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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The non-sovereign territories: Economic and environmental challenges of sectoral and geographic over-specialisation in tourism and financial services	35
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”	31
Corrigendum	27
Illegal short-term rentals, regulatory enforcement and informal practices in the age of digital platforms	26
Value ‘stripping’: Affordable housing, institutional investment, and the political economy of municipal debt	26
Losing a job and (dis)incentives to move: Interregional migration in Finland	26
Publication Notice	25
The border in common: The Janus-faced place attachment of cross-border regions	17
Editorial	16
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis	15
The geographies and geopolitics of industrial policy: Designing a data-driven UK semiconductor strategy	15
Hungary’s illiberal border politics and the exploitation of social, spatial and temporal distinctions	14
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area	14
Making it up: Adaptive approaches to bringing freelance cultural work to a cultural ecologies discourse	12
Toward a fine-grained understanding of informality: Subjective meanings, perceptions, and expectations in informal housing trajectories	11
Socio-spatial transformations at the urban fringes of Rome: Unfolding suburbanisms in Fiano Romano	10
Europe’s semiconductor industry at a crossroads: Industrial policy and regional clusters	10
Socio-spatial polarisation and policy response: Perspectives for regional development in the Baltic States	10
The economic geography of European Union’s discontent: Lessons from Greece	10
Ecology, economy and climate crisis in European urban and regional development	9
Rethinking regional economic resilience: Preconditions and processes shaping transformative resilience	9
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions	9
Transformative potential from the ground up: Sustainable innovation journeys, soft change and alignment of interests in urban food initiatives	8
Entrepreneurial actions in energy transition: A study of three local energy clusters in Poland	8
Actors, knowledge and path transformations in a declining cluster	8

Transformation of the state-capital relationship over public land in Turkey	8
Cities fight for autonomy: A view from an ongoing protest in Israel	8
Winners of the 2022 Jim Lewis Prize	8
Gray legality: Varying degrees of housing illegality in Berlin’s rental cap	8
The role of universities in regional development strategies: A comparison across actors and policy stages	7
Power, production and disorder: The decline of Sweden’s housing industrial complex and the origins of the present housing discontents	6
From systemic to sustainability transitions: An emerging economy perspective on urban sprawl and the automobile revolution	6
Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania	6
Race-based readings of safety in public space in Milan, the challenge for urban design	6
What makes cities happy? Factors contributing to life satisfaction in European cities	6
Regional divergence in France and international integration: Is foreign direct investment attraction policy part of the problem?	6
The Europeanization of metropolitan regions from below: Comparing the European engagement of two archetypical metropolises	6
Financialization, dependence, and state regulation: The accumulation strategies of German energy companies in Hungary	6
Introduction to special issue on the governance of residential investment	6
The game of rental housing financialization: Institutional investors in the Swedish housing system	5
Challenging the boundaries of exclusive Europeanisation: How young refugees unsettle normative spaces of urban citizenship	5
Beyond renovation: Addressing Europe’s long housing crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
What are the economic impacts of short food supply chains? A local multiplier effect (LM3) evaluation	5
Housing markets and geographical labour mobility to high-productivity regions: The case of Stockholm	4
Social innovation and austerity governance in Athens and Madrid: Rethinking the changing contours of policy and practice	4
Ethnic segregation and native out-migration in Copenhagen	4
In search of radical planning: A crisis-driven imaginary and Thessaly’s disaster as an exemplar of neoliberal failure to secure social reproduction	4
Anticipating demand shocks: Patient capital and the supply of housing	4
Determinants of cross-border cultural integration: Case studies of the EU Basque and Upper Rhine cross-border regions	4
Relative positions of countries in the core-periphery structure of the European automotive industry	4
The assetisation of housing: A macroeconomic resource	4
Everyday sustainability transitions through using green buildings: Spatial perspectives on materialities, discourses, and lived sustainabilities	3
Engaging with precarious urban futures: From entrepreneurial to grounded cities	3
Policy action for green restructuring in specialized industrial regions	3
EU Cohesion Policies and interregional inequalities in disruptive times	3
Starting again: National spatial planning and the quest for compact growth in Ireland	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
Navigating context in experiments: The “real,” the roots, the rationale	3
Inequalities in access to cross-border resources? An analysis based on spatio-temporal behaviours in the cross-border area of Greater Geneva	3
Hierarchical tendencies, functional specializations, and (in)stability across European banking centers	3
Spaces of the local, spaces of the nation: Intersectional bordering practices in post-Brexit Berlin	3
Navigating the city: Role of property-market intelligence channels in urban governance networks	3
Energy poverty in the Energy Community region: Interrogating policy formulation and coverage	3
Vertical segregation in the apartment blocks of Athens and Budapest: A comparative study	2
Impact of the Czech–Polish intergovernmental Turów dispute on mental distance and cross-border integration: Avoiding problems, or neighbours?	2
Place and immigrant labour market integration: A sequence analysis approach	2
Publication Notice	2
Unlocking inclusive growth by linking micro assets to anchor institutions: The case of skilled overseas migrants and refugees and hospital jobs	2
Cultural governance within and across cities and regions: Evidence from the English publicly funded arts sector	2
Breaking the rules? Informal housing, urban deregulation and secondary dwellings in Australia	2
Urban regeneration projects and the role of municipal officials: A strategy-as-practice perspective	2
Selective inclusion: Civil society involvement in the smart city ecology of Amsterdam	2
Moving for mobility? Suburban spatial imaginaries	2