OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Urban and Regional 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The border in common: The Janus-faced place attachment of cross-border regions	111
Value ‘stripping’: Affordable housing, institutional investment, and the political economy of municipal debt	26
Work from home and big city out-migration before and after the pandemic	25
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis	24
Winners of the 2022 Jim Lewis Prize	22
Transformation of the state-capital relationship over public land in Turkey	19
Urban exodus and rural decline in the Baltic States 2011–2025: Insights from high-resolution spatial analysis	18
Urban circularity as a planning challenge: The ‘forgotten’ pillar of circular city agendas?	18
The financialisation of short-term rentals in Barcelona: Property ownership and the consolidation of a new asset class	18
Hierarchical tendencies, functional specializations, and (in)stability across European banking centers	18
The role of (changing) consultants and data in the market for sustainable, financialized, real estate markets	17
Cultural governance within and across cities and regions: Evidence from the English publicly funded arts sector	17
Energy poverty in the Energy Community region: Interrogating policy formulation and coverage	16
Between the democratization of housing and the neoliberal responsibilization of citizens: The proliferation of co-housing in Viennese city planning	16
Winners of the 2025 Jim Lewis Prize	16
Drawing the boundaries of ‘good citizenship’ through state-led urban redevelopment in Dikmen Valley	15
Firm–education–industry association linkages: Driving the territorial embeddedness of business services multinational corporations in Romania?	14
The urban roots of populism: Mapping and explaining populist strongholds within major Italian cities (2013–2022)	13
Fragmenting urban space: Do residential compounds increase segregation?	13
Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors	12
Lived experiences of water poverty in Barcelona	12
Temporary protection, refugee fatigue and political discontent in European Union cities of refuge	12
Smart(er) rural areas: Framing ‘smart villages’ for conceptual development and EU policy	10
‘In but not fully of Europe’: Situating the Ottoman legacy in the heritage initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe	9
The financialization of rental housing 3.0	9

Ecology, economy and climate crisis in European urban and regional development	9
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area	8
Small and smart municipalities: The evolving priorities and readiness for smart development	8
Cities fight for autonomy: A view from an ongoing protest in Israel	8
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions	8
Determinants of cross-border cultural integration: Case studies of the EU Basque and Upper Rhine cross-border regions	8
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”	8
Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope	7
Impact of the Czech–Polish intergovernmental Turów dispute on mental distance and cross-border integration: Avoiding problems, or neighbours?	7
Geographies of state-led housing rentierization: The case of tax subsidies for household build-to-rent investment in France	7
Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania	7
What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland	6
In search of divided spaces: socio-economic vulnerability and foreign citizens’ settlement patterns in some major cities of northern and southern Italy	6
Permanence and change in urban segregation: Segregation trends in different neighbourhoods of Athens, 1991–2021	6
Vertical segregation in the apartment blocks of Athens and Budapest: A comparative study	6
Spatial patterns of circular engagement and resilience in Romania	6
Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow	6
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	6