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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Studying human agency in regional development134
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China89
Making the Ontario craft beer market80
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises60
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions56
Regional innovation impact of universities53
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India53
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?52
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–201049
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions48
EU Cohesion Policy: A multidisciplinary approach46
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?46
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development45
Transcending borders: conceptualising and empirically grasping individual readiness in cross-border collaboration in the Dutch–German borderland45
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach42
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?41
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters40
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model39
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development38
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach37
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?36
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market36
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China36
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia34
The Covid-19 shock in European regions33
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry33
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?33
Work, places and industries in the post-COVID-19 economy33
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge33
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France31
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK29
Diversity in brokerage cities: the evolution of urban positionality in China’s financial system27
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions27
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions27
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension27
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations27
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation26
How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis26
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions25
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups25
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events25
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions25
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies25
An economic topology of the Brexit vote24
Environmental sustainability in polycentric urban regions: an urban resilience perspective24
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan24
Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography23
Correction23
Trade liberalization and firms’ productivity in Vietnam: the role of local business environment23
Regions beyond Industry 4.023
Correction23
Ethnic minorities, income inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from English local councils22
The contribution of interregional and inter-field knowledge spillovers to regional Smart Specialisation22
Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms21
The triumph of the placeless21
Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country21
Multi-source strategic interaction in China’s public services: a spatial econometric analysis20
Ageing places: convergence and the role of the foreign population20
Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England20
Do firms in rural regions lack access to credit? Local variation in small business loans and firm growth20
Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions20
Learning from the past: a machine-learning approach for predicting the resilience of locked-in regions after a natural shock20
Creating planning visions for fragmented post-socialist city-regions19
Regional Studies 2021 Awards19
The diffusion of COVID-19 across Italian provinces: a spatial dynamic panel data approach with common factors19
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job19
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies19
The spatial impact of entrepreneurial zones: firm, city and inter-city evidence18
Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco18
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation18
Long-term persistence in entrepreneurship: the case of post-socialist Czechia (1930–2011)18
The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations18
The infrastructured state: Territoriality and the national infrastructure system17
Population decline and changes in food store access17
How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times17
The urban experience: An interdisciplinary policy perspective,17
Regions in Covid-19 recovery17
A trade hierarchy of cities based on transport cost thresholds17
Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case of cruise tourism in Nuuk, Greenland17
The Routledge handbook on livelihoods in the Global South16
The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system16
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective16
Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition16
Regional Studies 2022 Awards16
Interconnected worlds: Global electronics and production networks in East Asia16
Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible16
Geography of knowledge collaboration and innovation in Schumpeterian firms16
Regional house price convergence: implications of monetary policy15
Oxford and Grenoble: multiple anchors, strong dyadic relationships and national policy in fostering cluster architectures15
Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy15
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law15
Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture15
Epidemic–economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies15
On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany15
A capability-approach perspective on regional development15
Economic growth and Cohesion Policy implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, strategic choices, administrative change14
The Routledge handbook of regional design14
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal14
Redistribution and risk-sharing effects of intergovernmental transfers: an empirical analysis based on Italian municipal data14
Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy14
Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies13
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities13
Brexit’s ripple effect: transformations in European interregional trade13
Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy13
Coworking spaces and regional development: a role for policy13
Medical institutions in the geography of innovation: evidence from public tertiary hospitals and biotech start-ups in Chinese cities12
The case for place-based policy: economic divergence, governance integrity and climate change mitigation12
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective12
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
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions12
Transportation gateways and trade: how accessibility to the border shapes the spatial concentration of commerce12
Global linkages and local institutions: the role of imports and MNEs in the regional diversification into complex products in China12
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation12
(Other) temporary populations and the rise of platform-mediated medium-term rentals12
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster11
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers11
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
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China11
No county is an island: the rise of interjurisdictional cooperation among counties in China11
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK11
Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: explaining regional employment divergence11
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence11
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme11
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France11
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia11
Contents of volume 5611
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region11
Economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions: evidence from Wuhan’s lockdown in China11
