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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010208
Regional innovation impact of universities136
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?109
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions86
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises61
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development59
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach59
Transcending borders: conceptualising and empirically grasping individual readiness in cross-border collaboration in the Dutch–German borderland59
Regional economic impacts of the Øresund cross-border fixed link: Cui Bono?55
EU Cohesion Policy: A multidisciplinary approach52
Making the Ontario craft beer market50
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?49
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?49
Studying human agency in regional development45
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India44
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market44
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia42
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation40
Work, places and industries in the post-COVID-19 economy40
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model40
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK39
An economic topology of the Brexit vote39
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations39
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups38
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions37
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies37
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions36
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters35
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?34
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China34
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events31
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge31
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach31
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension29
Environmental sustainability in polycentric urban regions: an urban resilience perspective29
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?29
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan29
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions29
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions29
The contribution of interregional and inter-field knowledge spillovers to regional Smart Specialisation28
Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions27
A map of discontent: economic distress or public service deprivation?26
Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England25
Ageing places: convergence and the role of the foreign population25
Trade liberalization and firms’ productivity in Vietnam: the role of local business environment24
Ethnic minorities, income inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from English local councils24
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job23
Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country23
Learning from the past: a machine-learning approach for predicting the resilience of locked-in regions after a natural shock23
The triumph of the placeless23
Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography23
The urban experience: An interdisciplinary policy perspective,22
Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco22
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation21
Long-term persistence in entrepreneurship: the case of post-socialist Czechia (1930–2011)21
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective21
How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times21
Interconnected worlds: Global electronics and production networks in East Asia20
The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations20
The diffusion of COVID-19 across Italian provinces: a spatial dynamic panel data approach with common factors20
Universities as strategic navigators: place leadership in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area20
Geography of knowledge collaboration and innovation in Schumpeterian firms20
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit: pandemics, cognitive path dependence and regional economic resilience in China20
Economic growth and Cohesion Policy implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, strategic choices, administrative change19
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies19
The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system19
Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case of cruise tourism in Nuuk, Greenland19
Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition19
Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible19
The Routledge handbook on livelihoods in the Global South19
Population decline and changes in food store access19
Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture18
Redistribution and risk-sharing effects of intergovernmental transfers: an empirical analysis based on Italian municipal data18
Regional house price convergence: implications of monetary policy18
Epidemic–economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies18
On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany17
Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy17
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law17
Techno-nationalism: How it’s reshaping trade, geopolitics and society17
Administrative capacity and speed of public spending17
Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies17
A capability-approach perspective on regional development17
Medical institutions in the geography of innovation: evidence from public tertiary hospitals and biotech start-ups in Chinese cities16
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions16
Transportation gateways and trade: how accessibility to the border shapes the spatial concentration of commerce16
Economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions: evidence from Wuhan’s lockdown in China16
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities16
Brexit’s ripple effect: transformations in European interregional trade16
Coworking spaces and regional development: a role for policy16
Place leadership in emerging industries: navigating the controversy and complexities of blockchain technology15
(Other) temporary populations and the rise of platform-mediated medium-term rentals15
The case for place-based policy: economic divergence, governance integrity and climate change mitigation15
Global linkages and local institutions: the role of imports and MNEs in the regional diversification into complex products in China15
No county is an island: the rise of interjurisdictional cooperation among counties in China15
Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations15
Does inter-municipal cooperation affect spending vs output? Evidence from Italy15
Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy15
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective15
Extra-territorial business and tax effects of constructing public infrastructures on the interregional fiscal balances14
Regional and individual determinants of creative industry networks: an analysis of Chinese singers14
Contents of volume 5614
The equity–efficiency trade-off and the intensity of COVID-19 pandemic government responses: evidence from US states14
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis14
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers14
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia14
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France14
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster14
Housing submarket spillovers and COVID-19: the increasing influence of Australia’s regional cities14
Hyper-commodified housing products and the triple crisis: regulating the symptom or rethinking housing provision?14
Missions as relational scales of agency: urban leverage for transformative change14
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence13
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China13
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?13
Technology transfer, knowledge spillover and industrial green transformation from the perspective of externalities13
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective13
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK13
Analysing polycentricity: challenges and a roadmap13
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme13
Predicting the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on household location preferences: the rise of red giant and white dwarf cities13
Entrepreneurship at the edge: Arctic entrepreneurs in Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory, Canada13
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement13
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region13
Regional Studies12
Beer, brewing, and regional studies12
Environmental regulation promotes green technological diversification: evidence from Chinese cities12
Contents of volume 5712
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade12
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU1512
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity12
Equity analysis of public service delivery among regions from temporal and spatial perspectives12
Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe11
Governing regional affordability: rethinking the production of affordable spaces across the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (MRA)11
