OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Urban Economics is 27. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	188
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	120
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	109
Landlords and access to opportunity	95
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	90
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	78
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	73
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	73
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	67
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	56
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	52
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	49
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	45
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	44
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	43
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	39
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	36
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	36
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	35
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	34
Editorial Board	31
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	31
Editorial Board	30
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	30
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	28

Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	28
Editorial Board	28
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	27
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	27
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	27