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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	128
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	86
Chinese firms bridging the standardization gap in 3GPP: liabilities of outsidership and the role of technological shifts	47
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	36
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	33
Correction to: A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	26
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	26
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	23
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	23
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	22
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	22
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	22
Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds	21
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	20
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	18
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	18
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	17
Consumption zones	17
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	16
Risk in networks: the role of finance in governing Denmark’s green hydrogen production network	15
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	14
Regional development through simultaneous strategic coupling: the uneven formation and matching of regional assets with global production networks	14
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	14
Lead firm strategies in the global textile and apparel industry: Are disruptions reconfiguring the geographies of production?	13
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	13

The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	13
The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability	11
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	11
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	11
Rethinking evolutionary economic geography through a gender lens	11
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	11
Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: hysteresis and homeorhesis	11
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	10
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	10
Remote work and reorganization of household infrastructure in the Global South: insights from the Indian information technology industry	10
The geography of cultural capital: measuring neighborhood-level gaps in access as a key driver of social mobility	10
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	10
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	10
EU money and mayors: does Cohesion Policy affect local electoral outcomes?	10
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	9
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	9
Close to home: bundled consumption, relatedness, and urban resilience in Seoul	9
COVID, coup, and crises of social reproduction: exploring the effects of Myanmar’s polycrisis on migrant workers in global seafood production networks in Thailand	9
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	9
Finance and economic geography: where does money come from and where is it going?	9
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	9
The geography of standards—a regional analysis of ISO management system standards adoption in Germany	8
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	8
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	8
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	7
Geography of medical care	7
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	7
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	7
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	7
Customary land conversion in sub-Saharan African cities	7
Correction to: The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	7
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	7
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	7
Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China	6
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks	6
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	6
Exploring labour regime circulation: the dynamic circulation of capital and labour in Norwegian shipyards	6
International transport costs: new findings from modeling additive costs	6
Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis	6
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	6
Feeling the heartbeat of regions: local news and economic sentiments	6
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	6
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	6
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	5
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	5
The effects of immigration restrictions on innovation: lessons from the age of mass migration in the USA	5
The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	5
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	5
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	5

Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	5
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	5
The making and unmaking of uneven development: the role of anchor firms in creating and overcoming industrial decline in East Germany	5
The culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case	4
Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey	4
A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	4
Culture and cross-border commuting	4
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	4
Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy	4
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities	4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	4
Airports and regional development: the expansion of the Norwegian air network, 1950–2019	4
The economic geography of climate change: recent progress and open questions	4
Matching and sorting across regions	3
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	3
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model	3
Forced labour in manufacturing and the local industry structure: the case of Italy	3
Conjunctural crises and restructuring of south–south production networks: the example of the Chinese pesticide industry	3
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts	3
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration	3
Measuring firm activity from outer space	3
Green transition for whom? Garment production networks and the politics of climate crisis in Bangladesh	3
Environmental migration during the Great American Drought	3
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence	3
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?	3
Workforce patterns and income disparities in a growing US city	3
Political rotation of city leaders and unrelated diversification in China	3
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	3
Do housing regulations affect rural–urban migration? Evidence from rent control in India	3
Caught in the coop: local labour control regimes in poultry supply chains under avian influenza	3
Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data	3
Publisher’s note on: Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe	2
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	2
The Fourth Italy: a contemporary account of the Italian economic geography	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
The domino effect: exploring residential mobility in the aftermath of municipal mergers	2
Does polycentric regional development promote economic resilience? Empirical evidence from urban agglomerations in China	2
R&D location in dynamic industry environments	2
Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people	2
Shaping gender inequality in urban geometric divergence: Evidence from China	2
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging	2
Cap-and-trade policies and regional environmental innovation: evidence from the EU Emissions Trading System	2
Culture, cities, and economic geography	2
Don’t stand so close to me: foreign and domestic incumbents and new business births	2
The abandoned, the depressed, and the sacrificed: stretching the terms of the economic geographical debate on left-behind places	2
Fragmented governance, informal migrant workers and post-pandemic economic resilience: perspectives from the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, India	2
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence	2
The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives	2
Regional government institutions and the capacity for women to reconcile career and motherhood	2
The political effects of (mis)perceived immigration	2
Development in global production networks? Wind energy and socio-ecological conflicts in La Guajira, Colombia	2
Do research universities recession-proof their regions? Evidence from state flagship college towns	2