OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Urban and Regional Studies is 2. 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
Work from home and big city out-migration before and after the pandemic	87
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis	22
Value ‘stripping’: Affordable housing, institutional investment, and the political economy of municipal debt	19
The border in common: The Janus-faced place attachment of cross-border regions	19
Winners of the 2022 Jim Lewis Prize	18
Hierarchical tendencies, functional specializations, and (in)stability across European banking centers	17
Transformation of the state-capital relationship over public land in Turkey	17
The financialisation of short-term rentals in Barcelona: Property ownership and the consolidation of a new asset class	16
The role of (changing) consultants and data in the market for sustainable, financialized, real estate markets	16
Winners of the 2025 Jim Lewis Prize	16
Urban circularity as a planning challenge: The ‘forgotten’ pillar of circular city agendas?	16
Cultural governance within and across cities and regions: Evidence from the English publicly funded arts sector	15
Energy poverty in the Energy Community region: Interrogating policy formulation and coverage	15
Firm–education–industry association linkages: Driving the territorial embeddedness of business services multinational corporations in Romania?	14
Between the democratization of housing and the neoliberal responsibilization of citizens: The proliferation of co-housing in Viennese city planning	14
Smart(er) rural areas: Framing ‘smart villages’ for conceptual development and EU policy	13
Drawing the boundaries of ‘good citizenship’ through state-led urban redevelopment in Dikmen Valley	13
Fragmenting urban space: Do residential compounds increase segregation?	12
Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors	12
Lived experiences of water poverty in Barcelona	12
The urban roots of populism: Mapping and explaining populist strongholds within major Italian cities (2013–2022)	12
Temporary protection, refugee fatigue and political discontent in European Union cities of refuge	11
‘In but not fully of Europe’: Situating the Ottoman legacy in the heritage initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe	10
Small and smart municipalities: The evolving priorities and readiness for smart development	10
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions	9

The financialization of rental housing 3.0	9
Making it up: Adaptive approaches to bringing freelance cultural work to a cultural ecologies discourse	8
Ecology, economy and climate crisis in European urban and regional development	8
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area	8
Determinants of cross-border cultural integration: Case studies of the EU Basque and Upper Rhine cross-border regions	7
Cities fight for autonomy: A view from an ongoing protest in Israel	7
Corrigendum to “Away from the cities? A medium-to-long-term investigation of how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed population spatial patterns in Italy”	7
Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania	7
Vertical segregation in the apartment blocks of Athens and Budapest: A comparative study	6
Spatial patterns of circular engagement and resilience in Romania	6
Permanence and change in urban segregation: Segregation trends in different neighbourhoods of Athens, 1991–2021	6
Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope	6
Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow	6
Impact of the Czech–Polish intergovernmental Turów dispute on mental distance and cross-border integration: Avoiding problems, or neighbours?	6
Geographies of state-led housing rentierization: The case of tax subsidies for household build-to-rent investment in France	6
What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland	6
Exploring the network of the short-term rental financial complex	5
The spatial division of precarious labour across the European Union regions: A composite index analysis of the 2008/2009 global economic crisis effects and COVID-19 initial implications	5
The regularity of informality: Reframing the formal–informal relationship with the help of informal housing in London	5
Corrigendum to ‘Refining concepts: Gentrification, touristification and financialization in Andalusian cities’	5
Exploring the effects of coworking in two European cities: Financialisation flows and consumption patterns in Athens and Berlin	5
Navigating regional opportunity spaces: Labour branching towards growing jobs	5
In search of divided spaces: socio-economic vulnerability and foreign citizens’ settlement patterns in some major cities of northern and southern Italy	5
The economic geography of European Union’s discontent: Lessons from Greece	4
Toward a fine-grained understanding of informality: Subjective meanings, perceptions, and expectations in informal housing trajectories	4
Three theses on informal housing in Europe	4
Between a soft and a hard place: Southern European gentrification for short-term populations	4
A clean and civil city: Local associations and the moral bordering of Parisian public space	4
Losing a job and (dis)incentives to move: Interregional migration in Finland	4
Income and immigrant segregation in urban Spain	3
Local labour market segmentation and migrant workers’ experiences: The case of the hotel industry in Venice	3
Polycentricity of daily urban systems: A misconceived concept and buzzword in ‘metropolitan’ planning practice	3
Corrigendum	3
Intra-urban mobility in Spain and its effects on dispersion patterns of the Spanish-born population and immigrants: The cases of Madrid and Barcelona	3
Enabling the emergence of shared housing for young adults in post-industrial cities: Between common interests and regulatory challenges	3
EU Cohesion Policies and interregional inequalities in disruptive times	3
The cultural and creative economy in Italy: Spatial patterns in peripheral areas	3
What determines the drivers of, and barriers to, the implementation of circular economy measures at the regional level?	3
Displacing the other to unite the nation: The parallel society legislation in Denmark	3
The game of rental housing financialization: Institutional investors in the Swedish housing system	3
Phantom participation in European post-socialist cities: The Belgrade Waterfront expansion	3
Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva	3
Violence reduction in a changing European urban context: Frontline practitioner’s understanding of the roots of violence, and why it matters for policy and prevention	3
The burden of the border: Precarious citizenship experiences in the wake of the Spanish housing crash	3
New scales of migration governance in the Mediterranean: Regional cities in the spotlight	3
The permanent regime of temporary solutions: Housing of forced migrants in Europe as a policy challenge	3
Housing markets and geographical labour mobility to high-productivity regions: The case of Stockholm	3
Publication Notice	3
Away from the cities? A medium-to-long-term investigation of how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed population spatial patterns in Italy	3
Smart and social? Assessing social value in the EU LEADER programme in rural Estonia	3

‘Two faces’ of human capital and research and development activities: Effects of related technologies and the regional technology portfolio on total factor productivity in Polish regions	2
Strengthening the local heart of Europe	2
The (sub)political role of ‘regional circular ecosystems’ in the transformation towards the circular economy: A plural political framework applied to two Dutch case studies	2
Rethinking regional economic resilience: Preconditions and processes shaping transformative resilience	2
More than a housing crisis: State-led financialization and the restructuring of urban housing in Europe	2
Legitimacy of public–private partnerships for place development and branding: The case of Sønderborg municipality in Denmark	2
The ‘old’ industrial regions of Europe: ‘Green transitions’ or just the transitions inherent to capitalist business as usual?	2
The promotion of local welfare systems through the development of social infrastructures: An analysis of the urban agendas in Spain	2
Are peripheral regions in troubled waters for sustainability transitions? A systematic analysis of the literature	2
Winners of the 2023 Jim Lewis Prize	2
Participating in the smart countryside? Perspectives and applications of digital participation procedures in rural regional development	2
When smart villages meets rural diversity: Tailoring rural smartness to rural and remote areas	2
In the name of housing: corporate rental housing as financial asset	2