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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Covidfencing effects on cross-border deterritorialism: the case of Europe	68
New directions for RIS studies and policies in the face of grand societal challenges	54
A walkability assessment tool coupling multi-criteria analysis and space syntax: the case study of Iglesias, Italy	46
The preferred location of coworking spaces in Italy: an empirical investigation in urban and peripheral areas	41
A systemic perspective for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)	35
Towards a territorial definition of a circular economy: exploring the role of territorial factors in closed-loop systems	34
Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands	32
Regional innovation systems in an era of grand societal challenges: reorientation versus transformation	32
Small wins for grand challenges. A bottom-up governance approach to regional innovation policy	29
The concept of spatial justice and the European Union’s territorial cohesion	27
Circular Economy in the building industry European policy and local practices	26
The urban density in two Nordic capitals – comparing the development of Oslo and Helsinki metropolitan regions	26
New global tourism innovation in a post-coronavirus era	26
Are green cities sustainable? A degrowth critique of sustainable urban development in Copenhagen	25
Six additional questions about smart specialization: implications for regional innovation policy 4.0	25
A policy proposal to deal with excessive cultural tourism	25
Combinatorial innovation modes in SMEs: mechanisms integrating STI processes into DUI mode learning and the role of regional innovation policy	24
Mission-oriented or mission adrift? A critical examination of mission-oriented innovation policies	24
STI and DUI innovation modes in micro-, small-, medium- and large-sized firms: distinctive patterns across Europe and the U.S.	23
The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon	23
High speed rail as urban generator? An analysis of land use change around European stations	20
Active mobility-oriented urban development: a morpho-syntactic scenario for a mid-sized town	20
Circular cities: planning for circular development in European cities	19
Place-based development and spatial justice	19
Transformative thinking and urban living labs in planning practice: a critical review and ongoing case studies in Europe	19

Implementing the transformative innovation policy in the European Union: how does transformative change occur in Member States?	18
The role of regional innovation systems in mission-oriented innovation policy: exploring the problem-solution space in electrification of maritime transport	18
Circularities in territories: opportunities & challenges	17
Temporary population mobilities between Estonia and Finland based on mobile phone data and the emergence of a cross-border region	16
Museums and digital technology: a literature review on organizational issues	16
Real option applications in megaproject planning: trends, relevance and research gaps. A literature review	16
The impact of cultural and creative industries on the wealth of countries, regions and municipalities	16
Economic effects of isolating Russia from international trade due to its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine	16
What is the role of culture facing the digital revolution challenge? Some reflections for a research agenda	16
Emerging clusters: the importance of legitimacy, path advocates, and narratives	15
Opening the black box of participatory planning: a study of how planners handle citizens’ input	15
Effects of ‘Covidfencing’ on cross-border commuting: a case of Czech-German borderland	15
Inside out, exploring residential spaces during COVID-19 lockdown from the perspective of architecture students	15
Is innovation in ICT valuable for the efficiency of Italian museums?	15
Area-based approaches are losing the essence of local targeting: LEADER/CLLD in the Czech Republic	14
Planning in no one’s backyard: municipal planners’ discourses of participation in brownfield projects in Helsinki, Amsterdam and Copenhagen	14
Agglomeration and coagglomeration of co-working spaces and creative industries in the city	14
Digital social innovation and civic participation: toward responsible and inclusive transport planning	13
How policies become best practices: a case study of best practice making in an EU knowledge sharing project	13
Mapping the cross-border cooperation ‘galaxy’: an exploration of scalar arrangements in Europe	13
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
Artificial intelligence in hospitality and tourism. State of the art and future research avenues	12
Territorial development process based on the circular economy: a systematic literature review	12
Repeated collaboration of inventors across European regions	12
Land use challenges, sustainability and the spatial planning balancing act: Insights from Sweden and Switzerland	12
A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations	12
Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: from mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism	12
The attention economy of authentic cities: how cities behave like influencers	11
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation	11
Path renewal dynamics in the Kyoto kimono cluster: how to revitalize cultural heritage through digitalization	11
Models of morphological transformations of centres of the largest Polish cities after World War II	11
Can digitalization be a tool to overcome spatial injustice in sparsely populated regions? The cases of Digital Västerbotten (Sweden) and Smart Country Side (Germany)	11
From competitiveness to territorial value: transformative territorial innovation policies and anchoring milieus	11
Coworking spaces and creative communities: making resilient coworking spaces through knowledge sharing and collective learning	10
The sustainability of the urban layer of e-commerce deliveries: the Belgian collection and delivery point networks	10
Forces impacting the real estate market environment in shrinking cities: possible drivers of future development	10
Same same but different: regional coherence between institutions and policies in family firm succession	10
Territorial governance and actors’ coordination in a local project of anaerobic digestion. A social network analysis	10
The territorial big bang: which assessment about the territorial reform in France?	10
Eco-innovations towards circular economy: evidence from case studies of collective methanization in France	10
