Regional Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Regional Studies is 7. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
City preparedness for the climate crisis. A multidisciplinary approach72
The Routledge international handbook of financialization70
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?69
Unseen costs: the inequities of the geography of innovation65
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city60
Regional innovation impact of universities55
Understanding affordability: The economics of housing markets51
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region46
Policy change and innovation in multilevel governance Policy change and innovation in multilevel governance , by Arthur Benz, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2021. vi + 189 pp45
Endogenous local labour markets, regional aggregation and agglomeration economies41
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–201041
Public expenditure in India: Policies and development outcomes41
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Floods, terrorist attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic: the relationship between the (de)centralisation of power and the rally around the flag38
Megaregion development, multilocal dwelling and well-being in China37
Global financial networks, municipal offshore financing and state-sponsored city-regional development35
Industry evolution, resilience and regional embeddedness: the case of the Danish microbrewing industry35
Industry 4.0 technological trajectories and traditional manufacturing regions: the role of knowledge workers34
The city and quality of life33
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China33
Beer sales in grocery and convenience stores: a glass half-full for craft brewers?32
From forecasts to scenarios in strategic city-regional land-use and transportation planning31
Regional capability, evolutionary economic geography and global production networks30
Rent as a regional asset: rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand29
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme29
Corruption versus efficiency in water allocation under uncertainty: is there a trade-off?28
Keep calm and carry on emitting: cap-and-trade rules, local emissions and growth28
COVID-19 and labour market resilience: evidence from large-scale recruitment behaviour27
Female presence in local government and cost efficiency: the case of Italian municipalities26
I will survive! The impact of place-based policies when public transfers fade out26
Career and family. Women’s century-long journey toward equity26
The relevance of smart cities’ features in exploring urban labour market resilience: the specificity of post-transition economies25
New region, new chances: does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?25
Brexit, the mediation strategies of foreign corporate subsidiaries and regional resilience25
Decentralisation, unfunded mandates and the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic25
Local currencies for territorial development: lessons from a national survey in France24
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster24
Rebalancing UK regional and industrial policy post-Brexit and post-Covid-19: lessons learned and priorities for the future24
An empirical approach to cross-border spatial planning initiatives in Europe24
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises24
‘Making blockchain real’: regulatory discourses of blockchains as a smart, civic service23
Go Home! Beyond the urban–rural divide in France: an analysis of how ‘mental proximity’ benefits territorial development23
A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China23
An economist’s review of A research agenda for governance, edited by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre, Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing22
An economist’s and a policymaker’s perspective: introduction22
The RSA Awards 2023 Regional Studies22
Centralization versus decentralization of traffic law enforcement governance in Spain21
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France20
Analysis of multiple gravitational influences on interregional population migration in South Korea20
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers19
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-1919
Higher education, regional growth and cohesion: insights from the Spanish case19
Regional development, power and topological reach: to reach out or fold in?19
Asymmetry in the distribution of benefits of cross-border regional innovation systems: the case of the Hong Kong–Shenzhen innovation system18
Extreme events, decentralisation and the effective number of parties18
The brokerage role of Hong Kong in global financial networks: the case of mainland Chinese companies’ US listings18
Examining the effects of beer excise taxation on cross-border sales in border regions of the Baltic States18
Exploring the mechanisms of platform empowered cluster development: evidence from the case of Taobao villages in rural China18
Smart urbanism in Africa: when theories do not fit with contextual practices18
Spatial spillover effects of fiscal decentralization on governance and public administration quality18
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective18
Still sticky after all those years? The resurgence of Marshallian districts in a world of global production networks17
Making the Ontario craft beer market17
Trademarks as an indicator of regional innovation: evidence from Japanese prefectures17
Business-promoted city-regionalism? New Industrial City projects by China Fortune Land Development17
Is the European Social Progress Index robust? Implications for the design of European Union regional Cohesion Policy17
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India16
A fuzzy expert system for sustainable local development16
The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks16
Global connectedness, local embeddedness and creative economies in European cities16
Preferential tax treatment – a political or economic tool?16
Old habits die hard: pushing the frontiers of entrepreneurship persistence since 192616
Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city16
China’s digital and green (twin) transition: insights from national and regional innovation policies15
Entrepreneurship and income inequality in cities: differentiated impacts of new firm formation and self-employment15
Contribution to the theory of territorial development: a territorial innovations approach15
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness15
Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: explaining regional employment divergence15
University graduates in metropolitan and peripheral areas: mobility, occupational choice and outcomes15
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach15
Place-based policy in southern Italy: evidence from a dose–response approach15
Regional policies and sectoral outputs in Italy15
Urban growth, from manufacturing to consumption and financialization: the case of China’s contemporary urban development15
4.0 Technologies and the rise of new islands of innovation in European regions15
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development15
Development zone policy and high-quality economic growth: quasi-natural experimental evidence from China15
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions15
From brawn to brains: manufacturing–KIBS interdependency15
What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network15
Herding and reverse herding in US housing markets: new evidence from a metropolitan-level analysis14
Industrial robots, and information and communication technology: the employment effects in EU labour markets14
The source of heterogeneous externalities: evidence from foreign multinationals in the UK14
Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China14
Disentangling agglomeration economies from selection under policy distortions in China14
Understanding green regional path development: a systematic study of the Nordic regions14
Is biorefinery establishment enhancing the EU labour market on a regional level?14
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement14
Agglomeration economies: different effects on TFP in high-tech and low-tech industries14
Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country14
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions14
