OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space is 8. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition	81
“Just-in-Place” labor: Driver organizing in the Uber workplace	58
Neoliberal disease: COVID-19, co-pathogenesis and global health insecurities	55
Uber-production: From global networks to digital platforms	53
Uneven and combined state capitalism	49
Social capital and economic growth in the regions of Europe	42
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up	38
Embedding futurity in urban governance: Redevelopment schemes and the time value of money	37
Contingent infrastructure and the dilution of ‘Chineseness’: Reframing roads and rail in Kampala and Addis Ababa	36
The emergence of a Build to Rent model: The role of narratives and discourses	35
Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia	32
Professionalisation of short-term rentals and emergent tourism gentrification in post-crisis Thessaloniki	31
The trouble with global production networks	30
Bypass urbanism: Re-ordering center-periphery relations in Kolkata, Lagos and Mexico City	30
Shrinking cities in China: Evidence from the latest two population censuses 2010–2020	29
Municipal Statecraft For The Smart City: Retooling The Smart Entrepreneurial City?	27
FinTech, economy and space: Introduction to the special issue	27
The impact of Brexit on London’s entrepreneurial ecosystem: The case of the FinTech industry	27
Towards an urban degrowth: Habitability, finity and polycentric autonomism	25
Unsolicited urbanism: development monopolies, regulatory-technical fixes and planning-as-deal-making	23
Feminist economic geography and the future of work	23
Mobile workers, contingent labour: Migration, the gig economy and the multiplication of labour	23
Shrinking cities on the globe: Evidence from LandScan 2000–2019	22
The materiality of precarity: Gender, race and energy infrastructure in urban South Africa	21
Beyond rentiership: Standardisation, intangibles and value capture in global production	21

Entrepreneurship and the fight against poverty in US cities	21
Gig work as migrant work: The platformization of migration infrastructure	21
Platform capitalism and cloud infrastructure: Theorizing a hyper-scalable computing regime	21
Sustaining municipal parks in an era of neoliberal austerity: The contested commercialisation of Gunnersbury Park	20
Between the colossal and the catastrophic: Planetary urbanization and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease	20
Central banks: Climate governors of last resort?	19
Social distancing and inequality in the United States amid COVID-19 outbreak	19
International remittance flows and the economic and social consequences of COVID-19	19
Surplus to the city: Austerity urbanism, displacement and ‘letting die’	18
Democratizing finance with Robinhood: Financial infrastructure, interface design and platform capitalism	18
A critique of innovation districts: Entrepreneurial living and the burden of shouldering urban development	17
Performing the city-region: Imagineering, devolution and the search for legitimacy	17
Fighting to undo a deal: Identifying and resisting the financialization of the WestConnex motorway, Sydney, Australia	16
Smart cities: Who cares?	16
Economic resilience during COVID-19: An insight from permanent business closures	16
Visualizing clustering characteristics of multidimensional arable land quality indexes at the county level in mainland China	16
Placing the Foundational Economy: An emerging discourse for post-neoliberal economic development	16
Contesting the financialisation of remittances: Repertoires of reluctance, refusal and dissent in Ghana and Senegal	16
The afterlives of the lively commodity: Life-worlds, death-worlds, rotting-worlds	16
Corporate social responsibility: A supplier-centered perspective	16
Capitalist crisis in the “age of global value chains”	16
Initial coin offerings: Linking technology and financialization	16
More work for Big Mother: Revaluing care and control in smart homes	15
Beyond crisis? Using rent theory to understand the restructuring of publicly funded seniors’ care in British Columbia, Canada	15
Everyday speculation in the remaking of peri-urban livelihoods and landscapes	15
State capitalism and capital markets: Comparing securities exchanges in emerging markets	15
Social impact bonds and fast policy: Analyzing the Australian experience	14
Still in the shadow of the wall? The case of the Berlin biotechnology cluster	14
The US–China rivalry and the emergence of state platform capitalism	14
The economic returns of decentralisation: Government quality and the role of space	14
Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies	13
Visualising regional inequalities in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic in England and Wales	13
Geography and the theory of uneven and combined development: Theorizing uniqueness and the return of China	13
The gendered impact of the financial crisis: Struggles over social reproduction in Greece	13
Potential rents vs. potential lives	13
Inscriptions of resilience: Bond ratings and the government of climate risk in Greater Miami, Florida	13
Short-term rentals as a new urban frontier – evidence from European cities	12
Speculative urbanism and the urban-financial conjuncture: Interrogating the afterlives of the financial crisis	12
Should internal migrants be held accountable for spreading COVID-19?	12
Platformed professionalization: Labor, assets, and earning a livelihood through Airbnb	12
Housing, place and populism: Towards a research agenda	12