The compliance of land-use planning with strategic spatial planning – insights from Zurich, Switzerland	10
Are compact cities a threat to public health?	10
Organizing innovation contests for public procurement of innovation – a case study of smart city hackathons in Tampere, Finland	10
Recoding of an industrial town: bioeconomy hype as a cure from decline?	10
The promise of living labs to the Quadruple Helix stakeholders: exploring the sources of (dis)satisfaction	10
Green space accessibility in Europe: a comparative study of five major cities	10
A drop in the sea or catalyst for change: diverse effects of the place-based approach in Europe	10
Cycle Highways: a new concept of infrastructure	9
Revitalization, transformation and the ‘Bilbao effect’: testing the local area impact of iconic architectural developments in North America, 2000–2009	9

Rethinking culture and creativity in the digital transformation	9
The role of finance in the literature of entrepreneurial ecosystems	9
Challenges with strategic placed-based innovation policy: implementation of smart specialization in Estonia and Wales	9
Data-driven arts and cultural organizations: opportunity or chimera?	9
Plan changes in Istanbul (Turkey) as project-led practices in a plan-led planning system	9
Growth and decline in rural Spain: an exploratory analysis	9
New working spaces in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area: understanding location factors and implications for planning	9
Organizing cross-sectoral housing provision planning: settings, problems and knowledge	8
Transitions in planning: transformative policy visions of the circular economy and blue bioeconomy meet planning practice	8
Industry 4.0 technologies adoption: barriers and their impact on Polish companies’ innovation performance	8
Regional design ateliers on ‘energy and space’: systemic transition arenas in energy transition processes	8
Bridging local embeddedness and global dynamics – the economics of social innovation	8
Post-Covid tourism planning: based on the Azores residents’ perceptions about the development of regional tourism	8
Building on decay: urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship in Italy through culture and the arts	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
Review of research into urban experimentation in the fields of sustainability transitions and environmental governance	8
Regional monitoring frameworks for the circular economy: implications from a territorial perspective	8
Cluster development and regional industrial restructuring: agency and asset modification	8
Tendencies towards integration and disintegration of the entrepreneurial ecosystem: an institution-based view of the dynamics	8
Geographies of (in)justice and the (in)effectiveness of place-based policies in Greece	7
Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture legacy narrative: a selective heritage?	7
Conditions for networked co-production through digital participatory platforms in urban planning	7
The role of social ties for culture-led development in inner areas. The case of the 2016–2017 Central Italy earthquake	7
Effects of learning, unlearning and forgetting on path development: the case of the Macerata-Fermo footwear industrial districts	7
The green adaptation-regeneration nexus: innovation or business-as-usual?	7
Accessibility and mobility in peripheral areas: a national place-based policy	7
An ecosystemic model for the technological development of social entrepreneurship: exploring clusters of social innovation	7
Exploring the scope of regions in challenge-oriented innovation policy: the case of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany	7
A mega-event in a small city: community participation, heritage and scale in the case of Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture	7
Catching-up and regional disparities: a resource-allocation approach	7
Institutional mapping of cross-border cooperation. INTERREG programme analyses with KEEP data	7
Convergence and resilience in border regions	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
The transition of regional innovation systems to Industry 4.0: the case of Basque Country and Catalonia	7
Cooperation for innovation in liberal market economies: STI and DUI innovation modes in SMEs in the United Kingdom	7
Culture and heritage as a means to foster quality of life? The case of Wrocław European Capital of Culture 2016	7
Spatial justice on the horizon? A combined Theory of Change scenario tool to assess place-based interventions	7
Spatial conditions for car dependency in mid-sized European city regions	7
Legitimacy in municipal experimental governance: questioning the public good in urban innovation practices	7
Strategic spatial planning and efficacy: an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach in Lyon and Copenhagen	7
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts	7
Studying abandoned settlements’ renaissance in the context of rural geography: perspectives for Prespes, Greece	7
Valuation of river restoration measures – Do residential preferences depend on leisure behaviour?	7
Reading EUropean borderlands under the perspective of legal geography and spatial justice	6
Six additional replies – one more chorus of the S3 ballad	6
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach	6
Financial accessibility in branchless municipalities: an analysis for Andalusia	6
Regional selectivity of innovative progress: Industry 4.0 and digitization ahead	6
Effects of EU rural development funds on newly established enterprises in Romania's rural areas	6
A path dependent systems perspective on participation in municipal land-use planning	6
‘Made in Germany’ how companies approach Circular Economy on Linked-In	6
Building an open innovation platform as a part of city renewal initiatives	6
How does Industry 4.0 affect the relationship between centre and periphery? The case of manufacturing industry in Germany	6
Transformative or piecemeal? Changes in green space planning and governance in eleven European cities	6
The Elbphilharmonie and the Hamburg effect: on the social positioning, identities and system functions of a building and a city	6
In the blind spot: ethnic retailing in Helsinki and the spontaneous placemaking of abandoned spaces	6
Causes of opposition to residential development: a survey-framing experiment from the Czech Republic	6
The emergence of artificial intelligence in the regional sciences: a literature review	6
Where innovation meets directionality: an index to measure regional readiness to deal with societal challenges	6
Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland	6