OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Urban and Regional Studies is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis	51
Work from home and big city out-migration before and after the pandemic	19
The border in common: The Janus-faced place attachment of cross-border regions	19
Value ‘stripping’: Affordable housing, institutional investment, and the political economy of municipal debt	17
Winners of the 2022 Jim Lewis Prize	15
Cultural governance within and across cities and regions: Evidence from the English publicly funded arts sector	14
Hierarchical tendencies, functional specializations, and (in)stability across European banking centers	14
Drawing the boundaries of ‘good citizenship’ through state-led urban redevelopment in Dikmen Valley	14
The financialisation of short-term rentals in Barcelona: Property ownership and the consolidation of a new asset class	14
Energy poverty in the Energy Community region: Interrogating policy formulation and coverage	14
Transformation of the state-capital relationship over public land in Turkey	14
Firm–education–industry association linkages: Driving the territorial embeddedness of business services multinational corporations in Romania?	12
Lived experiences of water poverty in Barcelona	11
Temporary protection, refugee fatigue and political discontent in European Union cities of refuge	11
Between the democratization of housing and the neoliberal responsibilization of citizens: The proliferation of co-housing in Viennese city planning	11
Decentralised development policy: A comparative study on local development interventions through municipalities in Sweden	10
Making it up: Adaptive approaches to bringing freelance cultural work to a cultural ecologies discourse	9
The urban roots of populism: Mapping and explaining populist strongholds within major Italian cities (2013–2022)	9
Ecology, economy and climate crisis in European urban and regional development	9
Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors	9
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area	9
Small and smart municipalities: The evolving priorities and readiness for smart development	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
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions	7
Determinants of cross-border cultural integration: Case studies of the EU Basque and Upper Rhine cross-border regions	7

‘In but not fully of Europe’: Situating the Ottoman legacy in the heritage initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe	7
Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania	6
Cities fight for autonomy: A view from an ongoing protest in Israel	6
Vertical segregation in the apartment blocks of Athens and Budapest: A comparative study	5
Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow	5
Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope	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
What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland	5
Engaging with precarious urban futures: From entrepreneurial to grounded cities	5
Impact of the Czech–Polish intergovernmental Turów dispute on mental distance and cross-border integration: Avoiding problems, or neighbours?	5
In search of social equity in entrepreneurialism: The case of Israel’s municipal regeneration agencies	5
Anticipating demand shocks: Patient capital and the supply of housing	5