OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Planning Studies is 6. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Covidfencing effects on cross-border deterritorialism: the case of Europe	74
New directions for RIS studies and policies in the face of grand societal challenges	63
The preferred location of coworking spaces in Italy: an empirical investigation in urban and peripheral areas	45
Towards a territorial definition of a circular economy: exploring the role of territorial factors in closed-loop systems	39
Regional innovation systems in an era of grand societal challenges: reorientation versus transformation	38
Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands	37
A systemic perspective for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)	36
The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon	34
Small wins for grand challenges. A bottom-up governance approach to regional innovation policy	33
The concept of spatial justice and the European Union’s territorial cohesion	31
Are green cities sustainable? A degrowth critique of sustainable urban development in Copenhagen	31
Circular cities: planning for circular development in European cities	30
The urban density in two Nordic capitals – comparing the development of Oslo and Helsinki metropolitan regions	29
Circular Economy in the building industry European policy and local practices	28
New global tourism innovation in a post-coronavirus era	28
A policy proposal to deal with excessive cultural tourism	27
Combinatorial innovation modes in SMEs: mechanisms integrating STI processes into DUI mode learning and the role of regional innovation policy	25
Place-based development and spatial justice	23
Transformative thinking and urban living labs in planning practice: a critical review and ongoing case studies in Europe	23
Museums and digital technology: a literature review on organizational issues	21
High speed rail as urban generator? An analysis of land use change around European stations	21
Circularities in territories: opportunities & challenges	21
The role of regional innovation systems in mission-oriented innovation policy: exploring the problem-solution space in electrification of maritime transport	21
Active mobility-oriented urban development: a morpho-syntactic scenario for a mid-sized town	20
Implementing the transformative innovation policy in the European Union: how does transformative change occur in Member States?	19

Inside out, exploring residential spaces during COVID-19 lockdown from the perspective of architecture students	18
Digital social innovation and civic participation: toward responsible and inclusive transport planning	17
Opening the black box of participatory planning: a study of how planners handle citizens’ input	17
The impact of cultural and creative industries on the wealth of countries, regions and municipalities	17
Is innovation in ICT valuable for the efficiency of Italian museums?	17
The promise of living labs to the Quadruple Helix stakeholders: exploring the sources of (dis)satisfaction	16
Economic effects of isolating Russia from international trade due to its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine	16
Effects of ‘Covidfencing’ on cross-border commuting: a case of Czech-German borderland	16
What is the role of culture facing the digital revolution challenge? Some reflections for a research agenda	16
Agglomeration and coagglomeration of co-working spaces and creative industries in the city	16
How policies become best practices: a case study of best practice making in an EU knowledge sharing project	15
Emerging clusters: the importance of legitimacy, path advocates, and narratives	15
Planning in no one’s backyard: municipal planners’ discourses of participation in brownfield projects in Helsinki, Amsterdam and Copenhagen	14
From competitiveness to territorial value: transformative territorial innovation policies and anchoring milieus	14
Artificial intelligence in hospitality and tourism. State of the art and future research avenues	14
Mapping the cross-border cooperation ‘galaxy’: an exploration of scalar arrangements in Europe	14
Territorial development process based on the circular economy: a systematic literature review	14
Can digitalization be a tool to overcome spatial injustice in sparsely populated regions? The cases of Digital Västerbotten (Sweden) and Smart Country Side (Germany)	13
The compliance of land-use planning with strategic spatial planning – insights from Zurich, Switzerland	13
A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations	13
Repeated collaboration of inventors across European regions	13
Coworking spaces and creative communities: making resilient coworking spaces through knowledge sharing and collective learning	13
Green space accessibility in Europe: a comparative study of five major cities	13
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation	13
The role of finance in the literature of entrepreneurial ecosystems	12
Strategic spatial planning for sustainable development – Swedish planners’ institutional capacity	12
Forces impacting the real estate market environment in shrinking cities: possible drivers of future development	12
Path renewal dynamics in the Kyoto kimono cluster: how to revitalize cultural heritage through digitalization	12
Growth and decline in rural Spain: an exploratory analysis	12
Transitions in planning: transformative policy visions of the circular economy and blue bioeconomy meet planning practice	12
Territorial governance and actors’ coordination in a local project of anaerobic digestion. A social network analysis	12
Territorial cohesion in insular contexts: assessing external attractiveness and internal strength of major Mediterranean islands	12
Revisiting path-as-process: agency in a discontinuity-development model	12
Organizing innovation contests for public procurement of innovation – a case study of smart city hackathons in Tampere, Finland	11
Revitalization, transformation and the ‘Bilbao effect’: testing the local area impact of iconic architectural developments in North America, 2000–2009	11
Review of research into urban experimentation in the fields of sustainability transitions and environmental governance	11
Recoding of an industrial town: bioeconomy hype as a cure from decline?	11
The attention economy of authentic cities: how cities behave like influencers	11
Eco-innovations towards circular economy: evidence from case studies of collective methanization in France	11
Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: from mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism	11
Industry 4.0 technologies adoption: barriers and their impact on Polish companies’ innovation performance	10
The sustainability of the urban layer of e-commerce deliveries: the Belgian collection and delivery point networks	10
Cluster development and regional industrial restructuring: agency and asset modification	10
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts	10
