OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Geography is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	73
Erratum to: Analyzing industrial policy regimes within global production networks: the Ethiopian leather industry	53
Erratum to: Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural-urban migration in China	40
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	39
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	30
Matching and sorting across regions	27
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	24
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	23
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	21
Welcome back! The impact of ‘return initiatives’ on return migration to rural regions	19
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	17
Local border reforms and economic activity	16
Commuting time and the gender gap in labor market participation	15
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	14
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	14
Crime-time: how ambient light affects crime	13
Erratum to: The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter?	13
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	12
Close competitors? Bilateral bank competition and spatial variation in firms’ access to credit	12
Local sectoral specialization in a warming world	11
Historical industrialisation, path dependence and contemporary culture: the lasting imprint of economic heritage on local communities	10
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*	10
Regional government institutions and the capacity for women to reconcile career and motherhood	9
Institutions and the productivity challenge for European regions	9
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	9

What does the state do in China’s state-led infrastructure financialisation?	9
Quantifying land-use regulation and its determinants	9
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	9
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	8
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	8
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	8
The Journal of Economic Geography in 2024 and beyond	7
Erratum to: Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	7
Land valuation in the metaverse: location matters	7
Do preferences for urban amenities differ by skill?	6
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	6
Citizens’ attitude towards subnational borders: evidence from the merger of French regions	6
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	6
Temporary trade shocks and regional development: evidence from the closure of Abidjan port	6
Erratum to: Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: evidence from European cities	6
The great recession and the public sector in rural America	6
Mitigating local bias in equity crowdfunding: a financial ecology perspective	5
The Geography of Knowledge and R&D-led Growth	5
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	5
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	5
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China	5
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	5
Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	5
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	5
Urban regeneration projects and crime: evidence from Glasgow	4
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	4
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	4
Heterogeneous effects of a foreign buyer tax on house prices in New South Wales	4
Boosting, sorting and complexity—urban scaling of innovation around the world	4
Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe	4
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	4
Home market effects and increasing returns with non-constant marginal costs	4
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	4
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	4
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	4
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	4
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	3
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	3
To move or not to move? Immigration and natives’ neighborhood choices in Seoul, Korea	3
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	3
Wage variations and commuting distance	3
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	3
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging	3
Immigration history, entry jobs and the labor market integration of immigrants	3
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	2
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	2
Publisher’s note on: Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe	2
Quality of communications infrastructure, local structural transformation, and inequality	2
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	2
Cycles of regional innovative growth	2

How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	2
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks	2
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	2
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	2
Deep trade agreements and international migration: the role of visa provisions	2
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	2
Localized effects of confiscated and re-allocated real estate mafia assets	2
Geographies of dissociation: informality, ethical codes and fragmented labour regimes in the Sri Lankan apparel industry	2
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	2
Frontier workers and the seedbeds of inequality and prosperity	2
Beyond “buzz”: knowledge interactions, innovation, and neighborhood characteristics	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
International applicability of education and migration aspirations	2
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining	2
Global value chains, private governance and multiple end-markets: insights from Kenyan leather	2
Police trust and domestic violence among immigrants: evidence from VAWA self-petitions	2
Moving to opportunity? The geography of the foreclosure crisis and the importance of location	1
On the economic geography of climate change	1
The impact of European Cohesion Policy: a spatial perspective	1
The billion pound drop: the Blitz and agglomeration economies in London	1
Do migrants affect the local product mix? An analysis of the effects and underlying mechanisms	1
Path dependency, regional variety and the dynamics of new firm creation in rooted and pioneering industries	1
Correction to: Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China	1
The unintended consequences of increasing returns to scale in geographical economics	1
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	1
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	1
Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe	1
Agglomeration and the Italian North–South divide	1
The culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case	1
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	1
Does foreign investment hurt job creation at home? The geography of outward FDI and employment in the USA	1
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	1
Corn ethanol in the Midwestern USA: Local competition, entry and agglomeration	1
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry	1
Bridge to bigpush or backwash? Market integration, reallocation and productivity effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh	1
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	1
The long-term effects of mass layoffs: do local economies (ever) recover?	1
Institutional work: how lenders transform land titles into collateral in urban Tanzania	1
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	1
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	1
Geographical stratification of urban green areas in European cities	1
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	1