OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Planning Studies is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Critical dictionary on borders, cross-border cooperation and European integration	99
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism: a critical deconstruction of Berlin's approach for city-compatible tourism	61
Knowledge brokerage needs in building care robotics innovation ecosystems and networks	61
Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: from mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism	52
A drop in the sea or catalyst for change: diverse effects of the place-based approach in Europe	52
The European digital economy drivers of digital transition and economic recovery	44
Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities , By Babu Jacob	43
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation	42
Dimensions of (post-)viral tourism revival: actions and strategies from the perspectives of policymakers in Portugal	38
Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.0	36
How rule directions influence actors to achieve collective action: an analysis of Dutch collective infrastructure decision-making	35
Aesthetics of Gentrification. Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	34
Quantum jump in biopharmaceutical industry: a case of Korea’s catching up with Europe and US	31
Leveraging national opportunities for regional transformation: multi-scalar system-building and legitimation in a Swiss industrial town	30
Competition in the ‘body without organs’: an assemblage perspective on the UK’s fast train (HS2) cancellation	29
High speed rail as urban generator? An analysis of land use change around European stations	28
Overcoming the limitations to co-production in shrinking cities: insights from Latvia, France, and the Netherlands	28
The Olympics Legacy, debt crisis and exceptional strategic planning: the case of Athens	28
Correction	26
Regional planning strategies: understanding the implementation of a new strategic tool in Norwegian planning law	25
COVID-19 and the housing market. Evidence from England and Wales, and France	24
Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements	24
In the blind spot: ethnic retailing in Helsinki and the spontaneous placemaking of abandoned spaces	23
Is low-density a viable territorial category for enhancing EU cohesion policy implementation?	23
Effects of ‘Covidfencing’ on cross-border commuting: a case of Czech-German borderland	23

Territorial assets and SMEs competitiveness: the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece	22
Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency	22
EU smart specialization policy between experimentation and accountability: dynamic policy cycle perspective	22
Diagrams as a comparative tool to understand the territorial evolution of port city regions	21
Exposing the role of relational capabilities in business–research–government cooperation: examples from the transition towards a bioeconomy in Finland	20
Railway stations as public space: how to promote rail journeys via multi-functional railway stations	20
Related and unrelated variety and convergence to technological frontier: empirical evidence for Polish regions	20
Small and medium-sized towns in Italy: policy gaps and institutional challenges	20
The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon	19
Resilient urban environments: planning for livable cities	18
Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency	18
A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations	18
Learning as imitation or mimesis: how ‘smart’ is machine learning for its planning controllers?	17
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)	17
Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stron	16
Wine Tourism and Sustainability: The Economic, Social and Environmental Contribution of the Wine Industry	16
Navigating networks – to make a difference: the support base composition of local change agents in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Glasgow and Copenhagen	16
Polytraps in European rural mountainous regions: an expert view	16
Everything must change for us to remain the same. Resilience in the face of disruptive innovations in industrial districts	15
Assessing social value derived from social innovation capacity: a review on the European urban context	15
‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond	15
How real will the metaverse be? Exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds	14
Examining local action groups as territorial development polities: CLLD in Lisbon Metropolitan Area	14
Assessing the importance of proximity dimensions for the diffusion of radical innovations in German biotechnology	14
Open innovation dynamics and evolution in the mobile payment industry – comparative analysis among Daegu, Cardiff, and Nanjing	14
Cluster policy: the challenging and complex horizon in the 2020s	14
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism	13
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’	13
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning , by Vedik Basetti, Chandan Kumar	13
Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms and Industry 4.0 in firms and clusters	13
Post-Covid tourism planning: based on the Azores residents’ perceptions about the development of regional tourism	13
Building and nurturing grassroots innovation: A policy framework based on the local commons	13
A systemic perspective for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)	13
Green Infrastructure: planning strategies and environmental design	12
The role of cross-border cooperation programme in de-marginalisation of peripheral border regions	12
European planning studies at 30 – past, present and future	12
Economic and environmental cost of traffic congestion in India	12
How cities become brands: developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully	12