Mapping regional disparities in labour market risk and exposure to automation in Canada11
Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals11
Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation11
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late11
Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India11
Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization11
Transforming inter-organisational collaboration dynamics in regional networks through digitalisation11
The paradox of smart cities: exploring the interaction between youth migration and urban exclusion11
Determinants of regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth path performance: insights from Canada11
Income segregation in France: a geographical decomposition across and within urban areas11
Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas 11
Lagging regions in the European Union: Structural, productivity and efficiency aspects11
The effect of R&D co-location on innovation activities in Great Britain11
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia11
Regional Studies11
Enhancing objectivity and decision relevance: a better framework for evaluating EU cohesion policies10
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics10
Territorial governance of just transition? – A case study of Just Transition Fund (JTF) process in Finland10
Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions10
Understanding leadership in city and regional development: towards multiple perspectives of sub-national (place) leadership10
Evolving regional economies: Resources, specialization, globalization10
Regulating short-term rentals in Istanbul: legislative pathways, regulatory design and early effects10
Protected areas and local economic development10
Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent10
Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives10
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
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market10
Medical reterritorialisation: the spatial interests of healthcare, financialisation and hospitals in a city-region10
Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles10
Turning challenges into opportunities? Implementing transformative innovation policies in Nordic industrial regions10
Understanding the interconnectedness of house prices between cities and regions during COVID-19: evidence from Australia10
Can more housing supply improve affordability? A subnational perspective from Portugal10
What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions10
Can urban agglomeration policy improve the innovation efficiency of cities in China?9
Correction9
The role of FDI-focused business and technology parks in promoting local employment growth9
India from Latin America: Peripherisation, statebuilding, and demand-led growth9
The long and winding road to find the impact of EU funds on regional growth: IV and spatial analyses9
Natural disasters and regional industrial production efficiency: evidence from pre-war Japan9
Productivity slowdown across European regions: does non-standard work matter?9
Institutional path dependence in European short-term rental regulation9
Directionality and subsidiarity: sustainability challenges in regional development policy9
Can territorial cooperation improve regional development? Evidence from Zhejiang’s Mountain-Sea Cooperation9
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems9
Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces9
Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation?9
Smart cities and sustainable development9
Setting local economic growth targets: does it mitigate nationwide policy uncertainty?9
Are EU low-carbon Structural Funds efficient in reducing emissions?9
Trading borders: the importance of interregional integration and economy size for the impact of secession9
Higher education institutions and innovative entrepreneurship: a regional analysis9
Does geographical decentralisation harm the total factor productivity of firms in China?9
Forging a sustainable future together: Cohesion Policy at its defining moment9
Territorial market power as a source of inequalities in the automation era9
Teaching regions: do we need a regional pedagogy or a pedagogy of regions?9
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions9
What draws investment to special economic zones? Lessons from developing countries9
Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile8
Re-imagining the future: city-region foresight and visioning in an era of fragmented governance8
Split realities – dilemmas for rural/gastro tourism in territorial development8
The horizontal and vertical coordination of policy mixes for industrial upgrading in China: an ambidexterity perspective8
The impact of mayors’ gender dissimilarity on budgetary stability in the EU: the case of Spanish municipalities8
Place-based leadership: advancing feminist, intersectional and anti-racist approaches8
Is the creative class a shock absorber against an economic recession? Spatial labour market resilience in Romania8
Regional informal institutions, local governance and internal migration in Vietnam8
The role of universities in regional knowledge base renewal8
Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies8
On the employment and health impact of the COVID-19 shock on Italian regions: a value chain approach8
City strategic coupling in practice: regional cooperation under the Greater Bay Area8
Working remotely in the city? Regional embeddedness of online platform workers in Indonesia’s secondary cities8
Correction8
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions8
Regulation theory, space, and uneven development: Conversations and challenges8
Urban innovation structures and economic productivity of Chinese cities8
Place-based sustainable urban mobility: a conceptual framework to spark local designs8
Zoning and urban restructuring: long-term change in the location of manufacturing in industrialised city-regions7
The prevalence of a bonding strategy in COVID-19 response networks: explaining intermunicipal partnering in the Santiago metropolitan region, Chile7
Industry diversification in industrial districts: is it about embedded regional or firm-level capabilities?7
A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy : lessons for ‘place-based’ policy7
Location of Hungarian microbreweries: an exploratory analysis7
Formation of new start-ups: does business diversity in existing start-ups matter?7
Extreme events, decentralisation and the effective number of parties7
Transformative and cooperative leadership in city-regional development: conceptualising the early stages of place-based leadership7
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment7
Rent as a regional asset: rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand7
Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China7
The source of heterogeneous externalities: evidence from foreign multinationals in the UK7
Enhancing the inventive capacity of European regions through interregional collaboration7
City-level institutions and perceived entrepreneurial ecosystem’s growth orientation7
Motorways, local economic activity and commuting7
Americana without America: rhetorical geography as a source of competitive advantage7
Exploring the mechanisms of platform empowered cluster development: evidence from the case of Taobao villages in rural China7
Towards a Marshall-based theory of research and technology organisations: the role of regional policy to address the varieties of knowledge7
Decentralisation, unfunded mandates and the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic7
Correction7
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-197
A regional perspective on the privatisation of Chinese state-owned firms7
Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country7
The spatial footprint of COVID-19 and local policy answers7
Return to skills and labour market size7
The rural enterprise economy7
Examining the effects of beer excise taxation on cross-border sales in border regions of the Baltic States7
Persistence and change in regional entrepreneurship performance: a three-economy comparison7
Highways and local development: insights from two decades of investments7
Public expenditure in India: Policies and development outcomes7
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
The role of regional governance modes and system-level agency in evolutionary paths of regional industries6
Fiscal devolution and the accountability gap: budget scrutiny following tax devolution to Scotland6
Building dynamic capabilities in the transition toward a knowledge-based bioeconomy: a case study of three Finnish regions6
Population, macroeconomic variables, quality of life, and interprovincial migration of Italians and foreigners6
How the relationship between socio-demographics, residential environments and travel influence commuter choices6
The effect of unemployment, housing tenure and commuting distance on interregional migration in the Netherlands6
Correction6
Employment imbalances in EU regions: technological dependence or high-tech trade centrality?6
Air connectivity and regional employment: a spatial econometrics approach6
Anchor entrepreneurs as microfoundational agents of regional industry emergence: the case of Scotland’s space industry6
Shifting production to Southeast Asia: Electronics transnational corporations moving to Vietnam since the 2000s6
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