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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010117
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions86
Making the Ontario craft beer market76
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises75
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China57
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions54
Regional innovation impact of universities51
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?50
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach50
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?48
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development48
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India48
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?45
Studying human agency in regional development45
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach44
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions43
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events42
Diversity in brokerage cities: the evolution of urban positionality in China’s financial system41
Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?41
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry37
Environmental sustainability in polycentric urban regions: an urban resilience perspective37
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development36
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France36
Dualism and payroll shares across US states35
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?35
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK34
An economic topology of the Brexit vote34
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China32
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension32
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters32
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions31
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia30
Uneven innovation: The work of smart cities30
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups30
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations29
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan29
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions28
How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis28
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market28
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies27
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?26
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation26
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions26
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model25
Correction25
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge25
The Covid-19 shock in European regions25
Correction25
The triumph of the placeless24
Trade liberalization and firms’ productivity in Vietnam: the role of local business environment24
The contribution of interregional and inter-field knowledge spillovers to regional Smart Specialisation24
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job24
Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England24
Do firms in rural regions lack access to credit? Local variation in small business loans and firm growth23
Ethnic minorities, income inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from English local councils23
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues23
Learning from the past: a machine-learning approach for predicting the resilience of locked-in regions after a natural shock23
Ageing places: convergence and the role of the foreign population22
Regions beyond Industry 4.022
Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions21
Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms21
Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography21
Multi-source strategic interaction in China’s public services: a spatial econometric analysis21
Regional Studies 2021 Awards20
A trade hierarchy of cities based on transport cost thresholds20
Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country20
The urban experience: An interdisciplinary policy perspective,20
Population decline and changes in food store access20
Interconnected worlds: Global electronics and production networks in East Asia20
The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations19
Immigration and regional housing markets: prices, rents, price-to-rent ratios and disequilibrium19
The infrastructured state: Territoriality and the national infrastructure system18
Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case of cruise tourism in Nuuk, Greenland18
Long-term persistence in entrepreneurship: the case of post-socialist Czechia (1930–2011)18
How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times18
Geography of knowledge collaboration and innovation in Schumpeterian firms18
The diffusion of COVID-19 across Italian provinces: a spatial dynamic panel data approach with common factors17
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies17
Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition17
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation17
The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system17
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective16
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law16
Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco16
The spatial impact of entrepreneurial zones: firm, city and inter-city evidence16
Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?16
Economic growth and Cohesion Policy implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, strategic choices, administrative change16
Regions in Covid-19 recovery16
Creating planning visions for fragmented post-socialist city-regions16
Regional Studies 2022 Awards16
Redistribution and risk-sharing effects of intergovernmental transfers: an empirical analysis based on Italian municipal data16
Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible16
Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies15
Oxford and Grenoble: multiple anchors, strong dyadic relationships and national policy in fostering cluster architectures15
The Routledge handbook of regional design15
Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture15
Coworking spaces and regional development: a role for policy15
Epidemic–economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies14
Mysteries of the trade? Skill-specific local agglomeration economies14
On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany14
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal14
Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy14
A capability-approach perspective on regional development14
Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone14
Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy14
Mimetic isomorphism, offshore outsourcing and backshoring decisions among micro and small enterprises14
Regional house price convergence: implications of monetary policy14
Global linkages and local institutions: the role of imports and MNEs in the regional diversification into complex products in China13
Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy13
Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations13
Place leadership in emerging industries: navigating the controversy and complexities of blockchain technology13
Transportation gateways and trade: how accessibility to the border shapes the spatial concentration of commerce13
The case for place-based policy: economic divergence, governance integrity and climate change mitigation13
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions13
Medical institutions in the geography of innovation: evidence from public tertiary hospitals and biotech start-ups in Chinese cities13
Economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions: evidence from Wuhan’s lockdown in China13
No county is an island: the rise of interjurisdictional cooperation among counties in China13
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective13
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia12
Contents of volume 5612
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities12
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China12
Housing submarket spillovers and COVID-19: the increasing influence of Australia’s regional cities12
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation12
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence12
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement12
