place-based industrial strategy: which characteristics drive knowledge creation in priority technologies?5
The prevalence of a bonding strategy in COVID-19 response networks: explaining intermunicipal partnering in the Santiago metropolitan region, Chile5
Industry diversification in industrial districts: is it about embedded regional or firm-level capabilities?5
Constrained opportunities for path development: how misaligned agencies and structures shape Southern regional value chains5
Community capitals and economic resilience: insights from the Great Lakes Region post-Great Recession5
Inclusive innovation in cities: from buzzword to policy5
Local institutions, union wage effects and native–foreign wage gaps5
Outsourcing and public expenditure: an aggregate perspective with regional data5
The regional geography of social mobility in Mexico5
Right and yet wrong: a politico-economic perspective on Germany’s early COVID-19 policy5
Location of Hungarian microbreweries: an exploratory analysis5
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