OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Regional Science is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The longer the daily commute to school, the lower the student attendance: evidence from Brazil	38
Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State	37
How does digital transformation affect the emissions of environmental pollutants? From the perspective of nonlinear nexuses	26
Willingness to pay for green buildings post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak: differences between high- and low-income areas and high- and low-price settlements	25
Economic consequences of inland waterway disruptions in the Upper Mississippi River region in a changing climate	23
Structural stability of regional attractiveness: a case study of Japan	23
Long-term attitudes toward science in Italian regions: the influence of religion	23
The shifting relationship between educational attainment and poverty: analysis of seven deep southern states	21
Innovation and regional economic convergence: evidence from China	16
A decision-support framework for industrial green transformation: empirical analysis of the northeast industrial district in China	15
Does private education pay off?	15
Reexamining a classical question: Does development push migration?	14
Government employment and local multipliers in Greek municipalities	14
Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space, and long-run dynamics	14
What factors contribute to uneven suburbanisation? Predicting the number of migrants from Warsaw to its suburbs with machine learning	13
Social capital and the internal mobility of graduates: a gravity model at the Italian provincial level	12
Exploring variations in local land use regulations in the U.S.: What matters and at what level?	12
Residential segregation patterns in Istanbul: internal and international migrant profiles	12
Modelling health mobility for equity distribution services in the emergency health sector	12
The spatial spillover effect of carbon emission trading scheme on green innovation in China’s cities	11
Remote work and location preferences: a study of post-pandemic trends in Italy	11
Is Europe prepared to live without emissions? A dynamic analysis of the energy transition in economic sectors	11
The role of employment, labour productivity and trade linkages in the evolution of European regional disparities	11
Income inequality in Italian regions: an empirical study on the mitigating role of organisation-based volunteering	11
The relationship between patriotism and regional identification: a cross-country analysis	10

Migrations in Spain: econometric models with demographic and economic variables (1950–2021)	10
Skill-related thickness and employment growth in China’s urban labour market	10
Social capital and regional innovation in the aftermath of crisis: evidence from Italian provinces	10
Does FDI quality boost the city-level green total factor productivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China?	10
What makes German manufacturing plants move locations?	10
The impact of 2010–11 Christchurch earthquakes on the individuals’ income by sector and income level	10
Employment protection and regional self-employment rates in an economic downturn: a multilevel analysis	10
Space and technology in catching-up economies: “the city as a laboratory for innovation”	9
Correction to: Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State	9
Simple geographies for complex problems? Revisiting long-term urbanization and settlement population mismatches using elasticity indicators and context-based nonparametric analysis	9
Exploring the direct rebound effects for residential electricity demand in urban environments: evidence from Nice	9
Uneven spatial patterns and disparate socioeconomic impacts of intercity labor mobility in China	9
The growth and development of Nordic regional science research 1982–2022: bibliometric evidence from thirteen regional science journals	9
An uneven landscape of public services for people of color: identifying endogeneity in the relationship between local race composition and public expenditure	8
The impact of short-term rental activity on house prices: evidence from coastal Virginia	8
Understanding rural development policies: a proposal for a typology of the seven main policy repertoires in Europe and locally, based on French case studies	8
Forecasting inflation in a warming world: regional heterogeneity and machine learning evidence from Asia	8
Entrepreneurial ecosystems in conflict regions: evidence from Ukraine	8
Regional patterns of growth during the Great Recession: the limits of resilience analysis to understand a systemic crisis	8
Uncovering the impact of cultural heritage on economic growth: empirical evidence from Greek regions, 2000–2019	8
Heterogeneous labour market trajectories in the EU: convergence, divergence and stagnation across regions	8
Digital divide and income inequality: causal evidence from Italian provinces	8
Welfare costs of shopping trips	8
Unveiling core-periphery disparities through multidimensional spatial resilience maps	8
The spatial dimension of ageing and growth in European regions	7
Can digital economy reshape urban spatial structure? Evidence from the perspective of urban sprawl	7
The emergence of artificial intelligence in European regions: the role of a local ICT base	7
Inter-municipal cooperation and public employment: evidence from French municipalities	7
Regional income convergence and conditioning factors in Turkey: revisiting the role of spatial dependence and neighbor effects	7
Unveiling urban spatial dynamics in climate and air quality indicators: a local estimation of the environmental Kuznets curve and the impact of green infrastructure	6
Introduction to the special issue on the centenary of the birth of Charles M. Tiebout	6
Intra-city Tiebout: the economic consequences of crossed borders	6
Analysis of the income effect by the digital divide: focus on Korean farmers	6
Ranking the Spanish regions according to their resilience capacity during 1965–2011	6
EU funds and TFP growth: how the impact changed over time and space	6
Face-to-face contact and university–industry collaboration: evidence from mobile signaling data in Beijing	6
Do city borders constrain ethnic diversity?	6
Exploring Okun’s Law during COVID-19: did divergent US state responses shape economic shifts?	6
Public good provision and progressive income taxation in a spatial economy	6
Welcome to the Punch. Local exposure to refugees and hate events in Italy	6
Effects on sectors and regions of a carbon tax increase in Sweden: analysis with an SCGE model	6
Estimation of global and regional patterns of flows	6
Does intermunicipal cooperation favor higher firm creation? French evidence from a natural experiment	6
Climate change, carbon neutrality: the role of spatial economics	5
KIBS agglomeration and labor productivity in the Chilean mining sector	5
Unveiling dynamic economic resilience: a commercial district-level analysis of sales recovery in Seoul, Korea	5
Correction: Tracking the peacocks: a gravity analysis of the Chinese migration system, 1990–2020	5
The relationship between decentralization and economic growth across regimes	5
Anxiety about the pandemic and trust in financial markets	5
Industrial robots, social networks, and the gig economy	5

The rise and fall of urban concentration in Britain: Zipf, Gibrat and Gini across two centuries	5
The uneven geography of the health system and its effect on the individual probability of death by COVID-19	5
Reconstructing high-quality tourism spatial structure: an empirical study of Shanxi Province from the perspective of supply and demand	5
How does regional integration affect CO2 emission intensity? A natural experiment based on the expansion of the Yangtze River Delta, China	5
Knowledge flows through text data: the case of Milan’s tech ecosystem	5
Where does ethnic discrimination occur most intensely? the role of city size and location in labour discrimination: the Ecuadorian case	5
Social capital and rural development: an introduction to the special issue	5
Building traction for challenge-led innovation policy: the promise of local missions	5
Land-cover/land-use change dynamics modeling based on land change modeler	5