OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Regional Science is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Firm growth in the Portuguese footwear industry: the location dilemma	36
The longer the daily commute to school, the lower the student attendance: evidence from Brazil	32
A decision-support framework for industrial green transformation: empirical analysis of the northeast industrial district in China	25
Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State	21
The shifting relationship between educational attainment and poverty: analysis of seven deep southern states	21
How does digital transformation affect the emissions of environmental pollutants? From the perspective of nonlinear nexuses	21
Does private education pay off?	20
Willingness to pay for green buildings post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak: differences between high- and low-income areas and high- and low-price settlements	20
Long-term attitudes toward science in Italian regions: the influence of religion	19
Structural stability of regional attractiveness: a case study of Japan	18
Economic consequences of inland waterway disruptions in the Upper Mississippi River region in a changing climate	16
Innovation and regional economic convergence: evidence from China	15
Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space, and long-run dynamics	14
Government employment and local multipliers in Greek municipalities	14
Reexamining a classical question: Does development push migration?	13
Modelling health mobility for equity distribution services in the emergency health sector	12
What makes German manufacturing plants move locations?	11
Residential segregation patterns in Istanbul: internal and international migrant profiles	11
Exploring variations in local land use regulations in the U.S.: What matters and at what level?	11
Economic vulnerability in US metropolitan areas	11
What factors contribute to uneven suburbanisation? Predicting the number of migrants from Warsaw to its suburbs with machine learning	11
Social capital and the internal mobility of graduates: a gravity model at the Italian provincial level	11
Income inequality in Italian regions: an empirical study on the mitigating role of organisation-based volunteering	10
The spatial spillover effect of carbon emission trading scheme on green innovation in China’s cities	10
The role of employment, labour productivity and trade linkages in the evolution of European regional disparities	10

Remote work and location preferences: a study of post-pandemic trends in Italy	10
Is Europe prepared to live without emissions? A dynamic analysis of the energy transition in economic sectors	10
Employment protection and regional self-employment rates in an economic downturn: a multilevel analysis	9
The impact of 2010–11 Christchurch earthquakes on the individuals’ income by sector and income level	9
Simple geographies for complex problems? Revisiting long-term urbanization and settlement population mismatches using elasticity indicators and context-based nonparametric analysis	9
Skill-related thickness and employment growth in China’s urban labour market	9
Does FDI quality boost the city-level green total factor productivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China?	9
Social capital and regional innovation in the aftermath of crisis: evidence from Italian provinces	9
Migrations in Spain: econometric models with demographic and economic variables (1950–2021)	9
Dynamics of collaboration among high-growth firms: results from an agent-based policy simulation	9
The relationship between patriotism and regional identification: a cross-country analysis	9
Uneven spatial patterns and disparate socioeconomic impacts of intercity labor mobility in China	9
Space and technology in catching-up economies: “the city as a laboratory for innovation”	8
An uneven landscape of public services for people of color: identifying endogeneity in the relationship between local race composition and public expenditure	8
The growth and development of Nordic regional science research 1982–2022: bibliometric evidence from thirteen regional science journals	8
Digital divide and income inequality: causal evidence from Italian provinces	8
Exploring the direct rebound effects for residential electricity demand in urban environments: evidence from Nice	8
Correction to: Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State	8
The impact of short-term rental activity on house prices: evidence from coastal Virginia	8
Heterogeneous labour market trajectories in the EU: convergence, divergence and stagnation across regions	8
The spatiotemporal effects of green fiscal expenditure on low-carbon transition: empirical evidence from china’s low-carbon pilot cities	7
Understanding rural development policies: a proposal for a typology of the seven main policy repertoires in Europe and locally, based on French case studies	7
Uncovering the impact of cultural heritage on economic growth: empirical evidence from Greek regions, 2000–2019	7
Welfare costs of shopping trips	7
Entrepreneurial ecosystems in conflict regions: evidence from Ukraine	7
