OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space is 11. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Winners of the Ashby Prizes	103
Unravelling neighbourhood change: Decomposing the effects of residential mobility and incumbent change on credit access in California	98
Governing through ESG and the green spirit of asset manager capitalism	93
Financialization and local statecraft: Truth and consequences	61
The geometry of (anti)imperialism in food regime analysis	55
Becoming ‘ farazat’ : Re-examining feminisation from a Tunis used clothes sorting factory	47
The multiple-theories problem: The case of spatial industrial clustering	45
The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier	45
Uneven and combined development in anthropology	44
Reformulating theories of ‘accumulation by dispossession’: ‘Contested accumulations through displacement’ in postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan	43
The political: A view from Jakarta’s kampungs	42
Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure	40
Reorienting new state capitalism to food and agriculture	38
Planning deregulation and commodification: How is housing precarity structurally encouraged through Permitted Development Rights?	37
Patterns of opportunity spaces and agency across regional contexts: Conditions and drivers for change	37
Working with and against climate finance	36
Introduction: Critical approaches to rentiership	35
Adaptable state-controlled market actors: Underwriters and investors in the market of local government bonds in China	33
The blockchain challenge for Sweden's housing and mortgage markets	33
The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing	32
Grasping transformative regional development – Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions	31
Racialized downgrading and upgrading: Dis/articulation and the Fijian kava commodity chain	30
The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading: Lessons from the Prosecco and Valpolicella wine value chains in Italy	29
From homes to assets: Transcalar territorial networks and the financialization of build to rent in Greater Manchester	29
Shifting baselines: From austerity to additionality in the mangrove forest	28

Whither hydrocarbons? The rescaling of global oil and gas markets amidst COVID-19 and a contested transition	28
On the need for caution in using ‘big data’ for built environment research: A response to Chng et al. (2024)	28
Crops, claims and the politics of risk in India’s agricultural insurance programme	28
Introduction: Uneven development and social difference in capitalism	27
Articulations: Production and social reproduction in an industrial neighborhood of Delhi	27
Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development	27
An empirically grounded conceptual framework of the determinants of economic resilience: Insights from seven major Canadian regions	27
The firm-territory nexus in a fragmented economy: Scales of global value and wealth chain entanglement	26
Theories of capitalism and coloniality in world systems analysis, the Dar es Salaam School of history and the New Indian Labour History	24
The economic returns of decentralisation: Government quality and the role of space	24
Extended state infrastructure power in an age of networked competition: The cases of Thailand and Taiwan	24
“Cowboy up”: Gender, labor, and workforce housing in Colorado ski country	24
Does capitalism drive towards the commodification of everything?	23
Multiple binds and forbidden pleasures: Writing as poaching at French universities	22
Uncertainty in the drylands: Rethinking in/formal insurance from pastoral East Africa	21
‘We’re just an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’: Strategies and (a)politics of change in Berlin's community food spaces	21
Dilemmas of 21st century land value capture: Examining Henry George’s legacy in a new Gilded Age	21
A double-edged sword: The conditional properties of elite network ties in the financial sector	21
The ontological politics of kosher food: Between strict orthodoxy and global markets	21
Curating an ‘educational environment’: Commercial libraries, new entrepreneurs and shifting geographies of education in India	21
Who owns and controls global capital? Uneven geographies of asset manager capitalism	20
Tracing the flow of money to reveal spatial effects and inequalities in cash transfer programmes	20
Corrigendum	20
Decarbonization debt and energy rents: On the limits of mobilizing private climate finance for housing decarbonization	20
Alone and lonely. The economic cost of solitude for regions in Europe	19
Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market	18
Real estate valuations, heritage branding and the construction of the world’s most expensive city	18
Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India	18
‘Commodification of everything’ arguments in the social sciences: Variants, specification, evaluation, critique	18
Livelihood upgrading in global production networks: Household commodity producers in an Indonesian Coastal Community	18
Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns	18
Fictional, yet real: Worlding informality in cities of the Global South	18
A borderland analytic: Thinking uneven development from the U.S.–Mexico borderlands	18
Firm decline and the mobility of US inventors, 1976–2015	17
Rethinking job loss in an age of assetisation: Lessons from the study of precarious older workers	17
At the territorial roots of global processes: Heterogeneous modes of regional involvement in Global Value Chains	17
From policy to institution: Implementing land reform in Dar es Salaam’s unplanned settlements	17
Contested values of development: Experiencing commodification of livelihoods through displacement and resettlement in Mozambique	16
Immaterial animals and financialized forests: Asset manager capitalism, ESG integration and the politics of livestock	16
The fragile ‘art’ of multi-apping: Resilience and snapping in the gig economy	16
Measuring mass displacement of urban renewal in Shenzhen, China: Using longitudinal mobile phone trajectory data	16
Urban-rural hierarchy, rural agency, and planetary thinking: Learning from a village in China	16
The fragility of public-private labour governance in times of crisis: The Sri Lankan apparel industry in post-pandemic times	15
Municipal structural adjustment: For an institutional analysis of global development finance	15
The law, financial subordination and the empire of capital: On Shaina Potts’ Judicial Territory	15
Geographies of devaluation: Spatialities of the German coal exit	14
Back to the office: How proximity survived the pandemic in financial centres	14
Managing overaccumulation: China’s new affordable rental housing programme and its financialization through REITs	14
Soft space development against territorial-bounded governance logics: The case of Shenzhen-Shanwei Cooperation Zone	14
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism	13

The geoeconomics of globalization 2.0	13
Platform freedom: Financial subjectivity at the nexus of investment and social media	13
Territorial stigmatization and housing commodification under racial neoliberalism: The case of Denmark's ‘ghettos’	13
Decolonising polycrisis: Southern perspectives on interlocking crises	13
The proximity and dynamics of intercity technology transfers in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area: Evidence from patent transfer networks	13
An economy in the making: Negotiating capitalist and beyond-capitalist ontologies and relations in makerspaces	12
Intercity coopetition and regional innovation: The role of urban polycentricity	12
The drunkard’s intention lies not on the wine: Reinterpreting culture-led urban redevelopment in China amidst profound regime changes	12
Towards a pragmatist economic geography	12
Multiple logics in financialisation? Moving to carbon sustainability in build-to-rent development	12
Land, values and valuation work: Moral imaginaries of land markets in England and Germany	12
The state as a market maker: The rise (and fall) of Brazilian securitization in the 21st century	12
Boom, bust, churn: Prison closure and prison expansion in New South Wales, Australia	12
Doing economics differently	12
Inclusive growth, public transit infrastructure investments and neighbourhood trajectories of inequality in Montreal	11
Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa	11
Planning incapacitated: Environmental planning and the political ecology of austerity	11
Locating online labour: The salience of the national scale in remote digital work	11
Speeding up, slowing down, losing grip: On digital media metronomes and timespace friction in the platformised temporalities of fashion design	11
An abundance of caution for a ‘stagnation nation’? Financial services policy development in post-growth Britain	11
Social reproduction and public finance: A comparative study of TIF in California and Chicago	11
Authoritarian state capitalism: Spatial planning and the megaproject in Russia	11
The expansion of China’s market margins: Navigating contingencies and conjunctures	11
Territorial development in Bavaria between spatial justice and austere federalism: A historical-materialist policy analysis of Bavarian regional development politics and policies, 2008–2018	11
‘Risk on steroids’: Investing in the hydrogen economy	11
Interfaces of precarity and the networks of precarious lifeworlds: Experiences of housing, social supports, and work in youth homelessness	11