OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Papers in Regional Science 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
E‐commerce development and urban‐rural income gap: Evidence from Zhejiang Province, China	42
European cultural heritage and tourism flows: The magnetic role of superstar World Heritage Sites	35
Does EU regional policy promote local TFP growth? Evidence from the Italian Mezzogiorno	34
Has highway construction narrowed the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from Chinese cities	31
Inequality and city size: An analysis for OECD functional urban areas	30
Explaining the dynamics of relatedness: The role of co‐location and complexity	25
Essential ingredients for radical innovations? The role of (un‐)related variety and external linkages in Germany	23
The impact of immigration on housing prices in Australia	23
Evaluating the role of resilience in reducing economic losses from disasters: A multi‐regional analysis of a seaport disruption	22
The role of regions in global value chains: an analysis for the European Union	21
Travel costs, trade, and market segmentation: Evidence from China's high‐speed railway	21
Optimizing entrepreneurial development processes for smart specialization in the European Union	21
Relatedness in the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy: a first empirical assessment	19
Well‐being in European regions: Does government quality matter?	18
The natural resource curse: Evidence from the Colombian municipalities	17
Urbanization and COVID‐19 incidence: A cross‐country investigation	16
Interregional mobility and the personality traits of migrants	16
Proximity across the distant worlds of university–industry collaborations	15
When, where, and for what industries does broadband foster establishment births?	14
Quantifying fiscal multipliers in Italy: A Panel SVAR analysis using regional data	13
Collaboration networks, geography and innovation: Local and national embeddedness	13
Urban deprivation in Argentina: A POSET analysis	12
Intraregional trade shares for goods‐producing industries: RPC estimates using EU data	12
Does a local knowledge base in Industry 3.0 foster diversification in Industry 4.0 technologies? Evidence from European regions	12
The impact of uncertainty on production relocation: Implications from a regional perspective	12

Cultural and creative industries and regional diversification: Does size matter?	11
Does the high‐speed rail network improve economic growth?	11
A machine learning approach to rural entrepreneurship	11
The contribution of statistical network models to the study of clusters and their evolution	11
Patent intensity and concentration: The effect of institutional quality on MSA patent activity	11
The internal geography of services value‐added in exports: A Latin American perspective	11
Winners and losers of rapid growth in Turkey: Analysis of the spatial variability of convergence	11
Beyond productivity slowdown: Quality, pricing and resource reallocation in regional competitiveness	11
Better together: Untapped potentials in Central Europe	11
Cultural cities, urban economic growth, and regional development: The role of creativity and cosmopolitan identity	11
Labor supply and the business cycle: The “bandwagon worker effect”	10
Social capital, social economy and economic resilience of Italian provinces	10
The hukou system and selective internal migration in China	10
Economic impact modelling of smart specialization policy: Which industries should prioritization target?	10
Can the internet reshape the national city size distribution? Cross‐country evidence	9
Border cities: Out of the shadow	9
Social media adoption in Italian firms. Opportunities and challenges for lagging regions	8
Cross‐city spillovers in Chinese housing markets: From a city network perspective	8
Modeling the spread of COVID‐19 in New York City	8
Firm‐specific cluster effects: A meta‐analysis	8
Staying or leaving? The effects of university availability on educational choices and rural depopulation	8
Spatial shift‐share analysis: Some new developments	8
Segregation and urban spatial structure in Barcelona	7
Spatial models for online retail churn: Evidence from an online grocery delivery service in Madrid	7
Skill relatedness, structural change and heterogeneous regions: evidence from a developing country	7
The evolution of Zipf's Law for U.S. cities	7
Spatial dependence in the technical efficiency of local banks	7
The long‐term relationship between economic development and regional inequality: South‐West Europe, 1860–2010	7
EU regional convergence in the agricultural sector: Are there synergies between agricultural and regional policies?	7
An analysis of pedestrian crashes using a spatial count data model	7
The role of geographic and cognitive proximity in knowledge networks: The case of joint R&D projects	6
The contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality: A counterfactual analysis for OECD countries	6
Geographic variations in precarious employment outcomes between immigrant and Canadian‐born populations	6
Overeducation and overskilling in the early careers of PhD graduates: Does international migration reduce labour market mismatch?	6
Scalable shift‐share analysis: Novel framework and application to France	6
Testing the static and dynamic performance of statistical methods for the detection of national industrial clusters	6
Firm financial soundness and knowledge externalities: A comparative regional analysis	6
Are eco‐labels good for the local economy?	6
Can regional policies shape migration flows?	6
The role of inventors’ networks and variety for breakthrough inventions	5
The local‐level impact of human capital investment within the EU cohesion policy in Poland	5
Measuring spatial concentration: A transportation problem approach	5
From local to global, and return: Geographical indications and FDI in Europe	5
An amenity‐based approach to excellent returning scientists' location choice in China	5
The variegated role of proximities in acquisitions by domestic and international companies in different phases of economic cycles	5
Information communication technology and manufacturing decentralisation in China	5
Locating a facility to simultaneously address access and coverage goals	5
The influence of local development on the impact of natural disasters in Northeast Brazil: The case of droughts and floods in the state of Ceará	5
Mapping regional strengths in a key enabling technology: The distribution of Internet of Things competences across European regions	5
Tourism and territorial growth determinants in insular regions: A comparison with mainland regions for some European countries (2008–2019)	5

A spatial regression methodology for exploring the role of regional connectivity in knowledge production: Evidence from Chinese regions	5
Local financialization, household debt, and the great recession	5
Localization, regionalization and globalization of university‐business research co‐operation in the United Kingdom	5
Measuring the impact of ride‐hailing firms on urban congestion: The case of Uber in Europe	5
Evaluation of self‐employment support policies using survival analysis. The discounted flat rate in Andalusia (Spain)	5