Regional Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Regional Studies is 9. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?171
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010112
Regional innovation impact of universities93
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China71
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?69
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development64
Making the Ontario craft beer market63
EU Cohesion Policy: A multidisciplinary approach56
Regional economic impacts of the Øresund cross-border fixed link: Cui Bono?55
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises51
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India50
Studying human agency in regional development50
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach49
Transcending borders: conceptualising and empirically grasping individual readiness in cross-border collaboration in the Dutch–German borderland46
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?45
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions44
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach43
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market42
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia39
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations38
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France38
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK36
An economic topology of the Brexit vote34
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model34
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters33
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge32
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China32
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions31
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions31
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?31
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions31
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan30
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events30
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups29
Work, places and industries in the post-COVID-19 economy29
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies27
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?27
Environmental sustainability in polycentric urban regions: an urban resilience perspective26
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development26
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension26
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions25
The contribution of interregional and inter-field knowledge spillovers to regional Smart Specialisation25
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation25
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry25
Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country24
The triumph of the placeless24
Do firms in rural regions lack access to credit? Local variation in small business loans and firm growth24
Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms23
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job23
Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions23
Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England22
A map of discontent: economic distress or public service deprivation?22
Ethnic minorities, income inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from English local councils22
Ageing places: convergence and the role of the foreign population22
Learning from the past: a machine-learning approach for predicting the resilience of locked-in regions after a natural shock21
Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco21
The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations21
The urban experience: An interdisciplinary policy perspective,21
Trade liberalization and firms’ productivity in Vietnam: the role of local business environment21
Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography21
The diffusion of COVID-19 across Italian provinces: a spatial dynamic panel data approach with common factors21
The Routledge handbook on livelihoods in the Global South20
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation20
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit: pandemics, cognitive path dependence and regional economic resilience in China20
Creating planning visions for fragmented post-socialist city-regions20
Long-term persistence in entrepreneurship: the case of post-socialist Czechia (1930–2011)20
The spatial impact of entrepreneurial zones: firm, city and inter-city evidence20
Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case of cruise tourism in Nuuk, Greenland19
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective19
How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times19
Geography of knowledge collaboration and innovation in Schumpeterian firms19
Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition18
Interconnected worlds: Global electronics and production networks in East Asia18
Universities as strategic navigators: place leadership in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area17
Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible17
Regional Studies 2022 Awards17
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies17
Epidemic–economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies17
Population decline and changes in food store access17
The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system17
Economic growth and Cohesion Policy implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, strategic choices, administrative change17
Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies16
A capability-approach perspective on regional development16
Redistribution and risk-sharing effects of intergovernmental transfers: an empirical analysis based on Italian municipal data16
Regional house price convergence: implications of monetary policy16
Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy16
Techno-nationalism: How it’s reshaping trade, geopolitics and society16
Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture16
Administrative capacity and speed of public spending16
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law16
Economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions: evidence from Wuhan’s lockdown in China15
Coworking spaces and regional development: a role for policy15
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions15
On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany15
Does inter-municipal cooperation affect spending vs output? Evidence from Italy14
Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations14
(Other) temporary populations and the rise of platform-mediated medium-term rentals14
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective14
Brexit’s ripple effect: transformations in European interregional trade14
The case for place-based policy: economic divergence, governance integrity and climate change mitigation14
No county is an island: the rise of interjurisdictional cooperation among counties in China13
Place leadership in emerging industries: navigating the controversy and complexities of blockchain technology13
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities13
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation13
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
Transportation gateways and trade: how accessibility to the border shapes the spatial concentration of commerce13
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia13
Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy13
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement12
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK12
Analysing polycentricity: challenges and a roadmap12
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster12
Technology transfer, knowledge spillover and industrial green transformation from the perspective of externalities12
Contents of volume 5612
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China12
Predicting the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on household location preferences: the rise of red giant and white dwarf cities12
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city12
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence12
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France12
Housing submarket spillovers and COVID-19: the increasing influence of Australia’s regional cities12
Entrepreneurship at the edge: Arctic entrepreneurs in Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory, Canada12
The equity–efficiency trade-off and the intensity of COVID-19 pandemic government responses: evidence from US states12
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective12
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region11
Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation11
Determinants of regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth path performance: insights from Canada11
Beer, brewing, and regional studies11
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments11
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity11
Regional Studies11
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers11
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme11
The effect of R&D co-location on innovation activities in Great Britain11
Transforming inter-organisational collaboration dynamics in regional networks through digitalisation11
Environmental regulation promotes green technological diversification: evidence from Chinese cities11
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade11
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?11
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis11
Equity analysis of public service delivery among regions from temporal and spatial perspectives11
Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals11
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia11
Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization11
Contents of volume 5711
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU1511
Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas 10
Income segregation in France: a geographical decomposition across and within urban areas10
Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe10
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems10
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts10
Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces10
Regional Studies10
The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies10
Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India10
Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles10
Evolving regional economies: Resources, specialization, globalization10
Sustainable futures. An agenda for action10
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late10
Municipal tax restrictions and economic efficiency: an analysis of Australian local councils10
Protected areas and local economic development10
Governing regional affordability: rethinking the production of affordable spaces across the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (MRA)10
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
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics10
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy9
India from Latin America: Peripherisation, statebuilding, and demand-led growth9
Forging a sustainable future together: Cohesion Policy at its defining moment9
Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives9
Resilience and vulnerability of regional labour markets: principal component analysis of labour market efficiency in the EU9
What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions9
Does geographical decentralisation harm the total factor productivity of firms in China?9
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market9
Understanding leadership in city and regional development: towards multiple perspectives of sub-national (place) leadership9
Understanding the interconnectedness of house prices between cities and regions during COVID-19: evidence from Australia9
Medical reterritorialisation: the spatial interests of healthcare, financialisation and hospitals in a city-region9
Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions9
Territorial governance of just transition? – A case study of Just Transition Fund (JTF) process in Finland9
Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent9
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda9
Can more housing supply improve affordability? A subnational perspective from Portugal9
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