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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Firm growth in the Portuguese footwear industry: the location dilemma	35
The longer the daily commute to school, the lower the student attendance: evidence from Brazil	32
The shifting relationship between educational attainment and poverty: analysis of seven deep southern states	28
A decision-support framework for industrial green transformation: empirical analysis of the northeast industrial district in China	27
Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State	25
Innovation and regional economic convergence: evidence from China	21
How does digital transformation affect the emissions of environmental pollutants? From the perspective of nonlinear nexuses	21
Economic consequences of inland waterway disruptions in the Upper Mississippi River region in a changing climate	21
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
Does private education pay off?	17
Structural stability of regional attractiveness: a case study of Japan	17
Regional income convergence in Colombia: population, space, and long-run dynamics	16
Government employment and local multipliers in Greek municipalities	15
Reexamining a classical question: Does development push migration?	14
Self-employment career patterns in the Netherlands: exploring individual and regional differences	13
Social capital and the internal mobility of graduates: a gravity model at the Italian provincial level	13
Modelling health mobility for equity distribution services in the emergency health sector	12
Residential segregation patterns in Istanbul: internal and international migrant profiles	12
Economic vulnerability in US metropolitan areas	12
Geographical accessibility to upper secondary education: an Italian regional case study	11
How regional economic structure matters in the era of COVID-19: resilience capacity of U.S. states	11
What factors contribute to uneven suburbanisation? Predicting the number of migrants from Warsaw to its suburbs with machine learning	11
The role of employment, labour productivity and trade linkages in the evolution of European regional disparities	10
What makes German manufacturing plants move locations?	10

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

Public good provision and progressive income taxation in a spatial economy	5
Climate change, carbon neutrality: the role of spatial economics	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
Do city borders constrain ethnic diversity?	5
An aggregate approach to estimating quality of life in micropolitan areas	5
KIBS agglomeration and labor productivity in the Chilean mining sector	5
Anxiety about the pandemic and trust in financial markets	5
Cooperation bias in regional policy: Is competition neglected?	5
Reconstructing high-quality tourism spatial structure: an empirical study of Shanxi Province from the perspective of supply and demand	4
Non-economic motivation for international migration: a decennial investigation of Korean family migration to the U.S.	4
Unveiling dynamic economic resilience: a commercial district-level analysis of sales recovery in Seoul, Korea	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 relationship between decentralization and economic growth across regimes	4
A decomposition of economic growth decompositions	4
The uneven geography of the health system and its effect on the individual probability of death by COVID-19	4
The impact of high-speed railway on labor market between the North and South: evidence from China	4
Strengths and weaknesses of EU regional reactivity to shocks	4
Land-cover/land-use change dynamics modeling based on land change modeler	4
Welcome to the Punch. Local exposure to refugees and hate events in Italy	4
How do regional price levels affect income inequality? Household-level evidence from countries worldwide	4
The width and depth of local exports: spatial and cross-sectoral effects on firm entry, survival and growth	4
Location attributes explaining the entry of firms in creative industries: evidence from France	4
Occupational concentration and specialized knowledge: evidence from census of India	4
Correction: Tracking the peacocks: a gravity analysis of the Chinese migration system, 1990–2020	4
Rural spillover and urban hospital overwhelm: lessons from COVID-19	4
Social capital and rural development: an introduction to the special issue	4
The rise and fall of urban concentration in Britain: Zipf, Gibrat and Gini across two centuries	4
Building traction for challenge-led innovation policy: the promise of local missions	4
Dynamics of regional knowledge creation and inter-city R&D collaboration in China: evidence from an empirical agent-based simulation model	4