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers12
Industry 4.0 in industrial districts: regional innovation policy for the Toy Valley district in Spain12
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme12
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster12
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city12
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?11
Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: explaining regional employment divergence11
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK11
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 states10
Contents of volume 5710
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments10
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region10
Regional Studies10
Equity analysis of public service delivery among regions from temporal and spatial perspectives10
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity10
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
Beer, brewing, and regional studies10
Wage inequality, entrepreneurship and creative people in regional labour markets10
Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization10
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade10
The effect of R&D co-location on innovation activities in Great Britain10
Transforming inter-organisational collaboration dynamics in regional networks through digitalisation10
Regional Studies10
Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals10
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia10
Environmental regulation promotes green technological diversification: evidence from Chinese cities10
Student regional origins and student entrepreneurship10
Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation10
The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies9
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market9
Understanding the interconnectedness of house prices between cities and regions during COVID-19: evidence from Australia9
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts9
Protected areas and local economic development9
Income segregation in France: a geographical decomposition across and within urban areas9
Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles9
Historical roots of innovative entrepreneurial culture: the case of Italian regions9
Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces9
Sustainable futures. An agenda for action9
The foundational economy and regional development9
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics9
Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India9
Municipal tax restrictions and economic efficiency: an analysis of Australian local councils9
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies9
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late9
Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives9
Rethinking asset modification in regional industrial path development: toward a conceptual framework9
Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe9
Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas 9
Governing regional affordability: rethinking the production of affordable spaces across the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (MRA)9
Evolving regional economies: Resources, specialization, globalization8
India from Latin America: Peripherisation, statebuilding, and demand-led growth8
Setting local economic growth targets: does it mitigate nationwide policy uncertainty?8
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning8
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies8
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain8
What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions8
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy8
Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation?8
Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent8
Correction8
Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions8
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems8
Resilience and vulnerability of regional labour markets: principal component analysis of labour market efficiency in the EU8
Volume index, 20218
Productivity slowdown across European regions: does non-standard work matter?8
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions8
Can urban agglomeration policy improve the innovation efficiency of cities in China?8
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem8
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
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda8
Directionality and subsidiarity: sustainability challenges in regional development policy7
The long and winding road to find the impact of EU funds on regional growth: IV and spatial analyses7
Trading borders: the importance of interregional integration and economy size for the impact of secession7
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China7
Place-based sustainable urban mobility: a conceptual framework to spark local designs7
On the employment and health impact of the COVID-19 shock on Italian regions: a value chain approach7
Re-imagining the future: city-region foresight and visioning in an era of fragmented governance7
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies7
What draws investment to special economic zones? Lessons from developing countries7
Strategic intelligence for the future of places: enabling inclusive economic growth through the Opportunity Areas Analysis Tool7
Universal Basic Income as an instrument of regional development policy: a micro–macroeconomic analysis for Scotland7
Does geographical decentralisation harm the total factor productivity of firms in China?7
Is the creative class a shock absorber against an economic recession? Spatial labour market resilience in Romania7
The impact of mayors’ gender dissimilarity on budgetary stability in the EU: the case of Spanish municipalities7
Working remotely in the city? Regional embeddedness of online platform workers in Indonesia’s secondary cities7
Correction7
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context7
Natural disasters and regional industrial production efficiency: evidence from pre-war Japan7
Urban competitiveness in developing economies7
Smart cities and sustainable development7
Diversity in brokerage: how do gateway cities interlink their hinterlands?7
Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile7
Regulation theory, space, and uneven development: Conversations and challenges7
Highways and local development: insights from two decades of investments6
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-196
Regional informal institutions, local governance and internal migration in Vietnam6
Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts6
Examining the effects of beer excise taxation on cross-border sales in border regions of the Baltic States6
The association between hospital cooperation and the quality of healthcare6
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness6
Exploring the mechanisms of platform empowered cluster development: evidence from the case of Taobao villages in rural China6
Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country6
The source of heterogeneous externalities: evidence from foreign multinationals in the UK6
Split realities – dilemmas for rural/gastro tourism in territorial development6
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions6
The horizontal and vertical coordination of policy mixes for industrial upgrading in China: an ambidexterity perspective6
Public expenditure in India: Policies and development outcomes6
The rural enterprise economy6
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment6
Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China6
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
Persistence and change in regional entrepreneurship performance: a three-economy comparison6
Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies6
A regional perspective on the privatisation of Chinese state-owned firms6
Decentralisation, unfunded mandates and the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic6
Old habits die hard: pushing the frontiers of entrepreneurship persistence since 19266
Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces: how to bridge vision and reality6
How administrative degradation affects middle-sized cities: lessons from Poland's 1998 regional reform6
Extreme events, decentralisation and the effective number of parties6
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