Journal of Economic Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Geography 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms96
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris70
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey51
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market51
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data37
Capital shocks and the great urban divide26
Erratum to: Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies21
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities19
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning19
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities19
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya19
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks17
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach16
Bridge to bigpush or backwash? Market integration, reallocation and productivity effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh16
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data15
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua13
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?13
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations13
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region13
Consumption zones13
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes13
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances12
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong12
Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?11
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography10
The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability10
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees10
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program10
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel10
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry10
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations9
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning9
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises9
EU money and mayors: does Cohesion Policy affect local electoral outcomes?9
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems9
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia9
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry9
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility9
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences9
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement9
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence8
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran8
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry8
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?8
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities8
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine7
Corn ethanol in the Midwestern USA: Local competition, entry and agglomeration7
International knowledge spillovers7
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions7
Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China6
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies6
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?6
Path dependency, regional variety and the dynamics of new firm creation in rooted and pioneering industries6
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups6
International transport costs: new findings from modeling additive costs6
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy6
Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations5
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality5
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea5
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance5
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain5
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks5
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility5
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion5
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation5
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change5
Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis5
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India5
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China5
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada5
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges5
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–20194
Environmental migration during the Great American Drought4
Foreword for special issue ofJournal of Economic Geographyon ‘Immigration in OECD Countries’4
The culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case4
Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey4
Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK4
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth4
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities4
Airports and regional development: the expansion of the Norwegian air network, 1950–20194
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration3
Do housing regulations affect rural–urban migration? Evidence from rent control in India3
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?3
(The Struggle for) Refugee integration into the labour market: evidence from Europe3
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model3
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts3
Community development with externalities and corrective taxation3
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*3
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence3
Matching and sorting across regions3
Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems2
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea2
Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people2
R&D location in dynamic industry environments2
International family migration and the dual-earner model2
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining2
Publisher’s note on: Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe2
Erratum to: Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: evidence from European cities2
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic2
The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives2
Corrigendum to: Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations2
The political effects of (mis)perceived immigration2
Crime-time: how ambient light affects crime2
To move or not to move? Immigration and natives’ neighborhood choices in Seoul, Korea2
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake2
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo2
On the economic geography of climate change2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence2
Corrigendum to: Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain2
Does polycentric regional development promote economic resilience? Empirical evidence from urban agglomerations in China2
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry2
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques2
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging2
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