The role of immigrant human capital in Danish second-tier towns and rural areas	11
Regional economic resilience: insights from five crises	11
Smart cities in Europe and Asia urban planning and management for a sustainable future	11
Enhancing firm resilience: how the Valencian textile cluster responded to COVID-19-induced GVC disruptions	11
Do natural disasters accelerate sustainability transitions? Insights from the Central Italy earthquake	11
Exploring local spatial planning as practices of process design in the Stockholm region, Sweden	10
Governance robustness put to the test by Covid-19. The case of Local Area Plans in the Lombardy Region	10
Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply , by Quintin Bradle	10
Exploratory analysis of seaplane operations in Greece: insights of a survey and SWOT analysis	10
Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway	10
Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data	10
Place branding and marketing from a policy perspective building effective strategies for places (1st edition)	10

Urban planning and urban health: attempts at innovation in line with local planning tools	10
Integrating green infrastructures in spatial planning: a scrutiny of regional tools in Sardinia, Italy	10
Circular economy adoption at the regional level: a neo-institutional perspective	10
The development of polysubcentric network in the context of metropolitanization: evidence from Poland	10
Urban ‘beautification’ and its discontents: the erosion of urban commons in Milan	10
How exceptions to land use regulations enter planning legislation. The Flemish case of rebuilding non-conforming dwellings	10
Cluster development and regional industrial restructuring: agency and asset modification	9
Transnational architecture and urbanism: rethinking how cities plan, transform, and learn	9
Mining activity and island landscape issues: evidence from Cyclades islands, Greece	9
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: the case of Euskadi 2040	9
Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead	9
Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland	9
Identifying cross-border functional areas: conceptual background and empirical findings from Polish borderlands	9
The cost of suburbanization: spending on environmental protection	9
Exceptional architecture, learning processes, and the contradictory performativity of norms and standards	9
City and transportation planning: an integrated approach	9
Urban agriculture in public space. Planning and designing for human flourishing in Northern European cities and beyond	9
New collaborations and novel innovations: the role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity	9
Regional selectivity of innovative progress: Industry 4.0 and digitization ahead	9
A communities of practice approach to promoting regional circular economy innovation: evidence from East Wales	9
“European regional policy and development forgotten regions and spaces”	9
Flexible geographies of new working spaces	8
What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective	8
Learning to reflect collectively: how to create the right environment for discussing participatory planning practice?	8
Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union , by Max Holleran, Palgra	8
Integrating logistics into urban planning: best practices from Paris and Rotterdam	8
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach	8
How does Industry 4.0 affect the relationship between centre and periphery? The case of manufacturing industry in Germany	8
Role of distinct export strategies in regional growth. A multi-regional input-output approach (PReMMIA)	8
The growing inequalities in Italy – North/South – and the increasing dependency of the successful North upon German and French industries	8
Disclosing the logics of non-statutory regional planning: the case of Sweden	8
What are the driving factors for implementing participatory budgeting? A case study from Czechia	8
Publishers’ Note	8
Branding soft spaces	8
Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems	8
The green-restructuring of clusters: investigating a biocluster's transition using a complex adaptive system model	8
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives	8
Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective , edited by M	7
Regional visa-waiver program for open tourism development	7
The actors’ role in industrial districts facing the challenge of technologies 4.0 between absorption and dissemination	7
Facing Covid-19: the digitalization path of Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence	7
An ecosystemic model for the technological development of social entrepreneurship: exploring clusters of social innovation	7
Distinguishing ‘planning’ from the ‘plan’. Institutional and professional implications of taking urban complexity seriously	7
Responsible research and innovation in Europe: empirical evidence from regional planning initiatives in Austria, Norway, and Spain	7
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts	7
What drives global value chains of FDI at sub-national regions? Roles of agglomeration economies	7
Post-pandemic opportunities for low-density territories: insights and implications from Portuguese case studies	7
Strengthening place attachment through place-sensitive participatory regional policy in a less developed region	7
Comparing ICT-related future development trends in shrinking cities: resident and decision-maker perceptions	7
Revealing the circularities in farmers’ market networked infrastructure of Western Anatolia	7
Rural public places: specificity and importance for the local community (case study of four villages)	7
The re-coding of rural development rationality: tracing EU Governmentality and Europeanisation at the local level	7
Cooperation for innovation in liberal market economies: STI and DUI innovation modes in SMEs in the United Kingdom	7