OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Papers in Regional Science is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Does EU regional policy promote local TFP growth? Evidence from the Italian Mezzogiorno	59
E‐commerce development and urban‐rural income gap: Evidence from Zhejiang Province, China	53
European cultural heritage and tourism flows: The magnetic role of superstar World Heritage Sites	50
The role of regions in global value chains: an analysis for the European Union	30
Explaining the dynamics of relatedness: The role of co‐location and complexity	28
Travel costs, trade, and market segmentation: Evidence from China's high‐speed railway	26
Evaluating the role of resilience in reducing economic losses from disasters: A multi‐regional analysis of a seaport disruption	25
When, where, and for what industries does broadband foster establishment births?	21
Urbanization and COVID‐19 incidence: A cross‐country investigation	20
The natural resource curse: Evidence from the Colombian municipalities	18
Proximity across the distant worlds of university–industry collaborations	18
Quantifying fiscal multipliers in Italy: A Panel SVAR analysis using regional data	16
Collaboration networks, geography and innovation: Local and national embeddedness	16
Does a local knowledge base in Industry 3.0 foster diversification in Industry 4.0 technologies? Evidence from European regions	15
Does the high‐speed rail network improve economic growth?	14
Cultural and creative industries and regional diversification: Does size matter?	14
Beyond productivity slowdown: Quality, pricing and resource reallocation in regional competitiveness	13
The contribution of statistical network models to the study of clusters and their evolution	13
Intraregional trade shares for goods‐producing industries: RPC estimates using EU data	13
Skill relatedness, structural change and heterogeneous regions: evidence from a developing country	12
Urban deprivation in Argentina: A POSET analysis	12
Social capital, social economy and economic resilience of Italian provinces	12
Cultural cities, urban economic growth, and regional development: The role of creativity and cosmopolitan identity	12
The internal geography of services value‐added in exports: A Latin American perspective	12
A machine learning approach to rural entrepreneurship	12

The hukou system and selective internal migration in China	12
Better together: Untapped potentials in Central Europe	12
Can the internet reshape the national city size distribution? Cross‐country evidence	11
Labor supply and the business cycle: The “bandwagon worker effect”	11
Border cities: Out of the shadow	11
Spatial dependence in the technical efficiency of local banks	11
The local‐level impact of human capital investment within the EU cohesion policy in Poland	11
Social media adoption in Italian firms. Opportunities and challenges for lagging regions	10
Modeling the spread of COVID‐19 in New York City	9
Measuring the impact of ride‐hailing firms on urban congestion: The case of Uber in Europe	9
Cultural heritage sites, tourism and regional economic resilience	9
The role of inventors’ networks and variety for breakthrough inventions	8
Spatial models for online retail churn: Evidence from an online grocery delivery service in Madrid	8
Doubly constrained gravity models for interregional trade estimation	8
Spatial shift‐share analysis: Some new developments	8
A spatial regression methodology for exploring the role of regional connectivity in knowledge production: Evidence from Chinese regions	8
The role of geographic and cognitive proximity in knowledge networks: The case of joint R&D projects	7
An amenity‐based approach to excellent returning scientists' location choice in China	7
EU regional convergence in the agricultural sector: Are there synergies between agricultural and regional policies?	7
Tourism and territorial growth determinants in insular regions: A comparison with mainland regions for some European countries (2008–2019)	6
Analysing public debt in the Mexican states: Spatial convergence, regional drivers and policy recommendations	6
The multidimensional nD‐GRAS method: Applications for the projection of multiregional input–output frameworks and valuation matrices	6
Locating a facility to simultaneously address access and coverage goals	6
From local to global, and return: Geographical indications and FDI in Europe	6
Can regional policies shape migration flows?	6
Information communication technology and manufacturing decentralisation in China	6
Scalable shift‐share analysis: Novel framework and application to France	6
Mapping regional strengths in a key enabling technology: The distribution of Internet of Things competences across European regions	6
Does social capital reduce entrepreneurs' petty corruption? Evidence across Indonesian regions	5
Immigration and Native Employment. Evidence from Italian Provinces in the Aftermath of the Great Recession	5
Does external linkage stimulate innovation capacity? The analysis based on “dual‐pipelines” framework	5
The persistent pay gap between Easterners and Westerners in Germany: A quarter‐century after reunification	5
Unpacking the U‐shaped relationship between related variety and firm sales: Evidence from Japan	5
Low‐skill jobs and routine tasks specialization: New insights from Italian provinces	5
Are preferences for city attributes heterogeneous? An assessment using a discrete choice experiment	5
Place‐based subsidies and employment growth in rural America: Evidence from the broadband initiatives programme	5
A joint spatial econometric model for regional FDI and output growth	5
Travel mode choice as a representation of travel utility: A multilevel approach reflecting the hierarchical structure of trip, individual, and neighborhood characteristics	5
Spatial patterns of Cultural and Creative Industries: Creativity and filière behind concentration	5
Manufacturing location patterns in Brazil	5
New evidence on measuring the geographical concentration of economic activities	5
A theoretical model linking the development of the transportation system with citizens' trust in government actors	5
World City Innovation and Service Networks and Economic Growth	5
Political competition, spatial interactions, and default risk of local government debts in China	5
Does the geographical mobility of scientists shape their collaboration network? A panel approach of chemists’ careers	4
Reducing automation risk through career mobility: Where and for whom?	4
Cultural participation in Cultural and Creative Cities: Positive regional outcomes and potential congestion concerns	4
Does the bullet train exacerbate urban shrinkage? Lessons from Japan	4
“The grass is greener on the other side”: The relationship between the Brexit referendum results and spatial inequalities at the local level	4
Economic resilience and regionally differentiated cycles: Evidence from a turning point approach in Italy	4

The beaten paths effect on patient inter‐regional mobility: An application to the Italian NHS	4
Urban crisis vs. urban success in the era of 4.0 technologies: Baumol's model revisited	4
Growth and inequality in the Mexican states: Regimes, thresholds, and traps	4
Mosquitoes, birth rates and regional spillovers: Evidence from the Zika epidemic in Brazil	4
Modelling heterogeneous preferences for nature‐based tourism trips	4
The geographic evolution of optics technologies in the United States, 1976–2010	4
Resilience and economic structure: The case of the Chilean regions during the Asian crises and the Great Recession of 2008	4
Regional economic effects of the Ring Road project in the Greater Tokyo Area: A spatial CGE approach	4
The impact of preemptive investment on natural disasters	4
Skill‐Relatedness and Regional Economic Development in Spain during the International Crisis and the Post‐Crisis Period	4
Smile-and-go. Regional performance through global value chains in Europe	4
Measure of accessibility to postal services in France: A potential spatial accessibility approach applied in an urban region	4
The effect of cultural and creative production on human capital: Evidence from European regions	4
The relation between the index of economic freedom and good governance with efficiency of the European Structural Funds	4
Spatial heterogeneities, institutions, and income: Evidence for Brazil	4
Impacts of the political incentive for environmental protection on industrial land supply: Evidence from the cadre evaluation system reform in China	4
Quantifying walking capability: a novel aggregated index based on spatial perspective and analyses	4
Explaining COVID‐19 vaccine uptake: A spatial sociodemographic study in Turkey	4
Innovation dynamics and club convergence in innovation activity in China: A temporal perspective	4
The European regions in the global value chains: New results with new data	4