Brand on the run: place brands as judgement devices and sources of local advantage in the music industry13
Evidence-informed decision-making in Smart Specialisation Strategies: a patent-based approach for discovering regional technological capabilities13
Linking place brands and regional innovation: sustainable business strategies leveraging heritage13
Digital meets smart: towards a technology-enhanced approach to Smart Specialisation Strategy development13
(Digital) neo-colonialism in the smart city13
Place promotion, place branding and social media communication around entrepreneurial ecosystems: a Twitter analysis13
Subnational leadership in response to environment and climate change13
Economic geography and human capital accumulation in Turkey: evidence from micro-data12
Smart cities and urban inequality12
The local labour market effects of earthquakes12
Waste recycling and yardstick competition among Italian provinces after the EU Waste Framework Directive12
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China12
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: the role of agglomeration externalities12
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment12
The economic resilience scorecard: regional policy responses for crises recovery12
The geographical dimension of productivity in Great Britain, 2011–18: the sources of the London productivity advantage11
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?11
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?11
Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations11
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory: advancing agency-based approaches11
The equity–efficiency trade-off and the intensity of COVID-19 pandemic government responses: evidence from US states11
Entrepreneurship education and firm creation11
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis11
The tidal movements of spatial labour markets: perturbation and resilience11
Protected Designation of Origin food chain arrangements: leveraging market power for small-scale producers in marginal regions11
Studying human agency in regional development11
Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution11
Intercity innovation collaboration and the role of high-speed rail connections: evidence from Chinese co-patent data10
A regional perspective on the privatisation of Chinese state-owned firms10
Bangers and cash: partisan bias in local government grant allocations across Great Britain10
Dualism and payroll shares across US states10
The association between hospital cooperation and the quality of healthcare10
Which jobs make cities attractive to migrants? Explaining the changing distribution of migrants from their employment geography in transitional China10
Correction10
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?10
Urban structure in transition: evidence from Poland, 1983–201110
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence10
Editorial Board 202410
Money and migration: a regional perspective from China10
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU1510
The prevalence of a bonding strategy in COVID-19 response networks: explaining intermunicipal partnering in the Santiago metropolitan region, Chile10
Regional industrial policy in times of big disruption: building dynamic capabilities in regions9
Migrants and refugees in Europe: Work integration in comparative perspective9
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK9
From regional to global and back again? A future agenda for regional evolution and (de)globalised production networks in regional studies9
Administrative capacity and EU funds management systems performance: the cases of Hungary and Slovakia9
COVID-19 vaccination rates and neighbourhoods: evidence from Sweden9
Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?9
An introduction to geographical and urban economics: A spiky world9
Handbook on city and regional leadership9
The promises and pitfalls of operationalizing inclusive growth9
Enhancing the inventive capacity of European regions through interregional collaboration9
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia9
Industry diversification in industrial districts: is it about embedded regional or firm-level capabilities?9
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension9
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia9
Examining the roles of universities in place-based industrial strategy: which characteristics drive knowledge creation in priority technologies?9
The capacity to innovate: Cluster policy and management in the biotechnology sector9
Productivity perspectives9
Racing ahead or lagging behind? Territorial cohesion in human development around the globe8
How administrative degradation affects middle-sized cities: lessons from Poland's 1998 regional reform8
The twin innovation transitions of European regions8
The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach8
Networks, SMEs, and the university: The process of collaboration and open innovation8
Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants8
Return to skills and labour market size8
Development zones and firms’ performance: the impact of development zones on firms’ performance for a Chinese industrial cluster8
The differential effects of exchange rate fluctuations on local housing price growth: evidence from Australia8
Determinants of regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth path performance: insights from Canada8
Do innovation and human capital actually narrow the technology gap? Champions and laggards of European regional productive performance8
Regions and the search for spatial justice: a question of capacity?8
The geographies of local austerity policies: a quantitative analysis of local budgets in France8
Location of Hungarian microbreweries: an exploratory analysis8
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry8
Social infrastructure and ‘left-behind places’8
Uneven innovation: The work of smart cities8
Brexit disruption and transborder leadership in Europe8
Regional Studies8
KIBS deepening and manufacturers’ productivity: the moderating role of absorptive capacity8
Diversity in brokerage cities: the evolution of urban positionality in China’s financial system8
The financialization of real estate in Japan: the formation of a core–periphery structure7
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters7
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions7
How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis7
The role of state agency in path development: a longitudinal study of two Norwegian manufacturing regions7
Motorways, local economic activity and commuting7
Clusters in times of uncertainty: Japanese and European perspectives7
Community capitals and economic resilience: insights from the Great Lakes Region post-Great Recession7
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies7
Speed of spending and government decentralization: evidence from Italy7
Zoning and urban restructuring: long-term change in the location of manufacturing in industrialised city-regions7
Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces: how to bridge vision and reality7
Housing wealth distribution, inequality and residential satisfaction7
Asset modification for regional industrial restructuring: digitalization of the culture and experience industry and the healthcare sector7
Facing up to the foundational economy: regional development, public policy and employment in Wales7
Capital shocks, the great recession, and UK regional divergence7
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions7
The impact of the new Northern Ireland protocol: can Northern Ireland enjoy the best of both worlds?7
Brokerage as an urban and regional process between systems and scales7
Spatial structure and subjective well-being in North-West Europe7
The rise, fall and resurrection of soft spaces? The regional governance of transport policy in Wales7
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach7
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development7
Levelling up: the need for an institutionally coordinated approach to regional and national productivity7
Agricultural economic complexity and regional inequalities: a new approach using census data from Brazil7
Expecting equality or efficiency? A factorial survey on the justice perception of regional redistributive policies7
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events7
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