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

Article	Citations
New directions for RIS studies and policies in the face of grand societal challenges	75
The preferred location of coworking spaces in Italy: an empirical investigation in urban and peripheral areas	51
Regional innovation systems in an era of grand societal challenges: reorientation versus transformation	47
Small wins for grand challenges. A bottom-up governance approach to regional innovation policy	41
Towards a territorial definition of a circular economy: exploring the role of territorial factors in closed-loop systems	40
A systemic perspective for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)	38
The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon	38
Are green cities sustainable? A degrowth critique of sustainable urban development in Copenhagen	36
Circular cities: planning for circular development in European cities	35
The concept of spatial justice and the European Union’s territorial cohesion	33
Circular Economy in the building industry European policy and local practices	29
New global tourism innovation in a post-coronavirus era	29
High speed rail as urban generator? An analysis of land use change around European stations	28
A policy proposal to deal with excessive cultural tourism	27
Place-based development and spatial justice	25
Transformative thinking and urban living labs in planning practice: a critical review and ongoing case studies in Europe	25
Museums and digital technology: a literature review on organizational issues	25
Circularities in territories: opportunities & challenges	23
Active mobility-oriented urban development: a morpho-syntactic scenario for a mid-sized town	23
The role of regional innovation systems in mission-oriented innovation policy: exploring the problem-solution space in electrification of maritime transport	22
Artificial intelligence in hospitality and tourism. State of the art and future research avenues	21
Inside out, exploring residential spaces during COVID-19 lockdown from the perspective of architecture students	19
Effects of ‘Covidfencing’ on cross-border commuting: a case of Czech-German borderland	19
Implementing the transformative innovation policy in the European Union: how does transformative change occur in Member States?	19
The promise of living labs to the Quadruple Helix stakeholders: exploring the sources of (dis)satisfaction	18

Agglomeration and coagglomeration of co-working spaces and creative industries in the city	18
The impact of cultural and creative industries on the wealth of countries, regions and municipalities	18
Economic effects of isolating Russia from international trade due to its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine	18
Is innovation in ICT valuable for the efficiency of Italian museums?	18
Green space accessibility in Europe: a comparative study of five major cities	17
The role of finance in the literature of entrepreneurial ecosystems	17
Opening the black box of participatory planning: a study of how planners handle citizens’ input	17
Digital social innovation and civic participation: toward responsible and inclusive transport planning	17
From competitiveness to territorial value: transformative territorial innovation policies and anchoring milieus	16
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation	16
Forces impacting the real estate market environment in shrinking cities: possible drivers of future development	15
Territorial development process based on the circular economy: a systematic literature review	15
Strategic spatial planning for sustainable development – Swedish planners’ institutional capacity	15
Coworking spaces and creative communities: making resilient coworking spaces through knowledge sharing and collective learning	14
The compliance of land-use planning with strategic spatial planning – insights from Zurich, Switzerland	14
Transitions in planning: transformative policy visions of the circular economy and blue bioeconomy meet planning practice	14
A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations	14
Mapping the cross-border cooperation ‘galaxy’: an exploration of scalar arrangements in Europe	14
Growth and decline in rural Spain: an exploratory analysis	14
Repeated collaboration of inventors across European regions	14
Convergence and resilience in border regions	13
Eco-innovations towards circular economy: evidence from case studies of collective methanization in France	13
Transformative or piecemeal? Changes in green space planning and governance in eleven European cities	13
Legitimacy in municipal experimental governance: questioning the public good in urban innovation practices	13
Revisiting path-as-process: agency in a discontinuity-development model	13
Institutional mapping of cross-border cooperation. INTERREG programme analyses with KEEP data	13
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
Review of research into urban experimentation in the fields of sustainability transitions and environmental governance	13
Territorial governance and actors’ coordination in a local project of anaerobic digestion. A social network analysis	12
Path renewal dynamics in the Kyoto kimono cluster: how to revitalize cultural heritage through digitalization	12
The attention economy of authentic cities: how cities behave like influencers	12
Industry 4.0 technologies adoption: barriers and their impact on Polish companies’ innovation performance	12
The sustainability of the urban layer of e-commerce deliveries: the Belgian collection and delivery point networks	12
Organizing innovation contests for public procurement of innovation – a case study of smart city hackathons in Tampere, Finland	12
Revitalization, transformation and the ‘Bilbao effect’: testing the local area impact of iconic architectural developments in North America, 2000–2009	12
Rethinking culture and creativity in the digital transformation	11
Territorial cohesion in insular contexts: assessing external attractiveness and internal strength of major Mediterranean islands	11
Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture legacy narrative: a selective heritage?	11
Cluster development and regional industrial restructuring: agency and asset modification	11
An ecosystemic model for the technological development of social entrepreneurship: exploring clusters of social innovation	11
Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: from mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism	11
Regional monitoring frameworks for the circular economy: implications from a territorial perspective	11
Cultural events and heritage policy for the Milan Expo 2015: experimental intersections between mega-event and city	10
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts	10
New working spaces in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area: understanding location factors and implications for planning	10
A drop in the sea or catalyst for change: diverse effects of the place-based approach in Europe	10
What’s next? Some priorities for young planning scholars to tackle tomorrow’s complex challenges	10
The transition of regional innovation systems to Industry 4.0: the case of Basque Country and Catalonia	10
Geographies of (in)justice and the (in)effectiveness of place-based policies in Greece	10
Tendencies towards integration and disintegration of the entrepreneurial ecosystem: an institution-based view of the dynamics	10

