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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Uneven and combined state capitalism	69
Neoliberal disease: COVID-19, co-pathogenesis and global health insecurities	60
Social capital and economic growth in the regions of Europe	54
Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia	46
The emergence of a Build to Rent model: The role of narratives and discourses	43
Mobile workers, contingent labour: Migration, the gig economy and the multiplication of labour	42
Contingent infrastructure and the dilution of ‘Chineseness’: Reframing roads and rail in Kampala and Addis Ababa	40
Shrinking cities in China: Evidence from the latest two population censuses 2010–2020	39
Towards an urban degrowth: Habitability, finity and polycentric autonomism	38
The trouble with global production networks	38
Gig work as migrant work: The platformization of migration infrastructure	38
Bypass urbanism: Re-ordering center-periphery relations in Kolkata, Lagos and Mexico City	37
Professionalisation of short-term rentals and emergent tourism gentrification in post-crisis Thessaloniki	35
Platform capitalism and cloud infrastructure: Theorizing a hyper-scalable computing regime	34
Municipal Statecraft For The Smart City: Retooling The Smart Entrepreneurial City?	33
Shrinking cities on the globe: Evidence from LandScan 2000–2019	28
The materiality of precarity: Gender, race and energy infrastructure in urban South Africa	25
The US–China rivalry and the emergence of state platform capitalism	24
Between the colossal and the catastrophic: Planetary urbanization and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease	24
Surplus to the city: Austerity urbanism, displacement and ‘letting die’	24
Beyond rentiership: Standardisation, intangibles and value capture in global production	24
More work for Big Mother: Revaluing care and control in smart homes	24
State capitalism and capital markets: Comparing securities exchanges in emerging markets	23
Democratizing finance with Robinhood: Financial infrastructure, interface design and platform capitalism	23
Making space for the new state capitalism, part I: Working with a troublesome category	21

Placing the Foundational Economy: An emerging discourse for post-neoliberal economic development	21
A critique of innovation districts: Entrepreneurial living and the burden of shouldering urban development	21
Economic resilience during COVID-19: An insight from permanent business closures	20
Racial platform capitalism: Empire, migration and the making of Uber in London	20
Capital accumulation, territoriality, and the reproduction of state sovereignty in China: Is this “new” state capitalism?	20
The structural deficit of the Olympics and the World Cup: Comparing costs against revenues over time	20
Inscriptions of resilience: Bond ratings and the government of climate risk in Greater Miami, Florida	20
Visualizing clustering characteristics of multidimensional arable land quality indexes at the county level in mainland China	19
Rental proptech platforms: Changing landlord and tenant power relations in the UK private rental sector?	19
Everyday speculation in the remaking of peri-urban livelihoods and landscapes	19
Imprinting the economy: The structural power of venture capital	17
Contesting the financialisation of remittances: Repertoires of reluctance, refusal and dissent in Ghana and Senegal	17
Capitalist crisis in the “age of global value chains”	16
The economic returns of decentralisation: Government quality and the role of space	16
The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism	16
Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies	16
Beyond crisis? Using rent theory to understand the restructuring of publicly funded seniors’ care in British Columbia, Canada	16
Circulation and containment in the knowledge-based economy: Transnational education zones in Dubai and Qatar	16
Potential rents vs. potential lives	16
Speculative urbanism and the urban-financial conjuncture: Interrogating the afterlives of the financial crisis	16
Grasping transformative regional development – Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions	16
The social lives of network effects: Speculation and risk in Jakarta's platform economy	15
Automotive regions in transition: Preparing for connected and automated vehicles	14
Platformed professionalization: Labor, assets, and earning a livelihood through Airbnb	14
Can gentrification theory learn from Airbnb? Airbnbfication and the asset economy in Reykjavík	14
Short-term rentals as a new urban frontier – evidence from European cities	14
‘This isn’t forever for me’: Perceived employability and migrant gig work in Norway and Sweden	14
Is capitalism structurally indifferent to gender?: Routes to a value theory of reproductive labour	14
Geography and the theory of uneven and combined development: Theorizing uniqueness and the return of China	14
Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics	14
State capitalism, capitalist statism: Sovereign wealth funds and the geopolitics of London’s real estate market	14
Hybrid governance and extraterritoriality: Understanding Singapore's state capitalism in the context of oil global production networks	13
From homes to assets: Transcalar territorial networks and the financialization of build to rent in Greater Manchester	13
Housing, place and populism: Towards a research agenda	13
Short-term rentals and the rentier growth coalition in Pollença (Majorca)	13
The new whole state system: Reinventing the Chinese state to promote innovation	13
Trapped in the platform: Migration and precarity in China's platform-based gig economy	13
Visualising regional inequalities in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic in England and Wales	12
