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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Local champions and change of governments: a longitudinal analysis of firms’ political ties in Gaziantep, Turkey	90
A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris	60
Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms	25
Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data	24
The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market	21
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	20
Correction to: A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	19
Suburbanization and transportation in European cities	19
Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya	19
Correction to: ‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	19
The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach	18
Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities	18
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	15
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	15
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	14
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	14
The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua	14
For children’s sake: the effects of child abuse scandals on migration aspirations	13
Consumption zones	13
Housing supply elasticity and government-owned land: evidence from Hong Kong	12
Special issue on Immigration Economics at Journal of Economic Geography	12
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	12
Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: hysteresis and homeorhesis	10
‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning	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
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	10
Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry	10
From displacement to integration: mitigating the distributional effect of immigration through an amnesty program	9
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	9
EU money and mayors: does Cohesion Policy affect local electoral outcomes?	9
Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany’s extraterritorial agency in Namibia’s green hydrogen industry	8
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	8
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	8
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	8
Symbolic knowledge innovation through bricolage in the periphery: the Bauhaus movement	8
The geography of cultural capital: measuring neighborhood-level gaps in access as a key driver of social mobility	8
Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran	7
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	7
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	7
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: the Italian evidence	7
Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry	7
Publisher’s Note: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	7
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	7
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	6
Customary land conversion in sub-Saharan African cities	6
Migration response to an immigration shock: evidence from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine	6
Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis	6
Urban bias, migration control and rural land policy: the case of Hukou in China	6
International knowledge spillovers	6
Are local retail services an amenity or a nuisance?	6
Feeling the heartbeat of regions: local news and economic sentiments	6
Geography of medical care	6
A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups	6
Economic geography’s contribution to understanding the circular economy	6
Labour regimes in industrial tuna fisheries: exploitation, ecology and global production networks	6
International transport costs: new findings from modeling additive costs	6
Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility	5
The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges	5
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	5
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	5
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India	5
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea	5
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion	5
Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey	4
The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks: US–China technological rivalry in a longer-range perspective	4
Visa policy and international student migration: evidence from Canada	4
The culture-promotion effect of multinationals on trade: the IKEA case	4
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	4
The effect of foreign investors on local housing markets: evidence from the UK	4
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	4
Environmental migration during the Great American Drought	4
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	4
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China	4

Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	4
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	4
A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web	3
Airports and regional development: the expansion of the Norwegian air network, 1950–2019	3
Do housing regulations affect rural–urban migration? Evidence from rent control in India	3
Local income inequality and product variety: empirical evidence	3
Foregrounding agency and deliberative relations in GPN 2.0: insights from Whitehead’s process philosophy	3
Foreword for special issue ofJournal of Economic Geographyon ‘Immigration in OECD Countries’	3
Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data	3
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: actors, agencies, and rural opportunities	3
Conjunctural crises and restructuring of south–south production networks: the example of the Chinese pesticide industry	3
Does social capital foster renewable energy cooperatives?	3
Inter-organizational governance and innovation under different local institutional contexts	2
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining	2
The domino effect: exploring residential mobility in the aftermath of municipal mergers	2
Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people	2
R&D location in dynamic industry environments	2
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2
Forced labour in manufacturing and the local industry structure: the case of Italy	2
Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging	2
Matching and sorting across regions	2
The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives	2
The Fourth Italy: a contemporary account of the Italian economic geography	2
Corrigendum to: Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	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
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	2
Unveiling geographical patterns of hierarchy in the Greek labor market network: toward a multilayer “status-polus” model	2
New York, Abu Dhabi, London, or stay at home? Using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration	2
Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems	2
Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence	2
Forecasting bilateral asylum seeker flows with high-dimensional data and machine learning techniques	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
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	2
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo	2