Institutional mapping of cross-border cooperation. INTERREG programme analyses with KEEP data	10
A drop in the sea or catalyst for change: diverse effects of the place-based approach in Europe	10
Regional monitoring frameworks for the circular economy: implications from a territorial perspective	9
Legitimacy in municipal experimental governance: questioning the public good in urban innovation practices	9
New working spaces in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area: understanding location factors and implications for planning	9
Plan changes in Istanbul (Turkey) as project-led practices in a plan-led planning system	9

Rethinking culture and creativity in the digital transformation	9
Data-driven arts and cultural organizations: opportunity or chimera?	9
Transformative or piecemeal? Changes in green space planning and governance in eleven European cities	9
Tendencies towards integration and disintegration of the entrepreneurial ecosystem: an institution-based view of the dynamics	9
Geographies of (in)justice and the (in)effectiveness of place-based policies in Greece	9
Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture legacy narrative: a selective heritage?	9
The transition of regional innovation systems to Industry 4.0: the case of Basque Country and Catalonia	8
Organizing cross-sectoral housing provision planning: settings, problems and knowledge	8
In the blind spot: ethnic retailing in Helsinki and the spontaneous placemaking of abandoned spaces	8
Building on decay: urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship in Italy through culture and the arts	8
Cultural events and heritage policy for the Milan Expo 2015: experimental intersections between mega-event and city	8
Reading EUropean borderlands under the perspective of legal geography and spatial justice	8
Knowledge and place-based development – towards networks of deep learning	8
Exploring the scope of regions in challenge-oriented innovation policy: the case of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany	8
An ecosystemic model for the technological development of social entrepreneurship: exploring clusters of social innovation	8
Building an open innovation platform as a part of city renewal initiatives	8
Accessibility and mobility in peripheral areas: a national place-based policy	8
Spatial justice on the horizon? A combined Theory of Change scenario tool to assess place-based interventions	8
Integrating green infrastructures in spatial planning: a scrutiny of regional tools in Sardinia, Italy	8
Convergence and resilience in border regions	8
Building and nurturing grassroots innovation: A policy framework based on the local commons	8
Superstar Museums and global media exposure: mapping the positioning of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao through networks	8
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach	8
Spatial transformation, public policy and metropolitan governance: secondary business districts in Dublin and Warsaw	8
A mega-event in a small city: community participation, heritage and scale in the case of Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture	8
Conditions for networked co-production through digital participatory platforms in urban planning	8
Post-Covid tourism planning: based on the Azores residents’ perceptions about the development of regional tourism	8
Strategic spatial planning and efficacy: an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach in Lyon and Copenhagen	8
Spatial conditions for car dependency in mid-sized European city regions	7
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism	7
Rural public places: specificity and importance for the local community (case study of four villages)	7
Studying abandoned settlements’ renaissance in the context of rural geography: perspectives for Prespes, Greece	7
Where innovation meets directionality: an index to measure regional readiness to deal with societal challenges	7
Mapping the state of the art of creative cluster research: a bibliometric and thematic analysis	7
The Elbphilharmonie and the Hamburg effect: on the social positioning, identities and system functions of a building and a city	7
Socially innovative spatial planning: insights from within and beyond a LEADER framework	7
Facing Covid-19: the digitalization path of Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence	7
Causes of opposition to residential development: a survey-framing experiment from the Czech Republic	7
Catching-up and regional disparities: a resource-allocation approach	7
What’s next? Some priorities for young planning scholars to tackle tomorrow’s complex challenges	7
Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland	7
Cooperation for innovation in liberal market economies: STI and DUI innovation modes in SMEs in the United Kingdom	7
Six additional replies – one more chorus of the S3 ballad	7
Culture and heritage as a means to foster quality of life? The case of Wrocław European Capital of Culture 2016	7
How does Industry 4.0 affect the relationship between centre and periphery? The case of manufacturing industry in Germany	7
Reducing border barriers for cross-border commuters in Europe via the EU b-solutions initiative	6
The emergence of artificial intelligence in the regional sciences: a literature review	6
Industry 4.0/Digitalization and networks of innovation in the North American regional context	6
Co-evolutionary heritage reuse: a European multiple case study perspective	6
A path dependent systems perspective on participation in municipal land-use planning	6
Spatial governance and planning systems vis-à-vis land consumption in Europe	6
Flexible geographies of new working spaces	6
Public land for urban food policy? A critical data-analysis of public land transactions in the Ghent city region (Belgium)	6
Financial accessibility in branchless municipalities: an analysis for Andalusia	6
Regional selectivity of innovative progress: Industry 4.0 and digitization ahead	6
The death and life of Malmi neighbourhood shopping street: is ethnic retail a catalyst for public life recovery in Helsinki?	6
Star architecture and urban transformation: introduction to the special issue	6
Economic impact of road transportation infrastructure projects: the case of Egnatia Odos Motorway	6
Towards regenerative regional development in responsible value chains: an agentic response to recent crises	6
A constellation of stars: what a local newspaper talks about when it talks about star architecture	6
Analyzing Transportation Logistics and Infrastructure Sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula: The Case of Portugal Mainland	6
Stakeholder viewpoints on facilitation of cross-border cooperation	6
Temporal challenges of building a circular city district through living-lab experiments	6
Activity types, thematic domains, and stakeholder constellations: explaining civil society involvement in Amsterdam’s smart city	6