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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Transcending borders: conceptualising and empirically grasping individual readiness in cross-border collaboration in the Dutch–German borderland156
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development103
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?90
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–201067
Making the Ontario craft beer market65
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises60
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India58
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions55
Regional innovation impact of universities54
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China53
EU Cohesion Policy: A multidisciplinary approach52
Regional economic impacts of the Øresund cross-border fixed link: Cui Bono?49
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach48
Studying human agency in regional development48
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?46
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?45
Environmental sustainability in polycentric urban regions: an urban resilience perspective43
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions43
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events41
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach40
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia37
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market37
Work, places and industries in the post-COVID-19 economy36
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations35
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France33
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK32
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model31
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development30
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters30
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions30
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension30
How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis29
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China29
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation29
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups28
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?27
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan26
An economic topology of the Brexit vote26
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies25
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions25
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge25
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?24
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions24
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry24
The contribution of interregional and inter-field knowledge spillovers to regional Smart Specialisation24
The triumph of the placeless23
Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England23
Learning from the past: a machine-learning approach for predicting the resilience of locked-in regions after a natural shock23
Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions22
Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography22
Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country22
Ageing places: convergence and the role of the foreign population22
Do firms in rural regions lack access to credit? Local variation in small business loans and firm growth21
Ethnic minorities, income inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from English local councils21
Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms21
A map of discontent: economic distress or public service deprivation?21
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job21
Trade liberalization and firms’ productivity in Vietnam: the role of local business environment21
Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco21
The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations20
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit: pandemics, cognitive path dependence and regional economic resilience in China20
The urban experience: An interdisciplinary policy perspective,20
The Routledge handbook on livelihoods in the Global South20
The spatial impact of entrepreneurial zones: firm, city and inter-city evidence20
The infrastructured state: Territoriality and the national infrastructure system20
Interconnected worlds: Global electronics and production networks in East Asia20
Long-term persistence in entrepreneurship: the case of post-socialist Czechia (1930–2011)19
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation19
Population decline and changes in food store access19
The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system18
Regions in Covid-19 recovery18
Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case of cruise tourism in Nuuk, Greenland18
Universities as strategic navigators: place leadership in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area18
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies17
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective17
Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible17
The diffusion of COVID-19 across Italian provinces: a spatial dynamic panel data approach with common factors17
How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times17
Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy16
Regional Studies 2022 Awards16
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law16
A capability-approach perspective on regional development16
Creating planning visions for fragmented post-socialist city-regions16
Geography of knowledge collaboration and innovation in Schumpeterian firms16
On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany16
Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition16
Techno-nationalism: How it’s reshaping trade, geopolitics and society16
Economic growth and Cohesion Policy implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, strategic choices, administrative change16
The Routledge handbook of regional design15
Administrative capacity and speed of public spending15
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective15
Regional house price convergence: implications of monetary policy15
Coworking spaces and regional development: a role for policy15
Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies15
Redistribution and risk-sharing effects of intergovernmental transfers: an empirical analysis based on Italian municipal data15
Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture15
Epidemic–economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies15
Social capital and patients’ mobility in 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
Brexit’s ripple effect: transformations in European interregional trade14
Transportation gateways and trade: how accessibility to the border shapes the spatial concentration of commerce13
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities13
Place leadership in emerging industries: navigating the controversy and complexities of blockchain technology13
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
The case for place-based policy: economic divergence, governance integrity and climate change mitigation13
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia13
Global linkages and local institutions: the role of imports and MNEs in the regional diversification into complex products in China13
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China12
Does inter-municipal cooperation affect spending vs output? Evidence from Italy12
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation12
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK12
The equity–efficiency trade-off and the intensity of COVID-19 pandemic government responses: evidence from US states12
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region12
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions12
Contents of volume 5612
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city12
Housing submarket spillovers and COVID-19: the increasing influence of Australia’s regional cities12
No county is an island: the rise of interjurisdictional cooperation among counties in China12
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France12
Technology transfer, knowledge spillover and industrial green transformation from the perspective of externalities12
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence11
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement11
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective11
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade11
The effect of R&D co-location on innovation activities in Great Britain11
Entrepreneurship at the edge: Arctic entrepreneurs in Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory, Canada11
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis11
Regional Studies11
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia11
Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals11
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?11
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU1511
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster11
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme11
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers11
Contents of volume 5711
Municipal tax restrictions and economic efficiency: an analysis of Australian local councils10
The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies10
Transforming inter-organisational collaboration dynamics in regional networks through digitalisation10
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity10
Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation10
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics10
Governing regional affordability: rethinking the production of affordable spaces across the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (MRA)10
Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India10
Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas 10
Protected areas and local economic development10
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments10
Environmental regulation promotes green technological diversification: evidence from Chinese cities10
Beer, brewing, and regional studies10
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late10
Historical roots of innovative entrepreneurial culture: the case of Italian regions10
Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe10
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts10
Determinants of regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth path performance: insights from Canada10
Equity analysis of public service delivery among regions from temporal and spatial perspectives10
Regional Studies10
Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization10
Income segregation in France: a geographical decomposition across and within urban areas10
Sustainable futures. An agenda for action9
Medical reterritorialisation: the spatial interests of healthcare, financialisation and hospitals in a city-region9
Territorial governance of just transition? – A case study of Just Transition Fund (JTF) process in Finland9
Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions9
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda9
Student regional origins and student entrepreneurship9
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
Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles9
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
Evolving regional economies: Resources, specialization, globalization9
Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces9
Forging a sustainable future together: Cohesion Policy at its defining moment9
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market9
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems9
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