OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Urban Economics is 28. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	194
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	127
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	112
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	99
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	91
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	78
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	75
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	73
Landlords and access to opportunity	67
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	58
Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship	53
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	53
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	46
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	46
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	43
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	41
The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets	39
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	37
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	36
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	35
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	34
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	33
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	31
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	31
Editorial Board	31

Editorial Board	29
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	29
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	28
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	28
Editorial Board	28
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	28