Building an open innovation platform as a part of city renewal initiatives	10
A mega-event in a small city: community participation, heritage and scale in the case of Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture	10
Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland	9
Spatial governance and planning systems vis-à-vis land consumption in Europe	9
A heritage-inspired cultural mega-event in a stigmatized city: Hull UK City of Culture 2017	9
Plan changes in Istanbul (Turkey) as project-led practices in a plan-led planning system	9
Accessibility and mobility in peripheral areas: a national place-based policy	9
Data-driven arts and cultural organizations: opportunity or chimera?	9
Knowledge and place-based development – towards networks of deep learning	9
Superstar Museums and global media exposure: mapping the positioning of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao through networks	9
Building on decay: urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship in Italy through culture and the arts	9
Spatial conditions for car dependency in mid-sized European city regions	8
Integrating green infrastructures in spatial planning: a scrutiny of regional tools in Sardinia, Italy	8
Building and nurturing grassroots innovation: A policy framework based on the local commons	8
Spatial transformation, public policy and metropolitan governance: secondary business districts in Dublin and Warsaw	8
Introduction to the special issue – cultural mega-events and heritage: challenges for European cities	8
Exploring the scope of regions in challenge-oriented innovation policy: the case of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany	8
Regional selectivity of innovative progress: Industry 4.0 and digitization ahead	8
Spatial justice on the horizon? A combined Theory of Change scenario tool to assess place-based interventions	8
Reading EUropean borderlands under the perspective of legal geography and spatial justice	8
Star architecture and urban transformation: introduction to the special issue	8
Cooperation for innovation in liberal market economies: STI and DUI innovation modes in SMEs in the United Kingdom	8
Culture and heritage as a means to foster quality of life? The case of Wrocław European Capital of Culture 2016	8
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach	8
Conditions for networked co-production through digital participatory platforms in urban planning	8
Where innovation meets directionality: an index to measure regional readiness to deal with societal challenges	8
Post-Covid tourism planning: based on the Azores residents’ perceptions about the development of regional tourism	8
Facing Covid-19: the digitalization path of Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence	8
In the blind spot: ethnic retailing in Helsinki and the spontaneous placemaking of abandoned spaces	8
Flexible geographies of new working spaces	8
Mapping the state of the art of creative cluster research: a bibliometric and thematic analysis	8
A constellation of stars: what a local newspaper talks about when it talks about star architecture	7
The Elbphilharmonie and the Hamburg effect: on the social positioning, identities and system functions of a building and a city	7
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism	7
Bridging the urban-rural digital divide: taxonomy of the best practice and critical reflection of the EU countries’ approach	7
The interplay between KIBS and manufacturers: a scoping review of major key themes and research opportunities	7
Assessing impacts of PPGIS on urban land use planning: evidence from Finland and Poland	7
How does Industry 4.0 affect the relationship between centre and periphery? The case of manufacturing industry in Germany	7
Industry 4.0/Digitalization and networks of innovation in the North American regional context	7
The problematization of ‘star architecture’ in architecture research	7
Studying abandoned settlements’ renaissance in the context of rural geography: perspectives for Prespes, Greece	7
Policy mixes for just sustainable development in regions specialized in carbon-intensive industries: the case of two Norwegian petro-maritime regions	7
Towards regenerative regional development in responsible value chains: an agentic response to recent crises	7
A communities of practice approach to promoting regional circular economy innovation: evidence from East Wales	7
The impact of Industry 4.0 on supply chains and regions: innovation in the aerospace and automotive industries	7
Socially innovative spatial planning: insights from within and beyond a LEADER framework	7
Rural public places: specificity and importance for the local community (case study of four villages)	7
Causes of opposition to residential development: a survey-framing experiment from the Czech Republic	7
Global production networks and regional innovation systems: contrasting or complementary policy implications?	6
Temporal challenges of building a circular city district through living-lab experiments	6
Industry 4.0 as a ‘sudden change': the relevance of long waves of economic development for the regional level	6
Activity types, thematic domains, and stakeholder constellations: explaining civil society involvement in Amsterdam’s smart city	6
Short-term gains and long-term challenges to learning from mega-event planning in the city of Genoa	6
Identifying cross-border functional areas: conceptual background and empirical findings from Polish borderlands	6
Co-evolutionary heritage reuse: a European multiple case study perspective	6
Analyzing Transportation Logistics and Infrastructure Sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula: The Case of Portugal Mainland	6
Theme issue: open innovation and ‘catch-up’: globalist or localist?	6
Stakeholder viewpoints on facilitation of cross-border cooperation	6
Measuring territorial cohesion trends in Europe: a correlation with EU Cohesion Policy	6
How to support cultural heritage-led development in Italian inner areas: a multi-methodological evaluation approach	6
Economic impact of road transportation infrastructure projects: the case of Egnatia Odos Motorway	6
The digital entrepreneurial ecosystem in the European Union: evidence from the digital platform economy index	6
Reducing border barriers for cross-border commuters in Europe via the EU b-solutions initiative	6
Detection of geographical clustering: cultural and creative industries in Barcelona	6
The role of assets and variegated constellations of organizational- and system-level agency in regional transformation	6
Open innovation and multi-homing of delivery platforms: comparative study of Cardiff, Daegu and Nanjing	6
Planning to grow, planning to rock on – infrastructure management and development in shrinking municipalities	6
Industrial ecology and sustainable change: inertia and transformation in Mexican agro-industrial sugarcane clusters	6
Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements	6
How do local factors shape transformation pathways towards climate-neutral and resilient cities?	6
Public land for urban food policy? A critical data-analysis of public land transactions in the Ghent city region (Belgium)	6
The emergence of artificial intelligence in the regional sciences: a literature review	6
Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data	6
The death and life of Malmi neighbourhood shopping street: is ethnic retail a catalyst for public life recovery in Helsinki?	6