Food supply chains and the antimicrobial resistance challenge: On the framing, accomplishments and limitations of corporate responsibility	12
Post-great recession municipal budgeting and governance: A mixed methods analysis of budget stress and reform	12
The geography of business angel investments in the UK: Does local bias (still) matter?	12
The politics of comparing capitalisms	12
A win-win situation? Urban regeneration and the paradox of homeowner displacement	12
The role and significance of planning in the determination of house prices in Australia: Recent policy debates	12
Stratified pathways into platform work: Migration trajectories and skills in Berlin’s gig economy	12
Crowding Out Development: Fiscal Federalism after the Great Recession	12
Everyday experiences of digital financial inclusion in India's ‘micro-entrepreneur’ paratransit services	12
Drawing up the missing link: State-society relations and the remaking of urban landscapes in Chinese cities	12
The secondary circuit of capital and the making of the suburban property boom in postcrisis Chinese cities	11
Labour, Efficiency, Critique: writing the plantation into the technological present-future	11

Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace: Markets, EdTech, and the spaces of schooling	11
‘Locked in the Rat Race’: Variegated financial subjectivities in the United Kingdom	11
An antitrust framework for housing	11
Ten theses on the new state capitalism and its futures	11
What kind of global city? Circulating policies for ‘slum’ upgrading in the making of world-class Buenos Aires	11
Law’s place in economic geography: Time, space, and methods	11
The proximity and dynamics of intercity technology transfers in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area: Evidence from patent transfer networks	11
A political ecology of speculative urbanism: The role of financial and environmental speculation in Jakarta’s water crisis	11
Financializing nursing homes? The uneven development of Health Care REITs in France, the United Kingdom and Japan	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
Value magic	10
Territorial stigmatisation beyond the city: Habitus, affordances and landscapes of industrial ruination	10
A practice ontology approach to labor control regimes in GPNs: Connecting ‘sites of labor control’ in the Bangalore export garment cluster	10
Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development	10
‘Going Karura’: Colliding subjectivities and labour struggle in Nairobi's gig economy	10
Southern actors and the governance of labour standards in global production networks: The case of South African fruit and wine	10
The accountancy of marketisation: Fictional markets in housing land supply	10
Evade neoliberalism’s turnstiles! Lessons from the Chilean Estallido Social	10
Functional division and location choices of Chinese outward FDI: The case of ICT firms	10
Articulation work: Value chains of land assembly and real estate development on a peri-urban frontier	10
Solo self-employment, entrepreneurial subjectivity and the security–precarity continuum: Evidence from private tutors in the supplementary education industry	9
State, capitalism and infrastructure-led development: A multi-scalar analysis of the Belgrade-Budapest railway construction	9
Territorial stigmatization and housing commodification under racial neoliberalism: The case of Denmark's ‘ghettos’	9
Returns to migration after job loss—The importance of job match	9
‘The whole of Shirebrook got put on an ASBO’: The co-production of territorial stigma in a former colliery town	9
Authoritarian state capitalism: Spatial planning and the megaproject in Russia	9
The new luxury freeports: Offshore storage, tax avoidance, and ‘invisible’ art	9
Introduction: Critical approaches to rentiership	9
Financialisation, central banks and ‘new’ state capitalism: The case of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England	9
Platformed distinction work: Rethinking the migration and integration of food delivery workers in China	9
Duplicitous debtscapes: Unveiling social impact investment for microfinance	9
Racial capitalism, coloniality and the financialization of Caribbean remittances	9
Follow the money	9
Negotiating the Wild West: Variegated neoliberalisation of the Swedish labour migration regime and the wild berry migration industry	9
Sustaining urban labour markets: Situating migration and domestic work in India's ‘gig’ economy	9
Silicon Savannahs and motorcycle taxis: A Southern perspective on the frontiers of platform urbanism	8
Everyday mobility as a vulnerability marker: The uneven reaction to coronavirus lockdown in Russia	8
Beyond death and taxes: Fiscal studies and the fiscal state	8
A very British state capitalism: Variegation, political connections and bailouts during the COVID-19 crisis	8
Searching for housing in the digital age: Neighborhood representation on internet rental housing platforms across space, platform, and metropolitan segregation	8
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism	8
The spatiality of collective action and organization among platform workers in Spain and Chile	8
From crisis to the everyday: Shouldn't we all be writing economies?	8
Visualising internal migration flows across local authorities in England and Wales	8
Global technology companies and the politics of urban socio-technical imaginaries in the digital age: Processual proxies, Trojan horses and global beachheads	8
Legal affordances in global wealth chains: How platform firms use legal and spatial scaling	8
Legitimacy and the extraordinary growth of ESG measures and metrics in the global investment management industry	8
Mega-urban politics: Analyzing the infrastructure turn through the national state lens	8