Regional patterns of growth during the Great Recession: the limits of resilience analysis to understand a systemic crisis	7
Integrating perspectives for conversations on territory: turning to indigenous knowledge to inform policy and practice	7
Forecasting inflation in a warming world: regional heterogeneity and machine learning evidence from Asia	7
The emergence of artificial intelligence in European regions: the role of a local ICT base	7
Regional income convergence and conditioning factors in Turkey: revisiting the role of spatial dependence and neighbor effects	6
Effects on sectors and regions of a carbon tax increase in Sweden: analysis with an SCGE model	6
Exploring Okun’s Law during COVID-19: did divergent US state responses shape economic shifts?	6
Can digital economy reshape urban spatial structure? Evidence from the perspective of urban sprawl	6
Inter-municipal cooperation and public employment: evidence from French municipalities	6
Introduction to the special issue on the centenary of the birth of Charles M. Tiebout	6
The spatial dimension of ageing and growth in European regions	6
Unveiling core-periphery disparities through multidimensional spatial resilience maps	6
Do municipal mergers internalise spatial spillover effects? empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities	6
Face-to-face contact and university–industry collaboration: evidence from mobile signaling data in Beijing	6
Estimation of global and regional patterns of flows	5
Do city borders constrain ethnic diversity?	5
EU funds and TFP growth: how the impact changed over time and space	5
Unveiling urban spatial dynamics in climate and air quality indicators: a local estimation of the environmental Kuznets curve and the impact of green infrastructure	5
Climate change, carbon neutrality: the role of spatial economics	5
Intra-city Tiebout: the economic consequences of crossed borders	5
An aggregate approach to estimating quality of life in micropolitan areas	5
Does intermunicipal cooperation favor higher firm creation? French evidence from a natural experiment	5
Welcome to the Punch. Local exposure to refugees and hate events in Italy	5
Ranking the Spanish regions according to their resilience capacity during 1965–2011	5
Analysis of the income effect by the digital divide: focus on Korean farmers	5

Public good provision and progressive income taxation in a spatial economy	5
Anxiety about the pandemic and trust in financial markets	5
Industrial robots, social networks, and the gig economy	4
Where does ethnic discrimination occur most intensely? the role of city size and location in labour discrimination: the Ecuadorian case	4
How does regional integration affect CO2 emission intensity? A natural experiment based on the expansion of the Yangtze River Delta, China	4
The National Civilized City campaign and corporate green innovation: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	4
The relationship between decentralization and economic growth across regimes	4
The path to regional coordinated development: unexpected benefits from government seat relocation	4
Rural spillover and urban hospital overwhelm: lessons from COVID-19	4
Strengths and weaknesses of EU regional reactivity to shocks	4
How do regional price levels affect income inequality? Household-level evidence from countries worldwide	4
Social capital and rural development: an introduction to the special issue	4
KIBS agglomeration and labor productivity in the Chilean mining sector	4
A bibliometric portrait of a regional science scholar: in memory of professor Börje Johansson	4
Non-economic motivation for international migration: a decennial investigation of Korean family migration to the U.S.	4
Revisiting the growth poles: regional disparity and population redistribution policy	4
The rise and fall of urban concentration in Britain: Zipf, Gibrat and Gini across two centuries	4
A decomposition of economic growth decompositions	4
Occupational concentration and specialized knowledge: evidence from census of India	4
The uneven geography of the health system and its effect on the individual probability of death by COVID-19	4
Unveiling dynamic economic resilience: a commercial district-level analysis of sales recovery in Seoul, Korea	4
Land-cover/land-use change dynamics modeling based on land change modeler	4
Building traction for challenge-led innovation policy: the promise of local missions	4
Regional economic resilience, adaptive capacity, and underlying factors: insights from Canadian regions during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Knowledge flows through text data: the case of Milan’s tech ecosystem	4
The impact of high-speed railway on labor market between the North and South: evidence from China	4
Location attributes explaining the entry of firms in creative industries: evidence from France	4
Dynamics of regional knowledge creation and inter-city R&D collaboration in China: evidence from an empirical agent-based simulation model	4
Reconstructing high-quality tourism spatial structure: an empirical study of Shanxi Province from the perspective of supply and demand	4
Correction: Tracking the peacocks: a gravity analysis of the Chinese migration system, 1990–2020	4