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement11
Housing submarket spillovers and COVID-19: the increasing influence of Australia’s regional cities11
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city11
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?10
Contents of volume 5710
The effect of R&D co-location on innovation activities in Great Britain10
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity10
Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals10
Wage inequality, entrepreneurship and creative people in regional labour markets10
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU1510
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments10
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis10
Determinants of regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth path performance: insights from Canada10
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia10
Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation10
Regional Studies10
Equity analysis of public service delivery among regions from temporal and spatial perspectives10
Environmental regulation promotes green technological diversification: evidence from Chinese cities10
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade10
Beer, brewing, and regional studies10
Governing regional affordability: rethinking the production of affordable spaces across the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (MRA)9
Student regional origins and student entrepreneurship9
Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas 9
The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies9
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late9
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts9
Income segregation in France: a geographical decomposition across and within urban areas9
Protected areas and local economic development9
Historical roots of innovative entrepreneurial culture: the case of Italian regions9
Brewing at the time of COVID: the impact of the pandemic crisis on UK craft breweries and its implications for the sector and local economies9
Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India9
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics9
Transforming inter-organisational collaboration dynamics in regional networks through digitalisation9
Regional Studies9
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies9
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
Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles9
Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization9
Understanding the interconnectedness of house prices between cities and regions during COVID-19: evidence from Australia8
Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces8
Sustainable futures. An agenda for action8
Medical reterritorialisation: the spatial interests of healthcare, financialisation and hospitals in a city-region8
Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent8
Urban competitiveness in developing economies8
Evolving regional economies: Resources, specialization, globalization8
Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives8
What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions8
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy8
Resilience and vulnerability of regional labour markets: principal component analysis of labour market efficiency in the EU8
Universal Basic Income as an instrument of regional development policy: a micro–macroeconomic analysis for Scotland8
Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions8
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain8
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market8
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda8
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems8
Volume index, 20218
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem8
Diversity in brokerage: how do gateway cities interlink their hinterlands?7
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning7
Setting local economic growth targets: does it mitigate nationwide policy uncertainty?7
Natural disasters and regional industrial production efficiency: evidence from pre-war Japan7
Productivity slowdown across European regions: does non-standard work matter?7
Directionality and subsidiarity: sustainability challenges in regional development policy7
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China7
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies7
Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile7
Correction7
Regulation theory, space, and uneven development: Conversations and challenges7
Correction7
The long and winding road to find the impact of EU funds on regional growth: IV and spatial analyses7
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions7
Strategic intelligence for the future of places: enabling inclusive economic growth through the Opportunity Areas Analysis Tool7
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context7
Re-imagining the future: city-region foresight and visioning in an era of fragmented governance7
Is the creative class a shock absorber against an economic recession? Spatial labour market resilience in Romania7
What draws investment to special economic zones? Lessons from developing countries7
India from Latin America: Peripherisation, statebuilding, and demand-led growth7
Trading borders: the importance of interregional integration and economy size for the impact of secession7
Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation?7
Does geographical decentralisation harm the total factor productivity of firms in China?7
Can urban agglomeration policy improve the innovation efficiency of cities in China?7
Smart cities and sustainable development7
On the employment and health impact of the COVID-19 shock on Italian regions: a value chain approach7
The spatial footprint of COVID-19 and local policy answers6
Enhancing the inventive capacity of European regions through interregional collaboration6
Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China6
Exploring the mechanisms of platform empowered cluster development: evidence from the case of Taobao villages in rural China6
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-196
The role of universities in regional knowledge base renewal6
Working remotely in the city? Regional embeddedness of online platform workers in Indonesia’s secondary cities6
Place-based sustainable urban mobility: a conceptual framework to spark local designs6
Persistence and change in regional entrepreneurship performance: a three-economy comparison6
Place-based leadership: advancing feminist, intersectional and anti-racist approaches6
Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces: how to bridge vision and reality6
The rural enterprise economy6
Depoliticizing urban futures: visionary planning and the politics of city-regional growth6
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment6
Highways and local development: insights from two decades of investments6
New region, new chances: does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?6
Extreme events, decentralisation and the effective number of parties6
Location of Hungarian microbreweries: an exploratory analysis6
The impact of mayors’ gender dissimilarity on budgetary stability in the EU: the case of Spanish municipalities6
Regional informal institutions, local governance and internal migration in Vietnam6
The horizontal and vertical coordination of policy mixes for industrial upgrading in China: an ambidexterity perspective6
Split realities – dilemmas for rural/gastro tourism in territorial development6
Examining the effects of beer excise taxation on cross-border sales in border regions of the Baltic States6
How administrative degradation affects middle-sized cities: lessons from Poland's 1998 regional reform6
Motorways, local economic activity and commuting6
Return to skills and labour market size6
The source of heterogeneous externalities: evidence from foreign multinationals in the UK6
Old habits die hard: pushing the frontiers of entrepreneurship persistence since 19266
Rent as a regional asset: rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand6
Public expenditure in India: Policies and development outcomes6
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions6
Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies6
Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts6
A regional perspective on the privatisation of Chinese state-owned firms6
Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country6
The regional geography of social mobility in Mexico6
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