Capital accumulation, territoriality, and the reproduction of state sovereignty in China: Is this “new” state capitalism?	12
Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics	12
Can gentrification theory learn from Airbnb? Airbnbfication and the asset economy in Reykjavík	12
Circulation and containment in the knowledge-based economy: Transnational education zones in Dubai and Qatar	11
The secondary circuit of capital and the making of the suburban property boom in postcrisis Chinese cities	11
The work of hope: Spiritualizing, hustling and waiting in the creative industries in Ghana	11
Post-great recession municipal budgeting and governance: A mixed methods analysis of budget stress and reform	11
Making space for the new state capitalism, part I: Working with a troublesome category	11
Visualizing the regional patterns of two crises: The COVID-19 outbreak and decreasing MSME sales during three different phases of 2020 in Korea	11

The role and significance of planning in the determination of house prices in Australia: Recent policy debates	11
What kind of global city? Circulating policies for ‘slum’ upgrading in the making of world-class Buenos Aires	11
Qujing (取经) as policy mobility with Chinese characteristics: A case study of ultralow-energy building policy in China	10
Short-term rentals and the rentier growth coalition in Pollença (Majorca)	10
A political ecology of speculative urbanism: The role of financial and environmental speculation in Jakarta’s water crisis	10
Imprinting the economy: The structural power of venture capital	10
Mapping the changing Internet attention to the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 in China	10
Food supply chains and the antimicrobial resistance challenge: On the framing, accomplishments and limitations of corporate responsibility	10
The social lives of network effects: Speculation and risk in Jakarta's platform economy	10
Drawing up the missing link: State-society relations and the remaking of urban landscapes in Chinese cities	10
Motives for foreign direct investment location in Europe and EU enlargement	10
The politics of comparing capitalisms	10
A win-win situation? Urban regeneration and the paradox of homeowner displacement	10
Everyday experiences of digital financial inclusion in India's ‘micro-entrepreneur’ paratransit services	10
Is capitalism structurally indifferent to gender?: Routes to a value theory of reproductive labour	10
Where to buy a house in the United States amid COVID-19?	9
A practice ontology approach to labor control regimes in GPNs: Connecting ‘sites of labor control’ in the Bangalore export garment cluster	9
Local supplier firms in Madagascar’s apparel export industry: Upgrading paths, transnational social relations and regional production networks	9
Reluctant financialisaton: Financialisaton without financialised subjectivities in Hungary and the United States	9
Governance of resettlement compensation and the cultural fix in rural China	9
Southern actors and the governance of labour standards in global production networks: The case of South African fruit and wine	9
Rental proptech platforms: Changing landlord and tenant power relations in the UK private rental sector?	9
Functional division and location choices of Chinese outward FDI: The case of ICT firms	9
Grasping transformative regional development – Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions	9
Evade neoliberalism’s turnstiles! Lessons from the Chilean Estallido Social	9
‘Going Karura’: Colliding subjectivities and labour struggle in Nairobi's gig economy	9
Hybrid governance and extraterritoriality: Understanding Singapore's state capitalism in the context of oil global production networks	8
Making sense of ‘maker’: Work, identity, and affect in the maker movement	8
What’s next? Trump, Johnson, and globalizing capitalism	8
Variegated transitions: Emerging forms of land and resource capitalism in Laos and Myanmar	8
Everyday mobility as a vulnerability marker: The uneven reaction to coronavirus lockdown in Russia	8
Territorial stigmatisation beyond the city: Habitus, affordances and landscapes of industrial ruination	8
The geographies of the institutional and industrial constraints on the financialization of German brewing	8
The new whole state system: Reinventing the Chinese state to promote innovation	8
Automotive regions in transition: Preparing for connected and automated vehicles	8
Racial platform capitalism: Empire, migration and the making of Uber in London	8
Global technology companies and the politics of urban socio-technical imaginaries in the digital age: Processual proxies, Trojan horses and global beachheads	8
Articulation work: Value chains of land assembly and real estate development on a peri-urban frontier	8
Labour, Efficiency, Critique: writing the plantation into the technological present-future	8
Financializing nursing homes? The uneven development of Health Care REITs in France, the United Kingdom and Japan	8
Solo self-employment, entrepreneurial subjectivity and the security–precarity continuum: Evidence from private tutors in the supplementary education industry	8
‘Locked in the Rat Race’: Variegated financial subjectivities in the United Kingdom	8
Value magic	8
The proximity and dynamics of intercity technology transfers in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area: Evidence from patent transfer networks	8
Legal affordances in global wealth chains: How platform firms use legal and spatial scaling	8
Situating financialisation in the geographies of neoliberal housing restructuring: reflections from Ireland and Australia	8
Geographies of qualification in the global fine wine market	8