OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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.)

Article	Citations
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	96
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	70
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	51
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	51
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	37
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	26
Erratum to: Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	21
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	19
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	19
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	19
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	19
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks	17
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	16
Bridge to bigpush or backwash? Market integration, reallocation and productivity effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh	16
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	15
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	13
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	13
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	13
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	13
Consumption zones	13
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	13
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	12
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	12
Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?	11
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	10

The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability	10
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	10
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	10
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	10
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	10
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	9
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	9
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	9
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 systems	9
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	9
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	9
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	9
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	9
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	9
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	8
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	8
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	8
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	8
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	8
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	7
Corn ethanol in the Midwestern USA: Local competition, entry and agglomeration	7
International knowledge spillovers	7
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China	6
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	6
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 industries	6
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	6
International transport costs: new findings from modeling additive costs	6
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	6
Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	5
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	5
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	5
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	5
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	5
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks	5
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	5
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	5
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	5
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	5
Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis	5
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	5
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China	5
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	5
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	5
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	4
Environmental migration during the Great American Drought	4
Foreword for special issue ofJournal of Economic Geographyon ‘Immigration in OECD Countries’	4
The culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case	4

Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey	4
Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data	4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	4
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	4
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities	4
Airports and regional development: the expansion of the Norwegian air network, 1950–2019	4
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration	3
Do housing regulations affect rural–urban migration? Evidence from rent control in India	3
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?	3
(The Struggle for) Refugee integration into the labour market: evidence from Europe	3
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model	3
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts	3
Community development with externalities and corrective taxation	3
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*	3
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence	3
Matching and sorting across regions	3
Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2
Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people	2
R&D location in dynamic industry environments	2
International family migration and the dual-earner model	2
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining	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
Erratum to: Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: evidence from European cities	2
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	2
The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives	2
Corrigendum to: Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	2
The political effects of (mis)perceived immigration	2
Crime-time: how ambient light affects crime	2
To move or not to move? Immigration and natives’ neighborhood choices in Seoul, Korea	2
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	2
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	2
On the economic geography of climate change	2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence	2
Corrigendum to: Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	2
Does polycentric regional development promote economic resilience? Empirical evidence from urban agglomerations in China	2
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry	2
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	2
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging	2